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Proud Armenian 🇦🇲 and heavy metal enthusiast 🤘🏼

San Diego, CA
Joined December 2017
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Hello friends. On Nov 14 I am traveling to 🇦🇲 to help w/ the humanitarian efforts. All my expenses are covered so I am raising 💰 to help the children. I will be teaching English and I want to use the 💰 to provide them with supplies, clothes, gifts, etc. Venmo @lasports85 – at Los Angeles, CA
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Dear @SecPompeo: The US must immediately #RecognizeArtsakh; condemn Azerbaijan; cut off military aid to Baku; enforce Section 907, and; apply Global Magnitsky sanction to Aliyev and Erdogan.
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Levon Demirdjian retweeted
I’m so honored to be part of today’s global effort to support the @ArmeniaFund. I’ve been speaking out about the current situation in Armenia and Artsakh and having conversations with so many others to bring further awareness to the crisis that we cannot allow to advance.
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Great piece by @VICENews please watch this
Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh has intensified sharply, as both sides accused the other of targeting civilian areas with missiles. bit.ly/3daVJoI
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NO MORE GENOCIDE! Thinking of my Armenian friends and people in conflict everywhere, and using this app to see what the media won't show. #PeaceForArmenians
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Turkey and Azerbaijan have launched a war against Armenia & Artsakh. They’re manipulating social media to hide the truth, similar to their efforts against “The Promise” movie which highlighted horrors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide #StopAliyev #StopErdogan. significancemagazine.com/cul…
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Ignorance kills.
According to recent polling, over 1/3 of Americans will not take a COVID-19 vaccine when it is available. If this holds true, it will not be possible to achieve herd immunity, even with a vaccine that is 75% effective. brook.gs/3gcOb4t
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I’m very excited to share our new paper on PAIRADISE! This was an incredible collaboration with some very talented grad students and postdocs at @ChildrensPhila
Check our new @AJHGNews paper led by @LevonDemi on PAIRADISE, a method for detecting allele-specific alternative splicing (ASAS) from replicate or population-scale RNA-seq data! (1/n) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Please support the people that have been affected by the tragedy in Beirut by donating to the Lebanese Red Cross supportlrc.app/donate
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Levon Demirdjian retweeted
Explosion in #Beirut #Lebanon - view from Annahar building. Praying for everyone’s safety 🙏🏼😓 – at Lebanon
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Levon Demirdjian retweeted
Replying to @mbeckett
It's great that you called people's attention to Simpson's paradox and to the fact that "correct" pooling of data requires causal thinking. This paper arxiv.org/pdf/2005.07180.pdf has also noticed the phenomenon in covid-19 data and explains how to handle it correctly.
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Please consider donating for emergency COVID-19 funding to provide food, electricity, water, sanitizer, and medical care to the children at Birds' Nest Orphanage in Byblos, Lebanon: wwwsoarusorg.reachapp.co/cam…
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Levon Demirdjian retweeted
I don't know what's gonna happen. But I think there is maybe just the teensiest tiniest bit too much pessimism about how/when the US will manage to open society/the economy back up. Like people here are an 9 on pessimism scale when they should be at 6 or 7 or 8. Quick points:
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I donated $1000 and I urge you to donate what you can - a month’s worth of coffee runs? Thanks @yashar for getting this going.. gofundme.com/f/helphourlywor…
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Levon Demirdjian retweeted
WATCH: "The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%," Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, says. "That's lower than you heard probably in many reports ... it's not likely in the range of 2 to 3%"
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How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name. 53eig.ht/37gT6O2
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House adopted the rule for H.Res. 296 - Affirming the United States record on the Armenian Genocide by a vote of 223-191.
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Replying to @PennPPA
@UpennBPC Pics of yesterday's ice cream social. Nothing brings people together like ice cream! #NPAW2019 #NPAWatUPennCHOP
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