Science * (world travel + philosophy of science) * entrepreneur ^ polymath wanna be = Pura Vida
Palo Alto, CA
Joined January 2011
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Read my latest #research on tissue perfusion characterization with contrast-ultrasound radiomics and machine learning, published with @SpringerNature in @SciReports
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Ahmed El Kaffas retweeted
Federal funding for US biomedical research is moribund.
Since October 1 2025, NIH is -80% in new grants and -70% in values (total dollars).
Labs are closing down and researchers are leaving science.
To what end?
Ahmed El Kaffas retweeted
The "publish or perish" culture must perish. Scientists need time to think.
We just published our Slow Science Manifesto, where we argue that huge changes are needed in the way we fund, publish, and evaluate science.
Read more and sign here: slow-science.com
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Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.
(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.
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In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.
go.nature.com/4i2EaIb
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research
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US universities ranked by number of "best scientists" (h index>155). Some under- and some overrated unis?
Harvard 69
MIT 21
Johns Hopkins 20
Stanford 20
UCSD 19
Caltech 13
Berkeley 11
Columbia 10
Yale 10
Cornell 8
Penn 8
Princeton 5
U. Michigan 5
U. Wisconsin 5
U. Illinois 2
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Calling all graduate students & post-doc fellows! Don't miss the chance to join the upcoming @GordonConf in in-vivo ultrasound imaging. Dive deep into latest research, network with peers, & share your innovative ideas! #GRC2024 #ResearchNetworking
more👇from @EmelinaVienneau
Calling all grad students & postdocs in #ultrasound!! 📢
My Co-Chair, @MRLowerison, & I are excited to announce the inaugural Gordon Research Seminar (@GordonConf) for In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging is happening August 24-25th!
Apply by May 19th for a speaker position.
Details ⬇️
Ahmed El Kaffas retweeted
Join us at the upcoming 2024 GRC on In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging to learn about the latest research in contrast enhanced US from Mike Averkiou, Misun Hwang & Massimo Mischi. Apply @ grc.org/in-vivo-ultrasound-i… #Bubbles #GRC #ultrasound
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[Conference📢] For an opportunity to engage with leading experts in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound over five enriching days, you may want to consider attending the Gordon Conference on In Vivo Ultrasound Imaging @MichaelKolios @OKripfgans @AgExner
grc.org/in-vivo-ultrasound-i…
Ahmed El Kaffas retweeted
A riddle for scientists: what is (1) better than publishing in Nature, (2) more evil than reviewer 2, (3) the postdocs have it, (4) the Nobel prize winners need it, and (5) if you publish it you perish?
Ahmed El Kaffas retweeted
So much 4 Feynman's "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty"
(see: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/s…)
We keep witnessing new lows of scientific misconduct in publishing 👇
Would you like the "50 citations package"?
Vendor offering citations for purchase is latest bad actor in scholarly publishing | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…
Ahmed El Kaffas retweeted
New release of LI-RADS Surveillance US v2024 provides updated management recommendations for surveillance in at-risk individuals. @ShuchiRodgers @VChernyakMD @DTFetzer @KhuranaBody @justintsemd @nirvidahiya @sruradiology @SABImaging @SocietyAbdRad @StanfordBodyRad @StanfordRad
BREAKING NEWS! The NEW #LIRADS v2024 Surveillance Ultrasound Core has been published on the @RadiologyACR website with new terminology, management recommendations, and nomenclature! Download the core today! #HCC #Liver @sruradiology @SocietyAbdRad
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BREAKING NEWS! The NEW #LIRADS v2024 Surveillance Ultrasound Core has been published on the @RadiologyACR website with new terminology, management recommendations, and nomenclature! Download the core today! #HCC #Liver @sruradiology @SocietyAbdRad
acr.org/-/media/ACR/Files/RA…
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Reviewer, *why* do you want to know how many mice total were used in the entire paper? What possible benefit does that provide you, apart from making me waste the time to count them all up?
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Big #AI discovery: a new structural class of antibiotics (the last one took 38 years) with multiple compounds effective vs methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, without toxicity
@Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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A new family of antibiotics discovered with graph deep learning.
Big #AI discovery: a new structural class of antibiotics (the last one took 38 years) with multiple compounds effective vs methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, without toxicity
@Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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More #lirads content! This study is 🔥- @RadiologyEditor choice with free access. Read this fantastic #tweetorial by @eniscy & then click below to review the full study!
pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra…
📍 Does LI-RADS v.2018 Treatment Response Algorithm (TRA) safely rule out residual or recurrent HCC?
🖊️ Tune in to the study led by
@UCSF @UCSFimaging @chemshift1
#RadInTraining #Tweetorial 🧵
@Radiology_RSNA @VChernyakMD @RITEditor @DrLindaMoy @RadiologyEditor
