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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · 2d

🫀🧬 Huge thanks to everyone joining the Delphi panel for my PhD study! Round 1 of 3 takes ~20 mins, later rounds likely shorter. A few spots left for cardio GCs + MD cardiologists (incl. fellows). Join here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · 17d

🫀🧬 Phase I captured insights from 27 experts on family/medical history in genetic testing. Phase II is a Delphi survey to build consensus, and your input matters! All experience levels welcome. Join here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · Sep 11

🫀🧬 Calling cardiologists & CVGCs! Phase I of my PhD interviewed 27 experts on medical & family history guiding genetic testing & best practices. Phase II: Delphi survey to build consensus. All experience levels welcome! Complete the intake form if interested: forms.office.com/r/UwMzwUFUGL

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · Aug 18

I wandered down the back alley and found flowers blooming as if they were keeping a secret from the rest of the world 🌿🌸

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · Aug 6

This article mixes embryonic gene-editing to cure disease with the more problematic “Manhattan Project” name, mammoth revival links, medically unnecessary enhancements, and research in loosely regulated regions. This conflation risks confusing the public and undermining ethical medical research.

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JCF Intersections @jcfint.bsky.social · Aug 5

What drives patients with ATTR-CM and families to pursue genetic testing? 🧬

✨ Provider trust & duty to family were top motivators
🧠 Patients wanted more info on risks, esp. insurance
📉 Testing was easy, but emotionally taxing
🤝Clear need for better consent, counseling & support.

🔗 bit.ly/4lWnlAt

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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · Jul 26

My academic job offer was rescinded. I’ll keep going—but U.S. researchers are running out of road www.science.org/content/arti...

My academic job offer was rescinded. I’ll keep going—but U.S. researchers are running out of road

Despite an uncertain future, this postdoc will “keep doing the science I love while I still have a bench”

www.science.org

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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · Jul 26

This flawed preprint claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination causes transcriptomic dysregulation and cancer.
But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh.
My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here:

scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · Jul 7

🫀🧬 Pre-proof, hot off the press! My 1st PhD training pub is a systematic review on cardiogenetic implementation. We ID’d major gaps: little use of impsci frameworks, no payer perspective. 7 suggestions here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@coauthors 🙏

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · May 30

Yet another rainy day, but I’m reframing. The plants are lush, humming, ready to burst…like actors backstage, soaking it in before the lights go on. The sun will rise and they’ll be ready for showtime. #GraySky

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · May 30

What is it about matrix coding that gives me such joy? Maybe Im just a qual nerd 🤓

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Stéphanie Baulac @sbaulac.bsky.social · May 15

📢 Paper out! Focal Cortical Dysplasia-linked epilepsy is more complex than expected - somatic mTOR-activating mutations affect multiple cell lineages, yet only a fraction become cytomegalic. Dysmorphic neurons show mitochondrial dysfunction. #Epilepsy #BrainMosaicism #Neurodevelopment

Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · Apr 30

Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic analysis reveals cell-type specific and non-autonomous effects of mTOR pathway mutations in mosaic focal cortical dysplasia type II (FCDII) 🧠🧪

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

Single-cell genotyping and transcriptomic profiling of mosaic focal cortical dysplasia - Nature Neuroscience

In this work, the authors performed a single-cell genotyping and transcriptomics analysis, revealing cell-type-specific and nonautonomous effects of mTOR pathway mutations in mosaic focal cortical dys...

www.nature.com

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · May 8

🫀🧬 For my PhD, I interviewed MD and GC experts in genetic cardiomyopathies and arrhythmias. We discussed how pt history influences decision to test, management changes based on results, and barriers/facilitators to testing. Phase 2 starts soon; grateful to all who participated or spread the word!

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Jodie Ingles @jodieingles27.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our paper now published! 🙌🏻🧬🫀

@alexbutters25.bsky.social
@k-jt.bsky.social
@njhenden.bsky.social
@dgmacarthur.bsky.social
@kathrynmcgurk.bsky.social @jamesware.bsky.social @sharday-penn.bsky.social @rdbagnall.bsky.social @garvaninstitute.bsky.social @escardio.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/eurh...

A rare splice-site variant in TNNT2: the need for ancestral diversity in genomic reference data sets

Inherited cardiomyopathies, including hypertrophic (HCM), dilated (DCM), and restrictive (RCM) cardiomyopathies affect ∼1 in 200–500 in the population. Gen

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Brittney Murray @brittmurray.bsky.social · Jan 7

It's finally here! The #DSP exercise data you've all been waiting on! TLDR: different appearance than in PKP2 #ACM, but intense exercise not good in DSP ACM either. #cardiogen www.heartrhythmjournal.com/article/S154...

Endurance Exercise Promotes Episodes of Myocardial Injury in Individuals with a Pathogenic Desmoplakin (DSP) Variant

Desmoplakin (DSP) variants are associated with left-predominant or biventricular arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. Exercise promotes penetrance and sustained ventricular arrhythmias (VA) in right-sided arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, but its effect is unknown in DSP variant carriers.

www.heartrhythmjournal.com

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Alex Chang, MD @alexchangmd.bsky.social · Apr 29

We’re looking to expand our team!

The ideal candidate (established hx of competitive funding and publication) will enjoy 80% protected research time along with dedicated research support staff.

It’s okay if you had grant funding recently cancelled..
#nephsky

jobs.geisinger.org/job/danville...

Associate Professor/Clinical Investigator - Nephrology Job in Danville at Geisinger

Learn more about applying for Associate Professor/Clinical Investigator - Nephrology at Geisinger

jobs.geisinger.org

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Sara Cherny MS CGC @saracherny.bsky.social · Apr 26

I love how the ACM genes are so complex that Dr. Julia Cadrin-Tourigny is calling TTN 'garden variety'. 🧬 #HRS2025 with @brittmurray.bsky.social

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · Apr 20

Thanks for sharing. The lawsuit link was difficult to follow and find info but the Reddit link is quite explicit

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Ryan Holiday @ryan-holiday.bsky.social · Apr 7

The mind is an important and sacred place. Keep it clean and clear.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Apr 6

Music science offers multiple examples of nature/nurture interplay. Here’s just one, from @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social. An enriched childhood environment is associated with higher music achievement in adulthood. But such effects are amplified in people who have a genetic predisposition. 8/9 [More 👇]

Music and Genetics

The first part of this review provides a brief historical background of behavior genetic research and how twin and genotype data can be utilized to st…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Apr 5

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Apr 5

Good news!

And watch out, what‘s going to happen is Trump and Musk are going to use more underhanded means to ignore the court order. Will it be bans on paperwork like the Federal Register? Fired grants funding staff? Verbal orders to screw up sign offs?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · Apr 5

NBC News: A federal judge just issued a final judgement and permanent injunction against the Trump admin — ruling that the National Institutes of Health must continue funding research grants at their original, full amounts. @msnbc.com

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Daniel MacArthur @dgmacarthur.bsky.social · Apr 5

Reckon we still have a while before ChatGPT replaces genetic counselors

ChatGPT chat interface. The prompt is “draw a pedigree illustrating second cousins” and the response is a nonsensical pedigree including sibling consanguinity between a pair of brothers

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Ana Morales, MS, CGC, PhDc @amoralescgc.bsky.social · Apr 5

🫀🧬⚙️2 talks today—1 in person, 1 virtual across 2 states—on implementation science in cardiogenetics & my PhD journey in translational health sciences. Grateful to PA & MN GC Asscs for the invite! Loved the rich convos on moving knowledge into real world action.

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Alex Chang, MD @alexchangmd.bsky.social · Apr 4

‘…Mao sent his young party cadres to attack “anyone who could think — ruling elites such as Deng Xiaoping, college professors, engineers, writers and journalists, doctors, etc. He wanted to dumb down the entire population so that he could rule easily and forever”…’
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Opinion | Trump Just Bet the Farm (Gift Article)

Donald Trump is upending a world that has brought peace and stability for 80 years. What is it he doesn’t understand?

www.nytimes.com

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