Audrey Hendricks
Associate Professor of #statistics @cuanschutz @cudenver using #rstats, and #genomics. Advocate for #dataliteracy for all. My posts are my own and do not represent the views of the University.
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksThe names of 72 female scientists will be added to the Eiffel Tower, to accompany those of 72 male scientists that are already engraved there tinyurl.com/e2satnyp 👏👩🔬 🧪
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksI wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksAlex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin. Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
- The Strib has identified him. Alex Pretti. Another 37-year-old executed for standing up for our immigrant neighbors. For shame. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksThe US officially withdrew from the World Health Organization today. Per Trump we can work "one on one" with other countries Has he heard of the concept of an international outbreak? I.E. PANDEMIC? No WHO, no USAID, underfunded CDC global health center. We are less prepared than we have ever been.
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksRFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksA vaccine to prevent colon cancer. Proof-of-concept for strong immune response and safety via neoantigens given to people carrying mutations for Lynch syndrome nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksIf you need inspiration to keep going right now, may I recommend the story of Robert Smalls, who stole a confederate steamboat and piloted his family and almost 20 others to freedom and went on to become one of the first Black people elected to Congress ✊🏽 www.usatoday.com/story/life/b...
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksIt breaks our hearts to have to say that CDC is no longer a source for evidence-based vaccine recommendations. 💔 But we are so proud of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for stepping up to protect kids. ❤️🩹 Childhood vaccine schedule from AAP 👇 downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-...
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksHere's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Audrey HendricksSubmit your proposal for Featured Symposia or Interactive Workshops before the holiday rush! Present your research on topics that excite you and engage the #humangenetics & #genomics community. Get ahead of the January 20 deadline—submit today: bit.ly/3MgrxxW #ASHG
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksThis time last year, I was on the South Lawn of the White House helping to lay out the AIDS Memorial Quilt. This year the White House did nothing and the State Department instructed empoyees and grant recipients to “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels”
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksI have posted about this before, but... Researchers at Pitt School of Public Health (with NIH funding) developed Project Tycho where they digitized reportable disease data from across the country going back to ~1900. graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 1/6
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksPfizer’s mRNA flu vaccine outperformed the standard flu shot in a Phase 3 clinical trial, according to results published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksHey Megyn Kelly, 14-year-old Eloise would like a word: “If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good… because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.” Sound up! 🔥🔊 1/2
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksMy quote of the day Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney Young
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksAccording to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksGetting--or got--a PhD? Got boogie in your soul? Then don't be shy. Enter this year's contest--and dance, dance, dance! @science.org
- Yes Colorado!!
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- Reposted by Audrey Hendricksthank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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- Voted! I love Colorado voting by mail! 1. Text ballot is on the way 2. Vote from the comfort of my home 3. Drop at local ballot box 4. Text ballot was received 5. Text confirming ballot counted AND, because of this and audits, CO is one of the most secure and accurate places to vote! 🎉🎉
- I have loved Star Trek for decades as have many of my friends (women and men). I even taught a class with a red Star Trek uni and TNG bridge zoom background when my course suddenly went online in 2020. So yay…
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksYet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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- Reposted by Audrey Hendricks🌟 @geneticssociety.bsky.social 2025 takeover! Matthew, Davyd and Keshav brought the energy, the science and the posters. Representing the labs of @compbiologist.bsky.social, Joanne Cole, and @audreyhendricks.com, they’re pushing the boundaries of genomics.
- Thank you! I am so honored and had such a wonderful time at #ASHG. What an amazing and inspiring society!
- Boston no kings was amazing!!
- Inspiring talk by Francis Collins. Paraphrasing Jane Goodall - Hope needs and requires hard work - we can make a difference. #ASHG2025
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksWelcome to #ASHG25! As our President Sarah Tishkoff just noted, next year for the first time the ASHG exec cmte will be all women. Glad to have anyone and everyone participating in this society now and in the future.
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksAfter Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
- I recommend reading this really powerful letter from MIT!
- MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration. MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone." orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksToday my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksEvidence-based vaccination recommendations are about more than individual decisions A child infected with measles as a baby “not old enough to be vaccinated at the time of infection” recently died of a complication 💔 Vaccines protect kids who receive them — & infants & others in their communities
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksCan't publish science without political approval, what could go wrong [🎁]
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksToday, scientists know that genetics plays a role in many conditions and diseases. But back in the ’90s, geneticist Mary-Claire King was the first to link a gene to an inherited form of a common cancer.
- Just received our NHGRI NOA for year 3 of our Pathways in Genomic Data Science training program! 3 months late but I’ll take it! 🎉🎉. Thanks so much to the tireless work from the NIH community!
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksThe average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksWhen people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to surrender their rights. You give me hope—not because victory is certain but precisely because it is not.
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksLisa Cook, Federal Reserve Governor, is a Black woman with exemplary credentials, education and history of accomplishments. Trump has baselessly accused her of mortgage fraud.
- Shocking, shocking I tell you - the person they’re trying to force out is a black woman
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- Reposted by Audrey HendricksTranslation for 🧪 folks: Due to recent court order, OMB has finally released data on its withholding of $ to agencies like NIH, NSF, etc. Including the "footnote" about stopping NIH from spending billions (WSJ story from last month). Explore here: openomb.org More details in next post... 🧵
- Reposted by Audrey HendricksGreat John Oliver segment summarizing the MAHA movement... I'm amazed how they were able to package this into 30 mins. with all that has been afoot (including leveling well-deserved criticisms at "The Food Babe" and Callie Means). 🛟🧪😷 medsky health policy sociology polisky idsky
