Peter McCourt

the most annoying shift i've experienced in academia

PhD vs Master student.

I work well with others when they leave me alone

Sometimes we take life too seriously.

A back-to-work cartoon for @newscientist

The most Aussie moment in cricket history

🧠✨ New in GeroScience From dark horse to front-runner: vascular contributions to brain health - Proceedings of the 2022 annual workshop of the Albert Research Institute for White Matter and Cognition by Aditi Gupta & Kristen L. Zuloaga (@Zuloaga_Lab) et al. This workshop report highlights the emerging and critical role of vascular health in maintaining brain function and cognition, underscoring its importance in aging and neurodegenerative disease. 🔗 Read here: rdcu.be/eGNcN #BrainHealth #Cognition #Aging #VascularAging

BREAKING Stunning data PROVES vaccines cause autism In a scandalous paper *they* tried to hide, Dr Ant T. Vaxxer (doctorate in aromatherapy) showed that 148% of all autism cases going back to 1643 are definitely caused by vaccines Sources:YouTube,TikTok and his Auntie Vax

@RonFilipkowski Whoopsie doodle…

Apparently Marge didn’t read the bill before she voted for it.

BREAKING: Top Australian politician Just Called JD Vance a “knob”

@HenryYin19 As PI I’ve become an amazing printer tech as well… no one does toner changes better than me…

As a PI, most of my lab skills have deteriorated. I barely know how to do anything in the lab, but I'm pretty good at multi-factor authentication, paperwork, electronic signatures... I also tell myself that I'm good at thinking about the big picture, whatever that means.

@RpsAgainstTrump 👀👀👀

Digitizing the human proteome in >53,000 individuals with 15-year follow-up and, with machine learning, unraveling nearly 500 disease-causing proteins cell.com/cell/fulltext/… @CellCellPress

#1 rule of talking with your science buddy: always make them look good. Good ideas and improvisations only flow when everyone is feeling comfortable and secure.

The good idea comes when one person feels comfortable enough to say something that might make them look stupid and their friend is open enough to recognize its potential.