Nicole Dubuc

@nicoledubuc.bsky.social

Screenwriter, actor, and unrepentant punster. WGA award winner, Clio award winner, eight-time Emmy nominee. Showrunner. Views are my own.

I think if your North Star is “What does the audience want?” And not “what is the most interesting story I can tell with these characters,” you’re dead in the water. If YOU don’t know what you want to say, you’ll never be able to say anything

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

A personalized vaccine for melanoma cut the risk of cancer returning after five years

If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.

nbcnews.com

When Mary Beard was a young child she was taken to a museum by her mother. She was too small to see into most of the exhibit cases. There was an exhibit in the Egypt section and really wanted to see but couldn't as she was too small

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Unicorn Academy: Secrets Revealed PREMIERE DAY!!! It was such an honor to be invited by Spin Master to showrun this beautiful, smart show. The team at Mainframe Animation brought so much talent and care to each episode, and Laura Sreebny did an amazing job story editing a fantastic team of writers!

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Bild