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Physician-scientist, Radiologist, Prof & Lab Head in NYC Imaging & treating cancer using particles faster than light + others. Science, Music, Art and History lover and connoisseur. Opinions solely mine and not my employer's or lab members'.
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"Wrong as he may be, Trump is behaving like a man seeking an age-defining legacy. I’ll bet he gets one."

Fitting music for this week and planning for a meeting on a major collaborative grant tomorrow... There are after all this years still parts in there that hit me hard every, single, time. No. 62 and 65 for example...

Another understated bird, the male Black-crested Coquette hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #nature #hummingbirds 🌿

Raking shadows thrown by low sun emphasise the terraced banks of an extensive IronAge/#RomanoBritish field system on the steep N-facing slopes of Burderop Down, Wilts. ... AND the ditches of a #medieval sheepfold that cut across them. 📷 historicengland.org.uk/education/sc...

“Why? What, truly, is the goal of so much cruel and clumsy destruction? Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated. American interests are not being protected. And the quest to cure diseases or improve human health is not being advanced.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...

Apkallū from Aššur-nāṣir-apli II's (883-859 BCE) palace at Kalḫu, Brooklyn Museum

Lemminkäinen Tulijoella - Lemminkäinen at the River of Fire by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) #FinnishArt

Heads-up… Foreign Justification for NIH applications Seeing these messages from various groups cfar.ucsf.edu/news/foreign...

I heard a joke about Odysseus but I lost the way to hit it home

Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

Book review 🧵👇🏽 ‘Between Two Rivers’ by @moudhy.bsky.social I finally got a moment this weekend to sit down and finish the last chapter. I’ve been holding off because, I didn’t want it to end. What a wonderful journey across time this book is. Probably my favourite book I’ve read in last 5 years.

How does a #Teotihuacan altar end up in the Maya centre of #Tikal in Guatemala, some 1,000 km away? This 🏺 thread on 5th century BCE conflict, politics, and client kings in Mesoamerica (and Ramírez's et al.'s paper in @antiquityj.bsky.social 99(404), 2025 🔓 of course) offers an intriguing answer:

A mass grave of Roman soldiers was found in Austria. interestingengineering.com/culture/2000... #history #historia #tarih #storia #histoire #geschichte #ancient #archeology #rome #roman #germanic #austria #war #colonization #historytoday 🏺

"I imagine people 1,000 years from now ... who want to know about this critical moment in history when, for the first time, we were stepping into space." - space historian @planet4589.bsky.social, in a great Q&A with @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/s...

Wonder what Tim Apple promised as quo...?

The problem with forcing countries to create a new world without you is that once they've done so, they aren't going back

Since @peark.es blocked responses can someone explain this in plain English? Seems important…

"So when it’s all over, if the crown jewel of biomedical research — the enterprise that gave us the human genome sequence, Covid vaccines and treatments for cancer and HIV and obesity — has been destroyed, what will have been the point?" feels like sepsis or metastasis -- the body is taken over...

Morning. Song,,🐦🐦