Hands off our Democracy #resist #Handsoff #Seattle #protest

A female scientist stands in front of a crowd around the space needle in Seattle

Showing up today to support our scientific community #marchforscience #science #standupfightback #resist

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

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I feel compelled to say that this powerful resource that Leah has provided for our field would not have been possible without the High Performance Computing cluster at Seattle Children's supported in part by....Indirect Costs!

Leah's excellent manuscript describing these analyses is now live: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1....

Saying goodbye is hard! So is interpreting non-coding variants in visual disorders! Luckily, that is the gift that Dr. Leah VandenBosch left us with after a very successful postdoc in the Cherry Lab. Check your own favorite retinal regulatory variants here: genome.ucsc.edu/s/CherryLab/...

Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

The CDC is being ordered to stop campaigning for annual flu vaccinations. This will directly affect public health. When more people are vaccinated against the flu, case loads are lower and less severe. Get your flu shot every year. Tell your friends and neighbors.

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

Wow. Thank you Governor!

A watercolor painting of a section of a retina. Retinal neurons are portrayed in green, blue, and purple. An AII amacrine cell is highlighted in gold.

These days, so much of my identity feels under attack. Existing as a queer woman in science feels like an act of resistance. This week, I finish my postdoc studying noncoding regulation in the human retina. Here's some art I made about it as a parting gift. #science #art #resistance #retina