Madeline G
@madelineg.bsky.social
PhD student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Raffield Lab at UNC 🩵🐏👩🏻💻
comp bio | genetics | omics | r | dogs | seattle sports | just enough pop culture to do ok at bar trivia
comp bio | genetics | omics | r | dogs | seattle sports | just enough pop culture to do ok at bar trivia
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I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
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UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
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looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
June 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs
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@foushee.house.gov or whatever staffer manages this account: where are you? Your neighbors are losing their jobs and the nation is being set back decades in scientific research. NC-4 is being crushed.
This is an insane data viz and indicates how devastating the cuts to UNC, Duke, RTI, NIOSH, EPA, FHI360 have been to our congressional district.
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
From the dataisbeautiful community on Reddit: Dollar Value of DOGE Cuts to US Federal Grant Programs by Congressional District [OC]
Explore this post and more from the dataisbeautiful community
www.reddit.com
June 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
@foushee.house.gov or whatever staffer manages this account: where are you? Your neighbors are losing their jobs and the nation is being set back decades in scientific research. NC-4 is being crushed.
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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
a 🧵
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This is the first media coverage that I have seen of the UNC board's quiet decision to largely pause granting tenure outside of the health sciences. This is worth watching over the coming weeks.
At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
www.chronicle.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This is the first media coverage that I have seen of the UNC board's quiet decision to largely pause granting tenure outside of the health sciences. This is worth watching over the coming weeks.
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Tonight Nneka Ogwumike reached 3,000 REB in her WNBA career.
Ogwumike is the 7th player in WNBA history to total 6,500+ PTS, 3,000+ REB, and 800+ AST in her career, joining:
◽️ Tina Charles
◽️ DeWanna Bonner
◽️ Tamika Catchings
◽️ Tina Thompson
◽️ Candice Dupree
H/T @wnba.com
Ogwumike is the 7th player in WNBA history to total 6,500+ PTS, 3,000+ REB, and 800+ AST in her career, joining:
◽️ Tina Charles
◽️ DeWanna Bonner
◽️ Tamika Catchings
◽️ Tina Thompson
◽️ Candice Dupree
H/T @wnba.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Tonight Nneka Ogwumike reached 3,000 REB in her WNBA career.
Ogwumike is the 7th player in WNBA history to total 6,500+ PTS, 3,000+ REB, and 800+ AST in her career, joining:
◽️ Tina Charles
◽️ DeWanna Bonner
◽️ Tamika Catchings
◽️ Tina Thompson
◽️ Candice Dupree
H/T @wnba.com
Ogwumike is the 7th player in WNBA history to total 6,500+ PTS, 3,000+ REB, and 800+ AST in her career, joining:
◽️ Tina Charles
◽️ DeWanna Bonner
◽️ Tamika Catchings
◽️ Tina Thompson
◽️ Candice Dupree
H/T @wnba.com
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The goal is to focus on the one part of Chapel Hill that the rest of the state — ie redder — doesn’t find politically objectionable. Their data show that’s the hospital & cancer research.
It also just happens that a health focus will compound racial & gender pipeline issues into the org structure
It also just happens that a health focus will compound racial & gender pipeline issues into the org structure
May 24, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The goal is to focus on the one part of Chapel Hill that the rest of the state — ie redder — doesn’t find politically objectionable. Their data show that’s the hospital & cancer research.
It also just happens that a health focus will compound racial & gender pipeline issues into the org structure
It also just happens that a health focus will compound racial & gender pipeline issues into the org structure
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The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The National Science Foundation is awarding new grants at the slowest pace in at least 35 years. The funding decreases touch virtually every area of science — extending far beyond the diversity programs that the Trump administration says it wants to cut.
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It’s like rooting for Duke, the Celtics, and massive resistance all rolled into one. But here we are.
May 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It’s like rooting for Duke, the Celtics, and massive resistance all rolled into one. But here we are.
Cannot recommend “The Snakehead” by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social enough for understanding how & when the shift is US immigration policy happened
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cannot recommend “The Snakehead” by @praddenkeefe.bsky.social enough for understanding how & when the shift is US immigration policy happened
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The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.
In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study
The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.
www.npr.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.
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I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics.
Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.
This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.
This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
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.
www.nature.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics.
Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.
This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.
This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
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President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health effort centered on the health needs of women. scim.ag/4jLeLTJ
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
scim.ag
April 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health effort centered on the health needs of women. scim.ag/4jLeLTJ
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Evidence of US brain drain?
US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024.
US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.
Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024.
US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.
Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
April 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Evidence of US brain drain?
US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024.
US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.
Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024.
US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%.
Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
(Published Dec. 2024)
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
(Published Dec. 2024)
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
www.propublica.org
April 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
(Published Dec. 2024)
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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NIH post here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
grants.nih.gov
April 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
NIH post here: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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UPDATE: The NIH has made this move official — publishing the draft we reported on this morning
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
April 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
UPDATE: The NIH has made this move official — publishing the draft we reported on this morning
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...
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Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
April 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools)
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday: cnn.it/4hYKFL3
April 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Millions of people took part in protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk across all 50 states and globally on Saturday: cnn.it/4hYKFL3
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NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.
storage.courtlistener.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NEW: Researchers have sued the NIH and HHS, alleging that they have engaged in a "reckless and illegal purge to stamp out NIH-funded research that addresses topics and populations that they disfavor" by terminating hundreds of grants, violating the APA, Fifth Amendment and the Separation of Powers.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.