I'm a co-first author! This paper is years in the making, and I hope it's a step on the road towards improving the lives of people with these rare mutation types. Incredibly proud to be part of the team at that put this together.
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Chicago-based science writer & editor with a focus on healthcare and biotech. I love hagfish. Follower of Jesus. Opinions mine. (she/her)
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When you’re trying to advance genomic medicine to help all populations, but you can only find data that come from people with European ancestry.
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New profile picture courtesy of ! Beautiful neuron art by the impeccable (as always)
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One of these things is not like the others 🤔
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Excited about shaping science-related conversations on your favorite social platforms?
Join 's growing social media team to write, schedule & strategize about posts for biotech companies & beyond. And work with some pretty cool people ;)
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Report: 84% Of Super Bowl Ads Specifically Intended To Distract From Human Rights Violation bit.ly/3YqjCPX
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I think we can all agree that they should have had Tom Holland come out and dance during Umbrella #SuperBowl2023
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Turns out “almonds and fruit are using up all the water resources” is the new version of anti-environmental PR in the same vein as the personal carbon footprint
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And what's even worse?
Nearly a decade ago, scientists across the country warned about this. But, beef and dairy lobbyists fought hard, and in response, invented the "almonds cause the drought" campaign to deflect from the looming water catastrophe.
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About dang time—literally 34 years since the organizing effort started!
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We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!
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My favorite genre of candle is “this is what you wish your man smelled like”
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Order 4 more free COVID tests from the government!
“Every job should be a good job” isn’t something I should have to remind myself
nature out here absolutely WILDIN as usual
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THIS JUST IN
When asleep, glass frogs HIDE THEIR RED BLOOD CELLS INSIDE THEIR LIVERS, which are covered in GUANINE-CRYSTAL DISCO MIRRORS that scatter light & make the frogs 2-3 TIMES MORE SEE-THROUGH.
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Your timeline has been visited by the Solstice Salamander. Please plan accordingly.
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Unfair labor practices shouldn’t be allowed to fly ✈️
Support the fight for good jobs -> good airports
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BREAKING: Swissport Cargo Workers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Strike over Unfair Labor Practices
Starting at 11:00 AM on Thursday, December 8th, Swissport Cargo workers will walk off the job in a ULP strike. #AirportWorkersUnited
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We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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struggling to get your cat to drink from their fancy new fountain?
just fill it with catnip tea 🍃
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Update: it worked, got my first negative test today. Eat ghareeb nawaz
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tryin this out tonight
always eat ghareeb nawaz
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As you shop and prepare your #Thanksgiving meals, we'd like you to know a little more about the work behind the ingredients and the people doing that work to put food on our tables.
Here's a thread for everyone who wants to thank a farm worker this week.
#WeFeedYou
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This broke my brain
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The mammal kingdom is the human kingdom.
Global mammal biomass:
Humans: 34%
Our livestock: 62%
Wild mammals: 4%
ourworldindata.org/mammals
Humans: 34%
Our livestock: 62%
Wild mammals: 4%
ourworldindata.org/mammals
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901 is my queen, everyone vote for this bulkiest of babes
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No small fry for these 2 sows slamming sockeye. Which redfish ripper will you cast your vote for in this battle of these bulky babes? Make your choice by 5pm AK at fatbearweek.org. #FatBearWeek
Photo 1: 128 Grazer courtesy of K. Grossman
Photo 2: 901 courtesy of K. Moore
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Impactful words by today on how diversity in her trainees enabled creativity, not playing by the rules, and ultimately the work that built the field of bioorthogonal chemistry. Diverse science leads to better science!
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#FatBearWeek officially starts today. The contest highlights the amazing transformation bears must make after they emerge from hibernation, emaciated and hungry.
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🧵I want to share some thoughts about reporting on long COVID and other complex chronic illnesses. (e.g. below)
This is a thread about the ethos behind these pieces, and how I’ve approached interviewing, writing, and the rest of it. 1/
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I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.
Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/
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Can someone tell the president he doesn't get to make that call, the WHO does? The US still has hundreds of COVID-19 deaths/day—by my back-of-envelope calculations, ~20% the death rate of *every form of cancer combined*. A false sense of security will only drive those numbers up.
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I feel like I haven’t experienced the stereotypical “unusually nice Trader Joe’s cashiers” vibe that gets talked about on the internet.
Is it just because I’m from the Midwest and therefore am more accustomed to basic human kindness?
(Prompted by a convo with friend from NJ)
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Our content writer @gniewijk is attending #ACSFall2022, and she’s going to do a mini-takeover to live tweet a session entitled “Barriers & Resolutions for Maintaining Your LGBTQ+ Identity in STEM”
Follow along here!
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Tanya: "Most people understand our response to violence as the only way. To meet violence w/ more violence. Police brutality. Or punitive violence thru the incarceration system. I wish people knew the practices of restorative justice as an alternative with more humanity."
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Here is the full portrait series from . They asked: "What is one thing you know most people think about our current response to violence, & one thing you wish people knew about an alternative way?" Here's how they responded. More:
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Women: I’m sick, help
Doctors: sorry but women’s health is an unknowable mystery, like the very darkest depths of the ocean
Women: So are you doing research to know more?
Doctors: lol no
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Today, we're joining our colleagues nationwide in #LocalNewsLunchOut to oppose layoffs threatened last week.
Our colleagues get side gigs and put off home repairs as they go without raises. Now journalists have to lose their jobs because Gannett didn't meet its goals?
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I found it. I found the best thread.
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When I was 7, my teacher told us to write an article about “world cultures” for school over the weekend. I remembered it late on Sunday so in a panic I made up something called the "Icelandic Fish Festival", figuring said teacher wouldn’t know either way.
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Throwback to this tweet that actually worked
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Someone hire me please
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Please help me raise funds for my first solo art show! My goal is to use my art to spread awareness about #autism, brain research, and #WomenInSTEM to my community in Washington, DC. Read more and donate here: kickstarter.com/projects/brain
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Contribute to real scientific research for #NASA by searching for clouds among the rocky Red Planet, with Adler project, Cloudspotting on Mars!☁ #CitizenScience
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New data alert! #CitizenScientists blew through the first batch of Cloudspotting on Mars data in just a few weeks, but a new batch just posted, so you can still help scientists discover the mysteries hidden in Martian clouds. Start cloudspotting: bit.ly/3NbI69c
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