@thescientistnadi.bsky.social
For the love of genomics, big data, pollinators, my pup Angel, political podcasts, queer culture and guided museum tours. Bioinformatics scientist, Inflammatory Disease Section, NIH|NHGRI.
Coming up from the subway at the NIH today there is a crowd of people with signs thanking and supporting NIH workers. It feels so special. Thank you to whoever participated in and arranged this gathering, it means the world like you can’t imagine.
It looks like the bill posted this morning (Saturday)-to be voted on next week-will cut the BRAIN Iniitiative and All Of Us by proposing a 69% reduction in funding for the NIH Innovation Account (CURES Act) by reducing its allocation from $407 million to $127 million.
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#standupforscience2025
HPC team just dunked on me (told me I’m using silly resources for my job) ((it was true)) (((crying tho still)))
Also the sacrilege of combining awk sed 🤭
Taking 5 minutes to write out a piped awk/sed command instead of just taking 30 seconds to manually rewrite the string is the spice of life
ATTN DC: if you care about science, come rally THIS FRIDAY 12-4PM IN FRONT OF THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL!
Bioinformatics Job Opportunity
Research Associate / Staff Scientist
Vancouver Canada
Join the Silent Genomes Project to provide an outstanding genetic variation database for Indigenous peoples of Canada to improve rare disease diagnosis
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Priority to Canadians
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The measles outbreak occurring in South Plains district, TX, is now the largest the state has seen in 30 years, with 48 cases. All cases are among unvaccinated people or people with unknown vaccination status.
source: www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
ACTION THIS WEDNESDAY: Researchers from New York universities are holding a rally to protest the funding cuts at Washington Square Park at 4 pm.
This will be part of a national day of action, with rallies at HHS in DC and all around the country.
RSVP HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I left Canada for US Science 3 years ago and would LOVE to see more $$ for 🇨🇦 sci. But, PM Trudeau lost his gig in part because he initiated a huge immigration boon and now attitudes towards immigrants in 🇨🇦 are unfortunately worsening. No PM would try to incentivize immigration right now sadly.
Is saag paneer a spinach dip?
Finished this yesterday, a super interesting read about the superiority of long read for complex/large variants and variants in complex regions. And a good variety of variant types IMO.
A clinician stopped me today to tell me they liked my outfit and ask where everything is from, and it was a little positivity boost that I needed after feeling a bit dejected today with all the NIH news. 🥹
people have been asking my opinion of belgian techno anthem pump up the jam, and i will say, it is definitely the national anthem of canada for a reason.
Hopped on blue sky just in time for the immediate suspension of NIH travel and external communication! Hi folks 🥹
That said, please connect with me if you are interested in strategies for rare disease variant prioritization/discovery and working with big genetic datasets #genomics #raredisease