Russians who acted against the war (e.g. donated to Ukraine) functionally lost russian citizenship today (no passport extension, no consulate services etc.) Unless they procured another passport since the war started, or can still get one before their russian one expires, they are now stranded

Mediazona English@en.zona.media · yesterday

Putin promptly signed the bill adopted by Duma in July targeting anti-war Russians abroad. Anyone with a criminal conviction or unpaid “political” fines loses their bank accounts. Also banned: property deals, travel passports, marriage, notary services en.zona.media/article/2026...

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Trombone Shorty: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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So, bluesky, where is the discussion of the absolute insane things AI is doing in the realm of mathematics? It seems like we're nearly at the inflection point where the models are as good as human domain experts, and soon may well be better. Is that discourse only happening on twitter?

Looking for a PhD? Applications are now open for PhD positions at the Max Delbrück Center. 🧵 www.mdc-berlin.de/career/jobs/...

this toolkit looks very useful!!

Rob Patro@robp.bsky.social · last wk.

New preprint🚨(*long* time coming)! We introduce seqproc: an efficient, flexible, and concise tool for describing and transforming sequencing-read geometry. The aim: make complex protocols easy to specify & transform without giving up speed or accuracy. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

Thank you @natgenet.nature.com for this nice Research Briefing www.nature.com/articles/s41... on our recent paper reporting live-cell measurements of Sox2 promoter bursting kinetics when varying its genomic distance from the SCR enhancer 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genomic position of an enhancer modulates bursting dynamics of the cognate promoter - Nature Genetics

We show that, in a genomic locus with minimal complexity, the distance between promoter and enhancer modulates the frequency of clustered transcriptional bursts. Thus, besides the nucleotide sequence,...

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Whimsical painted scenes from a 3,200 year-old ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus in which animals take on human roles. A lion and gazelle play a board game (probably senet), a hippo and a canine brew beer, and a cat waits on a mouse! 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

We need this in computational biology

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2w ago

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

The prompt used to solve the older (graphs and cycles) conjecture. It's super interesting in itself!

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 2w ago

here’s one: cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4...

Kyiv's Lukianivska metro station has reopened and the metro is operating normally. Damage after Russian missile attacks is clearly visible.. #Ukraine

Linus Torvalds on the use of LLMs in linux kernel development:

Giuseppe Navarria@techdesign.rocks · 3w ago

Linus Torvalds clarifies the Linux Kernel position on AI use. It's not one to be celebrated but, if you're an engineer, as I've been saying, it's one to be understood. source: lore.kernel.org/linux-media/...

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning last week. I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/tal...

What will be left for us to work on?

ICML 2026 invited keynote — slides and edited transcript, presented click-by-click as delivered. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University.

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Our preprint is now out in @natgenet.nature.com ! doi.org/10.1038/s415... We measured Sox2 promoter bursting dynamics with the SCR enhancer positioned at different distances within a genomic locus devoid of confounding effects in mESC: Main findings in the 🧵 below:

Enhancer control of promoter activity and variability via frequency modulation of clustered transcriptional bursts - Nature Genetics

Tünnermann et al. use live-cell imaging to study promoter activity under the control of an enhancer inserted at different genomic distances. RNA production from the promoter occurs in clusters of tran...

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Luca Giorgetti lab @FMI@lucagiorgetti.bsky.social · last yr.

Celebrating 10 years of our lab with a new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... How does enhancer location within a TAD control transcriptional bursts from a cognate promoter? Experiments by Jana Tünnermann and modelling by Gregory Roth

Ilya Osterman is opening a new lab at EMBL Hamburg and is now hiring. Highly recommended - a fantastic opportunity to do top-notch science in phage biology and bacterial immunity

Osterman Ilya@ostermanilya.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Research Technician (Osterman Group – Metabolism-driven immunity)

EMBL Hamburg / CSSB The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is Europe’s flagship life sciences organization, with more than 110 independent research groups across Heidelberg, Hamburg, Grenobl...

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A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. I applaud S22 for honesty because I would've cheated.

The @ligo.org – Virgo – KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events that adds 161 events to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390 🤯

We are looking for someone to lead the new Facility for Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg — please spread the word and apply if you are interested!

Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics@mpi-ie.bsky.social · last mo.

🚀 Job alert: We’re starting a new Facility – and you can lead it! The MPI-IE & @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social are hiring a Head of Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics to launch and lead a brand-new Core Facility in Freiburg 🇩🇪. Once-in-lifetime-chance. Details ⬇️ jobs.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/jobposting/b...

We have an open professor position at my institute, the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo! www.iqb.u-tokyo.ac.jp/recruiting/2...

In each diagram, the green area and blue area are equal

“If you point out factually incorrect bullshit that republicans argue for then you shouldn’t be surprised when they try to cut your funding so dont do it (implicitly only applies to cases where the author agrees w/republicans)“ is basically what this nature op-ed is going for

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last mo.

"If scientists align with campaigns that pitch their opponents as anti-science, they should not be surprised if greater polarization is the result." I have some real strong thoughts on this piece. Let's talk about it... 1/? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How good is MiniBWA, the successor to BWA? To test it, I ran MiniBWA on sequencing from 76 different species, comparing mapping speed, rate and accuracy with BWA MEM. In short, it's really good. If you map short reads, it's well worth your time. andrewcarroll.github.io/2026/06/30/t...

We're delighted to announce the 9th Austrian Cryo-EM (ACE) Symposium - Sept 24-25, 2026 at IMP, Vienna. Organized with @istaresearch.bsky.social 🎤 Abstract deadline: Aug 5, 2026 📅 Info & registration: imp.ac.at/research/cryo-em-symposium/

We're now at day 28 of setting a new record daily global sea-surface temperature.

My department, Neurobiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington (nbio.uw.edu), is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor, application deadline 09/30/26. It's a broad search — molecular to organismal, all of neuroscience/physiology/biophysics welcome. apply.interfolio.com/187735

Excited to see James' Genome-wide Absolute Quantification of Looping paper out in @natsmb.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41... This has been in collaboration with @lucagiorgetti.bsky.social @leonidmirny.bsky.social @zechnerlab.bsky.social labs. Brief thread below on some key updates

Anders Sejr Hansen@andersshansen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to share James Jusuf's preprint: By integrating Micro-C with SuperRes Live-Imaging we can calibrate genomics&imaging to perform absolute quantification of looping (e.g. this loop is present 3%) We quantify mESC 36k loops: <loops> are generally rare (2.3%) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Reannotation is not the most glamorous part of genomics. It does not generate splashy press releases and doesn’t feed the obsession with CNS papers. But infrastructure matters. And so does interpretation consistency."

Sophien Kamoun@kamounlab.bsky.social · last mo.

I just published No mokusatsu in our genomics—Why we reannotated hundreds of plant genomes with Helixer and why you should care. #biology #bioinformatics #genomics kamounlab.medium.com/no-mokusatsu...

Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them

the readers can check themselves. But then how important a given discovery is for a field and beyond is by definition out of reach for current AI in its current state. I am afraid that in the very best case, AI will sound like an old grumpy scientist entrenched in their own convictions.