I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp... (1/n)

HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2

Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...

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I am excited to announce a job for an Asst Prof in Plant Evolution in the dept. of Evolution and Ecology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. We're looking broadly, from macro (speciation, comparative genomics, evo-devo) to micro (pop biology, adaptive evolution, evo-eco). recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07777

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!

Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...

On Fermi Problems in Human Genetics

and some very useful numbers about human genomes to get you started!

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Typeset version of new paper out in @genomebiolevol.bsky.social. Link: academic.oup.com/gbe/article/... We identified segmental duplications in genomes from 117 vertebrate species (thanks to @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social ). We describe the properties and evolution of segmental duplications.

Genomes From 117 Vertebrate Species Reveal Rapidly Evolving Segmental-Duplication Landscapes

Abstract. Segmental duplications are major drivers of evolutionary innovation; yet, their dynamics across vertebrates remain poorly understood. Here, we id

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False positives abound in trans-eQTL discovery. The authors of @ajhgnews.bsky.social's latest article develop a method to identify the mapping artifacts that produce spurious results: https://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(26)00270-3 #ASHG @gokcumenlab.bsky.social #HumanGenetics

I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com

Full-length single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial and cell-type-specific transcript isoforms in the primate brain www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Full-length single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial and cell-type-specific transcript isoforms in the primate brain - Nature Methods

Fullscope-seq combines a spatial transcriptomics approach (Stereo-seq) with long-read sequencing. The approach provides isoform information at single-cell resolution across a large field of view, as d...

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Amazing to see this online today! A very fun project over the past couple of years (made all the better by a great team of people to work with!)

Yulin Zhang@yulinzhang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good news! Our paper (with @aabiddanda.github.io @sarahaj34.bsky.social @codushlaine.bsky.social and Priya Moorjani) is now officially online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy to see this project from the twilight months of my PhD out: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nWChgeXHnOF

Rajiv McCoy@rajivmccoy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In this collaboration with the Gokcumen lab, @alberaqil.bsky.social developed a method based on interchromosomal linkage disequilibrium to detect false positive trans-eQTLs, showcased on GTEx and MAGE. The approach could be used to filter other trans molecular QTLs, which may be similarly impacted.

🧬 New from Aqil et al! 📄 Mismapping of sequencing reads from polymorphic duplications generates spurious trans-eQTLs

Mismapping of sequencing reads from polymorphic duplications generates spurious trans-eQTLs

Polymorphic gene duplications absent from the reference genome can generate spurious trans-eQTLs. Specifically, variants tagging the polymorphic duplicate may masquerade as trans-eQTLs regulating the ...

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