Maryam Soltanolkotabi

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#SSR2026 delivered as always! Great science, thoughtful talks, and the real highlight: time with friends and colleagues. Plus a memorable gathering of the eSPASM crew 😉 Grateful for this MSK community.

Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. It’s slow, it tends to favor established labs and familiar names, and it gets uncomfortable around anything too unconventional. Papers loaded with mountains of data tend to cruise through, while bold ideas that actually challenge the consensus get stuck in limbo or turned away at the door. The irony is that where a paper gets published almost never determines its real worth. What actually matters is what the scientific community does with it afterward, whether people cite it, argue with it, build on it, or use it to blow up a long-held assumption. That’s where the value lives, not in the journal’s logo. A major survey a few years back found that roughly 70% of researchers think the current system is fundamentally broken, and it’s not hard to see why. Publicly funded research hides behind paywalls, editors chase whatever topic is hot that month, and the whole incentive structure pushes toward safe bets over genuinely risky and potentially important work. Science has always been complicated and deeply human and full of ego and inertia, but the conversation is shifting.

Excellent Case of the Day presentation by our MSK fellow, Sydney Litt, today at #SSR2026 @UofURadiology

Excited for all the wonderful hands-on and trainee sessions at this year’s #SSR2026

@bwells80 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Grateful to the @RSNA R&E Foundation for launching my investigative career and building the foundation for future R01 funding. This support made our work in quantitative Bone SPECT/CT and early OA detection possible. @UofURadiology

@mahdisoltanol Ski + surf in one day is such an LA overachiever move. Very on brand for you optimizing life for parallel processing. 🏄‍♂️⛷️ In Utah we actually ski in February… and sometimes in the streets. But I’ll give you the ocean. Fight on. ✌🏼

Deadlines almost made me miss my yearly East Coast troll, important bc I might not get to next year: LA “extreme weather”: summer in February. Can’t ski in the streets, but the mountains are snow-capped. Can literally ski/surf in same day. ⛷️🏄‍♂️ Jokes aside, stay safe everyone

Can’t wait for this year’s meeting!

Fun new theory paper on data reuse: 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟-𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗗 can beat 𝗢𝗡𝗘-𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗦𝗚𝗗 by a log-factor in samples. Same single-index model, same data: → 𝗚𝗗 recovers with n ≈ d → 𝗦𝗚𝗗 needs n ≳ d log d arxiv.org/abs/2602.02431

60 million down the drain, Kai Havertz scores again! ♥️🤍

@sportsraddoc Thank you Navid! I really appreciate your kind words.

Well deserved! Love to see the successes of great people!

@parisa_kaviani Thank you!

@MSKMarSol Congratulations! Very well deserved!✨

Honored to hold an endowed chair bearing the name of Dr. Anne Osborn, whose mentorship and leadership in imaging have been deeply inspiring.

@TomVargheseJr Thank you!🙏🏼

@MSKMarSol Congrats!

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Congratulations to Dr. Allison Payne on her appointment as the John Henry and Nancy LeNore Parker Endowed Chair in Medical Imaging Research! We are proud to celebrate this recognition of her impactful research, innovation, and contributions to the field of radiology.👏@UofUHealth

I’m not a mathematician, but as a girl in Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani felt like one of ours in the most powerful way. Her name carried the story of what a woman could become. She made ambition feel natural and showed me that where we start doesn’t limit how far we can go.

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