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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:41:57 UTC Robert McNees

   Nature desk-rejected their paper!

   This is right up there with the way the Nobel Committee used to tweet happy birthday to Russell Hulse, then mention that it also happened to be the anniversary of Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovering pulsars.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 18:53:00 UTC Robert McNees

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     The definition of chutzpah is killing your parents, then begging the court to have mercy because you're an orphan.

   • T.S. Aguilar (tsaguilar46@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 19:28:04 UTC T.S. Aguilar

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     @mcnees
     Shame that among all the hoopla around Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissmann, who no doubt deserve the Nobel Prize, no mention is made of the Biomedical Researcher Ingmar Hoerr who discovered the therapeutic potential of mRNA in the 1990s by injecting it directly into tissue as vaccine. That got the mRNA ball rolling and encouraged other researchers to investigate its potential.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 19:53:01 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Aleggra

     @Aleggra Haha, it's an old saying, not mine. So feel free!

   • Aleggra (aleggra@mstdn.party)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 19:53:02 UTC Aleggra

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     @mcnees

     Can I use this?

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 19:55:22 UTC Robert McNees

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     Penn demoted Karikó, removing her from the tenure track and making her an "adjunct associate professor." They also cut her salary. They should be issuing a public apology. Completely shameless.

   • cultdev (cultdev@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 03:59:35 UTC cultdev

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     @mcnees damn this story needs way more attention. i went to see the tweet and all the replies are either bland congratulations or shit about bill hates 5G genocide injections 😑

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Oct-2023 12:34:01 UTC Robert McNees

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     Should have been so easy.

     “Science is hard, and so is figuring out who is likely to make meaningful contributions. We’ve been doing it a long time, but we still make mistakes. We got this one wrong. Congratulations to Dr. Karikó on this well deserved honor, and our apologies for choosing not to support her and her work.”