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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The form of mercury that was used in a small proportion of flu vaccines was safe. Because not all mercury-containing compounds are the same.

What about thimerosal? Few vaccines contain thimerosal, and it is easy to get thimerosal-free vaccines if you choose. Thimerosal is an organic, ethylmercury compound. The mercury can be harmful to humans is methylmercury. Ethylmercury: Leaves your body in less than a week and is unlikely to cause harm. Found in a few vaccines and in contact solutions. Methylmercury: This can build up in your body and cause harm in high levels. Found in many kinds of fish and shellfish.

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Seems clear the administration’s eventual goal is no contraception, no antidepressants, no abortion and care from the fine folks at the new “fertility clinics” from the title X funding

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Trends in Genetics @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Online Now! A new @genomicspc.bsky.social Spotlight: "Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (徐佳依) (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura M. Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social) Read for FREE till Aug. 23rd at this link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lNROcQbJF...

Figure 1. Five genomic factors shared across 14 psychiatric disorders.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

A good thread on today in America with the launch of US concentration camps, and the moral dilemmas all of us are facing. It happened slowly in 1930s Germany too; many people were tested in different ways. Will you take the moral stand when tested?

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“My counsel says we were not aware of the extermination of the millions. He would give you the excuse: We were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds. Does that make us any the less guilty? Maybe we didn't know the details. But if we didn't know, it was because we didn't want to know.”

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The. Republican. Party. Wants. To. End. American. Science.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

On brand. Disaster relief will now be a personal favor from the President to communities that pledge loyalty. Be grateful if you're from a (relatively) non-disaster prone part of the country.

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Feeling a lot like I did in early days of the pandemic these days. It is so clear what’s coming: The people that will die because of cuts in global health, because of cuts to research, because of the concerted anti-vaccine push. It’s clear what’s coming, but we will have to wait to count the dead.🧪

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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This panel is never approving another vaccine.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Hey, fellow Asian So. Cal Fam: ICE is visiting local Asian grocery stores like HMart and 99 Ranch - just heard this from a local contact. Please be careful AND please take this as a sign - this impacts us too. Call. Protest. Donate.

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.com · 09/06/2025

I am hopeful of this too, but it can't wait. If things continue like this for the next 18 months, we will lose huge swaths of our biomedical (and I assume other fields) workforce, including me I am an early stage investigator, and if I don't get grant funding in the next 2 years, I can't continue 🧪

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Multiple recent studies, including 3 impressive natural experiments, consistently show a link between Shingles vaccines and reduced dementia. This week a nationwide S Korea study added a reduction of cardiovascular events My summary Table. More here on dementia erictopol.substack.com/p/the-shingl...

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Laura M. Huckins @laurahuckins.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Delighted to be back at the New York Academy of Medicine celebrating the achievements of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai MD/PhD students!

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Laura M. Huckins @laurahuckins.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Enormous congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Signer, who successfully defended her PhD thesis today! Rebecca's thesis examines the differences between eating disorders, obesity, thinness, and depression using a case-case gwas, and then delves into how our BMI can change regulation of gene expression.

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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🌍Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a devastating condition that affects people globally and can be chronic But it's complex and experiences are diverse... So how do we effectively measure severity to help inform research and best treat ALL people suffering from AN? 🧵1/6

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Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) @pgcgenetics.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

✨Welcome to the PGC Eating Disorders Working Group takeover! Over the next two weeks, we'll be filling your Bluesky with all things #eatingdisorder #genetics. You'll be hearing from @helenadavies.bsky.social, Kylie Reed, and @natashaberthold.bsky.social 💜 1/3

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Now that the first Advisory Council meeting will be announced in the Federal Register tomorrow (National Institute for Complementary and Integrative Health) tomorrow, I want to clarify something that has been happening for at least the past 30 days. 1/n

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If there is one thing scientists need to know right now it’s this. Every effort you make now has to be directed at reaching the average normal person. That means reaching off Bluesky. Hold local events, write local papers, get on local TV. Go to any space average people get info.

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David A Knowles @davidaknowles.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Exactly. This sort of “on your permanent record” poisoning is a hugely predictable concern. It serves their interest in excluding people of color from federal service and federal grants/contracts.

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Laura M. Huckins @laurahuckins.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Some of Huckins Lab (and the next generation!) braved the cold on Friday to fight for Science! #FundtheNIH #WomenInScience

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

+1e9 This isn’t just about NIH or NSF, it’s not about biology vs math/physics vs health outcomes research, not about intramural or extramural. This is a coordinated attack on ALL US science. The gov’t / academia partnership IS what makes US science. They’re trying to end all science research.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Everybody (me included) is getting bogged down on the details of events at NIH et al. Fatal mistake. The big picture is Musk/Trump are trying to shut down all gov-funded Medical/Disease research in the US. Have to understand that to have any hope of stopping it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/act-now

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I may do a longer, maybe several longer versions of this post....

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Anne Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristoff @anneelizabethse.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I'm pleased to share the first paper I've worked on during my PhD in @kristenbrennand.bsky.social's lab led by the amazing Carina Seah with @laurahuckins.bsky.social on the implications of gene x environment interactions for PTSD @wutsaiyale.bsky.social @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

A research lab from Northwestern, chosen because it's generic and sort of zoomed out. Three scientists are visible in lab coats, and there are benches and shelving, with glass along one wall showing another high-rise building nearby. Overhead fluorescents provide light.

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International Society of Psychiatric Genetics @ispg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Unsure how recent changes in U.S. policy regarding the NIH will impact the psychiatric genetics world? You're not alone. Join ISPG for a Member’s Meetup for community discussion and support: 📅 Wednesday, January 29 🕗 3 PM EST 📍 Pre-Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Laura M. Huckins @laurahuckins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#jobalert #postdoc #scijob Our lab will be hiring a postdoc to specialize in integrating functional genomics data with GWAS! We're especially interested in how environment shapes eQTL relationships, and how that might help uncover the etiology of PTSD and Eating Disorders.

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Laura M. Huckins @laurahuckins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Huckins Lab has a fun new holiday tradition- gingerbread houses! Complete with DNA roof tiles, pathways, and gumdrop histones 🍭🧬❄️☃️

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Laura M. Huckins @laurahuckins.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Hi, everyone- I'm excited to be here! I'll be posting about psychiatric genetics, trauma, women's health, and the intersection of politics and science- in particular, I'll be highlighting work from my amazing team here @yaleuniversity.bsky.social

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