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Meaghan Kennedy Ng

@mknbioinfgenome.bsky.social
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Computational -omics, long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) lover, amateur photographer Currently looking for post-doc and industry roles tackling multi-omics data integration, biomarker discovery, and understanding the regulatory function of non-coding variants.

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Igor Ulitsky @igorulitsky.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Now out @natbiotech.nature.com ! Do lncRNAs commonly bind 1000s of genomic sites? Maybe they do, but the dozens of studies that report genomic binding maps of lncRNAs are deeply flawed, with probes binding suprious DNA sites rather than RNA-bound ones.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)
A cream colored shirt with a red and blue design featuring 9 crustaceans and a fly. A scuba diving Fly Says a”am I shrimp too?” A pistol shrimp wearing a cowboy hat says “bang bang” a mantis shrimp says KO, the title says a”shrimp city and friends” a hermit crab uses a skull
As a shell, a jumbo shrimp is labeled himbo shrimp, and a yeti crab is labeled “snack bacteria cafe”. The fly has an asterisk next to
Him and underneath the whole design it says *the latest research shows that bugs is actually shrimp”
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Julie Johnston @queermsfrizzle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hampshire College just announced our closure. I've only been here <2 years but absolutely love being here. I don't know if I am staying until the final closing in Dec 26 or this June 26. If you need a random wastewater/enviro engineer/bioinformatics person I am unexpectedly back on the job market!
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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
📊 Recently published in Bioinformatics Advances: "Quantifying stability via count splitting to guide model selection in RNA velocity analyses"  Full text at doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag104
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Juliet French @julietfrench.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
First paper of 2026! We started with 4 genetic variants from GWAS and ended with a potential lncRNA therapeutic for ER+ breast cancer. Spent hours with co-senior author @stacedw.bsky.social bouncing ideas around, discussing results and potential mechanisms. Loved every minute! rdcu.be/eXVnl
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BRRIAR lncRNA alters breast cancer risk by modulating interferon signaling in cis and in trans
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Dan Landau @landau.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Happy new year/paper! A new tech (scG2P) maps genotype (DNA) to phenotype (RNA) in single cells, bringing together the worldviews of genetic & transcriptional heterogeneity. With scG2P we define how mosaicism drivers increase clonal fitness in the aging esophagus aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
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FinnGen @finngen.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Just in time for #ASHG2025, a new FinnGen public data release is live! This release features the first clinical laboratory value association results. Analyses cover 383 lab measurements (OMOPIDs) with data from ≥1,000 participants each. Access the results here: www.finngen.fi/en/access_re...
FinnGen public release October 14: The first set of clinical laboratory value GWAS results. FinnGen logo and a black-and-white abstract genetic data pattern at the bottom. Graphics credits: Aalto University, Visual Communication Design Team.
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 14/10/2025
acmgscaler: an R package and Colab for standardized gene-level variant effect score calibration within the ACMG/AMP framework academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/badonyi/acmg... #Rstats
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 08/10/2025
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ✊🌏 ⏰ WHEN: October 17th, 2025 📍WHERE: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC! RSVP to JOIN THE FIGHT IRL: zurl.co/LayiM ‼️ 📲 Join us Virtually!: zurl.co/Um47l
Poster Image with a woman yelling into a megaphone.; Title reads: Fight for Science. Bubbles read: 3:00pm, Rally, Oct 17th.; Subtitle reads: Health and Science for the People!; A pin emoji with text: 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington DC; a Virtual Call emoji with text: Join us virtually at:  bit.ly/4mXwrfY ; bottom corner has QR code and a logo for Stand Up For Science
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Vijay G. Sankaran @bloodgenes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Delighted to have our preprint led by @lvchosen1.bsky.social up: Genetic variation reveals a homeotic long noncoding RNA that modulates human hematopoietic stem cells biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 below ...
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adelaide tovar @adel-aide.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A key point here is the disconnect in awareness between researchers and everyone else (of course this is a feature, not a bug, for the government) “[T]he effects from increases or decreases in funding can take upwards of seven years.”
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Eugene Valkov @eugenevalkov.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
An excellent systematic analysis of RBPs by @quaidmorris.bsky.social and colleagues (with a tiny contribution from us) #RNAsky #RNAbiology
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🚀 Today we're launching the 'Night Science Institute', a non-for-profit organization to lead a cultural shift in science! You may say we're dreamers 😉, but we think we're not the only ones. Perhaps today you will join us to make the Day Science and Night Science parts of the process live as one!
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I am SO excited to receive this award and even more so to receive it along with @rogerslabucd.bsky.social!!!Congrats to all of the awardees and thank you for your support! We look forward to putting this award to work! 🙏🏾🎉
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Kate (Kathryn) Lawrence @itskatelawrence.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Excited to share my first PhD paper in the @sbmontgom.bsky.social lab with @tamigj.bsky.social (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)! Standard QTL methods treat each gene independently. But what if a single variant regulates multiple nearby genes at once - what we call “allelic proxitropy”? 🧵 ⬇️
Standard methods are equivalent to a flashlight, looking at each gene independently. We combine signals from multiple genes, turning a floodlight onto the genome.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 09/06/2025
"I am so scared about doing this, but I am trying to be brave for my kids because it's only going to get harder to speak up....Maybe I'm putting my kids at risk by doing this. And I'm doing it anyway because I couldn't live with myself otherwise." apnews.com/article/nih-...
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NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”
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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
My personal takeaways from Dorrestein's talk on microbiome-derives molecules and big data metabolomics: - should have taken biochem - I need to dig more into metabolomics - SCFAs are so important y'all. Eat your fiber - also bile acids evidently - dietary assessments suck 1/2 #HCMPHSymposium
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 19/05/2025
👀 You know who has the chops to give some EXCELLENT #SummerFightForScience Teach Ins? 🧪 👩‍🏫 Middle and High School science teachers 👀 #StandUpForScience
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Danica Milovanović @1995dana.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New preprint of @trono-lab.bsky.social and my PhD work! By modulating SWI/SNF remodeling at ancient transposable elements - LINE/L2s and SINE/MIRs, a "noncanonical" KZFP called ZNF436 protects cardiomyocytes from losing their identity. 🫀heartbeat on 🔁 repeat www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #TEsky
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/04/2025
🚨SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE: TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS 🚨 In his first 100 days, Trump has declared war on science—slashing budgets, censoring facts, and meddling in research. From climate to cancer care, real lives are at risk. Here’s a thread on Trump’s assault on science so far—and why it matters: (🧵)
A protest graphic titled “TRUMP’S FIRST 100 DAYS” with bold red blocks reading “SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE.” Black paint drips from the top, and a grayscale crowd of protestors hold signs like “Save Science,” “Keep Your Hands Off Our Pipettes,” and “No Science, No Future.” A U.S. flag waves on the right.
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𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚎✩ @allmylovesteph.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Kennedy wants to track people with Autism. This is a violation of HIPAA.
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RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
And he’s using private medical records to make it happen.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The US government has dismantled all covid related tracking & reporting despite people dying and becoming disabled every day… Yet they’re establishing a registry to track autism cases and plan to access people’s private medical data. Autism doesn’t kill. It’s not contagious. This is eugenics
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
What Republicans are fighting is literally visual symptoms of disability. Being so different, you're difficult and not helpful to the party. That's eugenics. Autism you can hide is fine. Disability you can't needs to be eradicated.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The reason autism has such a stigma in the first place is because so many people who have it are able to mask well enough to pass or are just considered quirky by ignorant friends and family. People with nonverbal or profound autism can't and historically are treated as burdens rather than people.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
RFK's sinister autism registry reeks of eugenics and must be fought. That said? Autism is one of the most undiagnosed conditions there is. Only 1 in 4 people who have it are officially diagnosed, and testing is expensive. This cartoonisly evil plan to get rid of autism is dumb on a most basic level.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/04/2025
my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I don't get why none of the foundations I've written grants for in the last 2 years want to fund me. I try so hard. I get good results. I get a lot done for not a lot of money. I integrate science & art, am good at community organizing, & get science into places where there currently isn't much.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/04/2025
Vance and the pope, Hegseth's signal groups, Rubio unraveling the state department, RFK Jr.'s antics—it's a lot. Don't lose sight of the way they are destroying due process. 278 US "deportees" are still in CECOT. They're stonewalling on Abrego Garcia. Others have plain disappeared. Gift link.
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Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared (Gift Article)
The Venezuelan man does not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends have no idea of his whereabouts.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What a great initiative. It's so important to hear the stories of silenced scientists. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬
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Portraits of dismissed scientists personalize US government cuts to science
A hurricane researcher. An invasive-insect entomologist. An e-cigarette toxicologist. A biomedical librarian. Those are some of the people included in Silenced Science Stories, a visual storytelling p...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.
His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people.

Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him.

ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention.

The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card.

“He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 16/04/2025
A unified analysis of atlas single-cell data genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/chenhcs/GIANT
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 15/04/2025
Notable challenges posed by long-read sequencing for the study of transcriptional diversity and genome annotation genome.cshlp.org/content/35/4... 🧬🖥️🧪
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Colin Campbell @raleighreporter.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
If you're curious about how proposed federal funding cuts would affect us @wunc.org -- and how to make sure we're still here regardless -- this is a good explainer: www.wunc.org/2025-04-15/c...
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How federal funding supports WUNC ... and what's at risk now
Federal funding makes up about 5% of WUNC's budget. That comes out to about $800,000 every year. This funding is vital to bring you the news you rely on every day.
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Faraz Mardakheh @mardakheh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🧵1/ 🚨Check out our significantly updated preprint, now out on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social. Together with Sasi Conte lab, we characterize a novel role for intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in promoting RNA-binding selectivity in RNA binding proteins (RBPs): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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An intrinsically disordered region mediates RNA-binding selectivity and pro-oncogenic activities of LARP6
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are prevalent in RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), yet their roles in RNA interactions remain poorly defined. Here, we examined the structured and disordered RNA-bin...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/04/2025
They are further consolidating control over the priorities of federal science funding.
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NSF scraps most outside advisory panels
Science agency will no longer get the community’s advice on programs ranging from biology to international activities
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Science for Good ☀️ @sciforgood.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📣TAKE ACTION!🚨 We’re calling on universities to stand up for academic freedom. Harvard just said NO to federal overreach, and we’re asking others to do the same. Sign our open letter, and join the movement to defend the future of science and higher ed: sciforgood.org/support-acad...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This should be grounds for both parties to come together and remove Trump from office. They have no intention of bringing Garcia back, in defiance of the unanimous Supreme Court decision, and are now labeling him a terrorist, despite no criminal record and being illegally/"accidentally" deported.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Many deportations appear unconnected from any political act, but still not public safety threats. This guy has been in the US since high school. He is being deported, for what appears to be an expunged DUI case in 2023, 3 weeks before he was set to finish his degree. www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
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Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
students are being deported for writing op-eds, not vandalizing a library. Taking part in a protest, not taking over a campus. Rubio is making claims about guilt without offer any evidence.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ALL OF YOU. As I've been saying (most recently to the northwestern student behavior) you fight authoritarianism by collectively imposing costs on every dictator move. File all the lawsuits, give ZERO INCHES dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/10/c...
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HHS confirms NU’s funding freeze due to antisemitism
After reports first surfaced Tuesday that the Trump administration had frozen $790 million in federal funding from Northwestern, even the University’s top officials said they’d been left in the dark o...
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Our Department just decided that discussing the visa terminations of UNC international students and the kidnappings nationwide was not "important enough" to devote time to in today's faculty meeting. I have seldom been so angry at work
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/04/2025
Sunlight continues to be an effective disinfectant. Hours after Reuters published the story above, the NIH reversed their policy. Screenshot is to current version of the linked story.
Exclusive: US NIH reverses conference travel ban for scientists
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One of the most aggravating parts of running for office, as a former farmworker, was how often "progressive" people demanded I talk about regenerative farming. Instead of "centrist" issues like "economics" and "fair pay." this TikToker really nailed the experience www.tiktok.com/@regularchar...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Update via #SCIMaP now broken down by house districts Our interdisciplinary team has expanded efforts to communicate the economic impacts of White House proposed cuts to health research. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org
Visualization of cuts to health research by house districts at scienceimpacts.org
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ACLU @aclu.org · 09/04/2025
President Trump is attempting to deport people using a wartime law last used to justify the internment of people of Japanese ancestry. We’re suing him.
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Trump Invokes the Alien Enemies Act to Carry Out Mass Deportations, Explained | ACLU
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was used to justify World War II-era internment of noncitizens. Now Trump is attempting to abuse that authority to deport immigrants without due process
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Nature @nature.com · 09/04/2025
Nature research paper: Complete sequencing of ape genomes go.nature.com/3EfWwqk
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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature
Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evolutionary comparisons.
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