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Audrey Hendricks
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Associate Professor of #statistics @cuanschutz @cudenver using #rstats, and #genomics. Advocate for #dataliteracy for all. My posts are my own and do not represent the views of the University.
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
I have posted about this before, but...

Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900.

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Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Pfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Pfizer's mRNA flu shot outperforms standard flu vaccine in late-stage trial
The Phase 3 trial found Pfizer’s mRNA shot cut flu-like illness by 34.5% compared with a standard flu shot.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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lisaloe.bsky.social
Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
My quote of the day

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

Whitney Young
November 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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ddayen.bsky.social
According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
NIH scientists publish letter criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
The letter addresses the termination of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in...
www.pbs.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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david-grimm.bsky.social
Getting--or got--a PhD? Got boogie in your soul? Then don't be shy. Enter this year's contest--and dance, dance, dance! @science.org
Science’s ‘Dance Your Ph.D.’ contest is open again—with an all new, AI twist
For the first time, there’s a special prize for a research-themed dance generated by an artificial intelligence program
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Yes Colorado!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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corybooker.com
In New Jersey and across the country, millions of Americans have critical elections today. Find your polling place or learn more at iwillvote.com
I Will Vote
Be a voter. Find everything you need to vote in your state’s next election.
iwillvote.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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lexmcmenamin.com
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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nickvalentino.bsky.social
ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...

The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
audreyhendricks.com
Voted! I love Colorado voting by mail!

1. Text ballot is on the way
2. Vote from the comfort of my home
3. Drop at local ballot box
4. Text ballot was received
5. Text confirming ballot counted

AND, because of this and audits, CO is one of the most secure and accurate places to vote! 🎉🎉
October 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
audreyhendricks.com
I have loved Star Trek for decades as have many of my friends (women and men). I even taught a class with a red Star Trek uni and TNG bridge zoom background when my course suddenly went online in 2020. So yay…
courtneymilan.com Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Oct 25
LMAO. If you think this is true of Star Trek (or any sci fi), it is because you affirmatively pushed non-male Trekkies out of your group with sexism and you should work on that.
earlgreymemes.club Tea Earl Grey Hot @earlgreymemes.club · Oct 24
okay grandpa, let's get you to bed
October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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drjoepajak.bsky.social
'mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer.' @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com
'COVID-19 mRNA vaccine acts like a siren and activates the immune system throughout the body - programming a response to kill the cancer.'
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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cubiomedinfo.bsky.social
🌟 @geneticssociety.bsky.social 2025 takeover! Matthew, Davyd and Keshav brought the energy, the science and the posters. Representing the labs of @compbiologist.bsky.social, Joanne Cole, and @audreyhendricks.com, they’re pushing the boundaries of genomics.
Four individuals posing for a photo at the ASHG Annual Meeting 2025, standing in front of a conference sign. They are wearing conference badges and professional attire.
October 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
audreyhendricks.com
Thank you! I am so honored and had such a wonderful time at #ASHG. What an amazing and inspiring society!
cubiomedinfo.bsky.social CU Department of Biomedical Informatics @cubiomedinfo.bsky.social · Oct 20
Congratulations @audreyhendricks.com for being honored with the 2025 @geneticssociety.bsky.social Education Award for her transformative work in genetics education. Hendricks accepted the award and shared her insights during a featured presentation at the ASHG Annual Meeting.
Two individuals shaking hands on stage at the ASHG annual meeting, with the ASHG logo prominently displayed in the background. One person is holding an award. Person smiling at the ASHG Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston, standing next to a banner featuring their image and the text '2025 ASHG Education Award.' A person stands at a podium with the logo of the ASHG Annual Meeting 2025 in Boston, delivering a speech. The background screen displays text about making a difference.
October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#nokings #boston
audreyhendricks.com Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · Oct 18
Boston no kings was amazing!!
Inflatable unicorn costume Bananas hat and sign They blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires
October 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Boston no kings was amazing!!
Inflatable unicorn costume Bananas hat and sign They blame immigrants so you don’t blame billionaires
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Inspiring talk by Francis Collins.

Paraphrasing Jane Goodall - Hope needs and requires hard work - we can make a difference.

#ASHG2025
cgonzagaj.bsky.social Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui @cgonzagaj.bsky.social · Oct 14
Following a Special Recognition by @geneticssociety.bsky.social to Francis Collins for his contributions to human genetics and genomics. This is Dr. Collins's 48th #ASHG meeting. It is critical to continue interrogating variation in diverse populations! #ASHG25 #ASHG2025
October 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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cgonzagaj.bsky.social
Full room as we kick off #ASHG25 with welcoming remarks by @geneticssociety.bsky.social president Sarah Tishkoff talking about the need to make human genetics & genomics to populations everywhere. "We are stronger when we stand together" #ASHG2025
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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girlscientist.bsky.social
Welcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.
October 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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warren.senate.gov
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
October 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
audreyhendricks.com
I recommend reading this really powerful letter from MIT!
byjoshmoody.bsky.social Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · Oct 10
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM