Joel Atallah
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Developmental Biology and Genomics Associate Professor - University of New Orleans. Dad×3. I tweet about science, parenting, culture & world events.
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Drosophila grimshawi, our favorite organism, a Hawaiian fly. Image taken in our lab by Bronwyn Miller and Logan Crees.
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I just learned that
@mbeisen
deleted his Twitter/X account because there was a backlash to him reposting an Onion article. This is shocking. Mike Eisen is an inspiring leader in the scientific community and a great blogger. I've followed his work for >15 years.
A large fraction of faculty act as editors and peer reviewers for journals. Setting the precedent that their public personal views or comments somehow represent the journal is in my view a very bad move. It will effectively open up a new avenue to silence academics’ speech.
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One of the coolest ways to parade I've seen yet. (Krewe Bohème, French Quarter, New Orleans - Mardi Gras 2024).
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People in Afghanistan needs urgent help. This story is being buried due to the Israel Gaza war.
#AfghanistanEarthquake
#Israel
#Gaza
💔 Janan Sayeeq, spokesman for the Ministry of Disasters in
#Afghanistan
has said that 2,053 people have been killed, 9,240 injured and 1,320 houses damaged or destroyed in yesterdays series of powerful
#earthquake
's with the biggest being a magnitude of 6.3 (USGS)
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@JadeAlexandra32
At least it'll be their last opportunity to waste your time. Some people are outrageously disrespectful.
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@pictureofitself
@mbeisen
I tried to see the piece he reposted but his account was already deleted. Please share what you know - I'm just learning about this situation. I know Mike personally and like him a lot and that's why I'm shocked.
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@CoffindafferFBI
While reading the Memorandum, I noticed these images of the patches the jail guards assigned to RA wore on their uniforms. In addition to the separation of church and state issues, in what universe is it acceptable for ANY public employees to wear "I Hate People"?!
#Delphi
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When I was in Cairo last summer, I saw the needs of the Sudanese refugees first-hand. This crisis should be covered in the media.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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I realize that this NY Times article on the origin of the Covid pandemic is highly controversial and I do not have strong opinions one way or the other. What I would like to see is a point-by-point response to each of Dr. Chan's claims without ad hominem attacks or vitriol.
@nytimes
I never imagined publishing in
@nytimes
@nytopinion
, not to mention receiving such overwhelming response.
I want to thank the editors & team who worked day+night to vastly improve the piece, create compelling graphics & organize fact checks by experts.
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Submitted a $2.3 million grant application on Thursday. What a relief to have it in! Waking up (multiple times) at 2 am and going to work because you can't sleep ain't fun. But I did enjoy working with colleagues on the grant. They were all stellar and pulled their weight.
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Best way to explain to students that acquired traits are not inherited
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Happy 90th, Jane Goodall! Still recall you congratulating us at my Ph.D. commencement in the language of the chimpanzees you'd worked with.
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Multiple Elife editors have resigned in protest after
@mbeisen
was replaced as Editor-in-Chief. I realize that this is an extremely painful time that calls for sensitivity, and I weep with all who have lost loved ones. Still, I believe Elife's response sets a dangerous precedent.
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@mattparlmer
Insta is infested with aspiring models. Social media should be about communicating, not showing off.
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The
#ActiveShooter
suspect at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
@UNLV
has been contained. This must bring back traumatic memories for people in the community, given that a few years ago they suffered from one the worst mass shootings in US history.
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Students working on Hawaiian Drosophila flies in my lab. I was pleasantly surprised to find this picture in the main administration building below the president's office.
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@JessPected
@moorehn
The idea of humiliating people at weddings seems to be a western concept. I never saw it in the Middle East, where a wedding is a time of joy for everyone.
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Another view of
#JoanOfArc
in the
#FrenchQuarter
in
#NewOrleans
. A happy start to the
#CarnivalSeason
.
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@politico
The lowest form of clickbait: when you read the article, it says "seventh-graders and adults." In other words, people of all ages.
The article should have focused on the candidate who skipped the debate.
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@anthony_berndt
It's impossible to have a discussion about this unless we define "immunity". Are we referring to sterilizing immunity (prevention of forward transmission) or a reduction in the severity of the next infection?
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@RobertKennedyJr
@VivaKennedy2024
In Canada, candidates for Prime Minister engage in both an English debate and a French debate. In the US, there should be a Spanish debate in addition to the English debates.
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@mattparlmer
How are they expressing their bleakness on Instagram? Are they showing images of despair? I have friends who've expressed their pain on social media, but it's rarely on Instagram. The platform elevates fluff over genuine communication.
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The hateful messages attacking Jewish students on a Cornell University discussion forum should be condemned by all
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Carla Tinuviel sent me this picture for my birthday. Love how baby Lorien was looking at the microscope!
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@skoularidou
I try to speak sensitively but I will take this warning to heart. We also need to train people not to listen to a "rattle" - someone "from whose mouth information, true and false, flows out all day long without consideration, almost with volution". (C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy)
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Lived on the 3rd floor of this building in Heliopolis, Egypt, from the age of 7 to 16. Here's a picture with my sister and son from a visit last summer.
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@CoffindafferFBI
What I find remarkable is that the defense attorneys are not just claiming RA is innocent- they're saying exactly who they believe committed the crimes and why. Isn't that unusual? Most of the time, the defense just tries to sow "reasonable doubt".
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Interesting that many people have letters their grandparents wrote 50 years ago but have lost the emails they wrote 10 years ago. Technology will make things harder for biographers.
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@CoffindafferFBI
She was in jail for over 50 years. The state could have kept her locked up a few more years (until her death), with taxpayers footing the bill, but even that wouldn't be justice for such heinous crimes.
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The effect that Biden's stance on Gaza will have on Democratic voter turnout in November should not be underestimated
My ENTIRE LIFE I wanted to be a defense attorney. Once, during discovery, I saw an autopsy photo of a baby. I quit that day.
Ive seen 1000s of similar photos coming out of Gaza & yall think Im going to forget by November?
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Many mothers are mosaics. During pregnancy, fetal cells pass through the placenta and can become part of the mother's body, persisting for decades. The health effects are unclear, but there's evidence that fetal stem cells can seek out injured maternal organs and repair them.
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Congratulations to Amanda and the
@terincox
lab
University of New Orleans graduate student Amanda Kirkland has been named a 2024 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow.
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The tradition in the Middle East is that churches are open 24/7. Think of the churches in Northern Gaza where hundreds of people are sheltering. When it freezes here in the US, I worry a lot about the homeless people I know. It's crazy that this pastor was arraigned.
Chris Avell, pastor of Dad's Place in Bryan, Ohio, has been arraigned in court because he kept his church open 24/7 to provide warmth to the unhoused during this brutal cold snap.
Multiple unhoused people have died in the last week from the cold.
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I didn't go this year but glad Bayou colleagues had a chance to meet up in person
"Fly Bayou" groups at
#Dros23
! It was very nice to meet several people in person after having virtual monthly meetings for the past couple of years.
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Kudos to a politician who knows that postdocs exist
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Mass protests against Netanyahu as the situation in Gaza becomes even more desperate following the occupation of Rafah
It’s Saturday night and people across Israel are calling for Netanyahu to go. Enough. Enough.
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Happy Egyptian Mother's Day! Mom was born in Haiti, lived there 14 years, immigrated to Canada, where she met a man with the same birthday (at McGill), then later immigrated to Egypt, the country she's called home for many decades. Lots of people envy me for being her son.
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Iran has retaliated with a drone attack on Israel.
Every life is precious, and what the Middle East needs now is not more war, but a comprehensive ceasefire, and freedom, dignity and relief for the starving people in Gaza and Sudan.
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@CoffindafferFBI
Re. RA's confessions- don't care if he confessed 100 times in jail. Most people - especially honest ones - can be made to confess to crimes they didn't commit (read up on the Reid technique), even if they're not being held in horrendous conditions and guarded by members of a cult
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You also have to ask: Is it a scientific question or a historical one? Both hypotheses are scientifically possible, the question is, "What happened?"
“I’ll go with the science” is so bizarre here — I informally ask scientists about their beliefs on this, and I’d say it’s much closer to 50/50 than a majority consensus. It’s still very uncertain, and the belief distribution reflects that.
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There's no shortage of unraveled scientific mysteries. The purpose of sleep is one of them.
It was previously hypothesized that sleep might play a role in brain clearance of toxins. Only one problem:
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There was a strong movement by geneticists to put Barbara McClintock on the $10 bill. She's certainly the female scientist I'm most indebted to personally.
#InternationalWomensDay
#transposons
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Living in New Orleans, I find the idea of a mass shooting in the vicinity of a parade (on Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday, no less) particularly reprehensible. Love to our fellow-humans in Kansas City.
#ChiefsParade
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Help this girl get jaw reconstruction (see the link to her story)
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Garderners often talk to their plants. Now we know that plants also speak.
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@SenMarcoRubio
Do you really doubt for one minute that foreign intelligence agencies can access all the private data on US-based social media sites like Facebook? The solution is a comprehensive privacy bill, not banning Tiktok, which is a war on the young.
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My mother is currently assisting 7 orphaned Sudanese child refugees. Don't forget
#Sudan
! BOTH the
#Israel
#Gaza
war AND the
#SudanWar
must end.
#Sudan_War_Updates
#Gazabombing
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Very painful news today re. a close family friend in Cairo, Julia, who was hit by a car while crossing the street and is now intensive care. She is an amazing woman who has done a lot to help people with disabilities. We are hoping she makes it through the night.
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If you want to understand why relationships in America were so different 100 years, read about heart balms. Far and away the most fascinating piece of history I've learnt about this year.
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@Graham_Coop
@eLife
It's very sad how this played out. I understand that many people are in severe pain and are angry, but why should
@mbeisen
be the object of that anger?
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"Please touch". So refreshing in a world where "Don't touch" is sadly common.
#children
#touch
#exploration
#volcano
#CapulinVolcano
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@ColauttiLab
Don't assume that they're spamming and don't put them down. They're mostly international students who may come from a research culture that's very different from ours.
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@CoffindafferFBI
The focus now needs to be on ending this horrific war ASAP. Close to ten thousand children in Gaza have been killed, and groups like Doctors Without Borders, who are no stranger to conflict zones, say that this is the worst they've ever seen.
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@CoffindafferFBI
It seems to me that the defense presented a mountain of evidence and what I'd want to see from the prosecution (if I were the judge) is a point-by-point rebuttal.
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@DollyParton
@Beyonce
"I'm still a Creole banjee bitch from Louisianne" is my favorite line in Beyoncé 's version, which has a totally vibe from Dolly Parton's.
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Let's hope he makes it to the trial date. He's been in a maximum security prison pre-trial, which is ridiculous.
#Delphi
#RichardAllen
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
#Delphi
Update
#RichardAllen
's trial has been set for May 13th, 2024.
Just in case you were wondering, Gull had no discretion in denying this motion for a 70 day trial date. She HAD to do it.
#JusticeforAbbyandLibby
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Happy Egyptian Mother's Day to the most loyal and affirming mother ever! The commemoration of the first day of spring as a celebration of motherhood was promoted by the late Egyptian journalist Mustafa Amin.
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@bielleogy
In academia, it takes so long to become a PI that once it happens it takes years for it to sink in - if ever
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Fadeke Adeola's pre-commencement celebration. Congratulations, Dr. Adeola!
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When you hear about the US banning one of the world's most popular social media platforms, you ask yourself, "What?! I thought that only happened in authoritarian countries."
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@AlliBeanMDPhD
In the life sciences, the undergrads who work in your lab, and all grad students, typically use your first name; other students use your title
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What motivated you to become a scientist?
For me it was bioluminescence. I never saw anything as extreme as these pictures, but my biochemist father had been studying it so we took a small sample of sand while on vacation in Cabo and brought it back to our hotel room. When we got it in a completely dark room it glowed.
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Whenever there's an alleged suicide that seems "too convenient", I ask myself, "What is the prior probability of this person committing suicide at this time vs. an alternative hypothesis e.g. the individual was targeted?" It's a difficult question.
#Boeing
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Kind of weird that
#HurricaneIdalia
is striking on the two-year anniversary of
#HurricaneIda
(not to mention the 18th anniversary of
#HurricaneKatrina
)
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@DistractedAnna
Last year, in a class of 28, I had students with the following names:
Alexander
Alexandra (Alex)
Alexandra (Lexie)
Alexandria
Alexa
Alexia
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A lot of false info going around about the
#ActiveShooter
at
#MSU
. Follow the MSU police to stay informed.
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The static genomes of living fossils
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I'm excited to read this. We haven't worked specifically on sex peptide but we enjoyed discussing the recent Hopkins et al paper from the Kopp lab in my lab meeting. Congratulations
@lizzyzhao
I'm very glad to share our new work on the evolution of sex peptide and Sex Peptide Receptor interactions! Congratulations to Junhui
@rujpeng
, Nicolas, and our collaborator from the Rockefeller Proteomics Core, Henrik.
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@jewstein3000
What about French president Macron who married a woman 24 years older than him?
What's interesting is that trends are cyclical. This type of reasoning mirrors the heart balms of 100 years ago when men could be sued for "breach of promise to marry" and "seduction".
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That face!
electron microscope view of a hydrothermal vent polychaete deep sea worm
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People in the west have no idea of the expenses and humiliation that their fellow-humans from the developing world incur when applying for visas. This academic was granted a visa but her 6-year-old daughter was denied one.
@DoselineKiguru
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Intense love, longing and joie de vivre in the most horrific circumstances
#Rafah
#Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
Rafah |
The joy on our children's faces will serve as the most satisfying revenge.
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