Audrey Hendricks

Yes. And more than just "safe and effective": mRNA vaccines are a spectacular breakthrough; they are already providing cures for cancer.

As @astrokatie.com noted, mRNA vaccines won the 2023 Nobel Prize. Other nations are salivating at their chance to take over the lead in this game-changing tech.

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share this far & wide. MISINFORMATION at CDC is spreading throughout our country & most people have no clue. Please stay updated & bookmark this page for your health & well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Exclusive | Trump Administration Blocks Funding for CDC Health Programs The White House budget office recently reversed a decision to freeze about $15 billion in research funding for the NIH.

The Trump administration is blocking funding for a swath of public health programs run by the CDC, the latest flashpoint in a push by the White House to withhold money already approved by Congress www.wsj.com/politics/pol... w @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social

Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.

JAMA study finds no increase in adverse events in those who received the mRNA Covid vaccine for the 2024-5 season.
#vaccines
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Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.

1.6 million people showed no statistical increase in 29 adverse events after mRNA covid vax
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #MedSky

one cool thing about Scandinavian countries with comprehensive public health insurance is places like Denmark can do a study on… everybody and conclude that yes COVID vaccines are safe

🎉 Congrats @audreyhendricks.com on receiving the 2025 ASHG Education Award! Hendricks is recognized for her contributions to human genetics and genomics education. From founding training programs to mentoring the next generation of scientists, she continues to make a lasting impact on the field.

Camden police are now deploying social workers to city streets Social workers are teaming up with Camden County police in Camden to address the city's mental and social service needs. It's part of the city's "guardian" approach to policing.

The Camden County Police Department is showing what community policing should look like. Social workers are now riding alongside officers to address mental health crises, homelessness, and emergencies related to substance use disorder. And it's working. Crisis calls are down 40% since last year.

‘Sleeping’ cancer cells in the lungs can be roused by COVID and flu Inflammation from the respiratory infections seems to be the culprit, study in mice finds.

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumor cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse.

Now, experiments show for the first time these rogue cells can be roused from their slumber by common respiratory illnesses such as COVID-19 or the flu.

One might think, oh the fiscal year is only two months. But many of our grants are already delayed by weeks to months and we are on borrowed time as is. This is devastating and heralds darker times ahead.

Thank you so much Barbara!!

Thank you Rhonda!

I am very honored to have received the ASHG Education award!

Grateful to work with so many amazing people to provide opportunities to folks that may not have even known that genetics and biomedical research was a career! Lots more work to do, but together we do make a difference!

Thank you Gen!!

Huge congrats to @audreyhendricks.com for her 2025 ASHG Educator Award! So incredibly well-deserved.

Thank you!!

Special congratulations to our Associate Editors @audreyhendricks.com & Elizabeth Bhoj!! 🥳🥳

UBI would literally save lives.

This news dropped the same day as this marvelous work from UF on a new immunotherapy method that could treat a variety of different cancers. We are so close to life changing, life saving breakthroughs, and ignorant ghouls are throwing it all away

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

LLMs are inherently backwards looking. Not even Amazon has solved the "we see you bought a toilet, here's a dozen more toilets you might like" problem in traditional ML models. Even if they were somehow collect new data, they'd only look where they already got data from

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

It's a bias amplification engine thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

We each find our way through these times

As an academic, I am doing this:

Uplift those whose research you admire. Diversify the academy.

Many ways to do this:

-Nominate for awards (did 2 yesterday)
-If you are in an academy, nominate to it (did 3 this month)
-cite them in a paper and/or talk

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The Lancet's July 19, 2025 Editorial in full. Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd.

“US health policy: the Senate must act”—our latest Editorial.

Read here: tinyurl.com/3wb3vxyu

The Colorado Secretary of State opens an investigation into an apparent attempt by the White House to access CO’s voting machines. This is in addition to the WashPost reporting that the DOJ has requested non-public private voting information from 9 states. @meidastouch.com @legalafmtn.bsky.social

Congratulations!! Still waiting on our R25 NOA from June 1 😬

Human Genetics Scholars Initiative HGSI supports and prepares early-career individuals for professional success and creates a community of researchers committed to achieving ASHG’s vision.

Applications opening soon for the @geneticssociety.bsky.social Human Genome Scholars Initiative! Deadline is Aug 18 for this wonderful two-year program for early career researchers. ashg.org/membership/a... 🧬 🧪

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
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The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS

Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows

How did the city do it?

Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue