Amy Larson Gordon
@dramylarsongordon.bsky.social
Director Genomics Research Core 🧬👩🔬
Mother 🦸♀️ Science Enthusiast 🔬🧫🧪 Lover of our dear planet 🌎♻️ She/her
I care about facts, data, and being a good person. I amplify important issues and try to make the world a better place for all.
Mother 🦸♀️ Science Enthusiast 🔬🧫🧪 Lover of our dear planet 🌎♻️ She/her
I care about facts, data, and being a good person. I amplify important issues and try to make the world a better place for all.
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Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” means states are on the hook for nearly $1T in Medicaid cuts + $186B in SNAP cuts.
Gov. Wes Moore warns: “There’s not a single state that has the resources to make up for this. You cannot backfill it.” Families will pay the price #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky
Gov. Wes Moore warns: “There’s not a single state that has the resources to make up for this. You cannot backfill it.” Families will pay the price #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky
States face massive new costs under Trump budget cuts
Governors are already making budgetary decisions in anticipation of added costs and responsibilities they will have to take on.
wapo.st
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
Keep reading, friends. 📚
Keep reading, friends. 📚
August 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury
Keep reading, friends. 📚
Keep reading, friends. 📚
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Breaking: Vance in to break tie to vote w/50 of his republican friends to cut all fed funding for public tv & radio. Storm Alert systems. Kids programming. Local news. Small rural stations get 2:1 more funding from fed. More votes tomorrow on this. Let them know what you think.
July 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Breaking: Vance in to break tie to vote w/50 of his republican friends to cut all fed funding for public tv & radio. Storm Alert systems. Kids programming. Local news. Small rural stations get 2:1 more funding from fed. More votes tomorrow on this. Let them know what you think.
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The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The United States has recorded its highest annual measles cases in 33 years. The milestone marks a public health reversal in defeating a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease as the anti-vaccine movement gains strength.
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Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.
July 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Ann Coulter's statement that "We didn't kill enough Indians" is a call for violence against Native people.
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On June 20, Ireland shut its last coal plant, becoming the 15th coal-free country in Europe. Wind already powers over a third of the grid, with solar just getting started.
June 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On June 20, Ireland shut its last coal plant, becoming the 15th coal-free country in Europe. Wind already powers over a third of the grid, with solar just getting started.
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The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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June 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget.
Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide.
Interactive map and shareable report:
scienceimpacts.org/fy26
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Lots going on in the world right now but please don’t forget they’re going to try and jam one of the largest transfers of wealth from working families to the richest corporations through the Senate this week.
June 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Lots going on in the world right now but please don’t forget they’re going to try and jam one of the largest transfers of wealth from working families to the richest corporations through the Senate this week.
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Sunday's attack in Boulder targeted a group called Run for Their Lives, which raises awareness about the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Now, they're figuring out how to move on.
Run For Their Lives, the group targeted in the Colorado attack, is figuring out how to continue its mission
Sunday's attack in Boulder targeted a group called Run for Their Lives, which raises awareness about the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Now, they're figuring out how to move on.
n.pr
June 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Sunday's attack in Boulder targeted a group called Run for Their Lives, which raises awareness about the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Now, they're figuring out how to move on.
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I am still thinking about the atrocity of the attacks last weekend in Boulder.
The rise of antisemitic violence across this country is unmistakable and unacceptable, and we all need to strongly stand against it.
The rise of antisemitic violence across this country is unmistakable and unacceptable, and we all need to strongly stand against it.
June 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I am still thinking about the atrocity of the attacks last weekend in Boulder.
The rise of antisemitic violence across this country is unmistakable and unacceptable, and we all need to strongly stand against it.
The rise of antisemitic violence across this country is unmistakable and unacceptable, and we all need to strongly stand against it.
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Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
June 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.
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Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.
Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
While RFK Jr. said coronavirus vaccines would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.
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Wisconsin baby what are y’all doin?!?
May 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Wisconsin baby what are y’all doin?!?
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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
April 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
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Very scary for the future of medical research in this country
Columbia University lays off nearly 180 researchers due to Trump funding cuts www.investing.com/news/economy...
Columbia University lays off nearly 180 researchers due to Trump funding cuts By Reuters
Columbia University lays off nearly 180 researchers due to Trump funding cuts
www.investing.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Very scary for the future of medical research in this country
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More insanity.
1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola
2. Drugs for HIV
3. Malaria vaccines
4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats.
And much more
This is another damaging own goal.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...
1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola
2. Drugs for HIV
3. Malaria vaccines
4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats.
And much more
This is another damaging own goal.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...
NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns
NIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding
www.statnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
More insanity.
1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola
2. Drugs for HIV
3. Malaria vaccines
4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats.
And much more
This is another damaging own goal.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...
1. Collaborative research gave us vaccines for Ebola
2. Drugs for HIV
3. Malaria vaccines
4. Researched and enhanced tracking of emerging infectious disease threats.
And much more
This is another damaging own goal.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...
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Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The US is stumbling in its response to bird flu, while the virus keeps evolving, reports @apoorvanyt.bsky.social 4/10
nyti.ms/3GvSkU3
nyti.ms/3GvSkU3
Upheaval in Washington Hinders Campaign Against Bird Flu (Gift Article)
Determined to cut costs and manage communications, the Trump administration is moving too slowly to contain the virus, experts say.
nyti.ms
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The US is stumbling in its response to bird flu, while the virus keeps evolving, reports @apoorvanyt.bsky.social 4/10
nyti.ms/3GvSkU3
nyti.ms/3GvSkU3
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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
April 16, 2025 at 2:20 AM
AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
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Turns out autocracy is bad for business
April 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Turns out autocracy is bad for business
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Two children dead from a preventable disease in under 3 months when the last child to die of #measles was over 20 years ago and the contagion is still rapidly spreading with over 700 cases.
Privileged RFK Jr says he is doing an “amazing job”! #DEI #Ivax2protect
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-whine...
Privileged RFK Jr says he is doing an “amazing job”! #DEI #Ivax2protect
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-whine...
RFK Jr. Whines About Focus on Child Measles Deaths on His Watch
The secretary of health thinks he’s done an “amazing job” battling the deadly outbreak.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Two children dead from a preventable disease in under 3 months when the last child to die of #measles was over 20 years ago and the contagion is still rapidly spreading with over 700 cases.
Privileged RFK Jr says he is doing an “amazing job”! #DEI #Ivax2protect
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-whine...
Privileged RFK Jr says he is doing an “amazing job”! #DEI #Ivax2protect
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-whine...
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NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts
Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.
See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:
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Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Good morning.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.
Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors.
It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.