I'm a tad late on this, but I wanted to congratulate my colleagues Fulya Alkan and Hasan Korkaya for their recent Scientific Reports paper showing the effect of minnelide on the TNBC tumor microenvironment. I was happy to collaborate with them on this study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dual activity of Minnelide chemosensitize basal/triple negative breast cancer stem cells and reprograms immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Dual activity of Minnelide chemosensitize basal/triple negative breast cancer stem cells and reprograms immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment

Thanks Tim!

With that, we have a multi-pronged approach put in place to achieve our goals. 1. Advancing student research programs. 2. Building an infrastructure for faculty-led research. 3. Leveraging our strengths for student fellowships. 4. Embedding research into the curriculum.

Furthermore, our center aims to highlight scholarship as both a fundamental liberal arts endeavor and as a means for us to critically think about how we carry out our motto “While we live, we serve.”

I’m announced this on Twitter a while back but I’ve been named Director of Presbyterian College’s ew Center for Inquiry, Research and Scholarship (CIRAS). Our goal is further bolster a research and scholarship culture among our talented PC faculty and students. 1/n www.presby.edu/about/2024/0...

Presbyterian College launches Center for Inquiry, Research, and Scholarship - About

In 11th-century France, famed philosopher and logician Peter Abelard wrote that the first key to wisdom is “constant and frequent questioning … for by doubting we are led to question, and by questioni...

I also enjoy comparing eugenics to lysenkoism and how science can’t escape radicalism either.

So many fields; so many different experiences.

Also I use Rutherford’s book “How to Argue with a Racist” from time to time in my classes along with this accompanying UnHerd article unherd.com/2020/01/how-...

How to argue with a racist

Adam Rutherford's new book wrestles with the difficult subject of race and science

“The Gene” does a fantastic job narratively connecting the history of genetics and how that flowed toward a distortion into racist/eugenic purposes.

Hi all, I’m going to try to get back on Bluesky because, I mean look at Twitter. That said I have a Substack newsletter and would love for people to amplify it. It’s about the mission of pursuing research at a small liberal arts college in the underrepresented South. presbyciras.substack.com

"While We Live, We Research" | Austin Young Shull | Substack

In this Substack from Dr. Austin Shull, Director of Presbyterian College's Center for Inquiry, Research, & Scholarship (CIRAS), you will get updates on how research efforts from our small liberal arts...