Erin Hill-Burns, PhD
@erinhillburns.bsky.social
Analyst studying genetics and genomics of complex human traits (currently cardiometabolic disease traits). #metabolomics, #snRNAseq, #GWAS. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. She/her.
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This is huge news! Keep pushing-the American people and most in Congress still support strong funding for biomedical research
Woaw, big news. Good news.
Thanks @sthilaire.bsky.social for the Intel
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Thanks @sthilaire.bsky.social for the Intel
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NIH under Trump wanted to slash indirect research costs to 15%. Pitt just signed an agreement at 59%
Pitt and the Department of Health and Human Services have agreed to maintain the school’s current 59% reimbursement rate for ancillary research costs through 2029.
www.wesa.fm
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This is huge news! Keep pushing-the American people and most in Congress still support strong funding for biomedical research
Opposite directions of association of higher physical activity and higher insulin resistance with human skeletal muscle cell type abundance and fiber type-level gene expression #snRNAseq #SingleNucleus #RNAseq #genomics 🧪🧬🖥️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Opposite directions of association of higher physical activity and higher insulin resistance with human skeletal muscle cell type abundance and fiber type-level gene expression #snRNAseq #SingleNucleus #RNAseq #genomics 🧪🧬🖥️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Come be my colleague (& @jacquelyngill.bsky.social's and other great folks)!
UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round)
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UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round)
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Genetics Facilities Manager
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Come be my colleague (& @jacquelyngill.bsky.social's and other great folks)!
UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round)
fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round)
fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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🧪 Basic science boosts the economy:
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives a quarter of U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
www.forbes.com
May 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
🧪 Basic science boosts the economy:
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
"The proposed dismantling of NSF [and NIH] raises an urgent question: do these cuts actually save money or merely delay spending until the bill gets larger?
The answer is clear: these cuts will cost the economy billions."
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Fascinating post from @steveroyle.bsky.social on his "academic software stack". Really useful survey of software tools, databases, calendars, note taking apps, etc. a savvy lab is using. Essential reading for new PIs quantixed.org/2025/04/29/s...
Stacked Up: my academic software stack – quantixed
quantixed.org
April 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Fascinating post from @steveroyle.bsky.social on his "academic software stack". Really useful survey of software tools, databases, calendars, note taking apps, etc. a savvy lab is using. Essential reading for new PIs quantixed.org/2025/04/29/s...
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A group of scholars and I had a chance to share our experiences with the MOSAIC program being terminated 🧪
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers
The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.
www.npr.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A group of scholars and I had a chance to share our experiences with the MOSAIC program being terminated 🧪
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
What a great idea @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social "The idea behind Science Homecoming is that scientists across the United States get in touch with the local newspaper where they grew up and make the case for why funding science is important to those communities." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How we’re battling Trump’s science cuts across small-town America
Neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon is urging scientists to use the power of local newspapers in the fight against US research-funding cuts.
www.nature.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
What a great idea @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social "The idea behind Science Homecoming is that scientists across the United States get in touch with the local newspaper where they grew up and make the case for why funding science is important to those communities." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Deep dive into 800 cancelled NIH grants. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Deep dive into 800 cancelled NIH grants. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Corum is, of course, ON IT.
National outbreak map? We have one, with a new detail map for Ohio: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Measles Outbreaks (Gift Article)
As new cases are reported, our maps show the spread of the virus.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Corum is, of course, ON IT.
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And on other news. My first contribution to science as a postdoc with @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social is out! We discuss the knowns and unknowns of post-transcriptional splicing. It was really fun to write with the great @karinechoquet
New online! The regulation and function of post-transcriptional RNA splicing
The regulation and function of post-transcriptional RNA splicing
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00836-zPost-transcriptional splicing has emerged as a key layer of gene expression regulation but is challenging to differentiate from co-transcriptional splicing. The authors review methodologies to detect post-transcriptional splicing, the mechanisms controlling splicing timing and how the temporal regulation of splicing affects gene expression.
www.nature.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
And on other news. My first contribution to science as a postdoc with @stirlingchurchman.bsky.social is out! We discuss the knowns and unknowns of post-transcriptional splicing. It was really fun to write with the great @karinechoquet
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Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
scim.ag
March 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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At the #StandUpForScience rally outside the #Michigan Capitol building. Good turnout (especially with MSU on spring break) -- I'd estimate 800 to 1000 folks.
Great speakers from MSU, UM, and Wayne State and representing all career stages and many fields. Lots of clear and clever homemade signs.
Great speakers from MSU, UM, and Wayne State and representing all career stages and many fields. Lots of clear and clever homemade signs.
March 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
At the #StandUpForScience rally outside the #Michigan Capitol building. Good turnout (especially with MSU on spring break) -- I'd estimate 800 to 1000 folks.
Great speakers from MSU, UM, and Wayne State and representing all career stages and many fields. Lots of clear and clever homemade signs.
Great speakers from MSU, UM, and Wayne State and representing all career stages and many fields. Lots of clear and clever homemade signs.
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Getting reports of some sound problems with our Twitch livestream.
Here's another stream while we sort out some technical difficulties!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj...
Here's another stream while we sort out some technical difficulties!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj...
WATCH LIVE: 'Stand up for Science' rally with Bill Nye and others at Lincoln Memorial in Washington
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Getting reports of some sound problems with our Twitch livestream.
Here's another stream while we sort out some technical difficulties!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj...
Here's another stream while we sort out some technical difficulties!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eemj...
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I’m thinking we should spread this news about the firings at NOAA as far and wide as possible. Like cancer research, weather forecasting seems likely to be broadly popular across the political spectrum. apnews.com/article/nati...
Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts
Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I’m thinking we should spread this news about the firings at NOAA as far and wide as possible. Like cancer research, weather forecasting seems likely to be broadly popular across the political spectrum. apnews.com/article/nati...
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Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Friends, I am at a loss of words for how devastating it would be to lose the entire intramural #NIH program. Some of the biggest medical and scientific breakthroughs have come from scientists in the NIH Intramural program. #SaveTheNIH 🧬🧪 🖥️ 🧠
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
Grad Admission Impacts Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...
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February 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪🧠🧬🔬🥼👩🏼🔬🧑🔬
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A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org
Women Refusing to Be Erased
Join us to inspire, educate, and uplift women/womxn.
womenrefusingtobeerased.org
February 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
A website has been started in response to the orders to take down references to women’s accomplishments in government offices. We are not going to let them erase us this time. womenrefusingtobeerased.org
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We all know the story of Henrietta Lacks, but there are countless other examples when biomedical research advanced with a little regard for morals or ethics - often at the expense of poor, disadvantaged, or minority individuals. This book has been enlightening. A good read for current scientists.
February 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We all know the story of Henrietta Lacks, but there are countless other examples when biomedical research advanced with a little regard for morals or ethics - often at the expense of poor, disadvantaged, or minority individuals. This book has been enlightening. A good read for current scientists.
Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’
Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’
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Bioinformatics Methods for Transcriptomics -- looks like a great course https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioinformatics-methods-for-transcriptomics
January 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bioinformatics Methods for Transcriptomics -- looks like a great course https://www.coursera.org/learn/bioinformatics-methods-for-transcriptomics
To Read:
1/7 Planning to build a single-cell atlas? Or wondering how atlases can be useful to your research? Read our guide on single-cell atlases www.nature.com/articles/s41... published in Nature Methods, by @lisasikkema.bsky.social, @khrovatin.bsky.social, Malte Luecken, @fabiantheis.bsky.social et al.
January 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
To Read:
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I guess I hadn't posted this yet and didn't even know it had come out-- I was interviewed for (and co-wrote w/Daniel Rabosky) a Trends in Ecology & Evolution "TrendsTalk" article on "Disability in ecology and evolution" -- www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #DisabledInSTEM #academicchatter #academia
Disability in ecology and evolution
In this TrendsTalk series ‘Disability in ecology and evolution’ in Trends in Ecology
& Evolution, we will be hearing from people about their experiences being disabled
or having a chronic condition an...
www.cell.com
January 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I guess I hadn't posted this yet and didn't even know it had come out-- I was interviewed for (and co-wrote w/Daniel Rabosky) a Trends in Ecology & Evolution "TrendsTalk" article on "Disability in ecology and evolution" -- www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... #DisabledInSTEM #academicchatter #academia
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I’m excited to share that this manuscript is now published in Nature Genetics! 🧪🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The AdipoExpress data can be accessed here: zenodo.org/records/1384...
An interactive browser of the colocalization results can be accessed here: adipose.colocus.app
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The AdipoExpress data can be accessed here: zenodo.org/records/1384...
An interactive browser of the colocalization results can be accessed here: adipose.colocus.app
January 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I’m excited to share that this manuscript is now published in Nature Genetics! 🧪🧬 🖥️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The AdipoExpress data can be accessed here: zenodo.org/records/1384...
An interactive browser of the colocalization results can be accessed here: adipose.colocus.app
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The AdipoExpress data can be accessed here: zenodo.org/records/1384...
An interactive browser of the colocalization results can be accessed here: adipose.colocus.app
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The #DNADay25 Essay Contest is HERE!
🧬High school students worldwide are invited to tackle this year’s thought-provoking question: How can and should Artificial Intelligence (AI) be used in genetic testing?
Submit your essay by March 5👉 www.ashg.org/dna-day/
#ASHG #HumanGenetics
🧬High school students worldwide are invited to tackle this year’s thought-provoking question: How can and should Artificial Intelligence (AI) be used in genetic testing?
Submit your essay by March 5👉 www.ashg.org/dna-day/
#ASHG #HumanGenetics
January 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The #DNADay25 Essay Contest is HERE!
🧬High school students worldwide are invited to tackle this year’s thought-provoking question: How can and should Artificial Intelligence (AI) be used in genetic testing?
Submit your essay by March 5👉 www.ashg.org/dna-day/
#ASHG #HumanGenetics
🧬High school students worldwide are invited to tackle this year’s thought-provoking question: How can and should Artificial Intelligence (AI) be used in genetic testing?
Submit your essay by March 5👉 www.ashg.org/dna-day/
#ASHG #HumanGenetics
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Superb work by Wouter @Zouters & @OlgaPushkarev developing ChromatinHD, two scale-adaptive #machinelearning models & interpretation tools that use #scRNAseq + #scATACseq data to better understand how chromatin accessibility relates to gene expression doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Happy 2025 everyone 🎆 !
Happy 2025 everyone 🎆 !
ChromatinHD connects single-cell DNA accessibility and conformation to gene expression through scale-adaptive machine learning - Nature Communications
Functional chromatin changes occur at different scales. Here, the authors introduce ChromatinHD, a method that characterises differential and predictive chromatin accessibility changes in a scale-adap...
doi.org
January 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Superb work by Wouter @Zouters & @OlgaPushkarev developing ChromatinHD, two scale-adaptive #machinelearning models & interpretation tools that use #scRNAseq + #scATACseq data to better understand how chromatin accessibility relates to gene expression doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Happy 2025 everyone 🎆 !
Happy 2025 everyone 🎆 !