We have a postdoc position available in the lab and would like to spread the word. Please apply if you are interested! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Big conferences are impressive. But how often do you actually meet someone there? 🤔 The Epigenetics Meeting was created differently. We have a great line-up of speakers with exciting research topics, ample time for discussion, and very familiar setting. Join us now: events.ie-freiburg.mpg.de

Our lab @mpi-mp-potsdam.bsky.social is hiring two postdoctoral researchers to join our ERC-funded GRAFT project on mobile small RNAs in plants. 🔗 Details: jobs.mpimp-golm.mpg.de/jobposting/b... 📅 Deadline: July 31, 2026 Please share!

We are very happy to announce the six titles shortlisted for the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026. From health misinformation to the fishing industry, these mind-growing reads represent the best of science writing from the past year. #SciBooks bit.ly/4vgp5Zm

Shortlist unveiled for Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize 2026 | Royal Society

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Frank Grosveld has been a giant in the field of long-range gene regulation. Inspirational to me and I am sure for many others. Rest in peace.

Lluis Montoliu@lluismontoliu.bsky.social · last mo.

Frank Grosveld, born in 1948, passed away last Friday. He was a colossal scientist in the transcriptional control of gene expression during development and helped us understand the complex regulation of beta-globin genes. His work will remain as a reference. May he rest in peace.

Major development in the #Transposon world! Repbase is joining the Dfam project and becomes open-access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unifying Repbase and Dfam: a new open foundation for transposable element research - Mobile DNA

Repbase and Dfam, the two foundational resources for transposable element annotation, are being unified into a single, fully open access framework, with Repbase released under CC-0 and its core curati...

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Dfam Database of Transposable Elements@dfam.bsky.social · last mo.

A New Open Foundation for TE Research: GIRI is transitioning the full Repbase collection to an open-access license and joining the Dfam effort to help build a unified open resource for transposable element research. Full announcement: tinyurl.com/48665xss

The 1% from QED has made for an interesting debate here! My initial thoughts - Highlighting research esp preprints is a good thing - Lists are good, rankings maybe not so much - What does a ranking even mean? - Can the LLM read the figures? Isn’t looking at the data how we evaluate research!?

The #Rstats development team receives some well-deserved recognition! "As part of the prize, the R team - who have thus-far been unpaid [for R work] - will get to split $1m (£755,000) between them." "The Oxford professor making sense of the world's data" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data

Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Polish phage science meets Polish visual storytelling 🇵🇱🦠 To celebrate our last paper, we collaborated with an artist who previously worked on The Witcher 3 — to create a comic about phages and why understanding them matters in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Comic below 👇

Rafal Mostowy@rafalmostowy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🎉 New in @plosbiology.org: Temperate phages of Klebsiella pneumoniae show capsule-driven host tropism — but how? The working assumption was depolymerases: enzymes that chew through the bacterial sugar capsule. Turns out that's not the whole story. 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

scRNA-seq has partly ruined murmurations for me...

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

Super happy to share the published version of our study: “Germline sequence variation within the ribosomal DNA is associated with human complex traits” in Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...!

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We are looking for a new group leader to join the IGH (Montpellier, France). I can’t wait to meet my future colleague! Apply :-) More infos here: igh.cnrs.fr/join-igh-as-...

Join IGH as Group Leader - IGH

The Institute of Human Genetics invites applications for a Principal Investigator position in its main research areas. Read more...

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I appreciate someone took the time to write this. I profoundly disagree with their view, but if I take the spirit of what they're saying as a good faith attempt to raise a mental issue, there's at least a conversation to be had. Let's have it 1/🧵 www.science.org/content/arti... #AcademicChatter

Very excited to announce the FIRST symposium on epigenome editing! These tools are becoming widely used in mol bio, ag & therapy. It's time to bring leaders together to discuss this rapidly growing and exciting field. And why not in Paris! Please register & share! (1/2) ctrlepiedit.sciencesconf.org

Graphical abstract from our new paper in Nucleic Acids Research with @saramaciasrna.bsky.social 🧬 DGCR8 prevents accumulation of endogenous dsRNA derived from Alu elements within mRNAs, avoiding aberrant activation of the interferon response. academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Control of retrotransposon-driven activation of the interferon response by the double-stranded RNA binding protein DGCR8

Abstract. The type I interferon (IFN) response is the main innate immune pathway against viruses in mammals. This pathway must be tightly regulated to prev

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These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Excited to share our latest publication on interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood, spearheaded by the amazing Olivia Grant and co-led with @leo-schalkwyk.bsky.social and Meena Kumari. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Systematic investigation of interindividual variation of DNA methylation in human whole blood - Genome Biology

Background Interindividual genetic variability is well characterised, but we still lack a complete catalogue of loci displaying variable and stable epigenetic patterns. Results Here, we report a catal...

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We're excited to announced that our 2nd Annual QMUL Centre for Epigenetics Conference is happening on June 18th, 2026 at Mile End! To find out more and book your ticket, please follow this link: www.qmul.ac.uk/epigenetics/... The deadline to book your tickets is Monday, June 8th 2026.

If you want to explore ncRNA dynamics during mammalian development, love microscopy, and are not afaraid of transposons biology, apply‼️ We are looking for a postdoc to join our team at @imbavienna.bsky.social More details 👇🏻

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology@imbavienna.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are hiring! Join the Jachowicz lab as a postdoctoral researcher. The project focuses on understanding the dynamics of ncRNAs using high-resolution and single-molecule microscopy approaches. Link below 👇

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QMUL Centre for Epigenetics @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're excited to announced that our 2nd Annual QMUL Centre for Epigenetics Conference is happening on June 18th, 2026 at Mile End! To find out more and book your ticket, please follow this link: www.qmul.ac.uk/epigenetics/... The deadline to book your tickets is Monday, June 8th 2026.

We are hiring! Join the Jachowicz lab as a postdoctoral researcher. The project focuses on understanding the dynamics of ncRNAs using high-resolution and single-molecule microscopy approaches. Link below 👇

Transposable element regulation as a therapeutic target for #Aging activating Suv39h1 inhibiting KDM4A inhibiting TET CRISPRi/a to program TEs in the genome #OpenBiol 2026 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...

This will be a great meeting! Don't forget to register!

The Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research@loke-ctr.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Exciting News! 🚀 Registration Open! | Loke CTR Annual Meeting 2026 🎉 📅 16-17 July 2026 📍 St John’s College, Cambridge | 💻 Hybrid conference (in-person & online) 🔬 Epigenetics of embryogenesis and placentation 📌 To find out more and to register www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/ctrconferenc...

Our paper is now out in Nature: “Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres” www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short thread on how retrotransposons helped give rise to yeast point centromeres. 1/14

Ancient co-option of LTR retrotransposons as yeast centromeres - Nature

Evolutionarily related ‘proto-point’ centromeres providing resolution to the evolutionary origins of point centromeres are identified in yeast, and comparison shows they evolved in an ancestor with re...

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Hot off the press, our latest publication on the functional role of gene body methylation (gBM). academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Work spearheaded by Jakub Zastapilo with help from @robynemm.bsky.social and Liudmila Mikheeva and co-led by Marco Catoni and @ubechtold.bsky.social 1/3

Gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression in plants

Abstract. Non-genetic variability in gene expression is an inevitable consequence of the stochastic nature of processes driving transcription and translati

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