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Chris Gunter 🧬 @girlscientist.bsky.social · 2d

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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Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui @cgonzagaj.bsky.social · 1d

First Plenary Abstract Session of #ASHG25 starting with Srikar Gopinath from Yale describing their study characterizing >1M variants in the 5' UTR regions to assess their functional effects on gene translation and develop a prediction algorithm to evaluate non-coding UTR variation.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Andy Rivera @poseypod.bsky.social lab @bcmhouston.bsky.social grad student for putting together a standing room only session at #ASHG25

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · 2d

Arrived at 11:00pm

Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · 3d

Will you be at the Baylor party?

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · 3d

Nicky - on an 8 hour delayed flight but happy to talk at ASHG about new guidelines.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Aug 16

Interested in this point. If it does a task the suggested prompts are often - make it better or change tone. That suggests to the user that it can evaluate its own response. Is that not true?

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Aug 15

I’m a child of a German Jewish family that escaped in 1939 - growing up in Philadelphia I remember reading many times over a book about how Denmark saved their Jewish population in boats to Sweden. It was very important to have that one story of a country which didn’t allow the massacre to occur.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Aug 12

Is there a way to download this thread (like in Twitter) as I would love to she with some AI believer colleagues.

Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Aug 3

Excited to have an entire session on different aspects of germline and somatic cancer curation in ClinGen - clinicalgenome.org today at the Cancer Genomics Consortium annual meeting in Houston. #CGCAnnual2025

Welcome to ClinGen

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Agree - I was thinking that is a lot of walking

Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jul 16

@nickywhiffin.bsky.social An article I thought you would appreciate. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/renu-sy...

‘We finally have a name’: At long last, Manhattan family gets an answer to daughter's rare genetic condition

As with so many calls previously about 9-year-old Delilah, Kelli Stanley braced for more uncertainty. But this time was different. This time, they finally had a name.

www.bozemandailychronicle.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Jul 13

“The cause defended at Dayton is a continuing one that has existed throughout man’s brief history and will continue as long as man is here,” Scopes wrote in Center of the Storm, his 1967 memoir. “It is the cause of freedom, for which man must do what he can.”

Raw Story @rawstory.com · Jul 12

Today I'm remembering what Lela Scopes told me about her famous brother for my Paducah Sun story going on 46 years ago.

100 years after the Scopes monkey trial, education is in the dock again

Today I’m remembering what Lela Scopes told me about her famous brother for my Paducah Sun story going on 46 years ago.She said before John Thomas Scopes left to teach science and coach football at Rhea County High School in Dayton, Tenn., in 1924, he explained: “I’m going there because it’s a small...

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jul 12

Appreciated the long thread. It seems so dependent on having a health system ready to use the data in a rational way. Likely much more true in the UK than US where the baby with genome data would then wind up in our chaotic healthcare system (or potentially uninsured).

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jul 3

In US we have had students work with all of us data.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jul 1

The policy includes submitting to Pubmed central without an embargo. You are not required to pay for Open Access.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is actually a topic that was talked about quite a bit in the good days of science Twitter. Many people noted that if a reviewer or interviewer sees the publication and then sees your CV they may not be accustomed to the change in order.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jun 25

Funny reversal of technology. I have received the print version of @nejm.org for >30 years. I get the hard copy at my house. I wanted to look at videos associated with article in June 26 issue I was reading today on Pompe disease. I can read the print version - but the digital issue is not online!!

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jun 22

It will be an individual decision. As a type 1 diabetic 25 years and a physician - dying from overwhelming infection worries me. Also we have no idea how long the cells will last - 10 people lasted >1 yr. Not sure I would want to face going back when they fail.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jun 21

Great step forward but requires long term immunosuppression. Very difficult trade-off.

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euanashley @euanashley.bsky.social · Jun 14

Atul Butte died yesterday.
The world lost a giant.
A big bear of a man.
With a huge smile.
With love for everyone.
With energy that could power a room.
I loved everything about Atul.
I loved how he was always happy.
I loved how excited he was about science and helping people.

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Sharon Plon @seplon.bsky.social · Jun 14

So sorry to hear that. Is there an announcement?

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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · Jun 13

In a modest bit of good news, NIH has released new NOFOs for all the NRSAs (and also Pioneer and New Innovator awards) grants.nih.gov/funding/nih-...

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts | Grants & Funding

grants.nih.gov

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 10

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

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Alex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · Jun 5

That’s awesome! ….but, it’s also ~30 R01s

The truth is that the US stood alone in large scale science funding— and reaped a lot of benefit for being -the- place where new things get discovered

Realigning is going to be tough on everyone

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