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Victor Tatarskiy

@greenrat.bsky.social

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Cell biologist and a cat person. I mainly study CDK8/19, cell cycle regulation, and new anti-cancer drug candidates. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9080-5683

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · Oct 26

Hey! I'm Victor. I'm a cell and cancer biologist. My lab mainly studies CDK8/19, cell cycle regulation, and new anti-cancer drug candidates. I also love history and DnD, so don't be surprised if I follow you. I'm Russian (sorry) with family in the US, so there is occasional politics.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 2h

"When you're famous, they let you do it," but on nuclear superpower level

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 8h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 1d

The clowns were the clowns of old, but we need to bring black the clowns!

grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️ @grimmrad.bsky.social · 1d

Deleted post with a pic which I labeled misleadingly as being taken IN Portland, OR. It was by AP from a German photographer (Bimmer), probably done in Hamburg at the G8 summit.
But it stylizes the situation in Portland still nicely and is a great picture.

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, reverse google image search + some more googling shows that it's possibly "Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA)" at the G8 protests >>10 years ago www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/clow... totaltheatre.org.uk/rebel-rebel/
maybe Heiligendamm, but not 100% sure

Der Witz als Waffe

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 1d

#31daysofgraves #13 Skeleton
The monument for Elizabeth Benson, obit 1710, in St Leonard, Shoreditch. Carved by Francis Bird, it shows two gleeful skeletons holding a shroud, vigorously ripping apart the tree of life.
www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/stl...

Carving of two skeletons holding a shroud and tearing a tree in half

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 2d

In Russia, engineers are also the most fertile ground for crackpot theories. If you encounter a crackpot theory, it's almost always from someone with a PhD in "technical sciences" (aka engineering)

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, a lot of people in US admin, do look and sound like aliens. Bald Lizard Man, Red Croacky Disease Thing, Puppy Eater....

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 3d

Это Наташа Лионе в молодости?

a woman with red hair is smiling in front of a store

Alt: a woman with red hair is smiling in front of a store

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful!

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 3d

Chonky guy!

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 4d

isn't it a major OpenAI backer? :)))
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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 4d

Don't know about this particular drug, but if there would be drugs supporting patients with cahexia it would be so important. This is a terrible symptom which leads to very fast decline, preventing treatments because the patient is to frail for it.

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery @natrevdrugdiscov.nature.com · 4d

Cancer cachexia contender enters first pivotal trial www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Can Pfizer’s appetite-boosting antibody ponsegromab address a cancer-induced wasting syndrome — and help patients live longer in the process? Find out more in this news article #CancerGrandChallenges

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 5d

WHAT. THE. FUCK. DID. I. READ

spongebob brushing his teeth with the words must unsee behind him

Alt: spongebob brushing his eyes with bleach with the words must unsee behind him

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 6d

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Direct single-molecule detection and super-resolution imaging with a low-cost portable smartphone-based microscope - Nature Communications

Loretan and colleagues present a low-cost smartphone-based microscope capable of detecting single-molecule fluorescence. This approach opens doors to personalised and widely distributed applications in diagnostics, biosensing, and science education.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 6d

you mean Florida delusional? :))

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, the “vomiting ferret” model is absolutely a real thing - I’ve encountered it in my own drug discovery career.

They’re one of the smallest animals that show this response- weirdly, rodents can’t do it at all.

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 6d

that's my day gone then

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 6d

ferrets are surprisingly good model for a lot of things, especially for lung diseases. GM ferrets models are used for cystic fibrosis and my colleagues were trying to make such a model. It's much harder then mice of course - they breed seasonally and not the friendliest of animals etc.

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Nikolay Kukushkin @niko-kukushkin.bsky.social · 7d

My book, One Hand Clapping, landed in the NYU bookstore! Preorder yours today! Out everywhere Oct 21

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/one-hand-c...

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 7d

o you have 13+ years of a backlog of this to watch!

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 7d

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` nice '' written on it .

Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` nice '' written on it .

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 7d

physicsworld.com/a/nobel-priz... I mean they did give out one almost like that - "automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys".

Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how a Swedish inventor was honoured for a technology that nearly killed him – Physics World

Gustaf Dalén is nowhere near as famous as his contemporaries, but does that make him undeserving of the prize? Margaret Harris investigates

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 7d

Tregs are the asshole teachers of T cells not letting anyone have fun

Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 7d

I think they are yellow. Brownish is also common, yes :)

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Alessandro @poli.sisti.ca · 9d

Thread of things I'm learning as I read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

Book cover, in the Special Centenary Edition with a forward by Alison Li.

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Victor Tatarskiy @greenrat.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, I figured that non-mammalian people would know of these techniques the best :))