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Nancy Parmalee

@nparmalee.bsky.social

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Human geneticist turned data scientist in Seattle. Supporting clinicians at a large hospital. Human first. Kindness, standing up for people, sailing, climbing mountains, making a ruckus when necessary. Enduring optimist often tested to the limit.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 3h

Oh haha! Yeah. I had to hide the evidence.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you so much. It is all so unbelievably.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4h

Apologies for the state of our country. Half of us are trying.

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 4h

Fantastic FOMO I'm suffering this year for #ASHG25, but things are not great to travel to USA this year. Wondering how many other colleagues felt this was not a good time to go through USA immigration...

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4h

I’m in Seattle and my AC is on right now.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4h

I once tried to draw my own blood after hours in lab for a control and it did not go this well.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Dispiriting that one of the better seismologists I know has ended up, after an impressive amount of good work in seismology at multiple institutions, as a web developer in the health sciences.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much. Thankfully he got out with only minor burn and he’s mostly recovered from the smoke inhalation. His dog got out unhurt. These are the important things but the rest is still a lot.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 2d

I am not keeping up with the news. I can tell it’s bad. I’ve been helping my ex-husband get things like a phone, a computer, some clothes after his house burned.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 2d

That’s what it is there for!

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 2d

One of those statues ended up in Fremont, Seattle as a public art piece. It gets dressed up for holidays. It’s an object of ridicule. It’s basically a monument to tearing down statues. There’s a Ukrainian neighbor who walks by and spits on it daily.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 2d

The thing that is most devastating to me about the ongoing evisceration of the public health infrastructure in the U.S right is how little awareness of what's going on the majority of people in the general public have and the impact this will have on their health and safety.

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Paul J. Dauenhauer @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social · 2d

Science

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_...

The coffee drinker outlived the experiment itself.

^ Experiment
The king ordered the experiment to be conducted using a pair of identical twins. Both of the twins had been tried for the crimes they had committed and condemned to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment
on the condition that one of the twins drink three pots of coffee, and the other drink the
same amount of tea, every day for the rest of their lives. 7]
The tea drinking twin died first at the age of 83, long after the death of Gustav Ill, who was assassinated in 1792. The age of the coffee-drinking twin at his death is unknown, as both doctors assigned by the king to monitor this study predeceased him. 7][51[81[9]

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 2d

I’m very fortunate that my ex-husband is my best friend. When I moved to Seattle he gave me a place to stay until I found a place. Now he’s my roommate for the foreseeable future after his house burned on Friday. We have each other’s back through thick and thin. It’s good this way.

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Brett Collins @brettcollins.bsky.social · 2d

Open Group Leader Positions at the IMB, UQ. Interested in joining us in sunny Queensland?

Group Leader - Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB)

Institute for Molecular Bioscience Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50 Australia’s #1 research institute Based at St Lucia Campus About UQ What started as Queensland's first university in 1...

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 2d

SpongeBob, Patrick, Pikachu, Cookie Monster and more all on scene at the Portland ICE facility.

Probably around 100 give or take total right now.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 3d

Mariners!!!!!!!!

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 3d

This Mariners game is bonkers.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 3d

My ex-husband’s house burned down tonight. He is my best friend. He lost everything but he and his dog got out. He’s spending the night in the burn unit but he’s mostly ok.

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Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 4d

Shabbat shalom.

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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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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 4d

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment h/t @mollyjongfast.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u... #timetotapthoseendowments

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 4d

Public universities serving the public!

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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