Lea Starita
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Lea Starita
@leastarita.bsky.social
Genome Scientist at UW
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Welcome back from the break! Next up @juliadiumenge.bsky.social from @alloxbio.bsky.social Mapping allosteric sites at scale to develop better drugs
May 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Next up at #VariantEffect25: Translating computational genomics into clinical clarity we have
@shawnfayer.bsky.social from @uwgenome.bsky.social presenting "A cluster-based method for guiding the use of variant effect predictors in clinical variant classification clinical clarity"
May 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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February 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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📣 We are #Hiring: Program Operation Specialist
@brotmanbaty.bsky.social and UW Dept of Genome Science
Full-Time | Seattle, WA
Apply Now! 🌟 Details ⬇️ tinyurl.com/UWProgramOpe...
December 16, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The one benefit of the US Senate's average age being approximately 103...they predate routine vaccinations! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/u...
McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.
“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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Opportunity Alert! Open Call for New Members of the AVE Executive Committee.
ℹ️ 📝 www.varianteffect.org/leadership-o...
Deadline to submit an application and indicate your interest in joining is December 20th, 2024.
AVE EC Open Call — Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance
www.varianteffect.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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McSweeney’s is spot on, as always.
"Each had their pros and cons. For example, Trump took away abortion rights, built an $8.4 trillion debt, and incited an insurrection when he lost to Joe Biden. Still, Kamala Harris’s economic plan needed a little more detail. It really was a toss-up."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-d...
I Don’t Hate Women Candidates. I Just Thought an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman Candidate
I admit, it was tricky for me, a white male swing-state voter, to decide who deserved my vote in this election. But in the end, I cast my ballot fo...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 9, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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I made a starter pack of folks affiliated with UW Genome Sciences (past and present)

go.bsky.app/L8RAbiJ

It's fairly sparse for now, so please let me know if you'd like to be added!
UW Genome Sciences
Join the conversation
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November 8, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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The Atlas of Variant Effects (AVE) Alliance is an international community of researchers, analysts, clinicians, patients and funders working with and alongside major genomics and genetics initiatives and consortia... t.co/GlAMeAKVQI
November 19, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Biden's asylum ban leads to three more deaths in the desert, where two men, ages 44 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl were found. abc17news.com/news/ap-nati...
Scorching heat in the US Southwest kills three migrants in the desert near the Arizona-Mexico border - ABC17NEWS
Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Three Mexican migrants have died in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona near the U.S.-Mexico border. The deaths come as temperatures hit the triple digits across parts of the...
abc17news.com
June 29, 2024 at 1:24 PM
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I don't think biomedical researchers realize how much is at stake with the upcoming election. Take a look at some snippets from Project2025, the blueprint for the next Trump Administration and then be afraid. Then get organized. Ignoring it and putting our heads in the sand is not an option.
March 12, 2024 at 10:11 PM