Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My lab does “lung stuff.” Opinions are only mine so chill.
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30 Sep 2025
We wrote a review, hope folks find it helpful. Now get off twitter, back to bluesky journals.physiology.org/doi/…
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Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.
In memory of David Lynch, we will continue to explore the otherworldly and the unknown. We will focus not on the loss, but on what we gained from the years we shared this planet with you. We will see you in our dreams.
ALT Using the Event Horizon Telescope, scientists obtained this image of the black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon. The hot gas is shaped like a doughnut and is glowing a warm yellow color with reddish tint at its edges. The darkness of space is black in the background. Credit: Event Horizon Telescope collaboration et al.
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Andy Vaughan also on bluesky retweeted
15 Jan 2025
Terren and Joe are off to a great start in the New Year with their new opus tracking lung regeneration over a year post flu (strong assist from Mike Morley!). Endothelial cells don't fully recover! this was a fun trip and #WhyWeScience! cell.com/cell-stem-cell/full…
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13 Dec 2024
A early holiday present from the @MorriseyLab…a story of stem cell collision/competition driving lung regeneration! A tour de force from Dakota…#WhyWeScience!
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9 Dec 2024
In what might be my final post in this place... Our newest paper in Nature Cardiovascular Research! Led by an amazing grad student Joanna Wong. We demonstrate pulmonary veins sprout and differentiate into capillary cells after severe lung injury. nature.com/articles/s44161-0…
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14 Nov 2024
NIH is so f'ed
14 Nov 2024
Robert Kennedy Jr., one of the most anti-science figures in the world, will oversee a vast bureaucracy with a discretionary budget of nearly $150 billion annually and a mandatory budget of nearly $2 trillion.
HHS and its various agencies have profound regulatory powers that impact the healthcare of not only hundreds of millions of Americans but also the global healthcare community.
The following agencies will be under his control as Secretary of Health and Human Services:
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Administration for Community Living (ACL)
Indian Health Service (IHS)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
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6 Nov 2024
Whelp. Maybe a good time to mention that I am about to open a new PhD position in Sweden that just happens to be exactly four years in length. Any aspiring PhD candidates in neurodegenerative imaging or multiomics who want to "take a break" from the US, please get in touch!
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6 Nov 2024
A few years back the Werner Twertzog account wrote this famous post. It still works, but now it’s closer to 1/2, and there are no more spectators.
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6 Nov 2024
Jamelle Bouie hits the nail on the head
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6 Nov 2024
I can’t even wrap my head around what a RFK-led HHS looks like rn😵💫😵🫨
Healthcare was a cute experiment. I’ll miss it 🥲
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6 Nov 2024
Pretty far down the list of impending doom concerns but I think us basic research biologists need to prepare for draconian NIH slashes and a new reality of 1-2 person labs. Hope I’m wrong.
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6 Nov 2024
Reposting this because it’s really clear that all we have for the immediate future and maybe the rest of our lives is solidarity with other Americans who haven’t lost their minds to hate and greed.
5 Nov 2024
Whatever happens today I feel very lucky to live in West Philly, blanketed by both Harris Walz and Ceasefire Now signs. At least my neighbors have their heads screwed on straight!
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Again, don’t listen to silliness like this.
Kamala had a vision. Trump had vibes and racism.
This isn’t about who had a better platform.
This was a doubling down on America’s original premise — white supremacy.
6 Nov 2024
maybe, just maybe, the democrats should try offering voters a vision of the future or any value proposition besides not being the other guy. just a thought
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6 Nov 2024
lock tf in. get your ass in mutual aid groups. lend your time to meal services. care for people in the way a vote simply never could. advocate for community gardens and libraries. stop betraying community. you don’t get a sticker or gold star. lock in.
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6 Nov 2024
I agree. But what’s also even more true is that most Americans aren’t using language like fascism or democracy. Trump ran on grievance and resentment and used. We simple and easy words to use that tapped into peoples’ fears.
America is more far right than people want to accept. It isn’t just at the presidential level. Many progressive agendas were also defeated at the lower levels.
American is a white-tocracy and many “POC” (I use “” because it’s becoming a bit nebulous) and we need to realize that much of this country is OK with that.
the replies to this is the proof of why exactly it wasn’t about kamala not being progressive enough, americans just chose fascism and this time not even because of the russian interference
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6 Nov 2024
Just keep thinking about how superior Harris’s ground game was and how it didn’t even matter at all.
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6 Nov 2024
In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.
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6 Nov 2024
RT @davetroy: This is the reality. And when the sheep realize they signed on to be slaughtered, they too will join in slowly increasing num…
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6 Nov 2024
People are not voting against their interests if their interest is white supremacy.
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