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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This was so fun to be a part of! Just an amazing feat of collaboration with a bunch of brilliant scientists. ♥️ 🧬

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Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

New preprint from Shendure Lab on Locus-Scale aka Long-@$$ MPRAs led by the amazing Abby McGee & @carinabiar.bsky.social Most MPRAs test ~300 bp fragments next to a promoter. But real enhancers are bigger, act combinatorially and from a distance. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Latest from Shendure & Qiu labs (@cxqiu.bsky.social) )! We combined a new 4M cell mouse whole embryo scATAC-seq atlas (E10-P0), millions of 'evolutionarily coherent' orthologs from 241 mammalian genomes (Zoonomia), and the CREsted CNN framework (@steinaerts.bsky.social).

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cxqiu.bsky.social @cxqiu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New preprint @cxqiu.bsky.social @jshendure.bsky.social ! Can we learn regulatory grammars of human cell types — by training on mouse development and transferring across 241 mammalian genomes? Introducing STEAM & a whole-organism scATAC-seq atlas from E10 to birth. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Zohran opened his victory speech with a Debs quote and I don't know if everyone is really seeing the significance of that! 🌹Holy shit there has been a shift in the universe.

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cxqiu.bsky.social @cxqiu.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Thrilled to share I’ve started my lab at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine! We focus on mapping cellular trajectories & TF networks in development and Mendelian disorders, exploring new therapies. Join us—postdocs, grads, and scientists welcome! sites.dartmouth.edu/qiulab/

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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

we are so goddamn cooked. lead by some of the dumbest anti-science madmen, constantly at the mercy of their insane hallucinations!

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UAW @uaw.org · 12/08/2025

"Scientists and students at the University of Washington gathered at Kane Hall on Monday to protest the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to federal research funding, warning the reductions could devastate scientific innovation." @uawregion6.bsky.social ow.ly/y13750WEBtH

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UW scientists, students rally against proposed federal research funding cuts

The “Kill the Cuts” rally drew dozens of researchers concerned about the Trump Administration’s 2026 federal budget plan.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/06/2025

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

NIH is ending billions of dollars in foreign subawards, jeopardizing thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more. Unless foreign researchers secure funding directly from NIH by October — a tall order for any researcher — clinical trials abroad and other research will shut down.

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Exclusive: NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants

Move by US biomedical agency jeopardizes thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.

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Seattle DSA @seattledsa.org · 09/04/2025

Full Statement: seattledsa.org/2025/04/stat...

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Rep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @organizewithshaun.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

No billion dollar mega-corporation deserves a tax break from Washington State at the expense of health and human services. Sign in 'Pro' and tell your reps to pass House Bill 2045 without a corporate giveaway that everyday Washingtonians can't afford: TinyUrl.com/WA2045

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Sue Vaughan @zabethsue.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I saw so many signs today, but I think this was my favorite. @teslatakedown.com @repjasmine.bsky.social And happy birthday to Congresswoman Crockett!

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Folks, very bad news for #LongCOVID. Deep breath. 29 awarded grants to do with COVID and Long COVID have been rescinded by NIH. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Science has learned that grant termination letters went out last night to principal investigators of 29 awards made by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), including nine grants that were part of a program hoping to deliver antiviral drugs to prevent future pandemics.

Other terminated grants involved research to develop improved COVID-19 vaccines and to address Long Covid, the mysterious lingering aftermath of some SARS-CoV-2 infections. “The research is being treated like we already have all the answers we will need in the future and that the current vaccines work well enough and don’t need improvement, which we know is not true,” says an investigator involved with one of the NIAID grants who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. “Some of the studies being canceled were attempting to make a pancoronavirus vaccine, which would hopefully be available the next time a novel coronavirus jumps species into humans.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Impossible to overstate the chilling effect on American science. We absolutely depend on scientific exchange with colleagues around the world.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

“Linked to pro-Palestinian views” is apparently now grounds for arrest and due-process-free deportation.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

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EFF Border Search Pocket Guide

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

If they can come for graduate workers, if they can arrest, deport, expel, or imprison union leaders and activists for their protected political speech, then they can come for you. For your contract. For your paycheck. For your family. And for your rights.

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

First they'll tell you what you can't protest about, then they'll get rid of your unions, then they'll tell you what you're allowed to teach, then they'll tell you *who* you can teach. If the university admins give these assholes an inch then we are lost.

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I added the alt text for this very important message

Cardboard sign for the Stand Up for Science rally that says: HANDS OFF THE SCIENCE MONEY!! JUST TAX THE GODDAMNED BILLIONAIRES FOR FUCK'S SAKE!

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Did you participate in the Stand Up for Science Day today? 🧬 Do you want to do something more tangible? JOIN YOUR SCIENTIST UNION OR START ONE IF YOU DONT HAVE ONE YET.

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UAW Region 6 @uawregion6.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Every dollar invested into NIH research equates to $2.46 in economic activity. In 2023, NIH funding supported over 400,000 jobs in the U.S. and created nearly $100 billion in economic activity. Cutting public research funding won't save money -- it will cost working people billions of dollars.

Blue graphic with a photo of three UAW members working in a lab and the text: "Every dollar spent on NIH funding more than doubles itself in new economic activity. $1 NIH funded research = $2.46 economic activity"

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John D ❌👑 @everythingisjake.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Protest today at the University of Washington regarding NIH funding cuts to cancer research. #protest #resist #NIH #funding

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The Democrats have forgotten how to exist without mentioning Trump. This is not a framework on how to fight, this is a framework on how to enable fascism while pretending to oppose it.

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Listen im sorry but the bar for dating has been raised.

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Seattle your ballots are due today! Please vote yes/yes on 1A for social housing!

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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

SEATTLE: have you turned your ballot in to vote to tax wealthy businesses to fund permanently affordable, publicly owned, mixed income social housing?

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Seattle friends, the ballots are dropping for this right now, please vote yes on Prop 1A!

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UAW @uaw.org · 23/01/2025

“We do research, we review proposals, we write grants that bring real dollars to the University of Washington, we observe on telescopes that go on expeditions... we teach and supervise. We make this University run.” @uawregion6.bsky.social www.dailyuw.com/news/uaw-412...

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UAW 4121 postdocs rally in advance of contract ending

Over 150 United Automobile Worker (UAW) 4121 postdoctoral fellows gathered in Mary Gates Hall on Jan. 17. The rally focused on the union’s demands for their new contract, including wage

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Beth Martin @bkmartin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Those were 100% Nazi salutes. Don't let them gaslight you that they weren't.

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SerrenaMarie(TV) @serrenamarie.swifties.social · 19/01/2025

This was never about data. This was never about national security. It was ALWAYS about silencing our voices. It was about keeping us apart. It was about keeping us from being informed. It was about CONTROL. #tiktokban

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Nadav Ahituv @nadavahituv.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) testing >680,000 sequences combined with machine learning to improve regulatory element & variant effect prediction. Amazing work by @vagar.bsky.social, Fumitaka Inoue, @jshendure.bsky.social and many others as part of ENCODE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Massively parallel characterization of transcriptional regulatory elements - Nature

Lentivirus-based reporter assays for 680,000 regulatory sequences from three cell lines coupled to machine-learning models lead to insights into the grammar of cis-regulatory elements.

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