Nicola Osgood

Earth’s First Climate Tipping Point? Fossils Warn What Happens Next The deep-time story of coral reefs shows both the danger of warming seas and the power of resilience Beneath the waves, something irreversible may have...

Is it happening again? 🌊🪸
Millions of years ago, coral reefs collapsed as the planet overheated
And now, it’s happening once more.

Fossils reveal both warning and hope: reefs can recover, but only if we slow change enough to let them.
🧪 #SciComm

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YouTube video by Amanpour and Company Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts | Amanpour and Company

This is a phenomenal interview given by my PI’s post-doctoral advisor, Professor David Liu. I encourage you all to watch it and share!

The first bit talks about technology that I use in my research and how these technologies are being applied to treat and cure diseases.

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Precision genome editing and in-cell measurements of oxidative DNA damage repair enable functional and mechanistic characterization of cancer-associated MUTYH variants Abstract. Functional characterization of genetic variants has the potential to advance the field of precision medicine by enhancing the efficacy of current

I am ecstatic to share this work, which involved functional interrogation of MUTYH variants using base editing. I enjoyed working with Dr. Carlos Vasquez on this project and look forward to seeing this expanded for high throughput!
#baseediting #womeninstem 🧪

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Definitely seems like they’re peddling the supposed “DEI incentives” they were vehemently opposed to. The hypocrisy is wild lol

I bet if every “blue” state stopped paying federal taxes, Trump would change his tune. That, or he’d send the military in and start a civil war…more likely the latter unfortunately.

Genome editing with programmable base editors in human cells Genome editing has garnered significant attention over the last decade, resulting in a massive expansion of the genome engineering toolbox. Base edito…

🧪I am thrilled to share that our work was just published in Methods in Enzymology!

HUGE thank you to all who contributed to this, but especially to my phenomenal co-first author, @natalie-z.bsky.social, and our mentor, Dr. Alexis Komor.
#baseediting #genomeediting #SciSky #AcademicSky

#AMIA2024 WELCOME TO BLUESKY! 🦋

I'm so excited to see people finally arrive at the shores of Bluesky!

I want to make sure you stick around so let me give you a guided tour on how to maximize your fun and engagement here! 🧵

Constant hypocrisy from conservatives is exhausting, but perhaps more exhausting are the mental gymnastics of their supporters.

This captures what I’ve been thinking, almost exactly.

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million.

That is a lie.

The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

Given his recent announcement about pending changes to Facebook, it would appear Mark Zuckerberg has followed Elon Musk’s direction. This poses a new, significant challenge in combatting misinformation.
Frankly, I’m exhausted, so this is incredibly disappointing. Thoughts?

Oh yeah, I could definitely see it being seen as CV padding. Have you found that the articles have different titles for each journal? Or do they all have the same title? I’m now really intrigued by this concept. I never even thought of it as a possibility, I suppose.

Initial thought: not cool; however, maybe it is more of an accessibility thing? Some people have access to certain journals and not others. Some journals are more affordable than others. I’m torn on this one. What are the problems you see with cross publishing? How does it harm (people, science)?

Download/read "Solving Climate Change" as an eBook now. Link below: 🧪

I joined 75+ @nobelprize.bsky.social laureates urging US Senators to oppose RFK Jr.'s confirmation as DHHS Secretary. If you’re in a state with GOP senators, PLEASE reach out to them! I’d deeply appreciate it if you amplified this post! 🙏
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I want men in science to think about this. Think about the biases you have grown up with so much you're probably not even aware you have them. 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Phenomenal work - 3 year relapse-free rates moved from 80-85% up to 97.5% in kids with average risk of relapse. This type of leukemia is the leading type of cancer in children. 🧪

yeah but I'm sure they'll be sooooo concerned about the wages and welfare of working class Americans

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

In #NextGenSequencing news, updated the #NGS #specs w/ two upcoming Illumina $ILMN NovaSeqX 25B kits, for 100cycles and 200cycles.
Now the cheapest $/Gb short-read runs are:
(1) NovaSeq X 25B (300 cycles) = $2.22/Gb
(2) NovaSeq X 25B (200 cycles) = $2.72/Gb
(3) NovaSeq X 10B (300 cycles) = $3.54/Gb

Thread on need to fight for evidence-based policy - a response to Trump's cabinet picks.

Based on new @bmj.com article by me, @martinmckee.bsky.social & @kentbuse.bsky.social

TLDR: Now is the time to stand up for science, not appease those in power attacking it

www.bmj.com/content/387/... 1/14

But RFK Jr. wrote on X "The main problem with hydroxychloroquine was that it is a generic drug with little profit potential. " When in fact, the main problem is that it doesn't work and actually can hurt people.

For those experiencing issues loading the graph on mobile, open the quiz in a browser, not on BlueSky, and rotate your phone.

I agree that the computer question was poorly worded. You could’ve observed that the computer was running out of memory 🤷🏼‍♀️ I opted for “hypothesis” because the question stated “one possible explanation” which to me is the essence of a hypothesis. But that was definitely a tricky one…

Phew! Was going to quit my PhD if I failed this one…

Interesting…

This is useful!!

Food access in formerly redlined neighborhoods tied to poor cardiometabolic health CHICAGO — People living in historically redlined neighborhoods with poor access to healthy foods were more likely to have type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease and obesity, resea...

A recent AHA scientific session linked redlined areas with poor food access to higher rates of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and obesity. Improving food access could address these disparities. 🩺 🛟

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