A day will come when our grandkids ask "what did you do when Netanyahu destroyed our country, gave up on the hostages, sent us to war?" I know I'll answer that I spent days in the streets, I stopped my work and my normal life, I fought back. Do you know what your answer will be?
Recommendation letters is a huge thing in science! As part of a new gender equality forum we established at
@WeizmannScience
, we distributed this beautiful flyer prepared by
@SegevEinat
and team to all PIs. Please use when writing letter for your female trainees!
#WomenInScience
I'm usually not bothered by whether our work is or isn't cited. But when you wake up one day and see a
@biorxivpreprint
with a title almost identical to a paper you published few years ago in
@Nature
, which completely ignores your findings, it is difficult not to be upset. A 🧵
It has been one of the saddest Saturdays in Tel Aviv.. The police attacking civilians and hostages’ families.. This corrupt government is killing us and is destroying our country… I don’t know how much longer we will be able to resist 😢
Little moments of fulfillment: 13 years ago, my postdoc work discovered the presence of lymphatic vessels in zebrafish. A few months ago, this discovery helped save the life of a young boy... Science is not an easy road, but sometimes, it is a rewarding one...
It is with lots of moral clarity that I've just resigned from my role as reviewing editor in eLife. Prefer to dedicate my volunteering time to groups whose "courage, insight and moral clarity" are now speaking up for babies, kids and women kidnapped by Hamas
#Hamas_is_ISIS
It feels surreal given the current times, but I've just received news of my promotion to full professor.
Even in the midst of one of the toughest times in my life, my amazing lab, family, friends and colleagues who've always been by my side, still deserve a huge THANK YOU 😍🙏❤️
And here is also my resignation letter- I will not accept "moral" lessons from people watching our tragedy from the comfort of their TV room. We have very little volunteer time these days, so let's make sure we put it to good use- reviewing for
@eLife
is not one anymore 🙏💔
3rd time's the charm😜? We keep braking dogmas! 1st we showed
#zebrafish
have
#lymphatics
(Nat Med 2006), 2nd we showed lymphatics don't come only from veins (Nat 2015) and now 🥁.. lymphatics generate blood vessels! Exceptional work by
@Rudra_nayan
! 1/
A nice tradition in the lab- last group meting before leaving, students recap on their unfinished/unpublished stories. Great way to go back to old results and forgotten experiments, and to pass on tools and "unused" data to the new generations! Ayelet did an impressive job today!
To all my colleagues, collaborators, journals, foundations, etc that contacted me lately- please forgive my slow response🙏. I’m investing most of my energies (mental and physical) these days in the fight for democracy. I’m sure science can wait, our future here can’t!
Indeed, the labs are empty- our foreign trainees left, our students are in the front, our women are home (no school/daycare), most of us are attending funerals.. You can help by being thoughtful when you review our papers and grants, by speaking up for us, by not forgetting..🙏
I’ve just learned from another PI that all foreign trainees are evacuated by their embassies. The labs are emptying. This will impact Israeli science, unfortunately. I don’t think we can do much about it, but if you think there is anything we, your American colleagues, can do to
My own soldier came home from the front for 24hrs and ran to his piano♥️ A reminder that our “soldiers” are our kids, they leave their homes to fight for our right to be here. They don’t seek to kill or kidnap children and families, they just want to live a normal, simple life 🙌
Absolutely grateful to
@EVB_Org
and the vascular biology community for the trust! Happy for the opportunity to continue promoting vascular biology in Europe and contributing to this amazing community! Looking forward to a full year of learning from the best
@MarionaGraupera
Congratulations to Prof.
@KarinaYaniv
of the Immunology and Regenerative Biology Department for being elected President-Elect of EVBO (European Vascular Biology Organization)
Happy to see that what we published 7 years ago in
#zebrafish
, happens also in the mouse! We coined the term "specialized angioblasts" back then and showed that they directly generate lymphatics. Now, these are also found in mouse.
@ZebrafishRock
! always one step ahead!
New twist to an old controversy: The labs of
@StoneOliverA
& Friedemann Kiefer report the identification of an angioblast population that gives rise to lymphatic endothelium (). With 4 figures and 10 supplements, I wonder where this will be published?
In a world that is getting crazier by the day, we are lucky to have science as an island of sanity! Grateful to
@EVB_Org
and the vascular community for being a scientific home and to all members of the
@yaniv_lab
for staying strong despite the difficult times. I'm truly honored🙌
The Immunology and Regenerative Biology Department
WOW, moments like this are quite rare in our careers. Being elected
@EVB_Org
president and
@EMBO
member in the same month is a huge honor! I'm grateful to the
@yaniv_lab
, mentors, colleagues and friends for being by my side on this journey🙏. It means a lot in these dark days 🌟
נַעֲלֶה אֶת הַדֶּמוֹקְרַטְיָה לְרֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתֵנוּ!
ככה זה כשהכלה חזק בתוך מטה המחאה💪 והחתן
@Tzahore
יודע שאין לו ברירה אלא לזרום🤣!
@ShikmaBressler
מוקדש לך באהבה!
For our English-speaking friends-We (finally!) celebrated our wedding! (of course, fighting for our democracy!)💖
New work from the
@yaniv_lab
🥳! Novel
#zebrafish
ApoB mutants show unexpected roles of ApoB during development! Mutants also develop
#FattyLiver
, a hallmark of
#NAFLD
, representing a great model for large-scale drug screens! All details👇
@ZebrafishRock
Proud to bring the
#zebrafish
to the opening issue of
@NatureCVR
! "How many fish make a mouse"? On the painful road we travel to publish studies with animal models, and the major breakthroughs they brought about!
@ZebrafishRock
@yaniv_lab
@Tzahore
Blocking cell cycle progression in endothelial cells, makes them generate more vessels! Surprising findings in our new preprint!
@yaniv_lab
VEGFC induced cell cycle arrest mediates sprouting and differentiation of venous and lymphatic endothelial cells
New paper alert 📢! The first
@yaniv_lab
venture into the brain territory, led by
@IvanBassi3
with huge input from
@RuizdeAlmodovar
. What a ride it has been! Not easy to explore new lands, but so rewarding🤩. Tweetorial coming up soon- Feedback welcome🙏
I've just spent two incredible days with an amazing group of Israeli female PIs, trying to understand what is "Woman" leadership in Academia. It's been so empowering and fulfilling! Will be happy to share details on the program if anyone is interested. Highly recommended!
"When cardiac met vascular..." surely sounds like a meeting you don't wanna miss! We have a fabulous lineup of speakers from two fields that don't get to meet often. Join us in Israel to talk heart, vessels, and everything in between! Registration is free! Details 👇
@Tzahore
After ~2 years of intensive work, we released today a report on the status of Gender Equality at
@WeizmannScience
! "We" are ~60 scientists working together to help spot and reduce gender gaps on campus. The situation is not great, but we are on the right track!
#WomenInScience
🥳🥳🥳 So happy to have been awarded a grant from
@EraNeuron
to work together with
@RuizdeAlmodovar
,
@Gaborpetzold
and (twitterless) Ainhoa Plaza Zabala on Small Vessel Disease! My first steps into neurovascular research with the best possible partners!
Not surprising at all..Welcome to the world of
#WomenInScience
! It happens a lot at every career stage..We often find our papers non-cited, our findings ignored, our contribution diminished..Being aware is the first step towards changing this pattern!
Welcoming a new princess to our family, with such a handsome and young grandpa 💖💖! As a mom of 3 boys, I'm especially happy to see some pink colors in the house! Pure joy and happiness!
Being a mom of 3 boys, I had to take advantage of my only chance ever to have a (very pink ☺️☺️) Bat Mitzvah party! We are celebrating 12 wonderful years of the
@yaniv_lab
! I can't be more excited!!
Throughout my scientific career I got to know many wonderful people, colleagues and friends. The amount of messages and love I'm receiving from them is heartwarming. I cannot explain how much your support means to me. Thank you for being there for us in these terrifying days 🙏🙏
Today baby
#20
was born in the
@yaniv_lab
👶! So proud of my people for following their hearts, for starting to learn how to balance ⚖️ life and work early in their careers. Science should never be an obstacle for living the lives we choose to live!
I was 19 when I left Argentina on my own after growing up under a dictatorship.. I had nothing then, but wasn’t willing to compromise my values.
30 years later, facing the same dilema, I’m still not willing to compromise. It’s time to look for new horizons 😢
#heart_broken
Our new "baby" is out! We found new unexpected functions for ApoB, a protein mainly known for its "day job" as part of LDL (aka the "bad cholesterol"). Turns out ApoB plays important roles in organ development also, that go way beyond fat metabolism!
@yaniv_lab
@ZebrafishRock
It never stops amazing me how people from all over the world become so emotional and opinionated when it comes to Middle East politics... People that have never even visited the region allow themselves to argue over Twitter about a conflict they only watch on TV... Unbelievable!
Grateful to
@ERC_Research
for the unequivocal support of Israeli scientists at these awful times-"In the face of darkness, let our voices be the guiding light" 💫
Deadline extension for Horizon Europe calls following Hamas’ terrorist attacks across Israel
"In the face of darkness, let our voices be the guiding light". A clear message from the
@WeizmannScience
to our fellow scientists and friends. Thanks for being there for us, we will never forget 🙏📷
#StrongerTogether
.
דברי נשיא מכון ויצמן, פרופ׳ אלון חן. ׳הפעם לא רק שלא נהיה מגדל שן. עלינו להיות מגדלור שיעמוד באומץ ובזקיפות קומה מול הגלים המסתערים ויצביע על הכיוון הנכון׳. בשבת יעלו בכירי האקדמיה וינאמו ב 32 הפגנות מקריית שמונה ועד אילת. בלי דמוקרטיה אין אקדמיה
@MateAcademia_IL
עזבתי את ארגנטינה לבדי בגיל 19 אחרי שגדלתי שם תחת #דיקטטורה (עדיין הפרצוף של Videla עושה לי 🤮). רק מי שחווה זאת מבין כמה שריטות זה משאיר לטווח הארוך-הצנזורה העצמית, הפחד להביע דעה, החשדנות. באתי הנה מתוך ציונות כמו מיליון עולים שמצאו פה דמוקרטיה למופת. לא ניתן להרוס אותה!
Our manuscript on lymphatic transdifferentiation is out today! In this work
@Rudra_nayan
et. al. show the existence of an innate mechanism of blood vessel formation through Lymphatic endothelial cell transdiferentiation. In this tweetorial we point out the major highlights. [1/7]
Another awesome presentation by
@jonykipnis
today at
@WeizmannScience
! Tones of new data, super provocative as usual!
You can give a shot to the question in the picture... not sure you’ll get it right though 🤪
The road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is a tough one, especially at 38C 🥵. But the people of Israel are not easy to break! Like in the old days a "pilgrimage to Jerusalem"- thousands walking for democracy ✊ These are very difficult days for us, but I've never been so proud!
Even testing positive for COVID is not so bad when you have an amazing group of people around sending good vibes! Thanks to my awesome
@yaniv_lab
💖💖! Nothing like ice cream and cookies to make you automatically feel better!
As we end this awful 2023 I want to thank my dear "science friends" all over the world for your support, offers of help and kind thoughts during these challenging times. I pray for a 2024 filled with peace and hope for days when rejected papers are our biggest problem in life🙏
The
@WeizmannScience
is supporting Ukrainian scientists, students and postdocs wishing to come over. Please get in touch if we can help! RT and distribute please! 🙏
It’s submission day! Congratulations to
@IvanBassi3
who bravely decided to come back to the lab in spite of the difficult circumstances, to finish his fantastic 2nd paper! I am so proud and grateful for your hard work and dedication! Stay tuned for the pre-print soon!
@yaniv_lab
I don’t get it-boycotting Israeli academic institutions is the last thing to do if you care about peace and freedom of speech! Academia is the last fortress to fall when democracies are destroyed! We (academics) have been fighting our government for months-how does boicot help?
Amazing achievement for Israeli science! 29 researchers got a
#ERCStG
in this round, out of them 🥳🥳🥳 18 WOMEN 🥳🥳🥳!! Way to go to this brilliant young generation of
#WomenInSTEM
! We are so proud of you!
@ISRWN
📢 The ERC's 2022 Starting Grant competition results are now revealed. Over €636 million to fund the best ideas of younger scientists.
Find out who, where and why 👉
🇪🇺
#EUfunded
@HorizonEU
#FrontierResearch
#ERCStG
💔Terrified for my family and friends in the US
💔Horrified by the world looking away and letting "Never Again" be today
💔Devastated for our families and friends mourning the loss of their loved ones
💔Praying for the return of our hostages
#we_cant_breath
#JewishLivesMatter
This is not the message that as PI you should ever be exchanging with your lab. Our hearts are today with the victims, their families and friends, and
@TelAvivUni
whose two of their students were killed yesterday at the terrorist attack in Tel Aviv. May they know no more sorrow
Such an honor to have our study highlighted by Michael and Kari on this beautiful N&V! We couldn’t have explained
@ZebrafishRock
lymphatics better!
@Rudra_nayan
@yaniv_lab
Finishing your PhD in Europe? Interested in studying the most exciting system in our bodies? 😛😛 Check out this great opportunity to join our lab
@yaniv_lab
at the
@WeizmannScience
! Retweets welcome! International Postdoctoral Fellowship
📢Calling all vascular biologists📢 The meeting you've been all waiting for is open for registration!
#GRC_Angiogenesis2023
! Fantastic program, great venue, and plenty of short talks to be selected from abstracts! Hurry up! Slots fill up fast!
@cleaverlab
Today the darkest, most fanatic and racist government in the history of Israel is being sworn in. This government DOES NOT REPRESENT ME OR MY VIEWS in any way and makes me feel ashamed. I feel sorry for my kids (one of them in Jerusalem right now👇for the country we leave them 😰
The
@WeizmannScience
beer garden is back! Awesome initiative that brings together students, postdocs and PIs (plus families and kids) for a nice evening of beer, music and dancing! Such good vibes you can almost forget we work here 🤪🤪!
On Monday, my colleagues and I will be on strike to protest against the erosion of Israel's democracy. We are facing a historical crisis- the planned subordination of the judiciary system to political groups will have disastrous effects on human rights and freedom of speech! 1/n
New fun group meeting idea: each lab member was asked to pick from our facility a line we don't use frequently, take few non-obvious stage/region images and present w/o name. Fun guessing game, and lots of new unexpected ideas for everyone! Definitely a new
@yaniv_lab
tradition!
Best time of the year in Israel! The "Red South" is amazingly beautiful, the weather was perfect, tones of strawberries waiting to be picked, and we just had
@Rudra_nayan
paper accepted! Do we need more excuses for a lab fun day?! Certainly not!
@yaniv_lab
Thank you all for the caring and supportive messages 🩷. We are safe after a terribly scary night... Knowing that hundreds of missiles have been fired your way and all you can do is wait, pray and wish nothing happens is as bad as you can imagine (and more...). I'm exhausted 😥
Just finished reviewing one of the most beautiful grant proposals I've ever read! I hope I didn't go too far with the amount of superlatives, but it was so exciting to read! The future of science is in great hands, we have a wonderful young generation!
I grew up as an Argentinian jew, surrounded by antisemitism. But the antisemitic Islamism we see these days is a whole different story. We, the Jews are just the first target, but it's the Western world and its values what they hate. Remember this, cause you might be next in line
Beautiful tradition at
@WeizmannScience
- Scientists take part of a “grand academic procession” to honor the recipients of a Phd Honoris Causa. For the first time ever, got to wear a graduation gown! 🤪
@Tzahore
Proud to be part of
@WeizmannScience
that stands behind Prof. Oded Goldreich after the Israeli gov. decides to veto his awarding of the prestigious Israel Prize to mathematics due to his political, anti-occupation views. Sad day for the Israeli academy, but science will prevail!
Congratulations to Prof. Oded Goldreich of the Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Department, who has been selected to receive the
#IsraelPrize
in Mathematics and Computer Science 👏
2024 already looks brighter as we have
@IvanBassi3
and
@Rudra_nayan
back in the lab! The
@yaniv_lab
is a much happier place today! Looking forward to having all our “evacuated” back with us soon! 🌟
🥳Happy to share some good news with the
#vascular
community!
#GRCAngiogenesis
2025 is approved and all set! I really needed this reminder of a better world and better times💗 Looking forward to working together with A. Eichmann,
@bikohcello
and
@BrisaPalikuqi
. Save the date!!!
In the past few years different cell types were shown to generate lymphatic vessels in the embryo. Is this also the case for cancer-lymphatics? We discuss this in our new review! Read it here! 👇
How do you know your postdoc was a wonderful experience? Cause you come back 15 years later and still feel at home ♥️. Even got home-made cookies from my dear
@dancastranova
and plasmids, from (the one and only!) Van. Wish I could start my postdoc again!
#WeinsteinLab
@NICHD_NIH
Hundreds of thousands from all over the country surrounded the Knesset today shouting “busha” (shame). Shame on this government that is killing the most precious thing we have, our democracy 😢😢
I am a Palestinian.
I am:
Pro-Palestine ✅
Pro-Israel ✅
Pro-Peace ✅
Pro-Humanitarianism ✅
Pro-Free Speech ✅
Pro-Freedom of Religion ✅
Pro-LGBTQ ✅
If this shocks you, maybe reconsider your view of the world.
Yeahhhh!!! "my guy" was funded!!!! Happy that life of an outstanding young PI is gonna be much easier in the next 5 years! Congratulations to all
@ERC_Research
starting grant winners!
Just finished reviewing one of the most beautiful grant proposals I've ever read! I hope I didn't go too far with the amount of superlatives, but it was so exciting to read! The future of science is in great hands, we have a wonderful young generation!
This is neither helping peace nor science. This just strengthens the radical voices on both sides and slowly kills any chance of achieving an end to this horror.. Academics in Israel are among the last pillars fighting for elections and the end of the war.. Don't be/do this 👇
Disappointed by our European colleagues who removed us from a consortium for a joint grant application because of "boycott threats" against institutions that support applications with Israeli institutions. This is not the right course of action and bad for science
We will
Happy to share the first
@yaniv_lab
entry into the fascinating world of lymphatic malformations!
@IvanBassi3
took a mutation identified by our collaborators all the way to a zebrafish screen and found surprising results! More details soon!!
@elife
Dear Tara, dear editors:
We wish to withdraw our manuscript from editorial consideration at eLife. We are shocked by the recent posts of eLife‘s Editor-in-Chief on X, in which he disparaged the victims of the Hamas terrorist attacks and
/1
Life must go on, and so does science..Traveling to LA to attend the
#lymphatics
GRC was not an easy call, but it was worth it. Not only is the science amazing, but I'm grateful for the love, kindness and support I'm receiving from my friends and colleagues
#NotTakenForGranted
🙏🙌
I asked chatGPT to write me 2 letters for tenure assessment (for a PPT, not for a real thing)- one strong and one weak. The good was like usual good, but see what I got for the bad one 👇!- a great lesson on respectful review. Next time, don't be reviewer 3, be a nice AI machine!
Not easy to have happy moments within our tough reality, but when your brilliant student crushes it at her defense, you’re not only happy, but proud and grateful 🥰 Many congratulations Dr.
@YaaraTevet
! It’s been fantastic accompanying you throughout this journey 🙌
#GRCAngiogenesis
is over and I don’t have enough words to thank everyone for making it unforgettable 🙌! I got to work with
@cleaverlab
, the best chair ever, meet dear friends and colleagues and be amazed by the new generation of vascular biologists! What else can one ask for? ♥️
So proud of having Shikma Bresler, as a colleague at
@WeizmannScience
! With such a strong woman leader, that is also a mom, and a scientist (physicist!) there’s no way we lose this fight!!
#womeninstem
@AWISNational
Done drafting a ~40 pages "response to reviewers" 🤯. This, plus 4 figs of ~20 panels each, 9 supp figs, 4 tables and 3 videos... for 1 paper. Be careful with what you wish for (as reviewer), as authors may actually do it!
Wrapping up
@IVBM2024
with my heart full! Thank you to
@EVB_Org
for the lecture award, to the vascular community for all the support and care during these difficult times and to all my dear friends and colleagues for the amazing science! Looking forward to Adelaide 2026!! ♥️♥️
First physical meeting of the
@yaniv_lab
as confinement measures began to release in Israel! We celebrated the return of our dearest Amitai (aka "patient
#65
") from the corona front, safe and healthy!