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jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

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We link molecular and functional phenotypes of islet cells from donors with type 1 diabetes to understand impaired insulin and glucagon secretion. Immune signalling, nuclear exclusion, mTOR and lysosomes in alpha cell dysfunction. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.20.639325v1

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DOGE By The Numbers theonion.com/doge-by...

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Check out the first result of a really fun collaboration with @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social and @wywywa.bsky.social labs. We find new factors that improve stem cell-derived beta cell survival. Supported by @breakthrought1dca.bsky.social Centre of Exellence @ubcmedicine.bsky.social

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"This is a question of respect of our country, respect to our leaders and respect of our people," says Canadian foreign minister Mélanie Joly. "We will never be a state, and we will never be a colony." #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

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Appalling and stupid

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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... New T1D genetics / genomics by Kyle Gaulton and team !

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Of course. Wide open corruption.

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New paper alert!! Thread from recent PhD graduate Jamie Chu

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New from @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social & colleagues. New insights into the proteomic profiles and regulation of β cell states through analysis of cells varying in Ins gene activity #islets #diabetes @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

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SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

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Wonderful second keynote at #abc2025 by Scott Soleimanpour. Now I don’t have to read the paper from last week !

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Last trainee talk of a great meeting !! Liam Hall. Exercise, hyperinsulinemia and diabetes. #abc2025

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Jacob Scamvougeras another great undergraduate from my group presenting on mis-bonded insulin peptides.

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Yueyi Huang from Sue Tsai’s lab at U of A telling us about the insulin receptors in T cells. #abc2025

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Last session! Jeffrey Lin from the Janel Kopp lab talking about the links between insulin and pancreatic cancer.

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Carmen Bayly from @nictitate.bsky.social lab with the final presentation of this session. Improving stem cell cultures through screening

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elifesciences.org/articles/103... interesting paper… adding to my reading list

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All the way from Houston Texas! We have MD/PhD student Jocelyn Carranza talking about their transplantation device.

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Pulkit Kumar from U of A. More islet transplant research

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Alex Garner from UBC speaking about alpha like cells in stem cell therapies

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Ivan Ma - xenotransplantation U of A

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Arghyadip Bose from U of A

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@howardcen.bsky.social from my group with his bioinformatics analysis of islet cell proportions

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Peter Zou from @luciani-lab.bsky.social talking about autophagy in beta cells.

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Sean Fox … more macrophages !!

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Bruno Freitas from @bruceverchere.bsky.social lab speaking on islet macrophages and stem cell differentiation

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Shreyasi Sarkar from @glim2016.bsky.social lab in Montreal talking about 14-3-3zeta in islets. #abc2025

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Alyssa Weinrauch who has 3 PDF mentors, Dan Lucian, Francis Lynn and me, with her presentation on lipids in stem cells and human islets.

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Chris Schaaf from Colorado kicking off day 2 of #ABC2025 conference.

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@bruceverchere.bsky.social introducing @linnemannlab.bsky.social who is giving the Keynote for #ABC2025 . Autophagy !!

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Manuel Sebastian from @chrisadoucette.bsky.social lab in Manitoba presenting on gestational diabetes and circadian dysfunction

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Louisa Pesspa-Sores up next from Alberta… #abc2025

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