Sarah Nelson
@blueyedgenes.bsky.social
Public Health Genetics MPH, PhD. UW Research Scientist. Interested in finding/creating community around science, nature, culture, and compassion. www.myopenreadingframe.com
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Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for giving me the inspiration and help to write this article for my hometown East Tennessee paper
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
Gratifying to see two of my dissertation papers cited in this new @nejm.org review article on direct-to-consumer genetic testing
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41147825/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41147825/
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing - PubMed
AbstractDirect-to-consumer genetic testing has become increasingly popular, offering individuals easy access to genetic data without the involvement of health care professionals. However, as availability grows, clinicians face challenges in interpreting and integrating this information into clinical …
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Gratifying to see two of my dissertation papers cited in this new @nejm.org review article on direct-to-consumer genetic testing
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41147825/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41147825/
My work with colleagues in @uwbioethics.bsky.social and @uwbiostat.bsky.social (Malia Fullerton, Stephanie Gogarten, Jacky Dahlquist) to examine the use of a controversial legacy dataset in genomics, the Human Genome Diversity Project. Stay tuned for more!! www.washington.edu/populationhe...
An Initiative-funded team examines the ethics of a key genomic dataset
University of Washington researchers are leading new research that focuses on the ethical and social implications of using legacy datasets in population health research. Developed through a...
www.washington.edu
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
My work with colleagues in @uwbioethics.bsky.social and @uwbiostat.bsky.social (Malia Fullerton, Stephanie Gogarten, Jacky Dahlquist) to examine the use of a controversial legacy dataset in genomics, the Human Genome Diversity Project. Stay tuned for more!! www.washington.edu/populationhe...
Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Science Homecoming
sciencehomecoming.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just a reminder that if you are a scientist wondering how you can communicate the value of federally-funded scientific research outside of your bubble, @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social is here to help you pitch and publish in your hometown newspaper
sciencehomecoming.com
sciencehomecoming.com
Join us at the Seattle downtown waterfront tomorrow to advocate for science, public health, and research! @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience
Seattle! We're joining forces to Save Our Science (SOS!)
The congressional budget is coming and we need EVERYONE to help protect our funding.
@defundmusk.bsky.social @wallingfordindivisible.com @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social will be on hand.
Art @rojastopher.bsky.social
The congressional budget is coming and we need EVERYONE to help protect our funding.
@defundmusk.bsky.social @wallingfordindivisible.com @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social will be on hand.
Art @rojastopher.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Join us at the Seattle downtown waterfront tomorrow to advocate for science, public health, and research! @sufsseattle.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience
🙌 Join @sufsseattle.bsky.social on Sept 23 for “Foundations, Futures, and Federal Funding of Human-Computer Interaction - a Teach-In with @katestarbird.bsky.social”, for @standupforscience.bsky.social #SummerFightForScience. RSVP at act.standupforscience.net/events/found...
August 28, 2025 at 4:58 AM
🙌 Join @sufsseattle.bsky.social on Sept 23 for “Foundations, Futures, and Federal Funding of Human-Computer Interaction - a Teach-In with @katestarbird.bsky.social”, for @standupforscience.bsky.social #SummerFightForScience. RSVP at act.standupforscience.net/events/found...
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🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy
Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD
#StandUpForScience
Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD
#StandUpForScience
August 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Reposted by Sarah Nelson
Reposted by Sarah Nelson
Smarty Pints! The Science of Science
Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works.
Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .
Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works.
Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .
July 1, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Smarty Pints! The Science of Science
Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works.
Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .
Join professors Carl Bergstrom (UW Biology) and Kevin Gross (NCSU Statistics) for a conversation on how science works.
Let us know you are coming and get involved in the summer fight for science: www.standupforscience.net/summer-fight... .
👀 🧬 Curious how to respectfully, robustly, and flexibly use population descriptors in genomic research, and align with @nationalacademies.org recommendations?
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
📣New from the PRIMED Consortium!
📄A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
📄A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
We describe a data model that organizes and retains detailed population descriptor
data for future research use. The model supports a versatile, traceable, and reproducible
harmonization system that a...
www.cell.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
👀 🧬 Curious how to respectfully, robustly, and flexibly use population descriptors in genomic research, and align with @nationalacademies.org recommendations?
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
Anger confirmed. My research group is on partial furlough due to these renewal delays.
Sign the #BethesdaDeclaration - www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Sign the #BethesdaDeclaration - www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
If you weren't angry enough already, here are the rates of non-competitive renewals through May.
4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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4008 Non-competitive renewals were due to be funded in May.
The total funded was 99!
Some is due to terminations, but most is due to slow grant making due to DOGE review and other impediments.
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June 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Anger confirmed. My research group is on partial furlough due to these renewal delays.
Sign the #BethesdaDeclaration - www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Sign the #BethesdaDeclaration - www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
Reposted by Sarah Nelson
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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June 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
🧵(1/5)
This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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Reposted by Sarah Nelson
Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order.
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Our op-ed in the Guardian addresses the danger of Trump's "Gold Standard Science" executive order.
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
with
@cdelawalla.bsky.social
@vambros.bsky.social
Carol Greider
@michaelemann.bsky.social
@briannosek.bsky.social
💬 The perfect antidote to feeling a helpless lack of agency - SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT against a proposed rule that would replace civil servants with political appointees.
More on why the proposed rule is bad - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More on why the proposed rule is bad - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
May 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
💬 The perfect antidote to feeling a helpless lack of agency - SUBMIT PUBLIC COMMENT against a proposed rule that would replace civil servants with political appointees.
More on why the proposed rule is bad - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
More on why the proposed rule is bad - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Sarah Nelson
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
📢 🐙 🧬 Seattle area folks - come visit me at the waterfront on Sunday! You can write postcards to your reps, stamp your 'passport' at different 'Ask a Scientist' stations, hold signs, and just generally keep showing up for science! #standupforscience
Hello Seattle! We are excited to present the Science for All rally next Sunday, 5/18, from 9-11am on the Seattle Waterfront! Please sign up via our Mobilize link (www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...) if you plan on attending. Hope to see you there!
May 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
📢 🐙 🧬 Seattle area folks - come visit me at the waterfront on Sunday! You can write postcards to your reps, stamp your 'passport' at different 'Ask a Scientist' stations, hold signs, and just generally keep showing up for science! #standupforscience
May 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
We gotta keep showing up for science!!
Join us on Sunday, 5/18 from 9-11am for the Science For All rally! We'll gather from the ferry terminal to the sculpture garden along the waterfront. Activities include "ask a scientist" booths where you can ask questions to local scientists, postcards to contact your reps, and more!
May 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We gotta keep showing up for science!!
Research matters and it's under critical threat
www.washington.edu/research-mak...
New UW page makes the case and provides a link to sign up for critical alerts
www.washington.edu/research-mak...
New UW page makes the case and provides a link to sign up for critical alerts
Research Makes America
UW research makes America healthier, safer and more prosperous. But those gains are now at risk.
www.washington.edu
May 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Research matters and it's under critical threat
www.washington.edu/research-mak...
New UW page makes the case and provides a link to sign up for critical alerts
www.washington.edu/research-mak...
New UW page makes the case and provides a link to sign up for critical alerts
Thank you @genandgenes.bsky.social for this clear and powerful message
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
go.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thank you @genandgenes.bsky.social for this clear and powerful message
Reposted by Sarah Nelson
Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬
🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:
• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more
NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:
• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more
NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
April 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬
🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:
• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more
NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund:
• Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs
• Pandemic preparedness
• Children’s health
• Medical tech innovation
• Mental health science & more
NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.
🚨🔥☎️ Time to call your Senators, folks - the House just passed a bill that will disenfranchise millions, especially women, people of color, and young people.
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...
The House has passed the Trump-backed SAVE Act. Here are 8 things to know
The House has passed legislation that would make sweeping changes to voter registration, including requiring those signing up to present documents proving U.S. citizenship.
www.npr.org
April 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
🚨🔥☎️ Time to call your Senators, folks - the House just passed a bill that will disenfranchise millions, especially women, people of color, and young people.
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/12/n...
Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for giving me the inspiration and help to write this article for my hometown East Tennessee paper
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
April 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for giving me the inspiration and help to write this article for my hometown East Tennessee paper
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...
Millions of people showed up in red and blue states, small and big cities, to say #HandsOff! Including my hometown crowd in Knoxville, TN 🙌
#HandsOff in Knoxville, TN!!! At least a couple thousand, and many more supporting from their cars!
April 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Millions of people showed up in red and blue states, small and big cities, to say #HandsOff! Including my hometown crowd in Knoxville, TN 🙌
As I was telling Google to take me to @elsihub.bsky.social Collections, I mistakenly typed "ELSI hug" -- and I think we all sure could use one of those right now!
April 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
As I was telling Google to take me to @elsihub.bsky.social Collections, I mistakenly typed "ELSI hug" -- and I think we all sure could use one of those right now!
Didn’t wake up today expecting to feel chills watching CSPAN2. Thank you Senator Booker for inspiring us today! This and the Crawford win in Wisconsin are good motivators to stay engaged and stay active!! 🙌
In 1957, Strom Thurmond held the Senate for 24 hours and 18 minutes to block the passage of a Civil Rights bill.
In 2025, Cory Booker held the Senate for 24 hours and >19+ minutes to defend freedom & democracy.
Courage over fear; liberty over tyranny. #goodtrouble www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...
In 2025, Cory Booker held the Senate for 24 hours and >19+ minutes to defend freedom & democracy.
Courage over fear; liberty over tyranny. #goodtrouble www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
www.youtube.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Didn’t wake up today expecting to feel chills watching CSPAN2. Thank you Senator Booker for inspiring us today! This and the Crawford win in Wisconsin are good motivators to stay engaged and stay active!! 🙌