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Nick Burgis
@nickburgis.bsky.social
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Spokane area Biochemistry Professor/Bluegrass Festival President. Science, music, education, politics, nonprofit and union strong 💙 Happy GenX husband and father.
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Nov 26
I am so excited about moving my basic research lab towards applied science 🧬 This project that aims to address a very rare infantile encephalopathy and help a subset of cancer/organ transplant patients. Read all about my NIH funded R15 project at EWU! www.ewu.edu/stories/gran...
Grant to Support Probe of Rare, Deadly Disorder in Infants   - Stories - EWU - The Region's Polytechnic
NIH announces $350,000 to help chemistry professors Nick Burgis and Yao Houndonougbo explore ways to “stabilize ITPA clinical variants.”
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 17h
It’s grape picking time in Cheney! Nothing tastes as good as #homegrown #grapes, well maybe the #rasins I will make 😋
Homegrown, grapes, red and green
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 21h
🧪 This is a dangerous move 😡
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 22h
They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 4d
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.
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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...
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Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival @bluewatersbg.bsky.social · 7d
Save the date for the 25th year of Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival! #bluegrass #festival #Spokane
2026 Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival dates.
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 7d
I was surprised to see that the @inlander.com article about my research got a second run in the Annual Report section of the Inlander Annual Manual! I’m stoked that this will be on the news stands in glossy form throughout the year! The @bluewatersbg.bsky.social ad we placed looks good to boot 😊
Inlander annual manual article Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival ad Inlander annual manual cover
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d
ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.
South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'
A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 12d
Nacho does this ALL the time!
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 13d
Tons of yummy apples at Sherman Valley Farm! #Spokane 🍎
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 14d
Nacho still has pink coloring! We realized it is from the paint workers sprayed on our lawn to mark underground wires! There’s a bunch of red paint in his lair underneath some bushy trees LOL. I said, “Nacho smile” & he looked at me and meowed, but was looking into the sun so his eyes are closed :-)
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 17d
🧪 incredible breakthrough regarding Huntington’s disease!!!
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 18d
YES SCIENCE (and these scientists in particular)
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 23d
Dutch late night TV has its take
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 23d
WOW! Only some of the most common oxidative DNA damage get repaired in the nucleosome! 🧪
"We found that nucleosomal 8oxoG:C forms a stable base pair ... while nucleosomal 8oxoG:A forms a more dynamic base pair ... that is unable to be processed by MUTYH."
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Structure, dynamics, and processing of 8oxoG:A in the nucleosome | Request PDF
Request PDF | Structure, dynamics, and processing of 8oxoG:A in the nucleosome | Eukaryotic genomic DNA is packaged into chromatin through a repeating unit known as the nucleosome. In this chromatin e...
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 23d
#Nacho The Cat came home with pink on his belly and paws the other day! We think he picked it up from the neighbors sidewalk chalk!
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · 27d
I went to #Glacier National Park earlier this month. Here’s a video of a small #waterfall in Lunch Creek.
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 28d
I’m so sick of the hypocrisy and hate,
Just a reminder, when mourning families spoke out about their murdered children, the president said, “We need to get over it.” The vice president said, “It’s just a fact of life.” Charlie Kirk said “a few gun deaths are 'worth it” and a necessary trade-off.
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Fata Morgana @maladamus.bsky.social · Sep 11
Why do they keep saying Charlie Kirk was an advocate for free speech when he made a hit list of professors who didn’t say what he liked? I just don’t get it.
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Sep 12
Hot Tuna tonight in Spokane!!!
Hot Tuna
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Sep 12
Yes indeed! Hoping to meet y’all sometime soon 😊
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Sep 12
Hmmm, I was there. I don’t necessarily remember meeting anybody. I’ll be in the second row balcony tonight in a fair thee well T-shirt.
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Sep 12
Looking forward to it!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4
"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · Sep 4
We need a Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Not a Secretary of Conspiracies.

Not a Secretary of Measles and Food Poisoning.

Not a Secretary of Cancelled Research and Chemtrail Nonsense.

RFK Jr. is burning down our public health system from the inside.

Fire him.
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Aug 30
A great day picking #huckleberries on Mt. Spokane, yesterday!!!🫐
Huckleberries
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Aug 29
Matisyahu was 🔥🔥🔥 tonight in #Spokane
Matisyahu
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Nick Burgis @nickburgis.bsky.social · Aug 28
I did a single mail order ticket for Jerry’s birthday show and GDTS placed me front row right in front of Jerry (~);}
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