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Christian Burks retweeted
Thank you, Amanda Gorman, for sharing such powerful and inspiring words today. #InaugurationDay
The #NewMexicoBookCoop has selected @GaryWorthMoody (AKA, my brother-in-law) and his most recent poetry volume, The Burnings, for the 2020 "AZ-NM Book Award in Poetry - NM".
Available from the publisher (3: A Taos Press) and the usual suspects ...
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Congrats to #HelenPetropoulos and #DennisMcCormac (@ArtSciFartSci) on their well-deserved and exciting new roles as Assoc VPs @OntarioGenomics!!
@TIFF_NET and fellow #TIFF20 acolytes should also celebrate the duo who put the OG in #vlog and #TIFFgenomics into the stream!!
#TeamUpdates: We are excited to welcome new colleagues and announce some role changes at Ontario Genomics. As always, our whole team is here to support #Ontario’s thriving #genomics ecosystem. #GreatHappensTogether ontariogenomics.ca/news-even…
#biodiversity #DNAbarcoding @UofGuelphNews @CreatedAtGuelph @CBG_UofG @OntarioGenomics @GenomeCanada @OntInnovation @UNBiodiversity @ChiefSciCan
Our Scientific Director, Prof. Paul Hebert has been awarded the international 2020 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity: news.uoguelph.ca/2020/08/cbg…
He plans to donate the USD 100,000 award to support biodiversity research in developing nations.
#Biodiversity2020
The voice and words of @KafuiDzirasa
on the interior of a black academic in America ...
#BlackLivesMatter
@CellCellPress @ElsevierConnect @DukeU @DukeMedSchool @DukeMEDx
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Improving crops with microbial communities, #BoostBiomes announces
#SeriesA financing and partnership with @Yara buff.ly/2ZdGWTF @AgFunder #microbiome #VikingGlobal @ycombinator #FoodTech #AgTech @JamieBacher @FarhanMitha @WorldAgriTech #Kureha @DailyScan @AdamArkinLab
The #TigerKing holds off any breach of @RudysBarbershop's perimeter by the ill-intentioned, the ill-groomed, or insolvency investors (created by @BaileeHiatt [Insta] and #Paint2Change).
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@_Katya_Long @SortisHoldings @FremontChamber #Seattle @SeattleTimes
Christian Burks retweeted
Our editorial on the need for a coordinated pandemic preparedness anti-viral drug discovery strategy based on open science - introducing @VIMIOpen @SFU_FHS
"Pandemic prevention is possible, but we need a shared strategy, leadership, and coordination among industry, universities, government and philanthropy."
From CIGI expert @IP_policy, @bubela_tania, @aledmedwards and John Bamforth:
cigionline.org/articles/cana…
#BioAlfa #biodiversity project aims to #DNAbarcode every species in #CostaRica ... #Colombia is considering, too buff.ly/2VYAM8e @Jeremy_Hance @mongobay @Rhett_Butler @ACGuanacaste @GDFCF_org @CarlosAlvQ @CBG_UofG @UofG @UCEAP @Mailyn73052835 @Inst_Humboldt @CLopezCorrea
ALT BioAlfa has chosen the beautiful machaca (Fulgora laternaria) for its logo, a type of planthopper. Photo courtesy of Daniel Janzen.
North Beach, TX ... #coronavirus PSA from @TxDOT
Given the several alt etiologies out there (#SARSCoV2 arising from nefarious government labs in Manitoba, Maryland or Wuhan), surprising that there's been no significant extraterrestrial attribution of the virus and #COVID19.
Agile academic response @LSUVetMed to set up #PopUpPCR, #RiverRoadTestingLab, and 20-fold faster turnaround #COVID19 test to decompress regional hospital needs.
< 1 week from "go" to fed approval and production use.
@RC_EPI #StephaniaCormier #BeverlyOgden
#coronavirus @AEGallo
. @LABCORP will be the exclusive provider for @ResBioscience's lung cancer test although the Kirkland, Washington-based firm will also perform the assay as an LDT
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#forensicDNA and genealogy used to free wrongly-convicted California man who had been in prison for 15 years buff.ly/39A1ER6 @NorCalInnocence @Innocence @VernPierson @SchubertForDA @guardian via @DailyScan
ALT freed man, from the Guardian article
Christian Burks retweeted
A fishy campaign against salmon washingtonpost.com/opinions/… @aquabountytech @geneticliteracy @iambiotech @biotecanada
ALT About 10,000 gigabytes, or 10 terabytes, can be stored in the pink smear of DNA at the end of this test tube. Photo: Tara Brown Photography/University of Washington
#DNAbarcoding used to detect a number of #shark species -- some endangered -- in pet food buff.ly/2SsYFob @HakaiMagazine @BethanyAugliere @DiegoCardenosa @IUCNRedList
Call for evidence-based (policy debate for pricing of) medicine buff.ly/2EQzQuq @MatthewHerper @STATnews
I've been thinking a lot about how DNA does and does not define our identities. That's why I wanted to write about the Trans Doe Task Force, a volunteer group that recognizes the limits of using genetic genealogy to find someone's identity
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