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Colorado Common Ground @cocommonground.bsky.social · Apr 6

What an INCREDIBLE day at the Denver State Capitol! Thank you to everyone who showed up and to those of you who stopped by our table and wrote one of FIVE HUNDRED post cards!!! We cannot wait to mail out your messages to our government officials! Keep fighting!

#50501 #50501Movement #FightBack

April 5th, 2025: A post card written to the White House saying, “Hands Off”

April 5th, 2025: A post card written to Representative Lauren Boebert saying, “I’m voting you out!”

April 5th, 2025: A post card written to Senator Michael Bennet saying, “Please protect the environment and preserve science!”

April 5th, 2025: A post card written to Representative Diana DeGette saying, “Hi Diana, I am at the capitol building of CO today because I am scared for the future of our country. I urge you to do everything in your power to protect our rights, our land, our freedom, our people, trans rights, women’s rights, and more. Thank you for fighting! We need you!”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 5

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 25

A U.S. House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has called the chief executives of the nation's two largest public broadcasters to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with an eye to wiping out the federal funding their institutions receive.

Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat

A House subcommittee led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and named after Elon Musk's government-efficiency team has set its sights on the public broadcasters.

www.npr.org

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Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Mar 24

😮!!!!

mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · Mar 23

talking to a tattoo artist to get this entire sequence tattooed on me gotdamn

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NPR @npr.org · Mar 23

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever

The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.

www.npr.org

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · Mar 23

👀 Find these tools on our website: Protest Planning Guide • Flyer Template (Canva) • Op-Ed Guide • Media Advisory Template • Marching 101 • Know Your Rights • Find a Protest • Host a Protest • Digital Safety • Virtual Actions

Join our Movement, FIND or HOST a protest at www.FiftyFifty.one.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Mar 18

Excellent example of a way to reach your local community! Highly suggest partnering with @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for op-ed's such as these and Dr. Smider's is a great example of how to frame our issues for the general. public.

Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · Mar 18

My op-ed below (which is a paper covering a chunk of Appalachia in Ohio) has gotten some attention. It’s not too hard to understand - people support cancer research.

I’m a biomedical researcher who lost his wife to cancer. Finding cures is personal.

www.vindy.com/opinion/edit...

DOGE ends America’s golden age of biomedical research

Biomedical research impacts all of us. I became curious about how drugs work after my mom was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was a small boy. She received “gold shots” as treatment, which ...

www.vindy.com

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Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Mar 15

It was great being there! Thank you for organizing 👏👏

Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Mar 7

Stand Up for Science 2025 - Denver!! Chilly day but the passion of a couple hundred supporters was warming🔥 #standupforscience

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Feb 12

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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The Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · Feb 27

Congrats to Japan on an incredible tournament. Their 5th SheBelieves appearance and their 1st win, dominating every game. They showed what they could do and left with a trophy in hand. Nothing but respect for this Japanese team–this is what a rivalry is all about 🇯🇵🏆

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Colorado Common Ground @cocommonground.bsky.social · Feb 16

Join #50501movement at the #PresidentsDay Protest on 2/17 to defend democracy and reject fascism!

12 PM
State Capital

#Colorado #Denver #Protest
#DefendDemocracy
#BuildtheResistance

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 17

Reminder for today: The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering the event, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Feb 17

Assessing the functionality of over 4,000 genome variants for their role in cancer, with prominence of impact for those related to the immune system and chronic inflammation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional analysis of cancer-associated germline risk variants - Nature Genetics

Analysis of 4,041 single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) linked to 13 cancers performed in primary human cell types identifies 380 potentially regulatory SNVs and their putative target genes. Editing one S...

www.nature.com

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University of Colorado Anschutz @cuanschutz.bsky.social · Feb 17

“It’s really an elaborate infrastructure that’s required to do this research. One of the things that concerns me is the magnitude and rapidity of these changes.”

VC for Research Tom Flaig, MD, recently spoke to @cbsnews.com about the potential impact the proposed NIH cuts could have on our campus.

Colorado's large medical research community deals with attempts to cut federal funding

Colorado's medical research community is looking at how to handle the potential of cuts to research grant money that it receives from the National Institutes of Health.

www.cbsnews.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 15

The 50501 Movement has planned protests at all 50 state capitols and the U.S. Capitol on Presidents’ Day at noon. While mainstream media isn’t covering it, many YouTubers have stepped up to provide coverage.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 5

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

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Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Mar 9

Is there a difference?? #dobies #doberman

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trick van treat @derek.bike · Feb 12

who up feeding they slime watch

a tweet by @ElytraMithra that says:
oh my goddddd
researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial... developed an emotional attachment to it.

tweet includes a screenshot of a study

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Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Feb 12

Completely enthralled by Vanessa chasing Peanut Pretzel for 10 mins.

#superbowl #puppybowlxx

Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Feb 11

😂😂

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 9

"Cognitively speaking, we metabolize mistakes."

I've been reading William Wimsatt and he expresses a core component of my teaching philosophy better than I ever managed.

We are error-prone and error-tolerant—errors are unavoidable in the fabric of our lives, so we are well adapted to living with and learning from them. We learn more when things break down than when they work right.

Cognitively speaking, we metabolize mistakes!

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · Feb 9

🧪 Friends, help friends design great Graphical Abstracts! #HiSciSky

10 steps, from idea to completion:

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

3 stages of a Graphical Abstract aka Visual summary aka Infographic: top: hand-drawn sketch in black and white, middle: contains color, better annotation, and professional icons, bottom: final stage with pretty colors and creative use of icons.

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Alexis Z @azoocow.bsky.social · Feb 9

🤩 a story with its roots in a lab meeting/journal club bet!

Srinivas Ramachandran @4everbiochemist.bsky.social · Dec 7

Please read our preprint: "G1 length dictates heterochromatin landscape"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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