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Congrats!!!

Oh no - now I gotta go 👔shopping! 😂 Maybe I’ll bring a tie?! 🤔😂

My perspective? It’s not only about science & friendship - our faculty cannot wait to see what shirts you’ll be wearing - I told them you’ll be the speaker with best shirts we’ve had for years 😂

I did not know - what’s the next job? Private answer also ok

Our starters table - smoked trout and tuna, charcuterie by Ayelet, pickles (Mango, cucumber & cauliflower), Arais, eggs, tahini, Amba & Ajwar

Our Thanksgiving table: Turkey, poached artichoke, Brusslesprouts, stuffed vegetables (vegetarian) tomatoes, cabbage, greens

Arais - lamb or haloumi

Deserts - apple pecan pie, strawberry short cake, gingerbread cookies, maranguez, tees

Always a pleasure to host on Thanksgiving day - a great excuse for me to cook - we had 15 people, but I cooked for thirty 😊
#HappyThankGiving🍁
#DoctorsWhoCook
#MedFoodSky

You are invited - we’d love to see you!!

I’ll prepare my video !!!!

A no fuss pre- #Thanksgiving dinner for the PGY2 & the college senior. Israeli schnitzels, calamarata in pesto, arugula, pickles & focaccia baked nearby
#DoctorsWhoCook

The week after #Thanksgiving break will be amazing! We’ll have a holiday party and a special guest @ipfdoc.bsky.social !!!

Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination | PNAS Despite safety concerns regarding the toxicity of tattoo ink, no studies have reported the consequences of tattooing on the immune response. In thi...

Why am I not surprised?
Tattoo ink is retained within phagocytic cells, induces a prominent and long-term inflammatory response, with elevated levels of proinflammatory cytokines & modulation of vaccine immune responses
#NotHarmless
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

DOGE GOT DOGED - after delivering NO benefit to the American People
& potentially putting our health at risk, the purge agency is disbanded.
Now it’s time to DOGE RFK & team of charlatans and vote all those that facilitate this travesty out
#VoteThemOut
www.thedailybeast.com/musks-doge-q...

DOGE GOT DOGED - after delivering NO benefit to the American People
& potentially putting our health at risk, the purge agency is disbanded.
Now it’s time to DOGE RFK & team of charlatans and vote all those that facilitate this travesty out
#VoteThemOut
www.thedailybeast.com/musks-doge-q...

Really cool! Matrix metalloproteinases & disease severity among PI*MZ and PI*ZZ individuals in the Genomic Research in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency & Sarcoidosis (GRADS) cohort.
Kudos Drs Tejwani, Strange & team & GRADS investigators
#FundedByNHLBI
bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/12/1...

Pabst, Pamphlets and a Petition: A Harvard-Yale Tailgate in the Trump Era

New York Times coverage about standing up against attacks against higher education at the Harvard-Yale game.

[Gift Link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

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A friend I met in Atlanta
#Caturday

Ferret model of bleomycin-induced lung injury shares features of human idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - npj Regenerative Medicine npj Regenerative Medicine - Ferret model of bleomycin-induced lung injury shares features of human idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Finally a good animal model of human Pulmonary Fibrosis?
The Ferret bleomycin shares IPF features including: patchy distribution of fibrotic foci, honeycomb cyst-likes, ⬆️ blood MMP7, KL6, presence aberrant epithelial basaloid cells.
Kudos DrsWu, Liu & team
#CureIPF
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Honored to be invited to give the annual Ronald H. Ingram Jr. Lecture at the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Great to meet so many amazing clinicians, researchers, educators & trainees
#FutureIsBright
#PulmIsBest

So sad to walk by the CDC, the once proud US government agency, see the posters commemorating past success in fighting for public health in the US, knowing that it is now controlled by charlatans, grifters and anti vexers.
#RIPCDC

The website is changed 👇🏼

Cassidy betrayed his voters, and his professional oath as a physician, bu voting and supporting people who do harm.
Simple.

Pliny the magnificent in her new office

I am so tired of “full responsibility” that involves no action and “shame” that kicks in only upon public disclosure.

Not sure why @lpachter.bsky.social did not post this here. But it is brilliant. Single cell genomics finally makes it to the clinic.

Amazing attendance at the Yale Center for Asthma and Airway Disease 2025: Moving Towards a Unified Approach for the Management of Asthma and COPD
#ScienceMatters #CureCOPD #CureAsthma

The most irritating in talks is a speaker saying of course ““I recognize that I’m the only thing standing between us and lunch”’ (or dinner) which is usually a guarantee that the talk will go on forever

True story:
Nature comms Editor when asking for #PeerReview: Please return review within 10-14 days.
Nature Comms editor when asked about r2 paper in review for 70(!) days: sorry, we’ll return to you in a week or so.
Then they'll charge you $6.8K to publish YOUR work.
System is broken.

Authors can strike. Imagine if for one months the world’s top 5% researchers did not submit papers to for profit publishers? 👇🏼

time to end the exploitation!
Researchers should get a part of the profits make on their publications. Reviewers should be paid for reviewing. Simple.
#Pay4MyPapers #Pay4PeerReview

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

True story:
Nature comms Editor when asking for #PeerReview: Please return review within 10-14 days.
Nature Comms editor when asked about r2 paper in review for 70(!) days: sorry, we’ll return to you in a week or so.
Then they'll charge you $6.8K to publish YOUR work.
System is broken.