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Career Advice | 4 Ways to Better Grade Team Projects

Simply grading the final group output is insufficient, Lauren Vicker and Tim Franz write. https://bit.ly/47k8aw1

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Monitoring gene expression in the brain with a simple blood test?

In collaboration with @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social & his lab we figured out how to do it nonhuman primates using noninvasive neuroengineering of synthetic serum markers.

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Blue graphic with light blue and white text reads, "JAX | 3 Reasons to Attend | Human and Mammalian Genetics and Genomics: McKusick Short Course | July 20 – 31, 2026 | Bar Harbor, Maine & Virtual."

Blue graphic with light blue and white text reads, "#1 | Gain insights from experienced medical geneticists diagnosing rare conditions in patients during the impactful Human Genetics Clinic."

Blue graphic with light blue and white text reads, "#2 | Advance your skills with interactive workshops in bioinformatics, population genetics, mutagenesis and more."

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🧬 The go-to learning experience in #genetics and #genomics for trainees, clinicians and scientists for over 65 years!

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#RareDiseaseDay #PhDSky #MedSky #GeneChat

Explore highlights for @jacksonlab.bsky.social's McKusick Short Course 👇

Adding that there are many folks outside of NIH whose names you will probably never know who quietly went about their tremendously important work and trained young scientists while fighting for NIH funding with one hand tied behind their back b/c the NIH refused to fix the Ginther gap.

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Have you ever wondered 🤔... Does phenotypic variance respond to environmental perturbation? Does it have a genetic basis? Are mean and variance regulating loci exposed to different selection pressures? These and more questions are explored in our new preprint 🔥

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.

Check out ME!

Everybody hates Cory Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.

Everybody hates Cory

Needless to say, there’s no way this scale is consistent with lawful due process — Trump is only hiring 100 new immigration judges. These concentration camps are intended to be so awful that detainees “voluntarily” agree to self-deport to end the trauma. More: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

ReverseGWAS identifies combined phenotypes associated with a genotype in GWA studies AbstractMotivation. Traditional genome-wide association studies (GWAS) aim to uncover the genetic variants associated with a single phenotype of interest (

ReverseGWAS identifies combined phenotypes associated with a genotype in GWA studies academic.oup.com/bioinformati... 🧬💻🧪 #Rstats pkg github.com/Leonardini/r...

Proud father to a beautiful, 14 paper special issue 🥲

🚨 Please share! My lab is hiring a Research Assistant! This is a great opportunity to gain experience with cutting-edge systems neuroscience techniques in a collaborative research environment. If you're interested, check the link for further details: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

AlphaFold Database welcomes community datasets Latest AlphaFold Database update adds high-value datasets for microbial and viral proteins, generated by specialist communities

The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities.

This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases.

Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Genetic legacy and recent cross of two ancient lineages underlie the rebound of the world’s rarest primate Fecal genomic analysis of Hainan gibbon reveals roles of demography, recombination, and behavioral regulation during its recovery.

The genetic legacy of Hainan gibbons has mysteriously helped them rebound from the brink of extinction—more than tripling in number since 2003—a new #ScienceAdvances study finds. https://scim.ag/4aMvowt

Procedural separation of appetitive and consummatory behaviors in operant ethanol self-administration: A review and open source analytical framework doi.org/10.1111/acer...

Excited to share our study in Neuron led by
@travisgoode.bsky.social, a K99 PDF (interviewing for Faculty) and Sahay lab team with collaborators at BROAD, Hopkins, and UW Seattle, defining a neural circuit that links prior experience with feeding behavior. Open Access: sahaylab.com/publications

Diversity Outbred Mice Interested in learning about an application of Diversity Outbred mice to study complex traits in a population study? Learn about genetically diverse mouse models, the Collaborative Cross (CC) and Dive...

🐭 Genetically diverse mouse models better reflect population-level variation.

Explore how Collaborative Cross (CC) & Diversity Outbred (DO) mice are used to study #ComplexTraits in this free online resource from @jacksonlab.bsky.social: education.learning.jax.org/diversity-ou...

"Silence is not neutrality; it is permission."

Wise words on what higher education needs right now from
@arneduncan.bsky.social

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In unprecedented move, giant monkey research center may become a primate sanctuary University votes to consider ending all studies at Oregon National Primate Research Center. But cost and feasibility are still in doubt

Biomedical researchers are shocked by a seemingly sudden decision to consider converting one of the largest primate research centers in the U.S. into a monkey sanctuary. Costs could exceed $250 million, and it's unclear who would pay for it--and if its even possible. My latest for @science.org

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

L’Oréal UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowships support women and non binary researchers in Australia and New Zealand with funding and mentoring.

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/the-loreal-u...

Another Claude project: a static site that pulls in GWAS SNP data from ensemble, multiple public biobanks, open targets, gtex, eqtl catalog, and OMIM.

sashagusev.github.io/gwas_lookup/

Davis Summer Population Genomics Program Want to learn population genetics? Please fill out this form to indicate your potential interest in a 2-week intensive online summer population genetics course taught by Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra and Graham...

Fun news! @gcbias.bsky.social and I are teaching a 2-week online population genetics workshop this summer to raise money for the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis. We're trying to gauge interest -- please fill this out if you might be interested! And please share broadly!

$1.65M per day in DC alone. That’s approximately two NIH R01 Grant *years* burned per day. Ninety *five year* R01s projects burned in the last seven months with no end in sight.

Instead of lasting scientific advance we get….what?
Civil rights violations and authoritarian replacement of democracy.

First they came for DEI and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.

Then they came for gender identity research and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.

Then they came for the NPRCs, and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.

New research sheds light on the biological roots of anxiety | King's College London The largest genetic study of anxiety disorders to date has identified 58 genetic variants associated with anxiety, most of which have not been identified before now.

Is there a biological explanation for #anxiety?

New research from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social has identified 58 genetic variants associated with the condition, most of which have not been identified before now.

Click the link to learn more👇

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This is my fave conference. Ive been going for >20 years. The people who go are the best. The science is great. Join us!

(PDF) P-hacking with one prompt PDF | This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara.

TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Column | Watching another killing on our phones The killing of Alex Pretti by immigration agents in Minneapolis was captured on phone video, and now we watch it on our phones again and again. Is this healthy?

Monica Hesse really captures how surreal and horrible these times are: wapo.st/4bXD93H

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and used him as “bait” The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month, according to school officials.

“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused."

Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.