Alexis Z
@azoocow.bsky.social
Genome prober, noob coder, idea floater, book hoarder, dog lover, food follower. chromatin biology
What an INCREDIBLE day at the Denver State Capitol! Thank you to everyone who showed up and to those of you who stopped by our table and wrote one of FIVE HUNDRED post cards!!! We cannot wait to mail out your messages to our government officials! Keep fighting! #50501 #50501Movement #FightBack
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
A U.S. House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their institutions receive.
Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat
A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters.
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The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
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👀 Find these tools on our website: Protest Planning Guide • Flyer Template (Canva) • Op-Ed Guide • Media Advisory Template • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions Join our Movement, FIND or HOST a protest at www.FiftyFifty.one.
Excellent example of a way to reach your local community! Highly suggest partnering with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for op-ed's such as these and Dr. Smider's is a great example of how to frame our issues for the general. public.
Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD@vvsmider.bsky.social · last yr.My op-ed below (which is a paper covering a chunk of Appalachia in Ohio) has gotten some attention. It’s not too hard to understand - people support cancer research. I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal. www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...
Stand Up for Science 2025 - Denver!! Chilly day but the passion of a couple hundred supporters was warming🔥 #standupforscience
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Congrats to Japan on an incredible tournament. Their 5th SheBelieves appearance and their 1st win, dominating every game. They showed what they could do and left with a trophy in hand. Nothing but respect for this Japanese team–this is what a rivalry is all about 🇯🇵🏆
Join #50501movement at the #PresidentsDay Protest on 2/17 to defend democracy and reject fascism! 12 PM State Capital #Colorado #Denver #Protest #DefendDemocracy #BuildtheResistance
Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.
Assessing the functionality of over 4,000 genome variants for their role in cancer, with prominence of impact for those related to the immune system and chronic inflammation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional analysis of cancer-associated germline risk variants - Nature Genetics
Analysis of 4,041 single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) linked to 13 cancers performed in primary human cell types identifies 380 potentially regulatory SNVs and their putative target genes. Editing one S...
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“It’s really an elaborate infrastructure that’s required to do this research. One of the things that concerns me is the magnitude and rapidity of these changes.” VC for Research Tom Flaig, MD, recently spoke to @cbsnews.com about the potential impact the proposed NIH cuts could have on our campus.
Colorado's large medical research community deals with attempts to cut federal funding
Colorado's medical research community is looking at how to handle the potential of cuts to research grant money that it receives from the National Institutes of Health.
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The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
"Cognitively speaking, we metabolize mistakes." I've been reading William Wimsatt and he expresses a core component of my teaching philosophy better than I ever managed.
🧪 Friends, help friends design great Graphical Abstracts! #HiSciSky 10 steps, from idea to completion: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
