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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck

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Biochemistry, astronomy, science writing, democracy. Second-career scientist and science communicator. Parent. Runner. Philly native, Seattle transplant. Vote. Email: [email protected]. Signal: MNicoleN.9

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 13d

Genuinely happy for the Blue Jays and all of Canada tonight. 🇨🇦 Sad for my adopted hometown Seattle Mariners but it was a great #ALCS. Best wishes in the World Series.

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Sky & Telescope @skyandtelescope.bsky.social · 5d

Two recent discoveries of black hole mergers add to the evidence that such mergers happen over and over again.
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Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before

Two recent discoveries of black hole mergers add to the evidence that such mergers happen over and over again.

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 6d

Quite concerned at how I’m going to cope without baseball at this point.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 9d

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 9d

Millions of Americans are cheering for you! Great game last night.

Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 13d

Genuinely happy for the Blue Jays and all of Canada tonight. 🇨🇦 Sad for my adopted hometown Seattle Mariners but it was a great #ALCS. Best wishes in the World Series.

Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 14d

I've already dipped into the emergency chocolate stash. #GoMs

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 17d

#ALCS too excited to spellcheck

Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 17d

10/10 no notes

#ACLS #Mariners #GoMs

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 23d

Same. Who needs sleep? #ALCS

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · 23d

Perseverance pays off. #Mariners

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Sky & Telescope @skyandtelescope.bsky.social · 25d

Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.
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#astronomy #PalomarObservatory #womeninscience #womeninastro #womeninstem #infraredsky

Palomar's First Woman Director Leads Historic Observatory to New Era in Transient Astronomy

Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 28d

Congrats to @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow on this tremendous honor! Fred Hutch is proud to be neighbors with ISB in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood —a global hub of life sciences innovation. It’s inspiring to see such transformative research happening just down the street!

ISB @isbscience.org · 28d

This morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine....

What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Oct 2

1. I was so grateful to Alex Cooper for having Dr. Jane Goodall on Call Her Daddy earlier this year which brought Dr. Goodall’s life’s work and example to millions of young women who might have heard of her, or recognized her, but may not have known of the depth of her contribution.

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Education in Chemistry @rsc-eic.bsky.social · Oct 1

🔍 Make science standards clearer for everyone, especially non-specialists, with our practical, teacher-informed framework:
edu.rsc.org/rsc-educatio...

#iteachchem #chemed

RSC publishes teachers’ standards framework for chemistry

Strengthen, develop and enhance your teaching practice with this subject-specific framework, based on the teachers' standards for England

edu.rsc.org

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Lauren Kuehne @omfishient.bsky.social · Sep 29

🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?

We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!

laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition

laurenkuehne.github.io

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · Sep 24

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · Sep 23

Hi Megan - DM me and I’ll see if I can help. First they gotta clinch! 🙏

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · Sep 17

Geneticist Mary-Claire King changed the way we think about hereditary cancer. We spoke with her about her career, research, and how she approaches science.

A Trailblazing Geneticist Reflects On Her Life And Work

Dr. Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to hereditary cancer risk with the identification of BRCA1. She was just getting started.

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 16

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

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Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck @mnicolen.bsky.social · Sep 12

Crazy game! Go get some sleep. 😴

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · Sep 6

Nice short discussion of the evolving understanding of 3I/ATLAS as this interstellar comet continues its approach to the Sun and more observations come in from various telescopes, featuring a lot of the observing folks 🔭☄️🧪

Telescopes Reveal Surprising Chemistry of a Rare Interstellar Object Passing Through Our Solar System

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Sep 5

Happy birthday, Fred Hutch Cancer Center!

On this day in 1975, the dedication ceremony for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was held at the center's original location in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood, completing a project 10 years in the making.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Sep 2

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Aug 27

We welcome today's news of the launch of the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST)!

Funded by the estate of Paul G. Allen, the new private foundation is focused on Allen’s lifelong passions for bioscience, the environment, and the power of AI for good.

www.ff-st.org/news-stories...

Fund for Science and Technology Announces Inaugural Grants, Planning at Least Half a Billion Dollars in the Next Four Years

$500 million over the next four years to support transformational science and technology for people and the planet

www.ff-st.org

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