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Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · 3h

Inspiring talk by Francis Collins.

Paraphrasing Jane Goodall - Hope needs and requires hard work - we can make a difference.

#ASHG2025

Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui @cgonzagaj.bsky.social · 4h

Following a Special Recognition by @geneticssociety.bsky.social to Francis Collins for his contributions to human genetics and genomics. This is Dr. Collins's 48th #ASHG meeting. It is critical to continue interrogating variation in diverse populations! #ASHG25 #ASHG2025

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Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui @cgonzagaj.bsky.social · 4h

Full room as we kick off #ASHG25 with welcoming remarks by @geneticssociety.bsky.social president Sarah Tishkoff talking about the need to make human genetics & genomics to populations everywhere. "We are stronger when we stand together" #ASHG2025

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Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3d

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · 4d

I recommend reading this really powerful letter from MIT!

Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 4d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 20d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 25d

Evidence-based vaccination recommendations are about more than individual decisions

A child infected with measles as a baby “not old enough to be vaccinated at the time of infection” recently died of a complication 💔

Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & infants & others in their communities

L.A. child dies from complication of measles infection contracted in infancy

The child died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a fatal progressive brain disorder that strikes roughly 1 in 10,000 people infected with measles.

www.latimes.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24d

Can't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong

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EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 25d

Today, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.

A Trailblazing Geneticist Reflects On Her Life And Work

Dr. Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to hereditary cancer risk with the identification of BRCA1. She was just getting started.

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Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · 25d

Just received our NHGRI NOA for year 3 of our Pathways in Genomic Data Science training program! 3 months late but I’ll take it! 🎉🎉. Thanks so much to the tireless work from the NIH community!

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · Sep 12

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · Sep 10

Google today is my jam!

Learning about DNA #GoogleDoodle
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Learning about DNA Doodle - Google Doodles

Learn more about the creation of Learning about DNA Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does? Mostly genes.
The number of people diagnosed with autism as screening has improved and the definition of autism has been expanded.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Vaccines don't cause autism. What does?

Scientists say most brain changes that contribute to autistic traits occur before birth.

www.nbcnews.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Aug 17

A terrorist targeted federal workers last week. There wasn’t much reporting on it. But I’m not finished thinking about it! 🧵

An anti-vaxxer fired more than 500 gunshots into CDC Atlanta, shattering 150 “blast-proof” windows on 6 buildings. Employees were pinned down in terror.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Aug 29

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

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Lisa Jarvis @lisamjarvis.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Trump administration, seemingly determined to hobble the NIH, continues to devise new and insidious ways to politicize what has long been considered the crown jewel of US research.
My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁 link):

Politicizing Scientific Research Comes With a Hefty Price

More oversight at the National Institutes of Health is slowing down innovation that could meaningfully improve people’s lives.

www.bloomberg.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Aug 20

When people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.

What Gives Me Hope