Anna Di Rienzo
@dirienzo99.bsky.social
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A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months, I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
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May 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Trump didn’t declare martial law. He built it. His April 28 executive order militarizes police, guts oversight, and punishes dissent. The Insurrection Act report is hidden. Democracy is being signed away—one order at a time. #Resist #Authoritarianism Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/16KE...
April 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Trump didn’t declare martial law. He built it. His April 28 executive order militarizes police, guts oversight, and punishes dissent. The Insurrection Act report is hidden. Democracy is being signed away—one order at a time. #Resist #Authoritarianism Full Article: www.facebook.com/share/p/16KE...
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"China's foreign ministry urged Washington on Friday to stop "misleading the public" on bilateral tariff negotiations:
"The United States and China are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue"
www.reuters.com/world/beijin...
"The United States and China are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue"
www.reuters.com/world/beijin...
Beijing accuses Washington of 'misleading the public' about trade talks
China said it wasn't familiar with reports on Beijing planning to exempt tariffs on some U.S. imports.
www.reuters.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"China's foreign ministry urged Washington on Friday to stop "misleading the public" on bilateral tariff negotiations:
"The United States and China are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue"
www.reuters.com/world/beijin...
"The United States and China are not engaged in consultations or talks on the tariff issue"
www.reuters.com/world/beijin...
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Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
Notice to Stakeholders
Temporary Enforcement Pause: Silica Rule Issued: April 8, 2025
www.msha.gov
April 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...
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This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
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When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
Breaking: Sen. Richard Blumenthal says he plans to place a hold on ALL Trump nominees going forward.
This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda.
🔗: www.axios.com/newsletters/...
This will force Republicans to hold individual votes to override each hold, which will severely slow down their agenda.
🔗: www.axios.com/newsletters/...
April 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
When elected officials see mass protests and then immediately adjust their behavior in response, that is a good thing. That's how this should work!
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
Celebrate Blumenthal for this. And then ask your own Dem senator what they're doing. And what Schumer is doing.
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For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
Toulouse Welcomes U.S. Researchers Facing Unprecedented Challenges | Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse
In response to the targeted and drastic budget cuts threatening scientific research in the United States, the Toulouse academic community is launching an initiative to host researchers whose work is a...
en.univ-toulouse.fr
April 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
en.univ-toulouse.fr/news/toulous...
The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Begins | Richard K. Vedder url:https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=15230
March 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Anti-Woke Counterrevolution Begins | Richard K. Vedder url:https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=15230
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“It should be obvious to everyone that what’s happening on this campus is not about protecting Jews.” -Columbia Professor Emerita Marianne Hirsch, daughter of Holocaust survivors
#FreeMahmoud
#FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“It should be obvious to everyone that what’s happening on this campus is not about protecting Jews.” -Columbia Professor Emerita Marianne Hirsch, daughter of Holocaust survivors
#FreeMahmoud
#FreeMahmoud
We have *48 hrs* to make a difference!
“This week is the best shot at finally forcing Senate Democrats to fight against the DOGE crime spree, which is really an attack on the sovereignty of the American people.”
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“This week is the best shot at finally forcing Senate Democrats to fight against the DOGE crime spree, which is really an attack on the sovereignty of the American people.”
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Will Dems Pick Up Their Sword?
(Ed. Note: I go into a lot of detail below. The bottom...
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March 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
We have *48 hrs* to make a difference!
“This week is the best shot at finally forcing Senate Democrats to fight against the DOGE crime spree, which is really an attack on the sovereignty of the American people.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...
“This week is the best shot at finally forcing Senate Democrats to fight against the DOGE crime spree, which is really an attack on the sovereignty of the American people.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-b...
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These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today.
We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
www.cell.com/cell/current...
We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
www.cell.com/cell/current...
February 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
These are challenging times for science, but I'm happy to share a bright moment: our work is on the cover of Cell today.
We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
www.cell.com/cell/current...
We built a compendium of human gut microbiomes integrating 168K worldwide samples, revealing patterns of microbiome variation across the globe
www.cell.com/cell/current...
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.
It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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Check it out - PhD student @maggiesteiner.bsky.social's nice thread and link to our new preprint on how sample design, in terms of how geographically narrow vs broad a sample is, impacts the discovery/SFS of deleterious variants.
Excited to share a new preprint with @jnovembre.bsky.social ! We use a combination of population genetic theory, simulation, and data analysis to ask: how does study design in genetic studies (including biobanks) impact the discovery of rare, deleterious variants?
Study design and the sampling of deleterious rare variants in biobank-scale datasets https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.02.626424v1
December 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Check it out - PhD student @maggiesteiner.bsky.social's nice thread and link to our new preprint on how sample design, in terms of how geographically narrow vs broad a sample is, impacts the discovery/SFS of deleterious variants.
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WHY THIS MATTERS!
~only care about their bottom line.
~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
~ If they don't listen we will make the next blackout longer
This is our first action.
This is how we make history.
February 28th
The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins
~only care about their bottom line.
~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
~ If they don't listen we will make the next blackout longer
This is our first action.
This is how we make history.
February 28th
The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins
February 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
WHY THIS MATTERS!
~only care about their bottom line.
~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
~ If they don't listen we will make the next blackout longer
This is our first action.
This is how we make history.
February 28th
The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins
~only care about their bottom line.
~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.
~ If they don't listen we will make the next blackout longer
This is our first action.
This is how we make history.
February 28th
The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins
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Join us in Tuscany this summer for a Gordon Conference aimed at the cutting edge of how we use genomics to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution! Lots of great speakers already and we'd love to add you to the list
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
2025 Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Conference GRC
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics will be held in Lucca (Barga), Lucca Italy. Apply today to reserve your spot.
www.grc.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Join us in Tuscany this summer for a Gordon Conference aimed at the cutting edge of how we use genomics to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution! Lots of great speakers already and we'd love to add you to the list
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
www.grc.org/ecological-a...
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An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
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February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
Rubio: "no country's ever made an offer of friendship such as this"
Bukele: "we are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee"
bbc.com/news/article...
Bukele: "we are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee"
bbc.com/news/article...
El Salvador offers to take in US criminals and migrants
El Salvador says it can house dangerous criminals, including US citizens, in its mega-jail.
bbc.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Rubio: "no country's ever made an offer of friendship such as this"
Bukele: "we are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee"
bbc.com/news/article...
Bukele: "we are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted US citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee"
bbc.com/news/article...