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Ashani Weeraratna

@ashi-w.bsky.social

Professor and Chair, cancer biologist. I care about science, equity and cooking. Opinions (lots of them) my own.

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I say again πŸ‘€ πŸ‘€ πŸ‘€

27.02.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a Sri Lankan… πŸ‘€

27.02.2026 12:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out our new paper!

iCLAP: an innovative method for integrable codetection
of low-abundance antigens with highplex
immunostaining

Read more about iCLAP here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.02.2026 03:08 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sending hugs.

26.02.2026 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
View of snow at my front door

View of snow at my front door

House covered in snow

House covered in snow

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I know it’s a pain, but it’s sooo beautiful and I genuinely love snow ❄️ #whitesky

23.02.2026 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are there go check this out. Really cool work and great guy (but I’m biased) @deniswirtz.bsky.social

17.02.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait where we at the same one? πŸ˜‚

15.02.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I did tell him as I left- it wasn’t the good old days for all of us, sir.

14.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

14.02.2026 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I once walked out from one years and years ago because the guy kept saying, β€œit’s not like the good old days.” πŸ€¦πŸΎβ€β™€οΈ

14.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

14.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 13984    πŸ” 3732    πŸ’¬ 232    πŸ“Œ 133

Sorry, not sorry for the random post

14.02.2026 03:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When alina was ten she said mom, you know what would be amazing? If you dug a hole all the way to China, popped out on someone’s lawn and yelled at them get off my lawn.!! I said you’d have to learn how to set that in Mandarin. She said well obviously.

14.02.2026 03:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚ lucky to have colleagues who are also friends in our melanoma community πŸ’•

12.02.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ€¦πŸΎβ€β™€οΈ

12.02.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spending way too much time advocating for cancer research these days but this time it was fun to do it with a friend! @johnshopkinsbmb.bsky.social

11.02.2026 20:19 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(Also amused by the pic btw. A great pic just the fact there is one πŸ˜‚)

11.02.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited for you and your new colleagues- some really wonderful folks out there!!

11.02.2026 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How fortunate I get to be on Capitol Hill tomorrow when they arrive!!

10.02.2026 17:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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As Elizabeth M. Jaffee andβ€―Antoni Ribas take over as the new editors-in-chief of Cancer Immunology Research, they shareΒ how they got startedΒ inΒ immunotherapyΒ research,Β theirΒ visionΒ for theΒ AACRΒ journal, and whatΒ excites them aboutΒ #AACRIO26Β on the #AACRBlog:Β buff.ly/2QY3kFY

09.02.2026 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Still image from the Super Bowl halftime show of Bad Bunny looking serious, talking directly to the camera, pointing at us.

Still image from the Super Bowl halftime show of Bad Bunny looking serious, talking directly to the camera, pointing at us.

β€œIf I’m here at Super Bowl LX, it’s because I never stopped believing in myself. You should never stop believing in yourself either. It’s worth more than you think.” β€”Bad Bunny

09.02.2026 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 8191    πŸ” 1372    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 50
Cheesesteak sliders

Cheesesteak sliders

Turkey chili

Turkey chili

Pigs in a blanket

Pigs in a blanket

Wiiiiiings!

Wiiiiiings!

Bad Bunny and good food. Super Bowl LX

09.02.2026 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My cousin is EVP of publicis which was responsible for this ad!!

09.02.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Eggplant moju, chicken curry, caramelized onion sambol.

08.02.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stress cooking again. Salmon with coconut cashew sauce, curried chicken pastries, garlic mango shrimp, coconut turmeric cabbage.

08.02.2026 13:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I have, to put it mildly, been so deeply disturbed by all of this- not only because of the perpetrators, but the sheer volume of people who just looked the other way and didn’t report. πŸ’”

07.02.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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05.02.2026 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mike was more than my colleague, he was my friend and confidant. He was beloved by so many from students to staff and faculty. We will miss him more than I can express. Rest in peace Mike, your memory will always be a blessing.

04.02.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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28.01.2026 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

She’s incredible. But the rhetoric that has gotten us to this place in American politics is reprehensible to say the very, very least.

28.01.2026 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0