@DMSabatini ‘ s contributions to science are extraordinary. No verdict can restore lost years. No financial compensation can undo the prolonged psychological stress, its toll on mental health and personal life, or the damage to a brilliant scientific career. I sincerely hope this marks the beginning of a new chapter for David, one filled with many more smiles. May it also serve as a powerful reminder that evidence, fairness and due process must always come before public judgment and condemnation. Science needs brilliant minds, but above all, we must never forget the human beings behind them.

Can MLKL kill without RIPK3? 🧬 Exciting work by Liming Sun and colleagues reveals how mechanical confinement activates MLKL and restricts cancer cell migration. I discuss these fascinating findings in my new Developmental Cell Preview! 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/a/1nxdj… #Necroptosis #MLKL

“The question should not be how many papers you published, but what you discovered.” A powerful reminder from @dixitvishva. Science is about curiosity, persistence, and the courage to challenge what we think we know. Great discoveries, not publication counts, define scientific progress. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition!

Like many scientists of my generation, I entered the cell death field inspired by the work that came from Genentech, especially from @dixitvishva , Kim Newton, and their colleagues. Their discoveries did more than define apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis and inflammatory signalling. They showed us what rigorous, elegant, and transformative science looks like. They also demonstrated that deep, curiosity-driven basic research could thrive within biotechnology and change medicine. Watching these departures is therefore not just news. For many of us, it feels personal. Yet the cell death field has taught us an important lesson: death is rarely the end of the story. In biology, death creates opportunities for renewal, adaptation, and transformation. The scientific legacy built by these extraordinary scientists cannot be erased by a reorganisation chart. Their discoveries have shaped an entire field and inspired generations of researchers who will carry those ideas forward. This is not the end. #GenerationDixit linkedin.com/posts/gianmaria…

ECDO IN FAVIGNANA 🌊 Save the date! 16-19 Sept 2026 Amazing program on Protein Degadation, Death Modalities, Metabolism, Precision Medicine. Join us on a beautiful and historic island off the Sicilian coast, a place marked by the battles of the First Punic War. Carthago delenda est.

Fantastic work by the @Walczak_Lab . Congratulations to all authors for this amazing work now avaialble on Nature cell biology @NaturePortfolio. A new chapter for immune-signalling. A must read!!!!

Reading the comments both under this post and under Nature’s obituary of Watson, it is impossible not to see how deeply ingrained sexism and abuse of power still are in science and beyond. Rosalind Franklin’s case was not only a tragedy of erasure, but an example of how authority and privilege once dictated who was allowed to define discovery itself. What is shocking is how many still defend the indefensible, revealing an almost atavistic belief in superiority and entitlement — the same mindset that enabled the abuse of power against Franklin in the first place