Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
Francisco De La Vega
@ribozyme.bsky.social
Geneticist & Computational Biologist. All opinions are my own.
#ISMB2026 welcome to the first day of #HitSeq! We will start this year session at 11AM with a keynote form Andre Kahles: “Petabase-Scale Sequence Search with MetaGraph” at International Ballroom Center. Full schedule: www.hitseq.org/schedule.html
HiTSeq 2026: Conference on High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms and Applications - Schedule
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I am really proud to share the Stand Up for Science Foundation's new Impact Report on the OMB Rule Proposal--done by the brilliant @irenesufs.bsky.social @colesci.bsky.social and team! We've got such a great team at @standupforscience.net. www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
Beyond Science: How OMB’s Proposed Rule on Federal Financial Assistance Threatens Essential Services Nationwide — Stand Up for Science Foundation
OMB’s proposed rule on federal financial assistance poses a sweeping threat to federal grantmaking and the responsible stewardship of American taxpayer dollars. It would dramatically expand execut...
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Our official guide to help you write a public comment on the OMB-2026-0034 is here: zurl.co/XgyzA Submit your comment and take additional actions here: zurl.co/RiDuv #StandUpForScience #OMB #Vought #SaveScience #FundScience
NEJM editors highlight 3 aspects of recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, funding could be cut off midway through a grant period, and foreign interactions would be limited. Learn more: https://nej.md/43yBIUb
Are you ready for #ESHG2026 in Gothenburg? 🌊 A vibrant coastal city where nature meets urban life. Don’t miss out—register now and explore all it has to offer! 2026.eshg.org/registration/ Photo credits: Bilderboken (Unsplash), Hans Ott (Unsplash), Philip Myrtorp (Unsplash)
Our paper entitled "The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians" is now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1.... A really fun and informative collaboration with @mharris.bsky.social, Ziyi Mo and Adam Siepel. (1/n)
The persistence and loss of hard selective sweeps amid admixture in ancient Eurasians | PNAS
The extent to which human adaptations have persisted throughout history despite strong eroding demographic events such as admixture, genetic drift,...
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NanoLabel: A fast and accurate real-time nanopore signal classifier https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.03.722500v1
This is what I’ve meant these many years when I refer to EBM fundamentalism or methodolatry, defined as the profane worship of the randomized controlled clinical trial as the only valid method of clinical investigation.
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3mo agoMakary is blocking a treatment for incurable melanoma bc the multiple trials its undergone were not RCTs. The drug is intended for patients for whom other cancer therapies have not worked. An RCT would require a control group to continue to use chemotherapy that previously had not worked for them.
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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"Defending against emerging diseases is literally a matter of life & death. Our government’s negligence endangers us" I do think RFK Jr & Bhattacharya killing mRNA vaccine R&D, & Bhattacharya killing federal funding for pandemic research & pushing for no preparedness at all, were unforgivable acts
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3mo agoI want to share the new OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about the dangerous lack of pandemic preparedness in the United States. It doesn’t matter how the outbreak begins. We are not ready, and the only things we can be sure of are death, taxes, and another pandemic.
It is with great sadness that we announce J. Craig Venter has died. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79
La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...
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The FCC is now threatening ABC's broadcast licenses, days after Donald Trump and Melania Trump demanded they fire Jimmy Kimmel. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mr. President: Read the Constitution. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for good reason.
Here's the follow up on this fraud Retraction Watch The website of the publisher and journal have been taken down retractionwatch.com/2026/04/23/e...
Journal goes dark after impersonating Eric Topol and others
Within hours of researchers from prestigious institutions discovering they were listed as authors on a fabricated paper, the website for the journal and publisher has been taken down. Cardiol…
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A study of Mexican citizens shows that dissatisfaction with democracy predicts low engagement with voting, both as voters and as poll workers. According to the authors, the global decline in satisfaction with democracy is cause for concern. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/9k9X50YIlVP
Excellent post from @caseynewton.bsky.social on Sam Altman, the attacks on his home, Altman’s own words, and OpenAI lobbying www.platformer.news/sam-altman-a...
Sam Altman’s second thoughts
OpenAI’s CEO is asking the public to lower the temperature on AI. But who turned it up in the first place?
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Despite the obvious superiority of fresh-frozen material for genomics, many samples are still stored in FFPE and remain challenging to characterize with Whole-genome sequencing. But here comes our solution:
bioRxiv Bioinfo@biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 5mo agoAn explainable boosting machine model for identifying artifacts caused by formalin-fixed paraffin embedding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.10.710815v1
"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again." open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...
I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country.
Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.
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"Jay Bhattacharya is a lying sack of shit" is an evergreen statement
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4mo agoJay Bhattacharya is lying to America about the benefits and extreme effectiveness of the COVID vaccine to continue pushing pseudoscience and conspiracies. (1/2🧵) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...
Who had “US threatening to invade Vatican City” on the Bingo Cards??
Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 4mo agoAlways exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news
Deadline for abstracts for a chance of a talk at #HiTSeq26 and #ISMB26 is tomorrow- please send your abstracts!
HiTSeq 2026 Conference@hitseq.bsky.social · 4mo agoAbstract deadline approaching for #HitSeq26 at #ISMB2026: April 9 ⏰🧬💻 If you are developing new algorithms, methods, or tools for high-throughput sequencing data, please submit an abstract for a chance to present a talk or poster at the meeting in Washington, DC, July 12-16.
Delighted to share our latest research from the 23andMe Research Team, just published in @nature.com ! We looked at data from >27,000 participants to uncover how human genetics influences weight loss efficacy and side effects of GLP-1 medications like semaglutide. A short thread 🧵👇
Graph transformer for ancient ancestry inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.05.714076v1
Submit via the ISMB 2026 system and select HiTSeq as the track. More info at hitseq.org.
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#HitSeq is the annual ISCB gathering focused on high-throughput sequencing algorithms, and about 50% of talks are selected from submitted abstracts. This year’s keynote speakers are Christopher Mason, Mihaela Pertea, and Andre Kahles 🤖
Five Reasons Why It Still Wasn't a Lab Leak Time for some of that civil disagreement that the NIH Director can't get enough of rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso... Dr. A. Rasmussen took the time to put this together, to set the record straight. @angierasmussen.bsky.social Worth reading!
Five Reasons Why It Still Wasn't a Lab Leak
Time for some of that civil disagreement that the NIH Director can't get enough of
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