Laurel Coons 🧬🧬🧬
@LaurelCoons
PhD (Duke, NIH) #Genomics #Science #SciComm #viewsmyown
#SciComm: 👄What is more fun than #reading what I write about how our genes are turned on and off? 👄#Listening to me talk about it 😁 Podcast 👉endocrine.org/podcast/enp7-n… Paper 1 👉academic.oup.com/endo/article/1… Paper 2 👉cell.com/iscience/fullt… #Genomics #Science #DecodingOurDNA 🧬
Schrödinger’s plates … they are both broken and not broken until you open the door … 🐈
If all humans suddenly lost the ability to lie, which industry would collapse first❓
Warning: 🚨Encompass has a well-documented history of severe safety violations, systemic patient neglect, preventable injuries, & tragic fatalities 🚨Placing your loved ones in their care poses a serious risk to their health—and their lives. @jordanrau kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…
NEW: For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. 📝: @jordanrau, KFF Health News + Irena Hwang, @nytimes kffhealthnews.org/news/article/f…
Fire Ecology Meets Infrastructure Loss: 🔥The Dragon Bravo Fire began as a lightning-ignited wildfire managed under a confine-and-contain strategy 🔥Escalating conditions turned it into a disaster 🔥Should we still be using “let-burn” policies in peak fire season? 🔥Lost:…
Spotted: A Starlink train hauling broadband across the sky at ~27,000 km/h. Elon’s painting constellations with Wi-Fi … 🛰️💨🌌 @elonmusk #Starlink #SpaceX #SkyNetBeta
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow‑mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime … 👤
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing … 👥
Principles: Surprisingly flexible under pressure ... 🗣️
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual … 👤
Does this part of the towel do anything or is it just clocking in for vibes❓
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself … 👤
Elon finally figured out how to make Twitter/X great again: public billionaire brawls … 🍿
We could wipe out the national debt by charging Pay-Per-View for a cage match between Trump and Musk—loser tweets the apology … 😏
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness … 👤
When the world’s most popular fruit meets the world’s cutest snacker … 🍌🐶
Generational Wealth: 💰Boomers chased the dollar 💰Gen X wonders why we chase it 💰Millennials are still chasing it 💰Gen Z forgot what we’re chasing
Every group has that one friend who’s always winging it their own way … 🪿