We are recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Biomedical AI to open up new frontiers at the interface of genetics, biochemistry and the use of population-scale data to guide development of therapeutics! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... Come do some blue sky research w/ me & @cfoguet.bsky.social 😁

Job alert! 📣 I’m recruiting a 3-year postdoc for my ERC Stg project DIVREP, which examines within-country variation in reproductive behaviour and its determinants across the globe. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 September 2026 www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/events/postd... Please share and apply!

There probably was someone called Emily Wilson who wrote a critical review of Nolan’s Odyssey, but most of what we now think of as “Wilson’s review’ is probably the result of codifying a long tradition of anonymous Bluesky posting.

📣 Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Candidate in causal inference & health data science🔎 📍 Berlin (Responsible Health Data Analysis Team, BIH-QUEST) 📅 Starting: Oct 1, 2026 (3 years) 💼 100% E13 position 🔗 Read more and apply (deadline Aug 17): karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan... Please share!

PhD Candidate (all genders) BIH QUEST Center (Team “Responsible Health Data Analysis”)

full-time | 17.08.2026 | BIH Berlin Mitte

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While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.

Proud of @carbarjon.bsky.social who just earned her PhD after getting the cover of Nature Medicine earlier this spring! In her study we show clinically relevant allele frequencies can vary regionally across Mexico by more than even between many global populations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

JOB ALERT! I'm hiring two postdocs in Computational Genomics to join our lab in beautiful Gothenburg, Sweden. Please share and repost! CGRLab.github.io/research/

Right. Okay. This requires some backstory. In 1984, a small, low budget film studio in North Carolina produced a parody of Star Wars, called Hyperspace. It was released in the U.K. as ‘Gremloids’. The main character, shown here, was Lord Buckethead.

@sharkastic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As it's schism month, I think you should also explain the Binface / Buckethead schism

Now is the time for Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, and Greens to all get behind Count Binface. Do it.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2mo ago

All the parties need to agree an embarrassing unity candidate

The two best things on the entire internet are fanfiction and niche websites run by passionate nerds who will simply die if they don't tell you how to do one thing really well Practical heatwave solutions for your UK home: www.heatwavetoolkit.com/solutions

Solutions — Heatwave Toolkit - Solutions for a UK Heat Emergency

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I have donated to Wikipedia. I will do so no longer, unless they actually fix this. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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At long last, we have created the murderous sapient luggage from classic Discworld novel Don't Create The Murderous Sapient Luggage

Emily Darling@radicaldreamer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

💼 Three postdoc positions: Genomics and life paths (Uppsala, Amsterdam and Oslo) bga.org/content.aspx...

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Despite increasing use of observational data in public health, researchers are still hesitant to use strong causal language (for fear of overpromising). New paper and comment in @bmj.com sets out new guidance on appropriate use/misuse of causal language www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Over the course of 2025, UKB researchers were forced to move all of their data analysis to the cloud rather than working with local copies. What was the effect of this move on scientific output? Here is a simple first pass at answering that question.

Alt S2 opening storyline for Blackbeard that just occurred to me: Upset about Stede having left him, trying to reinvent himself while having a broken heart, he gets drunk one night, grabs a knife, and gives himself bangs. Everyone must compliment his new look because they’re terrified of him.

We are seeking candidates for a PhD position in biostatistics at the University of Oslo! The project is on methods for casual inference and event history analysis, motivated in particular by the study of vaccine effects. See the full call for more details. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

4-year PhD position in Biostatistics (292171) | University of Oslo

Job title: 4-year PhD position in Biostatistics (292171), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, February 4, 2026

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So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes. Topologically speaking, our bodies are less like Swiss cheese and more like a carefully constructed onesie for an octopus. 9/10

Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice #December21st #ArtAdvent

It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈

Updatedletter, I know go into soem emperical results as well: zenodo.org/records/1800...

New paper: "Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data" out at BMC Medicine: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Lots of interesting findings! Brief thread:

Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data - BMC Medicine

Background Alcohol consumption has been linked to cancer risk. Evidence is strongest for seven cancer types: breast, colorectum, oesophagus, liver, mouth, pharynx, and larynx. However, evidence suppor...

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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 9mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

This is beautiful. Art saving lives.

Friend shared a letter they have sent to girl guides. It ended with something that hit me hard: I will continue to do my best, I just wish you could have done so too. :'(

Did you know that there's a wide range of scholarships, grants and bursaries at Cambridge for postgraduate study? Here are just a few of them. Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT 🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered

Not with a bang but with a whimper

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The work of contemporary #printmaker Andrea Rich #womensart

'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt