Krysta Coyle
@molecularkrysta.bsky.social
Cancer biology postdoc & bioinformatician: gene expression & alternative splicing. Talking about science, equity, cats, & more. Opinions my own! she/her
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Check out a cool new collaboration we have with @fraserhealth.ca @fraserhealthbc.bsky.social to track C difficile transmission and infection. www.fraserhealth.ca/news/2025/No...
Fraser Health and Simon Fraser University launch pilot project to decode superbug’s genetic secrets
Fraser Health and Simon Fraser University (SFU) have launched a pilot project to sequence the genome of Clostridioides difficile, a superbug responsible for severe infections.
www.fraserhealth.ca
November 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Check out a cool new collaboration we have with @fraserhealth.ca @fraserhealthbc.bsky.social to track C difficile transmission and infection. www.fraserhealth.ca/news/2025/No...
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Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health. By @danvergano.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health. By @danvergano.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/halt...
Disease-agnostic gene editing is an exciting development! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Prime editing-installed suppressor tRNAs for disease-agnostic genome editing - Nature
A new strategy that uses prime editing to convert an endogenous tRNA into a suppressor tRNA shows therapeutic potential for multiple genetic diseases that are caused by premature stop codons.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Disease-agnostic gene editing is an exciting development! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This is so cute. Viruses do make perfect snowflakes! 🦠❄️
If you'd like to celebrate the biology of viruses - or the fight against viral diseases - this winter, try out our free and updated #VirusSnowflake designs.
Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
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Please share, and if you have any photos of Virus Snowflakes in your area it would be lovely to see them!
cvr-engagement.co.uk/virus-snowfl...
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This is so cute. Viruses do make perfect snowflakes! 🦠❄️
I need a new t-shirt that says "My job is GRANTS."
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I need a new t-shirt that says "My job is GRANTS."
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Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Attention #YVR physics enthusiasts, especially high school students, there are two exciting TRIUMF Saturday Morning Lectures by @sfuphysics.bsky.social faculty happening next weekend (Nov 15th) in Surrey. ⚛️ 🎢 🧪
Learning how a dialysis machine is supposed to work just so you can pretend it works differently... 🤓
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Learning how a dialysis machine is supposed to work just so you can pretend it works differently... 🤓
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This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This obit of Watson is *amazing*.
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a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
a gross parliamentary overreach — article by @picardonhealth.bsky.social in the globe and mail; #academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91587b9...
If you're interested in splicing in B cells and lymphoma -- let me know! Happy to be at #CCRC2025 and connecting with colleagues from across Canada 🤓
November 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you're interested in splicing in B cells and lymphoma -- let me know! Happy to be at #CCRC2025 and connecting with colleagues from across Canada 🤓
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Impressive talk from Dr Marco Marra that shows the promise of precision oncogenomics that builds from BC cancer to @marathonofhope.bsky.social 🇨🇦wide program #CCRC2025
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Impressive talk from Dr Marco Marra that shows the promise of precision oncogenomics that builds from BC cancer to @marathonofhope.bsky.social 🇨🇦wide program #CCRC2025
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If you don't think rando MPs (and whoever else they share it with) should have access to personal information of individual applicants, reviewers, and students, confidential data, & full applications and reviews in every Canadian research grant (funded or not), please sign.
Yes! Contact them and sign this petition here —it’s not just about EDI data! So much personally identifying information for applicants and reviewers will not be protected!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
Why do we need urgent action to protect our data?
The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...
docs.google.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you don't think rando MPs (and whoever else they share it with) should have access to personal information of individual applicants, reviewers, and students, confidential data, & full applications and reviews in every Canadian research grant (funded or not), please sign.
A lot of people underestimated the Blue Jays all season. But this is the best baseball.
October 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A lot of people underestimated the Blue Jays all season. But this is the best baseball.
This @bluejays.com Stand Up 2 Cancer moment is so powerful:: you can help us #FinishIt in Canada by supporting the Terry Fox Foundation.
October 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This @bluejays.com Stand Up 2 Cancer moment is so powerful:: you can help us #FinishIt in Canada by supporting the Terry Fox Foundation.
Where are my bluesky Blue Jays peeps?? Baseball is the only thought in my brain right now.
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Where are my bluesky Blue Jays peeps?? Baseball is the only thought in my brain right now.
Watching the Mariners and Tigers use allllll their pitchers is satisfying.
October 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Watching the Mariners and Tigers use allllll their pitchers is satisfying.
“Every worker should return home after their shift.” the-peak.ca/2025/09/sfu-...
SFU cleaning worker dies during shift, amplifying long-standing calls to improve working conditions
By: Hannah Fraser, News Editor (writer and interviewer), and Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer (interviewer and translator) Since 2020, Contract Worker Justice (CWJ) @SFU has been leading the push for be…
the-peak.ca
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
“Every worker should return home after their shift.” the-peak.ca/2025/09/sfu-...
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LCR-modules: a collection of workflows for cancer genome analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.676923v1
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
LCR-modules: a collection of workflows for cancer genome analysis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.676923v1
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Regulation of NFKBIZ by precise Regnase-1 endoribonuclease cleavage and subsequent uridylation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677199v1
September 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Regulation of NFKBIZ by precise Regnase-1 endoribonuclease cleavage and subsequent uridylation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677199v1
LET'S GO @bluejays.com !!! Division Champs!!!
September 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
LET'S GO @bluejays.com !!! Division Champs!!!
Dear fellow @translink.ca users: your bag does not need its own seat. You do not need to sit on the outside seat of a pair.
September 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Dear fellow @translink.ca users: your bag does not need its own seat. You do not need to sit on the outside seat of a pair.
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
There's nothing quite like fighting with WiFi on a ship somewhere in the Pacific Ocean to get signatures on your 1.5M budget. Deadlines wait for no (wo)man.
August 19, 2025 at 4:35 AM
There's nothing quite like fighting with WiFi on a ship somewhere in the Pacific Ocean to get signatures on your 1.5M budget. Deadlines wait for no (wo)man.
"We have to be data-based in our decision making." Gian-Carlo Carra, Councillor @calgary.ca macleans.ca/society/why-...
Why Calgary Brought Fluoride Back - Macleans.ca
I voted against fluoridation in 2011. Ten years later, the data—and the rise of anti-science rhetoric—changed my mind.
macleans.ca
August 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"We have to be data-based in our decision making." Gian-Carlo Carra, Councillor @calgary.ca macleans.ca/society/why-...
My eyelid twitch is back. Cannot wait for vacation.
August 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
My eyelid twitch is back. Cannot wait for vacation.