Ahmed El Kaffas

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Ahmed El Kaffas

Ahmed El Kaffas

@Kffas

Science * (world travel + philosophy of science) * entrepreneur ^ polymath wanna be = Pura Vida

Palo Alto, CA Katılım Ocak 2011
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Denis Wirtz
Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz·
Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund. Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars). Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science. To what end?
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Alessandro Ingrosso
Alessandro Ingrosso@ai_ngrosso·
The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think. We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science. Read more and sign here: slow-science.com
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Denis Wirtz
Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz·
Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
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nature@Nature·
In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4i2EaIb
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Rosa Ritunnano
Rosa Ritunnano@RRitunnano·
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research
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Denis Wirtz
Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz·
US universities ranked by number of "best scientists" (h index>155). Some under- and some overrated unis? Harvard 69 MIT 21 Johns Hopkins 20 Stanford 20 UCSD 19 Caltech 13 Berkeley 11 Columbia 10 Yale 10 Cornell 8 Penn 8 Princeton 5 U. Michigan 5 U. Wisconsin 5 U. Illinois 2
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Michael Kolios
Michael Kolios@MichaelKolios·
Calling all graduate students & post-doc fellows! Don't miss the chance to join the upcoming @GordonConf in in-vivo ultrasound imaging. Dive deep into latest research, network with peers, & share your innovative ideas! #GRC2024 #ResearchNetworking more👇from @EmelinaVienneau
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Emelina Vienneau@EmelinaVienneau

Calling all grad students & postdocs in #ultrasound!! 📢 My Co-Chair, @MRLowerison, & I are excited to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Seminar (@GordonConf) for In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging is happening August 24-25th! Apply by May 19th for a speaker position. Details ⬇️

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Agata Exner
Agata Exner@AgExner·
Join us at the upcoming 2024 GRC on In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging to learn about the latest research in contrast enhanced US from Mike Averkiou, Misun Hwang & Massimo Mischi. Apply @ grc.org/in-vivo-ultras… #Bubbles #GRC #ultrasound
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Hong Chen
Hong Chen@ChenUltrasound·
[Conference📢] For an opportunity to engage with leading experts in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound over five enriching days, you may want to consider attending the Gordon Conference on In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging @MichaelKolios @OKripfgans @AgExner grc.org/in-vivo-ultras…
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Hong Chen
Hong Chen@ChenUltrasound·
And the list continues: Ahmed El Kaffas, Tatiana Khokhlova, Mengxing Tang, Klazina Kooiman, Brian Fowlkes, Fabian Kiessling, Florideza Villanueva, Siddhartha Sikda. I may still miss some names.
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Itai Yanai
Itai Yanai@ItaiYanai·
A riddle for scientists: what is (1) better than publishing in Nature, (2) more evil than reviewer 2, (3) the postdocs have it, (4) the Nobel prize winners need it, and (5) if you publish it you perish?
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Michael Kolios
Michael Kolios@MichaelKolios·
So much 4 Feynman's "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" (see: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/scientific-int…) We keep witnessing new lows of scientific misconduct in publishing 👇 Would you like the "50 citations package"?
ScienceInsider@ScienceInsider

Vendor offering citations for purchase is latest bad actor in scholarly publishing | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

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Aya Kamaya, MD
Aya Kamaya, MD@ayakamaya·
New release of LI-RADS Surveillance US v2024 provides updated management recommendations for surveillance in at-risk individuals. @ShuchiRodgers @VChernyakMD @DTFetzer @KhuranaBody @justintsemd @nirvidahiya @sruradiology @SABImaging @SocietyAbdRad @StanfordBodyRad @StanfordRad
SAR_DFP_HCC@LIRADS5

BREAKING NEWS! The NEW #LIRADS v2024 Surveillance Ultrasound Core has been published on the @RadiologyACR website with new terminology, management recommendations, and nomenclature! Download the core today! #HCC #Liver @sruradiology @SocietyAbdRad acr.org/-/media/ACR/Fi…

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John Streicher
John Streicher@JohnStreicher1·
Reviewer, *why* do you want to know how many mice total were used in the entire paper? What possible benefit does that provide you, apart from making me waste the time to count them all up?
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Eric Topol
Eric Topol@EricTopol·
Big #AI discovery: a new structural class of antibiotics (the last one took 38 years) with multiple compounds effective vs methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, without toxicity @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…
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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun@ylecun·
A new family of antibiotics discovered with graph deep learning.
Eric Topol@EricTopol

Big #AI discovery: a new structural class of antibiotics (the last one took 38 years) with multiple compounds effective vs methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, without toxicity @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Andy Truman PhD
Andy Truman PhD@TrumanLab·
In an ideal world, how many NIH R01s should a lab need to operate?
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