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Alexis Z
@azoocow.bsky.social
Genome prober, noob coder, idea floater, book hoarder, dog lover, food follower. chromatin biology
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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 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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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.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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
March 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
😮!!!!
talking to a tattoo artist to get this entire sequence tattooed on me gotdamn
March 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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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
March 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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👀 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.
March 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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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.
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
March 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Stand Up for Science 2025 - Denver!! Chilly day but the passion of a couple hundred supporters was warming🔥 #standupforscience
March 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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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
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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 🇯🇵🏆
February 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Join #50501movement at the #PresidentsDay Protest on 2/17 to defend democracy and reject fascism!

12 PM
State Capital

#Colorado #Denver #Protest
#DefendDemocracy
#BuildtheResistance
February 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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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.
February 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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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
February 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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“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
February 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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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.
February 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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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"
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Is there a difference?? #dobies #doberman
March 9, 2024 at 4:49 AM
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who up feeding they slime watch
February 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Completely enthralled by Vanessa chasing Peanut Pretzel for 10 mins.

#superbowl #puppybowlxx
February 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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"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.
February 9, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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🧪 Friends, help friends design great Graphical Abstracts! #HiSciSky

10 steps, from idea to completion:

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
February 9, 2024 at 7:52 AM
🤩 a story with its roots in a lab meeting/journal club bet!
Please read our preprint: "G1 length dictates heterochromatin landscape"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
February 9, 2024 at 2:55 PM