@hayleynordstrom.bsky.social
Phage biologist and Scientific Illustrator. Staff Scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute [views my own]
Want to come work with me on phage engineering stuff?? The Fouts lab at JCVI is hiring!
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Have been over here gazing at your cluster diagram in this paper for quite a while!! Extremely cool!
28.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.
Welcome to Maryland!
28.04.2025 12:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic: As many as 69 million American women lack access to valid birth certificates
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Today is my birthday, and I spent it standing up for science! #standupforscience2025
07.03.2025 20:15 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Protester holding a pink sign depicting a brain with a purple brain worm saying “Hey Bobby, Use your brain!”
Protester holding a sign that reads “Ya’ll Mothafuckas need SCIENCE”
A group of protesters holding signs, one reads “super callous fragile racist anti-science potus”
Protester holding sign that reads R01= ROI
Some favorites from @standupforscience.bsky.social
#standupforscience2025
Who else is showing up in DC today?
07.03.2025 16:08 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
LFG. @standupforscience.bsky.social
06.03.2025 17:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Preparations for tomorrow
06.03.2025 17:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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What would it take for us to step back from the brink of losing a functional democracy?
One step is court orders. Today, a small piece of good news for NIH.
Another step is large-scale protest.
Today I describe how these two components fit together: samwang.substack.com/p/for-us-sci...
@jcvi.org just announced their support for all employees who want to attend the #standupforscience2025 rallies on Friday. With so many institutions staying silent, this makes me feel proud to work here! Our team will be showing up on both coasts!
04.03.2025 20:43 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Exactly. And I worked really hard and already had a number of “something else” jobs that I didn’t like in order to get myself here.
27.02.2025 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Was just talking to my mom about fears I will lose my job soon, and she sweetly said “you are smart and capable you’ll have no problem doing something else”… and I tried to explain that I know I CAN do something else but I WANT to do science, and that’s what’s so heartbreaking…
27.02.2025 18:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Was just listening to the audiobook of Parable of the Talents while working in the lab and this passage really hit me
26.02.2025 21:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Organize your own! Book a room, order some food, and send some emails to your favorite science people to get calling.
Copy and modify my NJ-specific slides here: docs.google.com/presentation...
Copy and modify my handout here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Really missing the precedented times after the last inauguration when the spiciest news headline was about who Joe Biden’s dog bit.
05.02.2025 11:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@aoc.bsky.social ‘s discussion of things going on and guidance on how we can respond actually eased my anxieties a bit in that it made all the madness feel a little clearer and the opposing response a little more strategic.
Ready to be “sand in the gears” in whatever small ways that I can.
Do you approve of these onesies??
31.01.2025 19:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you, I’ll have plenty! I used to crochet a long time ago and just started knitting a few weeks ago.
It’s been a great way to stop doomscrolling and reflect 😌
I’ve finished a Sophie scarf and have started a sweater. (I’m waiting for more purple yarn & am casting on a new cardigan as I wait 🫣)
It’s trying times like these when the office Puzzle Table feels the most necessary…
28.01.2025 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
