Audrey Hendricks
@audreyhendricks.com
Associate Professor of #statistics @cuanschutz @cudenver using #rstats, and #genomics. Advocate for #dataliteracy for all. My posts are my own and do not represent the views of the University.
I watched this and it's excellent. ALSO, we begin my Black Abolitionists of NYC tour in front of the "Triumph of the Human Spirit" monument so I was happy to hear directly from the artist, Mr. Pace. Very good job by the Mayor's office. I encourage folks to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoUB...
Triumph of the Human Spirit
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Three photos. Five days. Fifteen million taxpayer dollars. One swamp.
Three weeks left to apply to our postdoc position on alpine plant resilience! Us: Three years of funding, an awesome collaborative team, a gorgeous study system, blueberry pie, unionized postdocs. You: A PhD and experience in ancient DNA, paleoecology, and/or plant genetics and genomics.
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The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration
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Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Time for a thread on all the @standupforscience.net action tools! Site: www.standupforscience.net Action Center: fight2win.standupforscience.net SUFS OMB Overview: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a... SUFS Guide to Public Comments: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Science activists and allies mobilizing to save science, health and democracy itself from the Trump administration's dismantlement and privatization.
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Controversial though this take may be, I think scientific journals shouldn't publish brain puzzles that can only be decrypted by using the largest-scale machine to generate child pornography ever created in the arc of human civilization
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T
President Trump seeks control of science funding
The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science.
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My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...
This new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.
This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)
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NCAR just won in court! A US district judge in Colorado has prohibited NSF from taking #NCAR apart, specifically in spalling off its supercomputing center in Wyoming. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Our earlier story on this and why it matters: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
World-leading climate centre takes Trump administration to court
Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled.
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Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
TWICE today I've been told "we are going to be recovering from this for generations..." NO, WE ARE NOT. This stuff is really bad, but it's nowhere NEAR as bad as it could get. We are ~40% into the demo of a complete kitchen renovation... DAILY DOSE OF HOPE INCOMING!!!! 1/?
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold
US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.
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A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...
There is so much poetry in Stephen Colbert celebrating his finale on the exact stage where the Beatles changed culture in 1964. Singing "Hello Goodbye" surrounded by his family, his band, and his crew before Paul McCartney flipped the final power switch. This was the perfect full-circle goodbye!
Sooooo... Several people shared this slide with me. NIH is apparently working on a new parent mechanism called an RP1. I have many questions (and only a few answers). (EPMC is the NIH-wide Extramural Program Management Committee co-chaired by Jon Lorsch). 1/4
Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS – a name that caused confusion and undue suffering – to PMOS
‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women
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New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!
I love to start the day with a good 404 error, and this one is *really* good.
Are you worried about hantavirus? Well research on this virus and other emerging infections is disappearing in real time, right now. My Yale colleague just lost $5 million, which the National Science Foundation (NSF) has refused to release to his group. It is so twisted and sick.
Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy colleague @stephseifertphd.bsky.social just published new groundbreaking work on hantaviruses in the United States as part of our shut down @viralemergence.org project. Want to prevent hantavirus outbreaks here? Fund her work. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Update on NIH funding including multi-year funding. Here is the overall progress in terms of the number of projects (as opposed to the fraction of appropriated funds). The fiscal year 2026 curve lies below those for earlier fiscal years. 1/4
On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo agoWhile the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.
This was fitting news to receive on May 1, international workers day. I will be returning to work on Monday after being kept on retaliatory administrative leave for 5 months and 3 weeks. I return along with the brave Katrina Declaration signers from FEMA, also reinstated this week. 🧵1/?
Sheryl Gay Stolberg@sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEWS: The NIH whistleblower @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social, who was put on paid leave in November after criticizing the Trump administration’s cuts to medical research, has been reinstated — without explanation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
@audreyhendricks.com & co of @hggadvances.bsky.social's latest article present CCAFE, a new method to derive case & control allele frequencies when they're missing from GWAS summary statistics—thus expanding the utility and reusability of genomic data: https://bit.ly/4mRtbEq #ASHG #HumanGenetics
Want to do cool secondary analyses with GWAS summary data but need case and control allele frequencies? CCAFE is here for you! Huge kudos to super star first author Hayley Stoneman!
Human Genetics and Genomics Advances@hggadvances.bsky.social · 3mo ago🧬New from @audreyhendricks.com & co! 📄CCAFE: Estimating Case and Control Allele Frequencies from GWAS Summary Statistics 🖥️ github.com/wolffha/CCAFE/ 👉 tinyurl.com/59km6f99
Y'all I'm IN THIS STUDY!!! Really I'm in it! I haven't been unblinded and I still don't know what I got but there's ME! Just a tiny little data point. www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...
A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the horizon
The vaccine candidate is the furthest any shot has gotten since the last one was pulled in 2002. Scientists are testing other ways to block infection.
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