#ColossalBio keeps on keeping on with their #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign. Their GMOs aren't #DeExtinct species; they're just making designer transgenic animals. 🦣 🦤🐺 🧟 🧪
Recently we're working with SNPs from whole genome assemblies to estimate ARGs. It's a pain to go from alignment files to vcf, keeping track of masked and invariant sites. So we wrote a snakemake/SLURM pipeline. Hope it's useful to others, and don't hesitate to post issues if there are problems!
UNICEF is deeply concerned about the deadly impact the ongoing military escalation in Iran is having on children. Approximately 180 children have reportedly been killed and many more injured.
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
If the first Lammoth is two years away, that means gene-edited embryos are about to be implanted into surrogates any time now.
I have always argued that the use of elephants in experiments like this is unethical.
My opinion has not changed.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Not a new insight, but it's truly something to see how many Westerners have internalised that the people we are supposedly freeing through our imperial warfare don't have to be alive to be free.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
This conservation genomics course looks great!!
He still runs a lab according to the piece. That can’t be safe for anybody. Much less for women.
Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...
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#JobOffer
MELIS is looking for 2 Bioinformatics Research Technicians to join our department:
💻 R, Python, STAR, DESeq2
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Apply: recruitment.melis@upf.edu (Ref. MELIS-PSR-INDF-2026-06)
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My ethnicity is Black. I capitalize the B because the culture created by my ancestors in the US is monumental in its own right and distinct from other members of a shared diaspora.
Hard pass on twisting those facts into ahistorical talking points indistinguishable from white ethnonationalism.
I wouldn’t put it this way for research, as science isn’t about winning. But I also returned last week from China with similar sentiments about Chinese prowess.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
Magnificent work by @daniela-oaks.bsky.social and team in Mexico 🇲🇽
La UNAM, que no tiene perfil aquí en Bluesky (hay que presionar!) con su equipo de TV UNAM Global hicieron un pequeño video para contextualizar los resultados de nuestro estudio. Se los dejo por si le quieren echar un ojo, dura 2 minutos :p #HistoriasUNAM
youtu.be/WYwBzb2LN6s?...
Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.
Very appropiate card from my ”Kindness” card deck after witnessing unfairnes at a systemic level displaying at its full.
🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧬SedaDNA Postdoc position💥 2 years Starts 2026, apply by 1st March.
Join Aleks Pluskowski at Reading & me at NHM. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Found out today that an institution where I’m a guest speaker can’t help me with arrangements for accommodations (arrangements, not costs) because I come with my family. Pretty ironic given today we‘re meant to celebrate women in science.
A conceptual illustration of multiple people looking to center, with conversation bubbles with baby and academic related drawings inside. Hedline is: As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury."
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
“Success in US science has come from sustained funding and welcoming the best talent from around the world, yet both of these advantages are in decline”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?
People
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!
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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/
Sin palabras después de ver el espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Tazón ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 Gracias Benito.
Bad Bunny wearing an OCASIO 64 jersey
Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷
