Adriana Heguy

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Genomics scientist, SARS-CoV2 surveillance, dog lover. 🇺🇾 by birth. New Yorker by choice
@ChemProfCramer yes, I noticed a couple of those word in past games. I don’t know how they built their dictionary 🫤
@ChemProfCramer I thought the same! I think they don’t accept “science-y” terms
Our NovaSeq X Plus just arrived! Very exciting!
Today I got invited to submit an article to a journal called “Exclusive Real World Evidence”. Seriously?

I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.

RT @amymaxmen
"So long as we believe Supreme Court justices are quasi-monarchs who are entitled to live like lords, they will find ways to live like lords...And we will all say that it’s awful. Until we learn about the next one, and the next one."

🔥@Dahlialithwick🔥 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-broke-the-law-harlan-crow.html

Clarence Thomas Broke the Law and It Isn’t Even Close

This image should be enough to shock anyone into taking action against the spigot of dark money that flows directly from billionaire donors into the court.

Slate
This isn't new. Tennessee has a long history of disenfranchising people of color. In this sense, the fact that Republicans expelled the two Black men - those “uppity” Black folk! How dare they! - but not the white woman is perfectly in line with the state’s tradition of white supremacy.

'The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on mothers in academic science, bringing long-standing issues to the fore. A study done during the very early stages of the pandemic found that scientists with at least one child aged five or younger were spending 17% less time on research than they had previously'

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00888-3

Pandemic productivity loss: how scientific institutions should support academic mothers

Three years on, scientist mums implore universities, funding agencies and publishers to heed calls to account for COVID-19 disruptions.