Nicole (Nazzaro) Glaser Boeck
@mnicolen.bsky.social
Biochemistry, astronomy, science writing, democracy. Second-career scientist and science communicator. Parent. Runner. Philly native, Seattle transplant. Vote. Email: ngboeck@proton.me. Signal: MNicoleN.9
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Genuinely happy for the Blue Jays and all of Canada tonight. 🇨🇦 Sad for my adopted hometown Seattle Mariners but it was a great #ALCS. Best wishes in the World Series.
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Join us in congratulating Elana Thieme and Mark Mendoza, fourth-year graduate students in the Molecular and Cell Biology program, on receiving prestigious graduate awards from @ash.hematology.org! #ASH25
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Read more: https://bit.ly/4rLo3UA
December 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Join us in congratulating Elana Thieme and Mark Mendoza, fourth-year graduate students in the Molecular and Cell Biology program, on receiving prestigious graduate awards from @ash.hematology.org! #ASH25
Read more: https://bit.ly/4rLo3UA
Read more: https://bit.ly/4rLo3UA
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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Hosted by @londynbradshaw.bsky.social Team Technicolor’s fundraising event for World AID’s Day is closing with a panel featuring community members, Twitch creators, and Fred Hutch researchers Katrina Ortblad, Scd, MPH, and Noah Wilson. Tune in Mon, 12/1 at 5 pm PST on Twitch! https://bit.ly/4pponGs
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hosted by @londynbradshaw.bsky.social Team Technicolor’s fundraising event for World AID’s Day is closing with a panel featuring community members, Twitch creators, and Fred Hutch researchers Katrina Ortblad, Scd, MPH, and Noah Wilson. Tune in Mon, 12/1 at 5 pm PST on Twitch! https://bit.ly/4pponGs
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In our latest in the #Changemakers series @nature.com, @astroroamer.bsky.social talks about the barriers she overcame to become the first female full professor at her institution and how she encourages other women in India to pursue science. As told to Kanika Sharma.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I encourage women to claim their space in astrophysics and beyond
Debarati Chatterjee’s mission is to make science in India more welcoming towards women.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In our latest in the #Changemakers series @nature.com, @astroroamer.bsky.social talks about the barriers she overcame to become the first female full professor at her institution and how she encourages other women in India to pursue science. As told to Kanika Sharma.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say has no basis in evidence
CDC Vaccine Website Promotes Anti-Science Claims of Autism Ties
The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say has no basis in evidence
www.scientificamerican.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The agency this week quietly changed its official language to suggest vaccines may cause autism, a claim that scientists say has no basis in evidence
Are you an expert in #interstellarice? If so, I’d love to speak with you for an upcoming feature article. #astronomy #astrochemistry #science
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Are you an expert in #interstellarice? If so, I’d love to speak with you for an upcoming feature article. #astronomy #astrochemistry #science
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A new $5.2M grant from the Washington Research Foundation will help launch a joint clinical trials program between Fred Hutch and @seattlechildrens.org Research Institute, advancing first-in-human studies for rare cancers and other diseases that affect adults and children. https://bit.ly/4pfnDDS
Washington Research Foundation awards $5.2M to establish new clinical trials program
A new $5.2 million grant from the Washington Research Foundation will help develop a new clinical trials program between Fred Hutch Cancer Center and Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
A new $5.2M grant from the Washington Research Foundation will help launch a joint clinical trials program between Fred Hutch and @seattlechildrens.org Research Institute, advancing first-in-human studies for rare cancers and other diseases that affect adults and children. https://bit.ly/4pfnDDS
Enjoy this beautiful aurora thread. #science
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Enjoy this beautiful aurora thread. #science
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Two recent discoveries of black hole mergers add to the evidence that such mergers happen over and over again.
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#astronomy #blackhole #blackholemergers
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Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before
Two recent discoveries of black hole mergers add to the evidence that such mergers happen over and over again.
skyandtelescope.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Two recent discoveries of black hole mergers add to the evidence that such mergers happen over and over again.
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#astronomy #blackhole #blackholemergers
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#astronomy #blackhole #blackholemergers
Quite concerned at how I’m going to cope without baseball at this point.
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Quite concerned at how I’m going to cope without baseball at this point.
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Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
www.kuow.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.
Genuinely happy for the Blue Jays and all of Canada tonight. 🇨🇦 Sad for my adopted hometown Seattle Mariners but it was a great #ALCS. Best wishes in the World Series.
October 21, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Genuinely happy for the Blue Jays and all of Canada tonight. 🇨🇦 Sad for my adopted hometown Seattle Mariners but it was a great #ALCS. Best wishes in the World Series.
October 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.
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#astronomy #PalomarObservatory #womeninscience #womeninastro #womeninstem #infraredsky
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#astronomy #PalomarObservatory #womeninscience #womeninastro #womeninstem #infraredsky
Palomar's First Woman Director Leads Historic Observatory to New Era in Transient Astronomy
Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.
skyandtelescope.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Astrophysicist Mansi Manoj Kasliwal, whose work has been key to understanding the changing infrared sky, is guiding Palomar Observatory into its next chapter.
skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...
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#astronomy #PalomarObservatory #womeninscience #womeninastro #womeninstem #infraredsky
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#astronomy #PalomarObservatory #womeninscience #womeninastro #womeninstem #infraredsky
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Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
www.nobelprize.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
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Congrats to @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow on this tremendous honor! Fred Hutch is proud to be neighbors with ISB in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood —a global hub of life sciences innovation. It’s inspiring to see such transformative research happening just down the street!
This morning, @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine! Dr. Brunkow shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi. Read the press release here: www.nobelprize.org/.../medicine....
What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!
What a tremendous honor! Congratulations!
October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Congrats to @isbscience.org's Dr. Mary Brunkow on this tremendous honor! Fred Hutch is proud to be neighbors with ISB in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood —a global hub of life sciences innovation. It’s inspiring to see such transformative research happening just down the street!
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1. I was so grateful to Alex Cooper for having Dr. Jane Goodall on Call Her Daddy earlier this year which brought Dr. Goodall’s life’s work and example to millions of young women who might have heard of her, or recognized her, but may not have known of the depth of her contribution.
October 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
1. I was so grateful to Alex Cooper for having Dr. Jane Goodall on Call Her Daddy earlier this year which brought Dr. Goodall’s life’s work and example to millions of young women who might have heard of her, or recognized her, but may not have known of the depth of her contribution.
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🔍 Make science standards clearer for everyone, especially non-specialists, with our practical, teacher-informed framework:
edu.rsc.org/rsc-educatio...
#iteachchem #chemed
edu.rsc.org/rsc-educatio...
#iteachchem #chemed
RSC publishes teachers’ standards framework for chemistry
Strengthen, develop and enhance your teaching practice with this subject-specific framework, based on the teachers' standards for England
edu.rsc.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🔍 Make science standards clearer for everyone, especially non-specialists, with our practical, teacher-informed framework:
edu.rsc.org/rsc-educatio...
#iteachchem #chemed
edu.rsc.org/rsc-educatio...
#iteachchem #chemed
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🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
September 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
September 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.
I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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Geneticist Mary-Claire King changed the way we think about hereditary cancer. We spoke with her about her career, research, and how she approaches science.
A Trailblazing Geneticist Reflects On Her Life And Work
Dr. Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to hereditary cancer risk with the identification of BRCA1. She was just getting started.
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September 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Geneticist Mary-Claire King changed the way we think about hereditary cancer. We spoke with her about her career, research, and how she approaches science.
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Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
n.pr
September 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.
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Nice short discussion of the evolving understanding of 3I/ATLAS as this interstellar comet continues its approach to the Sun and more observations come in from various telescopes, featuring a lot of the observing folks 🔭☄️🧪
Telescopes Reveal Surprising Chemistry of a Rare Interstellar Object Passing Through Our Solar System
Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for billions of years, carrying pristine material from another star system
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Nice short discussion of the evolving understanding of 3I/ATLAS as this interstellar comet continues its approach to the Sun and more observations come in from various telescopes, featuring a lot of the observing folks 🔭☄️🧪