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These are quite fun. Highly recommended.

Finnish Scholars said that Frontiers and MDPI journals “make use of the APC (Article Processing Charge) operating model and aim to increase the number of publications with the minimum time spend for editorial work and quality assessment.”

Congratulations, indeed!

Today's library highlight: laryngeal carcinoma cells. Wood carving, Lionel Beale (1861).

Hot take #NephSky if you order a renal biopsy and are not willing or available to talk to the renal pathologist, why have you ordered this test? The power of the renal biopsy is an exercise in clinico-pathologic correlation, it doesn’t work as other lab tests.

Brian Thompson’s assassination is a horrifying and tragic. But maybe something good will come of this renewed conversation about an industry whose _entire_ business model has been based for decades on profiting at the expense of patients and providers. apple.news/ASy_o_WGXRI6...

More #pathsky

We definitely got the creative juices flowing. Please follow the @uscap.org account for news from these two fine #pathbluesky (is that a thing? If not, it should be) journals.

With the ongoing migration of #medtwitter to Bluesky 🦋- crucial that we amplify messaging for 2024 #HCWvsHunger campaign - please join the efforts! #PathSky @kmirza.bsky.social @smlungpathguy.bsky.social @ihc-guy.bsky.social @ljtafe.bsky.social @anirbanmaitra.bsky.social @drfna.bsky.social

🧪Dear Grad student, Are you overdue for a thesis committee meeting but feel like you have nothing to show since your last meeting? I'm begging you to schedule that meeting now! 1/🧵

Snow Sentinels on Lake Ontario. #YGK

Managing Editor @cmketcham finds and ponders penalties for authors who submit their papers to multiple journals at once. #FAFO. @LIjournal and @ModernPathology @DrNetto retractionwatch.com/2022/09/30/whe…

Terrific talk by @AmirHorowitz video-cast to @IBCN1997 this a.m. describing work w/ @DrJohnSfakianos. Upregulation of HLA-E and NKG2A in BCG-unresponsive cancers. An exciting immune checkpoint ligand-receptor pair. Promise for Rx and Dx. Preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hey @Zoom Can your engineers design an updating system that doesn't make everyone late for their meetings?

Thank you to @ProfSimsim and team for organizing a wonderful lab retreat and hosting the Berman and Cottrell labs. h/t to Katie Lindale for planning terrific brainstorming sessions. Photo courtesy of Dendra Hillier.

Get to know a pathologist and be inspired. @01sth02 @mypathologistmd @SVarma_Queensu file.pathology.ubc.ca/NewsLetterSumm…

Yesterday, learners @QueensUHealth knocked it out of the park! Congrats to Paola Nasute Fauerbach, Sono Khan, and @juliahellas for their award-winning plenary presentations. Great to get together in person, for a change! @janephilpott @DbmsTweets @QueensPathology

Director of the new @QueensUHealth @KGHresearch Centre for Health innovation, @ProfSimsim bringing synchronicity and radical collaboration to medical research. Excited and eager for @QueensPathology members and their fundamental roles in improving health care.@QueensGazette

Hot off the press, a tour-de-force paper led by @ChelsJackson7 explores luminal and basal subtyping in EARLY #bladdercancer. How to subtype with only 3 antibodies; how stable are subtypes? How aggressive? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cj…

We in #ygk are lucky to have @JeannieCallum looking after our #blood supply. Here's a quick read summarizing her innovations and leadership in transfusion medicine -- in Canada and beyond.@QueensPathology @SEAMOKingston @KGHresearch @KHSCcos seamo.ca/news/stories/c…

Good advice. Not only for choosing a specialty, but for life. Stay true to who are! t.co/3hD6hHGK8E

"In Canada, it's possible to find a man lounging on a chesterfield in his rented bachelor wearing only his gotchies while fortifying his Molson muscle with a jambuster washed down with slugs from a stubby. nytimes.com/2021/05/16/boo…

#pathtwitter Am I the only one who has a strong dislike for most uses of the word "cancerous?"

Inquiring minds want to know how to tell________

Are #uropuns safe for work? Depends. If you're @JenniferNauheim the answer is probably yes. Enjoy 😂 @siemensr @_TheUrologist_ @pcvblack

Another master class on #prostatecancer grading from ISUP. This one from @TheoKwast #gupathHighly recommended! youtu.be/DjQsOCsD1bA

Really? I'm down. cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Must watch: "ISUP Presents....Dr Arno van Leenders on “Prostate cancer grading beyond Gleason... #gupathvia @YouTube youtu.be/WAsmQb4L8Us

Surviving Weed-Out Classes in Science May Be a State of Mind nytimes.com/2020/11/16/sci…

.@daniel_berney and @LiangChengMD how do you report out low grade papillary urothelial neoplasms with a thickened but otherwise well organized architecture and zero nuclear atypia? #lesionformerlyknownasPUNLMP

Dear Sara Williams, As requested, I am attaching my case report "Paging Dr. Jiang: A case of mistaken identity.

Make America Canada Againvia @NewYorker newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…

When reviewing a good manuscript for a journal, can I mark up a PDF with comments? Weird that I've been reviewing for decades and never before felt the need so strongly. Good paper with lots of minor edits needed. @daniel_berney @michaelhoffman @DrNetto @cmketcham

1. Donald Gleason 11/20/1920 – 12/18/2008 invented Gleason grading. He is a #gupath hero. His hundredth birthday is coming up. Let's revisit his contributions. #gupath @lalpritu @Williamson_SR @Gleason4plus5 @rovingatuscap @rajalbshah @priyaraomd @slusagar @h_alahmadie

Anyone have classic Fred Gleason Gleason Grading papers in PDF form to share? I need the one below for a paper I'm writing but Interlibrary Loan is shut down for COVID19 #gupath @priyaraomd @Williamson_SR @rovingatuscap @Gleason4plus5 @MirttiTuomas

I love this hand drawn card from one of my favorite students -- especially the tissue microarray. #pathart @KBaranoma @mypathologistmd

Predatory journals are hiding under a cloak of confusion. Expert panels can't define predatory. nature.com/articles/d4158…