Vikram Paralkar

Terrible! How is starving US science consistent with any kind of meaningful policy goal?

🎉Proud to present our latest paper, out now in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

RNA Binding Proteins (RBPs) are often full of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs), but what these regions do during RNA recognition is often unclear. 1/10
#RNA #IDR #RBP

@science.org A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesize itself and its complementary strand | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #RNA #ribozyme #evolution

Here, we propose to measure the concentration of aerosolized particles of love.

We will use a novel detector sensitive to 1 ppm and calibrated to a wide dynamic range.

Our work seeks to definitively establish whether, indeed, as long-speculated, love is in the air today.

#HappyValentinesDay

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I accept you with minor revisions.

A decorative mirror hanging on a white wall. The mirror resembles the primary mirror from the James Webb Space Telescope. The mirror is seen almost straight on.

A decorative mirror hanging on a white wall. The mirror resembles the primary mirror from the James Webb Space Telescope. The mirror is seen from the side.

It took some doing, but I finally finished it: the coolest mirror on the planet!

(Sorry @esawebb.org.web.brid.gy, hanging out at a Lagrange point is a disqualifier, I don't make the rules)

IF ONLY! My Anatomy final exam would have gone so much better! 😭

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Me at the "Journal of Advances in Agronomy and Crop Science"

Totally in line with my expertise and not spam at all!

Dr. Pavan spent decades studying rare diseases at NIH. Today, he’s battling one: first diagnosed with MDS-RARSt and, later, myelofibrosis. A stem cell transplant from his son saved his life, made possible in part by NIH-funded research. Learn more: https://ow.ly/XaWp50XXqtu

#Fight4Hematology

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This just in. So honored and grateful...

Would you feel comfortable sharing your biosketch (I could also email you my work-in-progress document)? I'm at the gathering-ideas phase right now, and am not entirely sure what's permitted vs not...

I have the same question: The instructions says "There is no specific format for referencing the products in this section" and then also says "Do not provide citations on the NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement." 😵‍💫 #confused

I'm particularly unclear about how to cite papers in the "Contributions to Science" section. Any ideas, @ernstlaboratory.bsky.social or others?

Are any of you happy with how your ScienCV-generated biosketch looks? I'm not quite satisfied with mine (formatting, flow, etc), and would love to look at other examples for customization ideas! Please message me if you'd be willing to swap biosketches (confidentially, of course)!

Oh wow, I didn't realize that that was the name of the restaurant! I thought you were just naming an item on the menu! 😂

Thanks! Which restaurant?

Wait where?!?

Love to see insights arising from unique and fascinating analyses of existing massive datasets! 😀

Credit where credit is due! NCBI helpdesk replied a week after my initial request, and merged my two accounts. I can now make my ScienCV Biosketch!

If this nation has a conscience, what will it take to shake it from its slumber?

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Congratulations to Aishwarya Pawar (@aishwarya2510.bsky.social), @cambupenn.bsky.social PhD graduate from our lab, for the 2025 Kadesch Prize in Genetics. This award, in honor of Tom Kadesch (former chair of @penngenetics.bsky.social) honors graduate student excellence in research & citizenship.

Congratulations to Charles Antony (@cantony07.bsky.social), Research Associate in our lab, for being awarded a 2026 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Fellow to Faculty Scholar Award for his investigations into ribosomal RNA transcription in hematopoiesis! Many thanks to ASH for this honor! #ASH

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Just realized that the glitches I'm having with ScienCV are because I have two NCBI accounts... My ORCiD is linked to the obsolete acct, which means that I can't link it to my current acct... I've send a message to NCBI support desk to merge accts, and I hope they are staffed enough to respond...

Portrait of @nobelprize.org laureate Carol Greider for the @nationalacademies.org.

Alongside her mentor Elizabeth Blackburn, Dr Greider identified telomerase, an enzyme that maintains the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes known as telomeres.

More: explorers.com/carol-grieder/ #SciArt