James Priest
@jamesrpriestmd.bsky.social
Pediatric Cardiologist & Physician-Scientist
🩺Pediatric Lipds @Stanford Children’s
🔬Early Discovery+Clinical Trials @ Cytokinetics
Oakland A’s ⚾️, 🏃♂️, 🪚 everywhere else!
🩺Pediatric Lipds @Stanford Children’s
🔬Early Discovery+Clinical Trials @ Cytokinetics
Oakland A’s ⚾️, 🏃♂️, 🪚 everywhere else!
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Bioinformatics is in shambles at the Denver airport’s acronym game
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Bioinformatics is in shambles at the Denver airport’s acronym game
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It’s important to note that there’s no published evidence of this.
It has not been verified or published.
And the evidence we DO HAVE has shown over & over again that the risk of myocarditis post infection is many times higher than that post vaccine.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41198364/
It has not been verified or published.
And the evidence we DO HAVE has shown over & over again that the risk of myocarditis post infection is many times higher than that post vaccine.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41198364/
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It’s important to note that there’s no published evidence of this.
It has not been verified or published.
And the evidence we DO HAVE has shown over & over again that the risk of myocarditis post infection is many times higher than that post vaccine.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41198364/
It has not been verified or published.
And the evidence we DO HAVE has shown over & over again that the risk of myocarditis post infection is many times higher than that post vaccine.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41198364/
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When kids were dying of COVID & people like Vinay Prasad scoffed at the small #, I had to remind people that kids are statistically less likely to die of almost every disease.
But sadly they often go hungry even where resources are plentiful.
Donate to help today & log at HCWvsHunger.org
But sadly they often go hungry even where resources are plentiful.
Donate to help today & log at HCWvsHunger.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
When kids were dying of COVID & people like Vinay Prasad scoffed at the small #, I had to remind people that kids are statistically less likely to die of almost every disease.
But sadly they often go hungry even where resources are plentiful.
Donate to help today & log at HCWvsHunger.org
But sadly they often go hungry even where resources are plentiful.
Donate to help today & log at HCWvsHunger.org
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We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩
Our department @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social @ucdavis.bsky.social is hiring! We welcome research that diversifies or complements existing strengths in gastrointestinal, neuroimmune, musculoskeletal, cardiorespiratory
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
systems and/or developmental biology. @socdevbio.bsky.social @ascbiology.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We are hiring! Please submit your application by Dec. 5! We are a basic science department housed in the school of vet med with potential to collab within the dept/school and with close ties to the medical school and the college of biological sciences. Please apply if you are a good fit! 🤩
Recommend … m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
YouTube video by owen reiser
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November 29, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Recommend … m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...
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#HCWvsHunger 2025 is here!!!
#MedSky, join healthcare workers & others to #FightHunger!
🍎Donate to ANY foodbank or org fighting hunger. Screenshot receipt.
🍎Log it for your team of choice Th 11/27 6p - Tu 12/2 11:59p ET
hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
FAQs @ HCWvsHunger.org
#MedSky, join healthcare workers & others to #FightHunger!
🍎Donate to ANY foodbank or org fighting hunger. Screenshot receipt.
🍎Log it for your team of choice Th 11/27 6p - Tu 12/2 11:59p ET
hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
FAQs @ HCWvsHunger.org
How to contribute
How to Contribute Donate between 6 pm EST on November 27 and 11:59 pm EST December 2, 2025 to an organization of your choice fighting hunger– any amount helps! Feeding America can help you choose l…
hcwvshunger.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
#HCWvsHunger 2025 is here!!!
#MedSky, join healthcare workers & others to #FightHunger!
🍎Donate to ANY foodbank or org fighting hunger. Screenshot receipt.
🍎Log it for your team of choice Th 11/27 6p - Tu 12/2 11:59p ET
hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
FAQs @ HCWvsHunger.org
#MedSky, join healthcare workers & others to #FightHunger!
🍎Donate to ANY foodbank or org fighting hunger. Screenshot receipt.
🍎Log it for your team of choice Th 11/27 6p - Tu 12/2 11:59p ET
hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/
FAQs @ HCWvsHunger.org
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Back on BlueSky specifically for #HCWvsHunger - let’s go #KidVengers! DM me if you’d like to be a co-captain w us @robyncohenmd.bsky.social @scottvernaglia.bsky.social @brownam130.bsky.social
a group of people are standing in a circle with their hands in a circle
ALT: a group of people are standing in a circle with their hands in a circle
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Back on BlueSky specifically for #HCWvsHunger - let’s go #KidVengers! DM me if you’d like to be a co-captain w us @robyncohenmd.bsky.social @scottvernaglia.bsky.social @brownam130.bsky.social
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Devo doc on Netflix is so fun. Nothing more entertaining than a bunch of art nerds finding one another and being in the right place at the the right time.
A lot of memories listening to hits and misses bootlegs while delivering pizzas in undergrad
A lot of memories listening to hits and misses bootlegs while delivering pizzas in undergrad
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Devo doc on Netflix is so fun. Nothing more entertaining than a bunch of art nerds finding one another and being in the right place at the the right time.
A lot of memories listening to hits and misses bootlegs while delivering pizzas in undergrad
A lot of memories listening to hits and misses bootlegs while delivering pizzas in undergrad
@jamespirruccello.com — seeing these cardiac motion papers from O’regan group.
Has anyone estimated PA pressures from the TR jet on the cardiac MRIs or anything else must yet?
Has anyone estimated PA pressures from the TR jet on the cardiac MRIs or anything else must yet?
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
@jamespirruccello.com — seeing these cardiac motion papers from O’regan group.
Has anyone estimated PA pressures from the TR jet on the cardiac MRIs or anything else must yet?
Has anyone estimated PA pressures from the TR jet on the cardiac MRIs or anything else must yet?
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You don't brine your turkey and you don't season your sides or use fresh herbs. I don't know what to tell you.
Turkey isn't bad, people just don't cook it properly
November 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
You don't brine your turkey and you don't season your sides or use fresh herbs. I don't know what to tell you.
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A painful truth all dads must learn: if you wear a baseball cap while running around on playground equipment designed for children, the brim will block your upper view and you will bonk your head.
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A painful truth all dads must learn: if you wear a baseball cap while running around on playground equipment designed for children, the brim will block your upper view and you will bonk your head.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
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Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.
My favorite from an @hhmi.org scientist: “the great thing about optogenetics is it keeps the riff raff out of the field.”
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Gatekeeping by demanding expensive technology or approaches is the ancient tactic of the rich laboratory.
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Idea for dunk contest #1: you compete in pairs. Spices it up, gets into teammate choreography and such
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Idea for dunk contest #1: you compete in pairs. Spices it up, gets into teammate choreography and such
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
Idea for dunk contest #2: It's guys who can barely dunk. Steph, Mike Conley, people like that
Idea for dunk contest #3: stop doing the dunk contest
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In the biggest games, the biggest players come alive to deliver big moments. There is none bigger than Rose Lavelle 🌹
November 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In the biggest games, the biggest players come alive to deliver big moments. There is none bigger than Rose Lavelle 🌹
I read this as “the dehumanizing effects of lame”
Ed Sheeran’s Netflix special captures the dehumanizing effect of fame. slate.trib.al/QoP7OOb
A Music Superstar Took to the Streets of NYC for Netflix. The Result Was Bleak.
One Shot with Ed Sheeran starts with a gimmick. But it’s more notable for something else.
slate.trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I read this as “the dehumanizing effects of lame”
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Get your own adorable #HCWvsHunger swag at www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Get your own adorable #HCWvsHunger swag at www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-...
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Got mine!
Get your own adorable #HCWvsHunger swag at www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-...
November 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Got mine!
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Planning to participate in #HCWvsHunger this year?
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Planning to participate in #HCWvsHunger this year?
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
Let me know and I can be sure you’re on one of my starter packs!
Hey med students interested in CV research—consider applying to the Sarnoff research program for a fully funded year in an outstanding lab!
Please RT
Please RT
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hey med students interested in CV research—consider applying to the Sarnoff research program for a fully funded year in an outstanding lab!
Please RT
Please RT
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Thanks to all who came out to discuss impacts of federal cuts to science, our work via scienceimpacts.org, and how to constructively speak out with grassroots initiatives:
@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
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@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
+ more
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For those in/around College Park, MD come on over to Ledo Pizza, 4509 Knox Rd, next Tuesday 11/18, 6pm+ for Science on Tap, where I will share a talk and dialogue on:
"Science Matters: Confronting the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Research on Communities Nationwide"
science.umd.edu/events/scien...
"Science Matters: Confronting the Impacts of Federal Cuts to Research on Communities Nationwide"
science.umd.edu/events/scien...
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Thanks to all who came out to discuss impacts of federal cuts to science, our work via scienceimpacts.org, and how to constructively speak out with grassroots initiatives:
@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
+ more
a 🧵
@standupforscience.bsky.social, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social
@snapcoalition.bsky.social
Impact Project
+ more
a 🧵
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In times like this, It is our civic duty to harken back to 1999s Flat Beat, made specifically for the Flat Eric levis commercial by Mr Oizo
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
Mr Oizo - Flat beat (Official Video with Flat Eric - 1999 - F Communications)
YouTube video by fcommunications
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In times like this, It is our civic duty to harken back to 1999s Flat Beat, made specifically for the Flat Eric levis commercial by Mr Oizo
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
youtu.be/qmsbP13xu6k?...
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Top five film genres
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
Top 5 movie genres:
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - American
The 60s coulda been cool but kinda sucked, but what came after was worse - French
Weird stuff happens to baffled but sardonic guy/girl
The horror of existence
Sex has made us insane
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Top five film genres
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Submarine
It's the 1970s and a guy has to do a thing everybody hates
It's the 1970s and several guys do a thing but they're having a goof
Films by and for morlocks, abhumans, and other tunnel peoples
Somebody does a new kind of punching and there's injustice or whatever
Pleased to report some owls in my backyard
November 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Pleased to report some owls in my backyard
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First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes - Nature
WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
First time on Bsky and first big announcement!
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature.
Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....