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Kirsten Tracy

@kirstentracy.bsky.social
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Genomics sorceress by day. Cook, gardener, and small creature wrangler by night. Lover of 🧀 🍺 🍷 ⛰️ ⚽

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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
One of the most powerful moments of the day came from Emily Whitehead who told the story of how she was the first pediatric patient to receive CAR T-cell therapy for her leukemia at age 5: “I stand up for science because science saved my life. And that’s a fact.” @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Jeremy Day @daylab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great turnout at the Birmingham @standupforscience.bsky.social rally!
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Steve Engel @sengelweb.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Another pic of stand up for science Minneapolis. @standupforscience.bsky.social @drugmonkey.bsky.social @altnih4science.bsky.social
Big crowd at state Capitol
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Total NIH funding cuts by state. This can be helpful when talking to your representatives www.datawrapper.de/_/Y0Pnk/
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Funding cuts by state
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Same could be said of a lot of work on extremophiles. Why bother sending a guy from Berkeley to sample hot water downstream from a Yellowstone geyser. You can thank that for PCR, and you can thank that technology for an amazing amount of what we now do with DNA.
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Discovering Life in Yellowstone Where Nobody Thought it Could Exist (U.S. National Park Service)
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Kirsten Tracy @kirstentracy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The 2 fantastic years that I spent in this program launched a life time love for research.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/01/2025
Costco’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposal from a conservative think tank aimed at getting the company to roll back its diversity hiring practices.
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Costco's shareholders overwhelmingly reject anti-DEI proposal
Costco's shareholders voted overwhelmingly to reject a motion that would seek report on the risks of diversity, equity and inclusion in the company's hiring practices.
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Kirsten Tracy @kirstentracy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Heterozygoats.
"Heterozygoats: just allele uneven." in one of those black-framed memes format.

Two small goats (kids) each with black front halves and white back halves, frolicking on a snowy field.  This was stolen from the Internet, because it's been a particularly long day of gut punches and we could all use some cheering up.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/01/2025
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
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A planet parade of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars shines in the skies this month
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
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Axel Visel @axelvisel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Genomes assembled from #metagenomes (a.k.a. MAGs) are awesome and have revolutionized our ability to study uncultivated microbes ...BUT: they still don't capture a lot of the 🦠 species that are out there New @jgi.doe.gov paper led by Dongying Wu and Natalia Ivanova: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Venn diagram illustrating microbial diversity of bacteria and archaea captured by isolates, metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from NCBI and IMG, and metagenomes from IMG. A large portion of microbial diversity, labeled as 'Microbial Dark Matter,' represents species not captured by isolates or MAGs. Image modified from https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adq2166
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Shunhua Han @shunhuahan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Here is a sneak peak of the new sequencing technology I have been working on together with many others. Much more to come in 2025! www.illumina.com/science/geno...
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Introducing constellation mapped read technology
Constellation technology utilizes a highly simplified NGS workflow that enables on-flow-cell library prep that completely eliminates standard library prep prior to sequencing Standard cluster generati...
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Kirsten Tracy @kirstentracy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Making our 2 P2Solos earn their keep! #nanopore direct RNA sequencing
4 Oxford Nanopore flow cells with a P2Solo and computer tower in the background
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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