Ruth Hook (@ruth_hook

Ruth Hook

239 posts

Ruth Hook

@ruth_hook_

immunology & stem cell biology- currently solid tumor oncology @rockefelleruniv 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇫🇮 citizen- reading, running, climbing, folk harp etc

NYC

Joined October 2015

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Ruth Hook
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Dec 10, 2023
has there ever been a problem in science where the solution hasn't been "it's far more nuanced, complex, & context dependent than we thought" just once it would be nice for overwhelming complexity to suddenly simplify itself with additional understanding from a new discovery
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Sep 25, 2025
we don't talk enough about how insane it is that beethoven was so neurotic and ill that he left behind locks of his hair and demanded! to be studied! in the 1820s before we even knew about viruses or genetics and then 200 years later WE DID IT
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Mar 7, 2023
actual emails from my father
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Feb 28, 2023
it's a well-kept secret but the actual reason people get married & make fewer friends in their late 20s and early 30s because a decade of adulthood is the point where the overall narrative gets too convoluted to explain to new people
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Sep 25, 2025
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still really love this paper even though it's been two years cell.com/current-biolog… tl/dr: weird iron & lipid & liver genetics, hep b, drinking he also scored terribly on polygenic indices for musical ability
Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven
From cell.com
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Apr 3, 2024
what are examples of eerie unexpected heritability in your life if you're privileged enough to have a good relationship with your family mine was finding out my dad and I ate the exact same thing during undergrad all nighters without ever discussing it & they're v odd choices
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Jul 3, 2023
so what are everyone's theories
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Mar 7, 2023
Replying to @ruth_hook_
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Dec 20, 2022
also if you ever need a paper behind a paywall that's not on scihub- dm me- I have journal access, a family of NAS professors who raised me to hate elsevier, & a friend circle of researchers who all support open science- am more than happy to be captain hook the science pirate
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Feb 26, 2024
having a normal one
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
Feb 28, 2023
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did y'all know NASA was legitimately worried that the moon wasn't going to have a hard surface to land on and decided to just go for it due to the similarities between observed topography and the valles caldera
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
May 20, 2023
poor man's ozempic (running)
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
May 2, 2023
are c-sections unnatural or is it actually really cool that our species came up with a solution for our big heads using our big heads (can already feel the maternal microbiome ppl coming for me w/pitchforks)
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Ruth Hook
@ruth_hook_
May 31, 2023
not to be cliché, but does anyone have any advice for your 30s
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