Congratulations to Dr. Georgios Kitsios (Georgios Kitsios), recipient of the 2024 Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science from American Thoracic Society (ATS)! 🎉

We are so thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2024 Respiratory Health Awards! The Respiratory Health Awards will be presented at several events during #ATS2024 . Congratulations to all of the deserving recipients!🎉

Congratulations to PACCSM 2nd Year Fellow Dr. Peter Nauka (@NaukaPeter) who the 'Outstanding Abstract Award' in Translational Research at the Pitt Critical Care Medicine Annual Mitchell Fink Scholar Day!

#ThisIsPACCM #MedTwitter #PulmTwitter PittDeptofMed UPMC Physician Resources

An experience I will never forget on the shore of Lake Erie. #TotalEclipse

James Lucas One of the most insane photos by far was taken in the Grand Canyon.

Wow! The 'Elements of Successful Grant Applications' is a masterpiece - #MustRead for all researchers. It is a a roadmap to grant funding inspired by Euclid's famous 'ELEMENTs'. It is so good I decided to summarize it in a thread 👇🏼
#ElementsofFunding
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Oops I did it again 🤭

#TotalSolarEclipse

Incredible & uplifting ASCI induction ceremony for 💯 new members last night! 👏👏🔥🔥 #IndoorSocialJoy JointMeeting

Which of the different spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies should you use for your research? The lessons we have learnt from comparing RNAscope, Molecular Cartography (MC), Merscope, Xenium and Visium are now on bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… 🧵

'Scientific progress is not only improved by collaboration, but requires it'

Great ASCI presidential address on science, mentorship, super chickens and all! Ben Humphreys

Our next plenary session is starting bright and early today with Dr. Bibbins-Domingo from JAMA to highlight 'Trust and Scientific Communication'. A giant topic with giant implications for #doubledocs !

Best medical aphorism?

“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should”

#MedTwitter

The choice of whether to use Seurat or Scanpy for single-cell RNA-seq analysis typically comes down to a preference of R vs. Python. But do they produce the same results? In biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ Joseph Rich et al. we take a close look. The results are 👀 1/🧵

ASCI Washington University in St. Louis Dr. Humphreys spoke on how more successful groups show higher connectedness to others. He introduced the Super Chicken Model, as an illustration that collaboration mattered more than individual 'excellence.' #JointMeeting2024

The Annual Mentorship Luncheon was a huge success! If you didn't do it this year, you'd better sign up for 2025 to not miss out!
JointMeeting #PhysicianScientists #DoubleDoc #JointMeeting2024

Congratulations to Tina Okereke and Cristina Padilla on becoming part of the new cohort of Pitt-Burroughs Welcome Foundation (BWF) scholars!

Known for its striking geological features, including colorful rock formations and natural arches, the Eagletail Mountains Wilderness is a remote destination for outdoor enthusiasts seeking solitude and adventure in the Arizona desert landscape.

Photo by @blmnational

A 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit New Jersey and was felt in parts of Pennsylvania.
 
My team and PA Emergency Management Agency are actively monitoring the situation and in contact with counties on any damage. We will keep Pennsylvanians updated.

If you fall once, get up. If you fall twice, get up again. If you fall for the third time, tie your shoelaces. ⁣

Another set of flooded #Pittsburgh images, this time from this morning. I was there when the rivers hit their highest Point, and water was spilling into Point State Park and onto Allegheny Landing. It almost reached Point State Park as well. I've never seen it this high before.