Tessa Green

Now accepting advice on long-distance dating an academic (success stories, anyone?)

A new #LongCovid clinical trial is enrolling for bezisterim, an investigational anti-inflammatory drug that crosses the blood-brain barrier.

It has been studied in neurological & neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s. 1/

Nation Can't Believe It On Harvard's Side

Comments returned on a grant application: one commenter said I lacked ML expertise and another wrote such a glowing paragraph about me that l'd like to staple it to my wall to look at when l'm feeling insecure

I guess the answer here is to let it power me through my work advancing treatment for recurrent glioblastoma, but at least for today I think I might take some time to feel sad about it

Anyone have pro tips for emotionally processing the occasional realization that you’re reading a paper from a year ago and all of the patients who contributed samples to it are almost certainly dead?

Skeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed rest Patients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM), where...

Again for those in the back:
👏🏼 PEM 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 NOT 👏🏼 deconditioning

Symptoms associated with effort expenditure in #LongCOVID, #MECFS and other energy limiting illnesses are physiological, not “preferential”

Thanks to @RobWust for this incredible work.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

banner with pastel colors that says "Patient-Led Research Collaborative 5th anniversary - you can sustain long covid patient-led work when it's needed most!" with a link to bit.ly/plrc-donate

PLRC is 5 years old today!!!!

If you are able, please consider donating to help sustain #LongCOVID research when it’s needed most.

bit.ly/plrc-donate 1/

At least compile it

Unnatural way to do math

I’m much, much more worried about Boston’s networks of world-leading hospitals than I am about Harvard

MIT following Harvard's lead here

"Where law ends, tyranny begins."

The president can't just demand $9 billion from Harvard because he feels like it.

If we let power go unchecked, it won’t stop asking. It’ll keep taking. Again and again.

Harvard is facing an existential crisis. The Trump administration is blackmailing them and need a community that's willing to stand with them and that's willing to fight.

This is a battle for the soul of Harvard.

Sign and show up this Saturday noon at Cambridge Common
forms.gle/CfFYKjtHBKKV...

Urgent: The Harvard board flew to Cambridge weekend presumably to decide if they’ll capitulate to Trump. Working on a full-throated response.

Anyone willing to help connect with / organize Harvard faculty, students or others interested in an impromptu demonstration this Saturday?

gf: "ooh let's try this new chatgpt trend thing"

chatgpt (homophobic): "and they were just friends!"

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Too real 😭

Every time I think I’ve run out of reasons to be horrified by his appointment…

Good political news right now feels hard to find, but this is huge for our city. Really hoping that this can move the needle.

Reassuring—hope he’s right

I use mine way more than I expected to—sometimes for annotating papers (…work) but also for making art and watching TV and FaceTiming on a bigger screen than my phone.

PSA: Digging into Chai-1 and found out that it gives different protein-ligand structures & confidences depending on the SMILES canonicalization used

May also be the case with AF3 & Boltz-1, but haven't verified

As to what this means... see the rest of the thread 🧵

I feel like I’m back in the spring of 2020, bargaining with myself that I can check the news again if I just edit two more sub-aims of this grant application. Except in 2020 I was reasonably confident that the grant organizations would still exist at the point of the deadlines.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Cambridge—went on for a good 20 seconds probably

I'm not sure if Boston just had another earthquake or the hundred year old house I live in is spontaneously shaking. Both options feel equally plausible.

Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease?

I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵

Me: oh is Chanda into immunology now? Is Tuvix a drug or the name of a biotech

Maybe the 4,000 people filtering through Vitalist Bay are taking daily rapid tests and they’re prioritizing outdoor events, but I couldn’t find mention of infectious disease precautions on their website.