dholmes.bsky.social
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I was one of those immigrants, and we commit fewer crimes than people born here.

“Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the US by revoking their legal status.”

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries
President Donald Trump says he wants to “permanently pause migration” from poorer nations and is promising to seek to expel millions of immigrants from the United States by revoking their legal status...
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The effects of genetic variants primarily occur in differentiated cells meaning we need to access these cell types to measure variant effects for most disease genes. We developed saturation genome editing in stem cells (iPSC-SGE) to enable phenotyping in diverse genetic and cell contexts at scale!
Editing stem cell genomes at scale to measure variant effects in diverse cell and genetic contexts
Multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) systematically measure variant function but have been limited to cancer cell lines rather than disease-relevant cell types. We developed saturation genome ...
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November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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parents, be sure to check your kids’ candy this halloween. I just found a novel phage defense system inside this snickers
October 4, 2023 at 7:32 PM
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I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office
October 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Remember, whenever you hear that “speed wasn’t a factor” in a deadly crash, what they mean is that the car involved wasn’t technically speeding. At least “not by much.” It presumes that the speed limit wasn’t too high to begin with.

When it comes to death from collisions, SPEED IS ALWAYS a factor.
August 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI.

It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.
July 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
July 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Tedious to point this out, but:

- When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story.

-Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.
July 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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July 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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🚨 Most variant screens measure growth or abundance. What do they miss? That variants impact a spectrum of protein and cellular phenotypes. Variant in situ sequencing (VIS-seq) finds what’s missing: image cells 🔬 first, decode later, revealing multi-scale phenotypes for thousands of variants.👇

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July 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Image-based, pooled phenotyping reveals multidimensional, disease-specific variant effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.03.663081v1
July 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM