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Adam Gordon
@dnadam.bsky.social
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human geneticist, queerdo, mystery solver, gentle giant, big ol’ nerd, ADHD-brained.
He/him
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aJKZ5RYAAAAJ&hl=en
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dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:
8. Blood Orange, “You’re Not Good Enough” (2014)
dir. Gia Coppola

youtu.be/7gtdpnKbT10
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:
7. The Avalanches, “Since I Left You” (2001)
dir. Blue Source

youtu.be/wpqm-05R2Jk
October 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:
6. Daft Punk, “Voyager” (2001)
dir. Kazuhisa Takenouchi

youtu.be/CqZgd6-xQl8
July 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:
5. Fiona Apple, “Hot Knife” (2013)
dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

youtu.be/VG1VVFfOnYQ
July 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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theacmg.bsky.social
Just published! ACMG SF v3.3 list for reporting of secondary findings in clinical #exome and #genome #sequencing. This 2025 update adds 3 genes - ABCD1, CYP27A1, and PLN - to the recommended minimum gene list with a description of the factors considered. #genetics bit.ly/40jQv3C
June 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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nicolecnelson.bsky.social
Seeing lots in my feed today referencing the @cos.io statement and @theguardian.com op-ed on gold standard science, and IMHO most people are worrying about the wrong thing -- it's not *closing down* the flow of science into policy that worries me, it's a radical *opening up* of data for reanalysis
May 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:
4. Animal Collective, “Brother Sport” (2010)
dir. Jack Kubizne

youtu.be/MGQjyGT1-mc
May 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:
3. Bee Gees, “Too Much Heaven” (1979)
dir. Martin Pitts

youtu.be/nREV8bQJ1MA
May 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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xkcd.com
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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nature.com
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

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 1:18 PM
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mobute.bsky.social
the autoconclave can sterilize any cardinals still tainted by original sin in 30 minutes
April 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:

2. The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (2001)
dir. Michel Gondry & Olivier Gondry

youtu.be/0S43IwBF0uM
April 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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mwkraus.bsky.social
"Northwestern University professor Luis Amaral said President Donald Trump’s decision to slash hundreds of millions in federal funding from his institution is reminiscent of the 48-year dictatorship that gripped his home country, Portugal."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/09/t...
Northwestern University’s faculty decry Trump administration’s federal funding freeze
President Donald J. Trump’s administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern University, as part of a White House crackdown on anti-semitism on college campuses.
www.chicagotribune.com
April 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
Perfect Music Videos, in no particular order:

1. Annie Lennox, No More “I Love You’s” (1995)
dir. Annie Lennox & Joe Dyer

youtu.be/NSkboTTTmpg?...
Annie Lennox - No More "I Love You's" (Official Video)
YouTube video by AnnieLennoxVEVO
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
Functional profiling of KCNE1 variants informs population carrier frequency of Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome type 2 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.646046v1
April 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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eff.org
News of 23andMe’s bankruptcy “should be a wake-up call for lawmakers, who must work to pass stronger comprehensive privacy protections in general and genetic-privacy protections in particular,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @marketwatch.com.
Why to delete your 23andMe data — and the worst that could happen if you don’t
23andMe’s bankruptcy has some consumer advocates warning customers of the DNA testing company to delete their accounts. Here’s why they’re sounding the alarm, and what’s at stake if customers don’t ta...
www.marketwatch.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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drdianechen.bsky.social
It’s been a devastating 24 hours with 3 NIH grants terminated…all focused on the health and wellbeing of trans or intersex youth. If folks have any ideas of foundations that may be interested in supporting the completion of these projects so years of work aren’t wasted, please let me know. 🙏
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
having their executive order to combat antisemitism be order number "14188" is the kind of thing they do to make us look crazy for pointing it out.
"Executive Order 14188 of January 29, 2025: Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism."
March 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Per an email to staff I have viewed: the director of NIH’s National Human Genome Research Institute, whose departure Stat reported yesterday, did not have his appointment renewed at the end of his latest 5-year term. Eric Green had held the role for 16 years.
March 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
dnadam.bsky.social
they’re organizing
biorxivpreprint.bsky.social bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Mar 19
Floating offshore wind farms cause Japanese horse mackerel to congregate https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.17.643605v1
March 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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theonion.com/jock-scienti...
March 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Francis Collins led the mapping of the human genome, and chose to do big scientific to benefit the public. He is a a former NIH Director.
He just resigned his position in government. His resignation letter:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...
Dr. Collins noted that when he was recruited to the institutes, and through many of the years that followed, “investment in medical research was seen as a high priority and a nonpolitical bipartisan effort — saving countless lives, relieving human suffering and contributing substantially to the U.S. economy.” “N.I.H. is the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world,” he wrote. “It is the main piston of a biomedical discovery engine that is the envy of the globe. Yet it is not a household name. It should be.” He went on: “When you hear about patients surviving stage 4 cancer because of immunotherapy, that was based on N.I.H. research over many decades. When you hear about sickle-cell disease being cured because of CRISPR gene editing, that was built on many years of research supported by N.I.H.”
March 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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iwashyna.bsky.social
Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading

www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...
February 18, 2024 TO: Dr. Matthew Memoli, Acting Director, NIH CC: John Burklow, Chief of Staff, NIH Julie Berko, Director, OHR, NIH FROM: Nathaniel James Brought, Director, ES, NIH SUBJECT: Resignation Dear Dr. Memoli, On July 3, 2001, I stepped off a bus on Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot Perris Island. Scared out of my mind, I stood on a pair of freshly painted yellow footprints, raised my right hand, and recited the oath of enlistment: I, Nathaniel James Brought, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. For the last 23 years, 7 months, and 15 days, I like to believe I have faithfully carried out the duties of each office to which I've been appointed in my military and civilian service to this nation. That Service has taken me from the Marine Corps to 3 different federal departments, spanned 3 continents, included service in one war zone, and has included: • For the Marine Corps and the National Security Agency, I worked on intelligence operations at the highest classification levels using bleeding edge intelligence tools to ensure America's special operators put boots-to-asses on America's enemies overseas (including commendations crediting my work for the kill or capture of dozens of terrorists), ensuring America's policy makers were able to track the movement of dangerous dual nuclear technology across international borders, and monitored the flow of terrorist financing across the international banking system. • Utilized information from all-source intelligence to ensure the continued security of America's homeland from international and domestic threats. • Worked with some of the finest lawyers in the world to ensure America's security operations were effective, while upholding the rights of all those who interacted with them. • Ensuring that America's rural communities had access to programs like rural development loans, farm aid, and that America's children wouldn't be hungry as they sat in their classrooms and tried to learn. • Most recently, and frankly most dear to my heart, working with each of you here at the National Institutes of Health to advance the future of science and medicine. Not for Americans. Not for any one group of people. But for ALL of humanity. I am unbelievably proud to be able to say that there are Americans who are alive, and terrorists who are not, because of the work I've done to serve this nation. I am proud to say that my service to this country has allowed me to ensure that my children have never faced the struggles of poverty that I grew up with. That service didn't begin because of some great altruistic impulse or drive. I didn't grow up saying "I want to do the great work that needs to be done to weave the fabric of America and ensure her people are not only safe, but healthy." Frankly, that service began because I was poor, and I was inspired. I grew up as a free lunch kid who lived in project housing. It was my fellow Americans who made sure I wasn't hungry in class and that I had enough food to excel academically the way I did. It was Americans who had more than we did that made sure I had good schools to attend where I could learn things that expanded my mind. As I approached the end of high school, I dreamed of going to college and figuring out how to make a living that would allow me to do more tha… to go to college. I knew my grades weren't good enough to compete for scholarships with kids who were as smart as me but also had private tutors and didn't have to work after class to be able to drive their brand-new cars to our school each day. So, I gave up. I nearly failed my senior year of high school with an attendance failure, even though I only needed two classes to graduate. I didn't see the point. What was the point of learning calculus? So it would be that much harder when my dream of being a brain surgeon died not because I was incapable, but because I didn't have the means to make it come true? I resigned myself to being one of the working poor. I resigned myself to needing a spinal fusion before I was 50, like my father, because he literally broke his back trying to make his dreams come true. The example of my father didn't inspire me at that time. It reminded me of the futility of trying to escape the rung of the social ladder I had been born onto. No matter how smart or "gifted and talented" I may have been, I saw no path that led me to a place where I could realize my potential. So, instead I accepted that it would be wasted. Ultimately, the reason I find myself here today, rather than in the place I saw as my only end, is because of another young man who committed to serving his country. Shamefully, I do not remember his name, but there was a young corporal from the United States Marine Corps who had been assigned as a recruiter in Reading, Pennsylvania at that time. This man spoke to me about my plans for my future during lunch one day at school. I told him I planned to do what my father had done. Work hard jobs until my body broke down, maybe start a struggling business, and try to do what I could to stay above the poverty line and off welfare. I told him I hoped to be successful enough that my kids never had to watch me use food stamps at the grocery store. It had been hard to watch my mom go through that. How sad is that? I was a smart young 18-…
February 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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williamthomas.bsky.social
The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings
Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
democrats-science.house.gov
February 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
Where Are the Lawsuits Over the Chainsawing of NIH and NCI? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/where...
Where Are the Lawsuits Over the Chainsawing of NIH and NCI?
There’s one point that has come up, sometimes explicitly but more often...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM