adelphigenetics.org/events/annua... put Thursday 22 October in the diary and register for engaging and exciting free one day conference: “Complexity of neural function - the brain in charge” Must register.
Boris Lenhard
@borislenhard.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Biology, Imperial College London MRC Investigator, Computational Regulatory Genomics, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences Interested in eukaryotic promoters, enhancers and long-range developmental regulation
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Singapore is funding a generous Visiting Professorship — I'm recruiting AI researchers (academia or industry, based outside SG) to join @astar-gis.bsky.social for 20% of their time. We're tightly integrating AI with wet-lab experiments for training + validation. Deadline soon. DM me. Please share!
The whole Neville Chamberlain thing is working out about as well as expected for the National Academies.
Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?
A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict.
arstechnica.com
Voting for Brexit or Boris Johnson did not, in the great scheme of things, demand support for anything truly toxic. Voting for Farage, by contrast, absolutely & obviously does. This is why the people who brought you the first two disasters are working so hard to detoxify him, in two main ways… 1/2
Trying to hold demons to account over in Never Never Land.
Just in case you’re feeling even vaguely optimistic about anything right now, please note that two UK political parties populated & led by profoundly racist people are currently being described as merely ‘right-wing’ in pretty much every corner of the UK media. This is how the worst stuff happens…
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
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#RIP Pierre Chambon (1931-2026) 1963 PARP 1970 RNA Pol II 1975 Nucleosome 1977 Split genes 1980 Promoter 1983 enhancer 1986 Nuclear receptor
Don’t. Outsource. Your. Morality. To. “How is this playing in a West Midlands marginal”. It is corrosive.
Two (or more) PhD student positions are open with me in protein structure evolution (using AI). Please apply/spread the word. su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Bioinformatics
The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics SciLifeLab ( SciLifeLab ) is a national center for molecular biosciences with a focus on health and environmental research. The center combines frontl
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Germ cells have their own versions of core transcription factors and fertility depends on them. We're hiring a PhD student to figure out how! 📢 Fly genetics + proteomics + genomics. Fully funded. Aarhus University 🇩🇰 Deadline May 1 👇 Please share with anyone who might be interested!
phd.nat.au.dk
The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam
What's something that experts/practitioners in your field universally agree upon, but that remains a "hot take" among the general public?
May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk
LondonEvoDevo
meeting's website
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The Great Barrington Declaration is one of the most wrongheaded, shortsighted, cruel, callous, and villainous arguments ever made. Literally ever. Representing the interests of big business, its authors ought to be remembered in infamy. So too should their allies.
The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. https://cnn.it/3NtbZYM
Transformer-based AI has boosted @nanoporetech.com sequencing accuracy, but at a cost to portability due to GPU demands. Our new work, spearheaded by Sara Bakic, introduces Campolina link.springer.com/article/10.1... to improve nanopore signal segmentation for event-based mappers.
Campolina: a deep neural framework for accurate segmentation of nanopore signals - Genome Biology
Nanopore sequencing enables real-time, long-read analysis by processing raw signals as they are produced. A key step, segmentation of signals into events, is typically handled algorithmically, struggl...
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Delighted to see this published: H3K115 acetylation is associated with fragile nucleosomes at CpG island promoters and active regulatory sites. Great work from all contributors; Yatendra Kumar, @illingworth-lab.bsky.social @eliasfriman.bsky.social @helink.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Reform: Stop the boats! Deport people! Starmer: OMG we have to beat the Reform Party! STOP MORE BOATS! DEPORT MORE PEOPLE! ISLAND OF STRANGERS! Hannah Spencer: Everybody deserves a nice life. Starmer: Hannah Spencer is more interested in dividing people than uniting them.
The @steinaerts.bsky.social lab is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop next-generation sequence-to-function models for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers. More info & how to apply 👉 https://vib.ai/en/opportunities#/job-description/130090
New paper from my group in @science.org : "A small polymerase ribozyme that can synthesise itself and its complementary strand" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Outstanding work by @edogia.bsky.social
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US. If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
The current situation of NIH science is a tragedy. So much was lost in 2025. Many of us are struggling to keep afloat. I only hope that in 2026 more people wake up to the fact that USA science has been deeply damaged. We are resilient, but we are in grave danger of losing ourselves./end
Lovely review by @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social of my book ‘The Tree of Life’ in the Wall Street Journal today. Free guest link if you’re interested. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘The Tree of Life’ Review: The Ancestor at the Root of It All
Properly deciphering the branching pathways of evolution could unlock the history of every component of natural biology.
wsj.com
Interested in cell adhesion, evolution of multicellularity, or developing tools for emerging marine models? My lab at UM is hiring a postdoc, and the application is now open: 🔗 tinyurl.com/28jvu4aa If you know anyone looking for a postdoc, please pass this along!
Post Doctoral Associate - Biology
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🚨 My lab is hiring at all levels! Interested in animal origins & evolutionary cell biology? I'm recruiting a postdoc, PhD students & a research assistant to study the molecular evolution of cell adhesion using marine invertebrates + comparative genomics. 🔗: clarkelab.com/join/ Please repost!
I am delighted that my group will be a part of this.
1. We start a major consortium programme funded by the sLoLa of BBSRC (shorturl.at/aUbnt) to decipher the semantic rules of enhancer arrangements driving regulator genes of development (shorturl.at/6qcjW).
Good to see the peer reviewed version of this in print The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube A global temporal chromatin program operates across the vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity www.cell.com/developmenta...
The cis-regulatory logic integrating spatial and temporal patterning in the vertebrate neural tube
Zhang et al. identify a global temporal chromatin program that operates across the developing vertebrate nervous system to control neural cell diversity. This mechanism, which involves Nr6a1 and NFIA/...
cell.com
Our study on mdka transcriptional regulation during zebrafish brain regeneration has been accepted in FEBS Journal and will be online soon! 🚀 A related review from our group on immunity & inflammation in zebrafish brain regeneration is also available in FEBS Journal: doi.org/10.1111/febs...
doi.org
@andreaserio.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc to lead an exciting MNDA-funded project using multi-omics to study long axons in motor neurons and how they shape susceptibility to #ALS. Get in touch for any questions and apply by 2 December: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...