"Yeah Mr White. Yeah, science!" Immunologist at CRCT (FR) and Yale (USA). Cancer immunology, T cell receptor, R Mother of one, couch gymnast, low-key runner.
Toulouse, France
Joined March 2017
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You know how grants have very precise deadlines, like Feb 28th by 5pm Eastern? Imagine, just imagine if those agencies imposed the same rigour to themselves, instead of saying "results will be out in the month of July".
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Only reason why the met Gala should continue to exist
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USB ports are to computers what pockets are to women's clothes. Why can't we have them? No, I don't want to buy an expensive adapter so that I can stick a USB drive in my laptop. I've spent that money to buy a purse to carry all the things that I can't fit in my pocketless outfit
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Tried #ChatGPT for coding in spite of me (I lazily asked for suggestion on our lab chat and a student fwd me a chatGPT response). Mesmerized at the straight face with which it just made up a non-existing function.
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That feeling when you paste all the text from the pre-application into the full application form and 8 out of 20 pages are already filled #grantseason #humanwriting
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At a meeting at Harvard when UMAP was new, someone was explaining its virtues compared to tSNE. Someone said "so basically it doesn't do clustering well and it doesn't do trajectory well either". Sadly its issues are not restricted to the obscure world of scRNAseq anymore..
The publication of the whole genomes from the US @AllofUsResearch cohort is great to see, but the choice of how to represent an overview of the genetic relationships has (rightly) drawn controversy, in particular how the concepts of ethnicity and race are mapped to it.
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Liliana Elisa Lucca retweeted
Great discussion with immuno-oncology pioneer Ira Mellman @genentech after his talk. Thank you for taking the time to talk to young scientists and give career advice.
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Adding t-SNE just to make things fancier
🚨#BREAKING: Climate activist has attack and thrown soup at the famous Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum, Paris
Some scientist dream about a Nobel prize, I just dream about immunologists qualifying their statements with "in mice" if their study only includes mouse data 🐭🐭🐭
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I periodically go through reflections about what other things I could have chosen to do for a living. Today, it's "I could be writing about mortadella for a living, instead of this" nytimes.com/2023/11/28/dinin…
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My two cents in @BloodJournal on a cool new way to short-cut immunotherapy of Multiple Myeloma. Also, never missing a chance to talk about antigen specificity ;) #Immunotherapy #CancerResearch ashpublications.org/blood/ar…
The use of declarative titles, even for Results sections and Figures, is one of the most important point to me.
I’ve handled the review of > 1000 papers at @nature. Over time, you notice aspects of presentation on which reviewers tend to comment. In the interests of minimizing hassles during review, I offer the following suggestions (a bit targeted to climate papers).
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I would swap the current peer-review system and have reviewers be paid retired scientists with teams of technological consultants. No more COIs, no more retaliation, no more half-assed work passed down to the youngest member of the lab.
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It’s not anti-Semitic to criticize the Israeli government.
It’s not anti-Semitic to put the current conflict in historical context.
It’s not anti-Semitic to mourn the death of Palestinian civilians.
But if you describe the slaughter of 1,400 civilians as “military action” or call for a ceasefire without mentioning the toddlers who are still in the clutches of a terrorist organization, people will rightly wonder why you don’t seem to give a single shit about the lives of innocent Jews.
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Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. I’m calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of all hostages.
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Dear fellow Arabs: There is no amount of injustice that has befallen us or Palestinians, past or present, that justifies #Hamas randomly and cold blooded-ly killing #Israel party goers, families in their houses, people going around minding their own business.
“No soul burdened with sin will bear the burden of another,” Quran 18:1.
Please stop digging yourselves into deeper ethical holes by trying to justify, contextualize, or explain this crime. Instead, denounce it outright.
#Ethics101
My hearts bleeds for the humanitarian catastrophe that is happening in Israel and Gaza. A life lost is a life lost. But on the perpetrator side, an act of war is quite different from an act of terror. This one was as if 75000 had died in 9/11, or 5000 in the Bataclan attacks. 🧵
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