@mexpositoalonso.bsky.social has officially converted me into a plant person 🌱 #SMBE2026

Sad to have missed the opportunity to present my postdoc work at #SMBE2026, but it you’re interested in archaic introgression and how it has shaped the gene regulatory landscape in modern humans, please do reach out! 🧬

Join us! Research Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social with me & @sj-marzi.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics & epigenetics in ageing & neurodegeneration using multiomics/bioinformatics. Collaboration with Alexi Nott & @rikeshrajani.bsky.social Closing date: 2nd June

Dementia Researcher@dementiaresearcher.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Research Fellow role at UCL @ukdri.ac.uk with @dervissalih1.bsky.social studying oligodendrocytes, genetics and epigenetics in ageing and neurodegeneration using multiomics and bioinformatics. Closing date: 2nd June www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Oof, one of my heroes.

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

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🚨 WOPA needs a volunteer website admin! If you know WordPress & want to help keep paleoanthropology accessible, get in touch. DM/email for details. #volunteer #WordPress #Paleoanthropology

As someone who recently moved to Copenhagen to start a postdoc with @lauritsskov.bsky.social, I can highly recommend the city, the supervisor, and the research 🧬 Join us!

Laurits Skov@lauritsskov.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Are you interested in doing a PhD in Copenhagen? Interested in studying Neanderthals and Denisovans which live on in our genomes? Than you are more than welcome to apply to join my group starting Jan 2026 :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI... Please reach out if you have any questions!

Computational biologists, sign up! 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 Don’t miss out on the chance to share your work and exchange ideas. Abstract deadline: 12th August See you there 🤓

@londonomics.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you an Early Career Researcher in bioinformatics? Then this symposium is for you 💡 Join us for a day of talks, networking and career discussions. Present your work to get fresh new ideas and the chance to win prizes 💸 Featuring @avsecz.bsky.social of Google DeepMind as our keynote speaker⚡️

Londonomics is back with its second workshop of the year: computer science for bioinformaticians 💡 4 pm @ UCL, with a pizza and drinks social after for an opportunity to network with fellow computational ECRs dotted around London ⚡️

@londonomics.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us today for a workshop on computer science for Bioinformaticians! 🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨‍💻 More info and tickets (only a few left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic...

Excited to share that a chapter of my PhD has just been published in Nature Communications! We profiled the transcriptomic and chromatin landscapes of microglia expressing the different APOE variants, which were xenografted into the brains of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) mouse model 🧠🧬 1/n

And just like that, 5 years in the Marzi lab @sj-marzi.bsky.social have come to an end. Couldn’t have asked for a better team ✨ Super excited to say, I’m switching fields and will be working with ancient human genomes in the Skov lab @lauritsskov.bsky.social in Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Excited to see a part of my PhD work out in the 🌍 We developed CHAS using 🧠 acetylation profiles, but it can be extended! Would love to hear from you if you try it with other tissues and cell types 🫁 🩸🫀 Lucky to have worked on this with an excellent team, more details below 👇🏻

Sarah Marzi@sj-marzi.bsky.social · last yr.

We are so happy to share our latest paper "CHAS infers cell type-specific signatures in bulk brain acetylation studies of neurological and psychiatric disorders". www.cell.com/cell-reports... @ukdri.ac.uk @kingsioppn.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social

This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

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Karolin Luger@nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · last yr.

Great summary - please share www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Londonomics is back! ⚡️ Join us next Thursday 4pm @ The Francis Crick Institute. Don’t sleep on this - only one ticket left!

@londonomics.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re excited to bring you a series of talks and workshops 💥 Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩‍💻 🧬 More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic... Talk followed by a networking social 🍕

We’re excited to bring you a series of talks and workshops 💥 Kicking things off with all things single-cell analysis with Dr @kristinaulicna.bsky.social 👩‍💻 🧬 More info and FREE tickets (only 1 left!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/londonomic... Talk followed by a networking social 🍕

📬New job 📬 Postdoc role on the AMBER project, to undertake genetic analyses of antidepressant response. Join us! Important science, rich data, nice people. Please repost. @kingsioppn.bsky.social #depression #statistics #genetics #pharmacogenetics #antidepressants my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

openRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons [including brain evolution] www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons - Nature

The cis-regulatory functions of human accelerated regions of genomic loci and their potential contribution to human brain evolution are revealed.

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Thanks to the discovery of sodium channels and experiments in giant squid 🦑 and much more in between, we now have a non-addictive pain treatment 💊 Brilliant storytelling of why long term funding of basic science across disciplines is critical.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

I have been trying to find the time to move away from the polical hellscape we find ourselves in to finish and share a bluetorial about science. This helps me remember what this is all about. Ironically, it is about the treatment of pain.

I was part of the Marzi lab for my masters, PhD, and now postdoc. @sj-marzi.bsky.social is an enthusiastic scientist and supportive mentor. The science is cool and the people are even cooler. Can’t recommend enough!!! 🤓 Apply apply apply 👇🏻

Sarah Marzi@sj-marzi.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Our lab is looking for a bioinformatics postdoc. We have lots of exciting projects to work on, including single cell (epi-)genomics, microglia xenotransplantations and nanopore long reads splicing analysis. Look out for the official advert next week and get in touch in the meantime 🧬🧠

Just very happy to have our paper out today! A big thanks to all our co-authors, and to Nikolai and @steinaerts.bsky.social for the teamwork over the past years. If you are interested in using our models for cross-species enhancer studies, check out crested.readthedocs.io/en/stable/mo... 🙂

VIB.AI@vibai.bsky.social · last yr.

In a new study, Nikolai Hecker, Niklas Kempynck et al. in the team of @steinaerts.bsky.social explore 300 million years of brain evolution through the lens of enhancer codes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated postdoc with cell or molecular biology expertise. Excellent #epigenetics, #chromatin training & networking opportunities @qmulepigenetics.bsky.social DM me for inquiries pl apply/share tinyurl.com/m6jnksk5

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ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words join us above them .

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Londonomics has made the move over to Bluesky 🦋 We now have 200+ members and we’re excited to bring you together at workshops, networking events, and the annual symposium! 💡 We’ll be kicking things off with a NextFlow workshop in March 👀

@londonomics.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi! We’re the Londonomics Network - a network for early career computational researchers (ECCRs) based in London 🇬🇧 We host monthly events including co-working sessions, socials, and workshops 🧑‍💻👩‍💻 Register for free to be a member: www.londonomics.co.uk Stay tuned for our next event in March 💡

Here is a growing list of conferences and schools in gene regulation for 2025 generegulation.org/conferences-.... You can order/filter this list by the date, deadline, location. Please reply here to suggest new events* *should be specific to gene regulation

Our long term project has finally been published - genetic diversity is lost worldwide, but we can also make a difference and conservation actions matters. Find out more in the Science news here www.science.org/content/arti... #Consgen

Wide range of Earth’s species are showing a decline in diversity

The loss of genetic variation means species may be less resilient to climate change and other stressors

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Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of significant hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease? I'm very excited to present our new work combining associations and Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A 🧵

Friends and colleagues, I’ve written a book on effective functional genomics study design, which will be available on Amazon in a couple of weeks. Sharing the TOC to spark interest. I hope students and those planning genomics experiments will find it useful! I’ll share updates soon

If you know anyone who's looking for a PhD in neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on data science and epidemiology, this scheme looks great. I would be happy to supervise projects in the Global Health Innovation stream. liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...

Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S

Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube

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What do GWAS and rare variant burden tests discover, and why? Do these studies find the most IMPORTANT genes? If not, how DO they rank genes? Here we present a surprising result: these studies actually test for SPECIFICITY! A 🧵on what this means... (🧪🧬) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Specificity, length, and luck: How genes are prioritized by rare and common variant association studies

Standard genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and rare variant burden tests are essential tools for identifying trait-relevant genes. Although these methods are conceptually similar, we show by anal...

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