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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🗓️ On September 1st, I’ll be speaking at the @anvilproject.org NHGRI AnVIL Community Conference at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA. I'll be sharing work on "Adoption, governance, and democratizing potential of cloud platforms" Registration open through Aug 17: bit.ly/anvil2026-register

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AnVIL Community Conference 2026

Join us in Cambridge, MA to hear the latest and greatest of genomics analysis in the cloud and get hands-on experience with AnVIL.

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

📬 Just submitted my public comment. Do you like peer reviewed science that can leverage international collaboration and not be subject to political whims and cancellation at any time for any reason? This is your chance to comment!! zurl.co/eoQwY

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This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

👋 Come work on our new ELSI (Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications) R01 grant focused on cloud-based platforms and their promise to ‘democratize’ the genomic data sciences ☁️ 🧬 wd5.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

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Research Coordinator 3 (E S UAW Research)

Job Description OVERVIEW: The University of Washington Department of Bioethics and Humanities (B&H) has an outstanding opportunity for a full-time Research Coordinator 3 to support a recently awar...

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🎉 Join @neurochemequeen.bsky.social and @sufsseattle.bsky.social for our next installment of "Beer Reviewed Science," an evening of science, community, and advocacy "Friends, Foes, and Finding Ways to Treat Brain Disease" 📆 Tues. May 26, 6:30-8:30 pm 🍻 Obec Brewing in Ballard #StandUpForScience

Flyer for "Beer Reviewed Science" May 26

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ready to #StandUpforScience with #NoKings this Saturday! seattleindivisible.com/events/seatt... 📍Find your nearest event here, www.nokings.org, or 💻 Join @standupforscience.net for an accessible, virtual rally - www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

Protest sign that reads "Fund Science, Not War Not ICE Not Ego"

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

📽️ 🎤 Catch all 11 speakers from Seattle’s March 7 #StandUpforScience rally in this YouTube playlist! youtube.com/playlist?lis... ✅ Follow @sufsseattle.bsky.social for more clips and highlights ✅ Follow @standupforscience.bsky.social for broader initiatives in defense of science and democracy

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Seattle Stand Up for Science 2026 - YouTube

March 7, 2026 Stand Up for Science Rally at the Seattle Center Mural Amphitheater. linktr.ee/seattle.sufs www.standupforscience.net/march7

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Will be at @sufsseattle.bsky.social rally 12-3pm at Seattle Center Mural Amphitheater, with a GREAT line up of speakers. 🧬🔬🩺🌎 Come on out WA folks, including #ComicCon attendees - it might not actually be raining!!!

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Get ready Seattle! www.standupforscience.net/march7 #standupforscience

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's been a rough year for science (to put it mildly) but it was heartening to have two papers (one first author) come out in the same issue of @natgenet.nature.com www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...

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PRIMED Consortium @prsmethods.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

PRIMED Year in Review: Join us as we look back on some of what @prsmethods.bsky.social consortium members accomplished in 2025 to help improve genetic risk prediction in global populations 1/

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Come kick off 2026 Beer Reviewed Science with @sufsseattle.bsky.social RSVP's welcome but not required: act.standupforscience.net/events/ident...

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Stand Up for Science Washington @sufswa.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As the year comes to an end, this is a wonderful time to join in community. SUFS WA supports volunteering as a way to help your neighbors and make new friends. Mr. Rogers said to "look for the helpers." Now is a great time to become one! Here are just a few of the orgs operating in WA State.

Here are just a few of the wonderful organizations operating in WA State.

https://www.hungerfreewa.org/donate
https://bloodworksnw.org/
https://greenseattle.org/get-involved/
https://www.spl.org/about-us/support-us/volunteerhttps://www.rescue.org/volunteer-opportunities/seattle-wa
https://soundgenerations.org/get-involved/volunteer/

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/12/2025

Today's the day, Tennessee! Cast your vote for Aftyn Behn for Congress, and then join us in getting out the vote at our all-day phonebank. Every vote counts in the push to restore sanity to science policy, and send Aftyn to Congress! Sign up for a session at tr.ee/TN07-electionday

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Out now in @natgenet.nature.com, our Comment analyzing uses of the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), a controversial dataset in human genomics research. A 🧵 rdcu.be/eRu65 1/

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Calling all middle TN (including Vanderbilt Univ) folks! Time to get you and all your friends and neighbors to help flip this seat for a candidate that will #standupforscience

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper sciencehomecoming.com

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Science Homecoming

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Join us at the Seattle downtown waterfront tomorrow to advocate for science, public health, and research! @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience

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Stand Up for Science Washington @sufswa.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Smarty Pints! The Science of Science Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works. Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

👀 🧬 Curious how to respectfully, robustly, and flexibly use population descriptors in genomic research, and align with @nationalacademies.org recommendations? Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Anger confirmed. My research group is on partial furlough due to these renewal delays. Sign the #BethesdaDeclaration - www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 09/06/2025

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Front-page-style graphic titled “BREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: “NIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and “NIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

💬 The perfect antidote to feeling a helpless lack of agency - SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT against a proposed rule that would replace civil servants with political appointees. More on why the proposed rule is bad - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Institutionalizing politicized science

The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Gran...

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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

📢 🐙 🧬 Seattle area folks - come visit me at the waterfront on Sunday! You can write postcards to your reps, stamp your 'passport' at different 'Ask a Scientist' stations, hold signs, and just generally keep showing up for science! #standupforscience

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We gotta keep showing up for science!!

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Research matters and it's under critical threat www.washington.edu/research-mak... New UW page makes the case and provides a link to sign up for critical alerts

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Research Makes America

UW research makes America healthier, safer and more prosperous. But those gains are now at risk.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/04/2025

Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬 🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund: • Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs • Pandemic preparedness • Children’s health • Medical tech innovation • Mental health science & more NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.

A serious medical scene shows a healthcare worker in surgical scrubs standing in a hospital corridor. Bold white text overlays the image, reading: “Curing cancer. Preventing pandemics. What’s it worth?”

A dark blue graphic with white text centered over a soft-focus medical background. The message reads: “Just $105 per year from the average taxpayer funds the national institute of health. That’s all it takes to help save lives improve care, and fight disease”

A clean, square infographic with a dark blue background and light blue accents. The header reads, “What does that money actually do? Your $105 helps fund:” followed by six icons and descriptions:
1. Mental Health Research – Depression, PTSD, addiction
2. Cancer & Rare Disease Studies – From early detection to lifesaving treatments
3. Pandemic Preparedness – Vaccines, virus tracking, prediction and prevention
4. Children’s Health – Brain development, neonatal and pediatric care
5. Medical Innovation – Imaging, prosthetics, diagnostics
6. Basic Biomedical Science – Foundational research for future cures

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for giving me the inspiration and help to write this article for my hometown East Tennessee paper www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

Sarah Nelson in her home office holding up the 2003 Journal of Undergraduate Research

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Millions of people showed up in red and blue states, small and big cities, to say #HandsOff! Including my hometown crowd in Knoxville, TN 🙌

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

As I was telling Google to take me to @elsihub.bsky.social Collections, I mistakenly typed "ELSI hug" -- and I think we all sure could use one of those right now!

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Didn’t wake up today expecting to feel chills watching CSPAN2. Thank you Senator Booker for inspiring us today! This and the Crawford win in Wisconsin are good motivators to stay engaged and stay active!! 🙌

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hannah is 💯 right, the role of government is NOT to restrict and undermine independent scientific inquiry The trainees are leading the fight, when they have the most to lose

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This👇. During grad school I learned a definition of "political" as "regarding the distribution of social goods" - including health, health care, educational opportunities, the ability to access and generate knowledge, etc, i.e. the social goods being taking away from us now. Political ≠ partisan

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Watch us scientists use our transferable skills! We're mobilized, we're organized, we're making action items. Also when this many introverts ✋ come out you know something is up!!! #standupforscience2025

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Even the sun came out today in Seattle to #standupforscience2025! 🌞 Keep the momentum going: see Resources for Action at linktr.ee/seattle.sufs and watch this space, @sufsseattle.bsky.social

Crowd at Seattle Center and looking out into Elliot Bay

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Happy Stand Up for Science Eve, everyone! See you tomorrow standupforscience2025.org

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This is like sending out the bat signal to me and my fellow (older) millennials...it's Bill Nye!! Time to #standupforscience, in DC and nationwide this Friday, March 7th I'll be with @sufsseattle.bsky.social at the Seattle Center

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Sarah Nelson @blueyedgenes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

An NIH grant I’d worked on for over 1.5 years, my first R01-level application as multiple PI, was supposed to be reviewed last Friday but wasn’t. A drop in the bucket of awfulness right now, but it still hurts It’s time to #standupforscience2025 standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

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Local Event Information

Below are the state capitals and major cities (alphabetized by state) hosting official Stand Up for Science events. If your city is listed, a confirmed site leader—backed by our core team—is active…

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