Asking BlueSky for help: For a review, I am trying to accurately credit the first paper that measured pairwise 3D distances between 2 pieces of DNA on the same chromosome (or cosmid). Is Trask 1989 the first? I know of earlier single-locus papers (1982). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks @aaas-stpf.bsky.social for this fellowships focus article in the latest newsletter detailing my recently concluded year in #Congress with @repbillfoster.bsky.social! Read more: bit.ly/4gt0OsW @asgct.bsky.social @aaas.org #scipol

Spotted at the @researchamerica.bsky.social National Health Forum! Very cool @jpflores.rbind.io and @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social

Scientists, only 2 weeks left to share your work, why it matters & win up to $500! It's as easy as making a slideshow with our template. This #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social #scicomm 🧪🔊🐸 👉https://galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scijourney-scicomm-competition-2025

Super excited for my postdoc interviews this fall too!! Ahhh!!!!

And of course, I’m excited for the looming debuts of the Atlas of Inspiring Latin American Scientists (Fall 2025) and the Index of Inspiring Black Scientists (early Winter 2026). We also have a very motivated team working on the Atlas of Indigenous Scholars, stay tuned 👀

Excited to see @vangeliqueallen.bsky.social and I’s seltzers at the @researchamerica.bsky.social National Health Research Forum next week! @sciforgood.bsky.social ‘s pilot sites (11 sites across the country) are working hard to make this happen in their local communities!

Words can’t explain how excited I am to head to DC next week for the Annual @hhmi.org Gilliam conference to see the homies! I’ll also be giving a Story Collider talk & participating in the talent show 😊Then flying out of DC to Atlanta to give a talk @posit.co conf!

Been having lots of fun co-organizing and doing Congressional District Visit days with my colleagues across the Triangle in NC! So cool to see our SNAP initiative hit 29 states! (41 visits completed, 10+ scheduled!) (Virtual visits not pictured!)

Do you ever just have a conversation with another PI in your field and get super excited and invigorated about science again bc same lol

Really excited to get our seminars back up and running. @gracebower.bsky.social is going 1st and if you haven't read her range extender story, you're in for a treat! + @creminslab.bsky.social has the 2nd talk and will tell us about the amazing work happening in her lab!

been waiting for a review like this! shoutout to the misteli lab!

Link sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER PHANSTIEL LAB DEFENSE!

At UNC, I'm doing a Cert in Innovation for the Public Good and taking a Nonprofit Management class. Interesting excerpt on "Founder Syndrome": "... the founder’s psychological identification with the organization... may make it impossible for them to accept a more democratic, team approach..."

If you like transcription regulation and its mechanisms, this WIP list is for you. I'm sure I've forgotten lots of people, so don't hesitate to let me know so I can add you to the list. go.bsky.app/8vTgeXB

YOU DON'T SAY

Don't even know which story to post ... they are all so well done and important. Just go read @statnews.com

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

Young voters are often left on the margins of U.S. politics. Could winner-take-all elections be part of the reason? @oscarp.bsky.social and @dustinwahl.bsky.social examine the system’s impact in a new @protectdemocracy.org report. protectdemocracy.org/work/age-div...

New Paper Alert: Indigenous Data Sovereignty in Genomics and Human Genetics: Genomic Equity and Justice for Indigenous Peoples pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40249967/

The damage to science is irreparable. Scientists who are valuable are leaving now. This offered some hope, but now it’s clear reason has completely gone out the window. A sad day for science.

🚨 SCOTUS just issued a decision in the NIH grant termination cases. And it's awful. In plain English, the likely result of this is that SCOTUS just re-terminated ~900 NIH grants worth over $1.9 billion in unspent funds This is an atrocious decision by Justice Barrett & the right wing of the Court.

Here's the blog with all the deets about the competition 👇 www.galacticpolymath.com/blog/my-scij...

Scientists, here's your chance to share your work, why it matters, and win up to $500! It's as easy as making a slideshow and recording it. We made templates and examples to make it easier. Our #MySciJourney challenge sponsored by @ncse.bsky.social & @civicscimedia.bsky.social sky.social #scicomm

This is not a HiC map! Ever wondered if multiple enhancers get activated simultaneously? We measured chromatin accessibility on thousands of molecules by nanopore to create genome-wide co-accessibility maps. Proud of @mathias-boulanger.bsky.social @kasitc.bsky.social Biology in the thread👇

Here is the reason given in the ggplot2 book (ggplot2-book.org/themes.html#...):

Here you go..." Why strong mentorship was essential for my career success in science" JoAnn Trejo has turned mentoring into an evidence-based science, driven by her own exposure to inspiring mentors. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The American Chemical Society announced that the ACS Board of Directors has approved $2.5 million to be granted to graduate students who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their adviser’s research grant(s) cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky

Just finished at #useR2025 and had a great time! Especially because I had an opportunity to present ggdibbler. The slides from my talk are available here: harriet-mason.github.io/talk_useR-20... (Although they are a bit confusing out of context)

Adriana Bankston’s year-long policy fellowship allows her to fight for science and scientists at a crucial time go.nature.com/4o6vDY4

The paper highlights actionable steps to help improve these double standards, including more RESEARCH RELATED LANGUAGE in P &T letters for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous women to improve their outcomes.

Our piece is out in SciTech Forefront! Check it out here: medium.com/scitech-fore... Disclaimer: I am NO LONGER part of @standupforscience.bsky.social & haven't been affiliated for months! Was just part of the original team that organized March 7 😊

Finally got around to migrating to Positron! Has anyone in the genomics / 3D chromatin field hopped on that bandwagon yet? If so, what are your favorite presets / tips / tricks? Big fan of the VSCode + RStudio feel #RStats

Excited to give a talk at posit::conf(2025) this year! Looking forward to sharing the work that all of the Atlas teams have spent hours on 😊 come through so I can brag about and shoutout my teams!

Personally, the humanities influence the way I see the world. This directly affects the types of scientific questions I ask and am interested in. Why is the conversation here about “being punished” when the conversation can be: “how do we bridge the two for impact? For social good?”

Huge shoutout to @kassstem.bsky.social for doing such a great job with the SNAP website! snapcoalition.org

Remember this #rstats post? I wasn't the only one talking about it & the tidyverse team was listening 😎 #databs New #dplyr functions? They're looking for feedback!! 🤔 replace_when, recode_values, replace_values 👀 Read this: github.com/tidyverse/ti... 🗣️ Comment on PR: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

REPLACE_WHEN!!! Aaaaaaaah this is like an 8 year dream come true!!!

Curious if anyone’s done a Fulbright post-PhD??? If so, lmk! Looking to pick some brains!

People who rewrite history sure like to criticize how people are rewriting history 😅😬

Pretty stoked to learn about {medley} by @jbryer.bsky.social !!! 🎶 Basically, divides your dataset into subsets by patterns of missingness, and fits separate models on each. SO MUCH BETTER than imputation!!! (he says he doesn't use bsky but I'm tagging him for cred anyways 😆)

"You all look great, healthy, like you’ve benefited from the science and healthcare system you are ripping apart."

I couldn't agree more @jpflores.rbind.io! Continuing to do the scientific work that means the most to us is powerful resistance.

“Figure out what you value in your society and the people around you. Don’t let the state of science right now deter you from wanting to answer the questions that really mean something to you.” @jpflores.rbind.io www.aaas.org/membership/m...

What the article DIDN’T mention is the Slack has a name! I’m so lucky to be a part of a team of passionate science communicators and advocates in @snapcoalition.bsky.social

“Bridging science and society is a problem everywhere...As someone passionate about science and society, I want the scientific workforce to reflect the diversity of the country, and these executive orders are going to stop that.” @jpflores.rbind.io www.aaas.org/membership/m...

How does JP Flores stay motivated to work in science advocacy when science funding is cut, DEI programs are terminated, and scientists are being let go? He thinks about the next generation of scientists and how we need to fight for the future of science. 👩🏽🔬 🧪 🔬