Solon Karapanagiotis

Summer Internship Programme 2025 @MRC_BSU A fantastic chance to gain hands-on experience in a world-class research environment. For more info and to apply, go to: lnkd.in/epGiwGAc

The most wonderful time of the year.. 😂

Thrilled to share that our paper is out!📢This marks my first co-second (wth @y_lubling) authorship collab during my PhD—couldn't be prouder of our team's work "Modeling TNBC drug responses with patient-derived xenografts opens doors to precision medicine strategies" @CR_AACR 1/n

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I'm late .... "You should expect to wait for your award — for about two decades after you produce your Nobel-worthy work. So, on average, you should make a start on these projects by your 40s." Nature crunched the data on every science prizewinner. nature.com/immersive/d415…

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health. A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals. The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program. Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization. A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies. You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program! These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time. If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

"Sorry I was late for dinner, I got stuck in a local minimum"

The papers that most heavily cite retracted studies nature.com/articles/d4158…

@MRC_LMB @immunonoah @UKRI_News @The_MRC Congratulations @immunonoah on this exciting new chapter!

The single greatest Wikipedia edit of all-time.

This is rich - one of the primary reasons scientists don't have a lot of time to think is that @nature and its ilk have promoted a culture where the primary goal of science is to produce bloated Nature papers that require lots of time and money, but little thought, to produce.

"Congratulations to all the talented participants who completed the Ignite program! 🎉 Special thanks to the organizers. #CamIGNITE @CJBS_EC

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Be optimistic @CJBS_EC #camIgnite

Day 2: such an inspiring talk by Lord Karan Bilimoria @CJBS_EC #ignite

How policy is (un)made theguardian.com/business/artic…

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Excited to share my work from @CRUK_CI has been published! Thanks to my incredible mentors @OMRueda and @CarlosC24501217 for supporting this journey and helping me have the most amazing experience in the UK! @CaldasLab #breastcancer