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Posts by Dr. Ahna Skop

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Last week I had the honour of giving the keynote speech for the last day of #VIZBI (visualizing biology) in Cambridge, UK. The topic of my talk was "Seeing things differently" in which I showed and explained various concepts of #frameshift design.

vizbi.org/Videos/57391... (you must register/pay)

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Anyone know if the new R35 MIRA requires a current and pending funding document at submission? There are conflicting info on the NIH website and my PO didn’t actually know either. Said would get back to me but didn’t.

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Dallas World Cup fan fest to feature life-size statues of women in sports and STEM Exhibit at Fair Park spotlights the scientists, engineers and innovators shaping modern sports.

Yeah IF/Then Women in STEM

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Not mine. I donated mine to the WI science museum.

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How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers’ demographic groups | PNAS In early 2025, the NIH unexpectedly terminated 2,291 active research grants, withdrawing $2.45 billion and disrupting thousands of projects. While ...
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Maria Isabel | Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco, CA Modern Mexican bistro with Californian influence, located in San Francisco.

My niece is one of the chefs at this new restaurant in SF that is getting great reviews if you’re interested in a date night idea and in San Francisco

www.mariaisabelsf.com

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Omg jealous! How’s the milk and ice cream?

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Dear potential reviewers please respond to editors especially given the opportunities it gives to authors.

It seems crazy to me to be on the verge of a reject response in Science advances because the editors can’t find another reviewer.

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Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history - Nature Nature - Genetically encoded assembly recorder temporally resolves cellular history

Super interesting

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What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0123
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

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Analysis | Trump’s false or misleading claims total 30,573 over 4 years A four-year Fact Checker project comes to an end.

Gold standard politics is what I’d like to return to.

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I went to @harmitmalik.bsky.social Lab not too long ago and loved it. Paper in review….surprises to come!

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Excellence in outreach recognized with 2026 Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award | Research | UW–Madison Excellence in outreach recognized with 2026 Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award PostedMarch 2, 2026 By Natasha Kassulke, natasha.kassulke@wisc.edu Ahna Skop, professor in the Departments of Genetics and Medical Genetics, and Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, distinguished teaching faculty...

Congratulations to @ahnaskop.bsky.social and Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, who received the Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award!

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Absolutely honored to win this prestigious science outreach award @uwmadison.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social

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Congrats to @ahnaskop.bsky.social and MRSEC's Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel, great and creative — genetics coloring books! improv theater! — advocates for science outreach.
research.wisc.edu/uncategorize...

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Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

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Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure In his first speech as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr laid out a plan to restore trust. The COVID-19 pandemic saw public faith in Federal health...

Failure

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It’s finally out! Together with @embopress.org and
@reviewcommons.org, we conducted a structured side-by-side comparison of human peer review and our AI scientific review (see thread 👇👇👇🔥).

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Read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A pleasure doing this with the great Thomas Lemberger
@tlemberger.bsky.social and Niv Samuel Mastboim
@nivsm.bsky.social

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It was my pleasure to host @ahnaskop.bsky.social for our departmental seminar tomorrow at 12 pm in BSB1060.
If you are in Ann Arbor and want to know more about mid body remanants, please join us tomorrow! It's going to be a great seminar!
#mcdb #midbody #celldivison #umich @umich.edu

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Right back at you! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

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John was my good good friend and colleague. Miss him so much.

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I’m glad! One cell divides into 3 things! 😎

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

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