iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Stanford Bioinformatics Center @stanford-bic.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🎉 Stanford Bioinformatics Center Multi-Omic Hackathon: Leveraging MoTrPAC Datasets for Accelerated Development and Discovery

112

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

3972658011684

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

euanashley @euanashley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Stanford Department of Medicine is recruiting a Division Chief for Gastroenterology and Hepatology. If you're passionate about advancing digestive health and leading a dynamic team, I invite you to apply. facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

021

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Claude Boucher @bouchecl.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

12226981232

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Nicky Whiffin @nickywhiffin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A few weeks ago, I had an incredibly emotional call with James Coney, a writer for the Sunday Times whose son Charlie was in the @genomicsengland.bsky.social 100k project and was recently diagnosed with ReNU syndrome. This beautiful article tells their story ❤️ www.thetimes.com/article/0bcc...

thetimes.com

My son Charlie — and the breakthrough that changed our lives

James Coney and his wife, Sarah, struggled not knowing why their 12-year-old was born with a severe learning disability. In their darkest moments, they blamed themselves. Then, out of the blue, came a...

511040

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

@LaBonneLaB @labonnelab.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It has been 38 days since the last NIH meeting was posted in the Federal Register. Reminder to call your Senator and Representative.

14924

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Reminding people that without the NIH, there's very little for people with rare diseases is an argument to make right now.

314053

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 01/03/2025

Today is Rare Disease Day, and a great reminder of the importance of NIH and science funding in driving hope 🧬⬇️ www.rarediseaseday.org

rarediseaseday.org

Rare Disease Day 2025 – Raising awareness for people living with rare diseases and their families worldwide.

214746

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services is
"watching" the outbreak, which he described as
"not unusual" during a Wednesday meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet members.
The health secretary did not provide specifics on how or if the federal agency is assisting on the ground.

CDC chart of measles cases, showing a profound drop off after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and an elimination declared in 2000.

17664822542

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025

RNA xkcd.com/3056

154177412542

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How many federal workers would DOGE need to fire to make up for Musk not paying his fair share of taxes? Answer: 677,000. That's 44% of the entire non-DoD federal workforce. Again, this power grab is not about the budget. It’s about politics.

Title: What Costs More: Billionaire Tax Avoidance or Federal Workers?
Subtitle: Musk’s tax avoidance could fund 677K federal jobs
• Current Tax Rate: 3.27%
• Top Federal Tax Rate: 37%

Cost Comparison (Bar Chart):
• Cost of Musk’s Tax Avoidance (smallest bar, purple)
• Cost of Top 100 Billionaires’ Tax Avoidance (largest bar, red)
• Total Federal Workforce Salaries (mid-sized bar, green)
X-axis ranges from $0B to $380B, showing that billionaire tax avoidance covers a significant portion of federal workforce salaries.

Impact on Federal Workforce:
• Average Federal Salary: $106,000
• Jobs Musk’s Avoidance Could Fund: 677,782 (29.5% of all federal employees)

Federal Workforce Breakdown (Pie Chart):
• A segment representing 29.5% of the workforce highlights the share Musk’s avoided taxes could fund, labeled “Share Equal to Musk’s Avoided Taxes: 29.5%”.

Sources:
• Musk’s Tax Rate: ProPublica
• Billionaire Gains: Bloomberg Billionaires Index (Dec. 31, 2024)
• Federal Employee Data: USAFacts

5932961699

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If the block on the Federal Register isn’t removed in the next few months, I fear a majority of labs will close within a year. This small procedural wrench has the power to kill US science indefinitely, losing an entire generation of discovery and innovation.

241034510

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

NIH awards have quite literally flatlined since the change in administration. Council meetings, where the decisions on which grants to fund are made, are being canceled daily. No meetings, no decisions, no grants. The freeze is most definitely on, folks.

17236

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Blake Gendebien @blakegendebien.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm Blake Gendebien, the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in #NY21 This election will be tough, but I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and get the job done. Will you? ✅Follow me ✅Share this post ✅Ask your friends to follow ✅Chip in if you can

48670448

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/02/2025

This is the message we need to send at #TeslaTakedown protests today: we know Tesla's trillion dollar valuation is built on fraud and abuse, and we are coming for it. We will make Tesla ownership a taboo, cars and stock, unthinkable to anyone who believes in the basic values of the U.S. constitution

212834445

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 15/02/2025

"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

270133624892

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

BREAKING The Trump administration is maintaining a funding freeze at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in defiance of two federal court orders. The ongoing freeze was confirmed by an NIH official and internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information.

The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information.

24145562204

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Chloe Reuter @chloereuter.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

📑 New paper alert! Our work on returning #multi-omics results to research participants Key message-We need better systems and policies for returning research results in the multi-omics era 🙏 Thanks to my team of co-authors for tackling this complex issue in #researchethics 🔗 tinyurl.com/3hzc587m

tinyurl.com

Researcher views on returning results from multi-omics data to research participants: insights from The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC) Study - BMC Medical Ethics

Background There is growing consensus in favor of returning individual specific research results that are clinically actionable, valid, and reliable. However, deciding what and how research results sh...

165

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Arthur ❌️👑 @iamarthurkotb.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

More like Skynet

001

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Tom Ellis @proftomellis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Day two of the Bezos Centre for Sustainable Protein scientific launch conference. The morning session is focusing on cultivated meat / cellular agriculture. Such an interesting topic that continues to defy belief.

1121

Matthew Wheeler 🦋 @mwheelermd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Congrats Sarah Abramowitz and Kristin Boulier and colleagues on this important work!

0141

Reposted by Matthew Wheeler 🦋

Aging and Metabolism @am-omrf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Dr. Sue Bodine presented updates of the MoTrPAC at today’s 21st Annual Harold Hamm Diabetes Research Symposium #MoTrPAC

0102

Matthew Wheeler 🦋 @mwheelermd.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hello world! Here’s a starter pack for #cardiosky #aha24 go.bsky.app/BvQ8qse suggest additional follows!

251

Matthew Wheeler 🦋 @mwheelermd.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

A cat pic for the morning - waiting for Super Bowl Sunday

1100

Matthew Wheeler 🦋 @mwheelermd.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Hello world! joining @bsky.app and hoping (fingers crossed) that some rando billionaire doesn't ruin it for the rest of us. looking forward to sharing scientific discoveries and rejoining genomics and cardiovascular science social networks

061