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Siegfried Hekimi

@siegfriedhekimi.bsky.social

Biologist seeking to formulate and test new conjectures about aging. McGill U. Worms, yeast, mice, patient cells. Aging, mitochondria, CoQ. Former professional cyclist. hekimilab.mcgill.ca https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=2WIdFlcAAAAJ

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This sounds like reduction to the lowest common denominator. The only way to fix peer review is to fix publishing. Such as boycott journals that do desk rejection for anything else than lack of soundness. If this were so I and many other would be less reluctant to spend time reviewing.

03.12.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fritz Wunderlich was a great tenor I really liked as a teenager and still do. If was really a fun surprise when as an elite cyclist I won a stage in the Tour of Rhineland-Palatinate in the city of Kusel, his proud birthplace, and they gave me the Fritz Wunderlich medal (worlds colliding).

03.12.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I found β€œpapers” that were AI rewording almost sentence by sentence of papers I published 15 years ago. There is something wrong with me but I just thought it hilarious (despite the fact that it is terrible).

02.12.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill Gates underestimates the perils of the climate crisis, but I agree with him: we shouldn’t sacrifice those alive now for future people who might never exist.
It’s like buying a lifetime supply of petri dishes at a discount and then switch to a field that doesn’t need any.

29.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe enhanced DNA repair can only be beneficial for them because they are otherwise protected from the environment thanks to size (whales) and stable habitat (mole rats).

29.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lavater finally vindicated πŸ€ͺ

06.11.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I always carefully slow down my walk when I come across this warning.

22.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My mental life is full of anecdote that felt and feel meaningful.

03.12.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fritz Wunderlich was a great tenor I really liked as a teenager and still do. If was really a fun surprise when as an elite cyclist I won a stage in the Tour of Rhineland-Palatinate in the city of Kusel, his proud birthplace, and they gave me the Fritz Wunderlich medal (worlds colliding).

03.12.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This sounds like reduction to the lowest common denominator. The only way to fix peer review is to fix publishing. Such as boycott journals that do desk rejection for anything else than lack of soundness. If this were so I and many other would be less reluctant to spend time reviewing.

03.12.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I found β€œpapers” that were AI rewording almost sentence by sentence of papers I published 15 years ago. There is something wrong with me but I just thought it hilarious (despite the fact that it is terrible).

02.12.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I always carefully slow down my walk when I come across this warning.

22.11.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vance knows this, which makes his comments even worse!

22.11.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lavater finally vindicated πŸ€ͺ

06.11.2025 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The prostate cancer PSA screening story over 23 years of follow-up for >166,000 participants: more detection, small reduction of mortality www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

29.10.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Maybe enhanced DNA repair can only be beneficial for them because they are otherwise protected from the environment thanks to size (whales) and stable habitat (mole rats).

29.10.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bill Gates underestimates the perils of the climate crisis, but I agree with him: we shouldn’t sacrifice those alive now for future people who might never exist.
It’s like buying a lifetime supply of petri dishes at a discount and then switch to a field that doesn’t need any.

29.10.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not all leaves are alike. And despite the fear and regret that the world is falling apart, I delight to be able to name them!

28.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not all leaves are alike. And despite the fear and regret that the world is falling apart, I delight to be able to name them!

28.10.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
complicated diagram with red cancer cells, green T cells, and other immune cells in purple (dendritic cells). Shows mRNA vaccine priming immunity for checkpoint inhibitors.

complicated diagram with red cancer cells, green T cells, and other immune cells in purple (dendritic cells). Shows mRNA vaccine priming immunity for checkpoint inhibitors.

Guess what? COVID mRNA vaccines don't just protect against COVID.

COVID mRNA vaccines also cause cancers to become sensitive to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). buff.ly/GEfJ5Zl

Let's fund more mRNA research!

#medsky #oncsky πŸ›ŸπŸ˜·πŸ§ͺ

24.10.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 356    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

The dude who singlehandedly controls the government is demanding it pay him a quarter of a billion dollars of our tax money as restitution for having been caught committing crimes.

He’s discovered forms of looting no one ever even thought possible.

25.10.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1999    πŸ” 628    πŸ’¬ 56    πŸ“Œ 19
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That’s no ballroom…

24.10.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5149    πŸ” 1106    πŸ’¬ 211    πŸ“Œ 74

Great color!!!

24.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Eating Beaver Tails is MAHA diet πŸ€”πŸ˜‰

24.10.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

22.10.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 13852    πŸ” 4501    πŸ’¬ 325    πŸ“Œ 149
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AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

16.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 9593    πŸ” 1905    πŸ’¬ 245    πŸ“Œ 156

Thanks for keeping them there!

16.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In the fall, even the weeds look good.

16.10.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Where were the wasps all summer? And why now?

16.10.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🀣🀣🀣

13.10.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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