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/

A delayed post, but I successfully defended my dissertation! I just began work as a bioinformatician working for Tanaq Management Services on the Microbetrace team at CDC.

My defense is this Friday at 2 pm ET! Feel free to join via zoom or in person if you're curious about what I've done over the past 5 years.

I have a scihub tattoo. Science should be accessible for all, and there should never be any compromise.

Hadas Weiss@hadas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

To everyone whom I secretly thought was exaggerating how miserable dissertation writing is at the end... My bad.

Howdy y'all! I'm planning to graduate in May. If you are in need of a postdoc with knowledge of phylogenetics, graph databases, and Nextflow pipelines (or know of someone who is), please send them my way!

This is how to protect your campus from ICE. Pass it on.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Hey @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and I are both Carleton grads and this fucking rocks - love to see a college protect its students from the goons instead of cutting deals with the regime.

As a VA nurse, Alex Pretti was a member of AFGE. This union also reps Border Patrol, and may have repped Pretti's killer. I talked to VA workers who are furious and want Border Patrol out of AFGE. "For a union member to kill another is a fundamental betrayal of what a union is supposed to be.”

Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union

Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.

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So much work still to do to break the glass ceiling! Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review

Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

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hold on, these are the REGULAR expressions??

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

NATURE has done a terrific (if depressing) job of summarizing the devastating cuts to science during Trump's first year. At this point, only the willingness of the House and Senate to restore research budgets prevents scientific extinction. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

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Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance

A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.

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having lefty inner feelings or even voting “correctly” don’t really mean shit if what you do in life is actively harmful to society or helping the right wing and its causes

Dunno who needs to hear this, but before your start writing your reviewer comments, eat a cookie. Only you can prevent rude reviews.

If you are in the US, you should be helping your local immigrant rights group. Attacks on our neighbors are not isolated to Charlotte or Chicago! Every little effort to resist fascism is meaningful, and we have a duty to do what we can while we can.

yes, it’s really that bad.

Liz Szabo@lizszabo.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The absurdity of not being able to use a .gov site as a reliable source anymore.

Demetre Daskalakis@drdemetre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Weaponization of the premier public health agency in the country for personal clout and gain. The CDC website should not be trusted given the fact that it is controlled by people who will profit from spurious and false attempts to link vaccines to autism. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists" linktr.ee/apply_heat

“Data available upon reasonable request” is academic language for you can get my data OVER MY DEAD BODY

Both Texas A&M and Indiana University should lose accreditation.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.

Cornell has folded to the fascists.

Neil Lewis, Jr.@neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Cornell has reached an agreement with the federal government to restore our funding: statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...

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GISAID has been a terrible repository from day one. Any database with owners that act capriciously against researchers for sharing their opinions is a bad database. As things continue to get worse, we probably need to consider when it becomes irresponsible to promote GISAID by using their data.

Dr Emma Hodcroft@firefoxx66.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health

Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new

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Covering this as a national ban is absolutely correct, and is the only framing that it needs to be. Its horrifying. There's no reason to think they'd stop at kids too.

NPR@npr.org · 11mo ago

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny - Communications Biology

Phylogenetic and machine learning analyses reveal that bats (order: Chiroptera) are not a group with uniform viral epidemic potential: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within dist...

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This Saturday and Sunday, the International Society of Nonbinary Scientists will be hosting its first symposium. Check out these three public flash talk events where nonbinary researchers from across scientific disciplines will present their work. Join us to learn about enbies doing cool science!

Final committee meeting... DONE. Defending in the first week of April, so if you're looking for postdocs or know someone who is, let me know!

Does anyone have a textbook recommendation for teaching genomics (including recent technologies for genome assembly and annotation) to undergraduate/graduate students?