Akshat Sharma, MS, PhD.

I'm trying not to let paranoia take hold. Mine is partially back.

This is...not great.

Also writing a chapter. Also at risk of being committed. However, will clearly be in exalted company in the grippy socks room.

Back in business! Let's hope it was temporary! Phew!

Uh, gang, is PubMed working for y'all?

Immunodominant epitope.

BUT I DID ALL THE STEPS! WTF!

I was home for 5 days! 5 days; 5 steps!

What do you mean "non-linear?" Can repeat? CAN REPEAT? Are you shitting me?!

This thread. Look at this thread. I haven't slept a wink.

We're making it, though. Like I know he'd want me to.

I went to an audition. Against my will. But glad I did anyway even though I almost broke down during my 2nd, quieter monologue that I took from TJ Klune's wonderful 'Heartsong.' Can someone who knows him tell him that? That man is impossible to reach.

I'm coping. Haphazardly. But I'm coping. I started crying writing an LoI for a grant, and it didn't even have to do with the grant. It was a dumb ghazal whose lyrics were very...sad.

Listen, I was recently inducted into The Dead Dad's Club. You are required to laugh at my jokes.

What's an NK cell's cocktail of choice?

A KIR Royale.

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month.

An xkcd comic, showing a hand-drawn timeline on a white background with hand lettering in black print. The timeline is titled: US PH.D. PROGRAM TIMELINE The left half of the timeline includes events in text each with a downward arrow pointing to the next step. The right half is a visual organizer showing a large rectangle spanning the length of the timeline. It is divided in two by a curvy line. This shows that as you move through the Ph.D. process, you begin with lots of coursework (the top of the rectangle) corresponding with the early events in the time line, and as you go you start to do more research (the bottom half) and less course work, followed by a period of only research. The events in the timeline are pretty straightforward, but the end has been scratched out and replaced with new events in red letters. It reads: --ENROLLMENT- - MEET WITH ADVISOR ⬇️ RESEARCH PROPOSAL ⬇️ QUALIFYING EXAMS ⬇️ PROPOSE DISSERTATION ⬇️ RESEARCH AND WRITE DISSERTATION ⬇️ The words (SUBMIT DISSERTATION) have been scratched out with a red pen and to the side a new event in the timeline is written: GET GRABBED OFF THE SIDEWALK OUTSIDE YOUR HOME BY MASKED GOVERNMENT AGENTS ⬇️ The words (DEFEND DISSERTATION) have been scratched out with red pen again, this time replaced with: BE WHISKED OUT OF THE STATE BEFORE A JUDGE HAS TIME TO INTERVENE Then there is a new downward arrow, also in red, and the last event in the timeline is: ???? The comic on the site links to a video of Rumaysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. Student at Tufts University being kidnapped on the street in Somerville, MA one month ago today.

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تمہاری بے رخی اک دن ہماری جان لے لے گی۔ قسم تم کو زرا سوچو کے دستور وفا کیا ہے۔ غم دنیا سے گھبرا کر تمہے دل نے پکارا ہے۔ کہاں ہو تم۔۔۔؟

But I was so looking forward to the inevitable documentary...

But, truly, a lovely paper with interesting implications for the role of the CHAC1-Notch axis in health and disease.

I just stared long and hard at the word "homogenous" in a grant I'm very slowly working on

You never know these days: it could come back with "Dear Dr. Sharma: no homo."

This is like the time when Shein invited influencers in an attempt to clean up their image, but quintillion times worse.

Wtf...

Friends, if you or your colleagues are working on innate-like T cells, please consider submitting a manuscript or review to this special issue of Cells that I'm guest-editing:

www.mdpi.com/journal/cell...

The one sempiternal thing about scientists is that we always come with receipts. You'll typically find them under a section titled "References."

Sadboi hours, empty weight room, Rockpile Athletics.

Alito's dissent was kinda weak. It's like even he himself knows that he can't defend this.

Meal prep pump. Evidently aggressive stirring will do it.

I curled 40lbs and am parched for attention.

As far as shade goes, this is *weak.*

'Look What You Made Me Do. (Samuel's Version).'

Tiresome (and, frankly, dated) essays like these do a disservice to the folks being talked about by reducing them to a trope, as if to suggest that they're easily suggestible rubes who cannot think for themselves.

oprah winfrey is making a funny face while sitting on a bed . ALT: oprah winfrey is making a funny face while sitting on a bed .

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...