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Amna Haq retweeted
the trick is having the courage to live through a chapter you hate without letting it poison your belief in the story. even in the middle of something painful, you can hold onto that deep pull toward what your life could become. so much of life comes down to your ability to keep believing in what you cannot see yet, to keep faith in the story while you’re still living through the parts that make it hard to believe
Amna Haq retweeted
My advice for the newish interns.
Take responsibility.
The right mentality, nothing will happen unless I do it. Check everything with the source, patient and raw data (labs, imaging reports etc).
Do not trust anyone (sometimes even your attending) and independently verify.
Amna Haq retweeted
Bu çizim beni çok hüzünlendirdi.
Evet, her şey bizim elimizde. Tüm bir ömür. Dünya avuç içi kadar.
Amna Haq retweeted
if you’re low on strength, commune with God to restore you. ask for it explicitly. the purer and more direct your appeal, the more vigorous and instant the impact. you have the ultimate trump card at your disposal but you’re too busy believing that you must “only depend on yourself”. this, my brother, is the error of modernity: individualism. the terribly toxic idea that man is his own saviour. I personally stopped depending on myself. my ego is too fragile and emotions too volatile and wisdom too lacking. I depend only on God. and only through His grace do I pass through the bottlenecks and tough times. ask for help. you’ll receive it.
scientists help us understand the world but poets will save it
Anne Carson: "Mi actitud es que, por muy dura que sea la vida, lo que importa es hacer algo interesante con ella. Y esto tiene mucho que ver con el mundo físico, con mirar las cosas, la nieve y la luz y el olor de la puerta y todo aquello que constituye a cada instante tu existencia fenoménica. Qué gran consuelo... saber que estas cosas persisten en su ser y que puedes pensar sobre ellas y hacer algo con ellas en la página".
'Hombres en sus horas libres'
Traducción: Jordi Doce
Amna Haq retweeted
“There is a big picture that brings it all into relief and my hope is that we can increase empathy and understanding,” says 2026 medicine laureate Karl Deisseroth.
As a medical student, Deisseroth completed part of his training at a psychiatric clinic. He was struck by the patients’ suffering and their need for help. At the same time, he began to wonder how the brain could function so differently from one person to another.
Deisseroth was awarded this year's medicine prize, together with Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, for discoveries leading to optogenetics – a biological technique making it possible to switch the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain on or off.
Optogenetics is now helping us understand more about how nerve cells shape memories, emotions and behaviour in the living brain.
Learn more about the 2026 medicine prize: bit.ly/4ru82ml
ALT Karl Deisseroth in a white shirt sits at a table, thoughtfully holding a model of a brain in one hand. Photo by Christopher Michel.
