Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

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#MorningVibe The only thing stronger than hate is love. ♥️ Bad Bunny Without love, where would we be now? ♥️ The Doobie Brothers Don’t just say it. BE it. 🔊🔊🔊🆙

🧬 International Women & Girls in Science Day 🧪 At VPD-HLRI, we’re proud to support women at every stage of their careers. Meet Jennifer Martin — PhD student, new mum, and haematology data scientist — inspiring the next generation of female scientists. #WomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM

I hate commenting/suggesting edits on a paper written in overleaf. I love writing in latex, but Google docs is just so much more intuitive for collaboration. Does anyone know a latex platform that is genuinely good for collaborative writing?

If you care about official statistics this is an opportunity to join the Regulation Committee of the UK Statistics Authority. It meets 5 times a year. Members receive a £3k fee uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/vacancy...

Also: shifting scientific funding towards "government priority areas" is a surefire way to kill creativity and innovation. Generating scientific knowledge is not like ordering a takeaway. You can't just tick the 'science' that you want and expect anything useful.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Delighted to present Latent Interaction Variational Inference (LIVI), a framework for trans-eQTL mapping at single-cell resolution that I developed during my PhD together with colleagues from @steglelab.bsky.social 1/n

you're doomscrolling I'm plumposting we are not the same

Preprint with the results of genome-wide eQTL analyses across 43,301 blood samples from the eQTLGen Consortium is now online! A major collaborative effort- many thanks to everyone involved, especially @robertwarmerdam.bsky.social, @ludefranke.bsky.social, and all eQTLGen collaborators!👇

When people talk about the idea that some universities must go under, there’s a certain tendency to behave as if these smaller local campuses are negligible- regrettable casualties perhaps but not ‘real’ universities. This report does a great job of illustrating why that’s wrong.

What do folks use to keep track of their tasks bc I really need a system beyond "my nonexistent memory"

Quick science policy thread 1 Changes in the governance of UK science since the mid 1980s make it extremely hard to be strategic (that was the point), in terms of both process (dropped) and capability (hollowed out).

Some initial reactions to the 'published on a Sunday afternoon' letter from the CEO of UKRI. 🧵 www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

Some numbers:UKRI gets £38.6 billions from the 2025 Spending Review 3 buckets: - 14.5 b curiosity-dr research - 8.3 b govern. priorities - 7.4 b companies’growth Out of 14.5 b in bucket 1, only 3.3 b go into applicant-led grants. www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

In terms of Northern Hemisphere day length changes, February is the best month. Day length is increasing rapidly now, and the month brings us from the middle of winter to the first signs of spring.

I love these giant fish. When the news is getting me down, I don't do kitten pics, the living wonders of our world are enough to calm my mind.

Or not. This has been removed for review by the University. (Who asked me to write it in the first place). You can find it here while they sort themselves out: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

MRC instructs grant review boards to slash funding rates. Boards asked to recommend just three applications for funding, as BBSRC also suspends calls. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

@clydefrancks.bsky.social found what is potentially (likey?!) the first fully hallucinated GWAS paper, of “left handedness”… the Manhattan plot has the wrong number of chromosomes, and genes labels with one wrong chromosome placed in a second wrong chromosome… wild…

𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—wax was a bad call. I should’ve flagged heat resistance as a 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 instead of assuming you’d stay within 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴. That one’s on me.

Look at this disgusting rubbish, while the over-50s like me get literally everything on a plate. Every single person involved I've ever spoken to knows we have to start reconstructing the university financial system from scratch. Nothing is ever done.

Today's example of "please remove me from the list" has now reached "please keep me on the list". Use of reply-all continues despite requests to the contrary. At least AI agents would surely know not to reply-all, maybe there could be a use for them here??

For years to come the answer to “I think you’re being a bit self-centered” will be “well at least I didn’t threaten to invade Greenland because I was cross about the Nobel Peace Prize”

Tracking the details of an experiment in successively cited Methods sections

In a phase 2 trial, low-dose interleukin-2 boosted regulatory T cells and reduced arterial inflammation in acute coronary syndrome patients compared to placebo. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04090-y

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Sport England on BlueSky

Join us tomorrow! with @mehurles.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social Info and Link to join: www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...

🌟 Applications for the 2026 Leena Peltonen School of Human Genetics are open! Back after a great 2025 edition: ~20 global leaders and ~20 PhD students shaping the future of genomics. 📅 July 26–30, 2026 📍 Wellcome Genome Campus, UK 📝 Apply by March 6 → www.lpshg.com

Happy New Year! We are looking for a postdoc with computational expertise to join our group. Deadline for application is 13th January. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... #newjob #postdoc #vascularbiology #atherosclerosis #cellplasticitycontrol #functionalgenomics #cellheterogeneity

I probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...

Apologies if you see this again but I am still looking for postdoc positions in psychiatric genetics! I am currently a postdoc at Mount Sinai, I have a PhD in genetic epi from King’s, and have experience in psychosis, ADHD, and autism, including postpartum psychosis!

I have seen many people say that no academic needs to use LLMs for writing, because of course we are all already excellent at writing. I fear that risks exacerbating imposter syndrome in early career researchers. I therefore want to raise my hand and say while I enjoy writing, I find it hard.

The number 1 movie when you were ten years old will define your 2026. Looking good!

I'm guest-editing a collection on "Enhancer-promoter interactions" at Genome Biology. Please send us your exciting stories! link.springer.com/collections/...

So stats is now interpretable AI? Rebranding as the solution to the AI challenge.

MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.

I was very pleased to be able to make it to Paul Fine's retirement lecture last week. He was an amazing PhD supervisor to me, and the lecture highlighted how impactful his work had been, from polio to leprosy, and Malawi to the @johnsnowsociety.bsky.social.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Football: a game of four quarters, now.

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Perl one liners. (Master-ish)

Working with tableGrob seems awfully low level. 6 lines of code just to add a line below the column names, or creating a whole new grob to name the columns. Has no one written a nice interface? There are so many for plotting, but I can't find one for tables. #rstats

Tomorrow! www.varianteffect.org/seminar-seri...

I was diagnosed with #HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

How does fever work? Our new Science paper shows how elevated body temperature can protect against severe influenza and that avian-origin viruses escape this defence. This is likely one reason why bird flus and some pandemic influenzas can be so severe.🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Since 2011 the fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury £133 billion. This huge amount could have paid for lower train and bus fares, better stations, safer walking, wheeling and cycling and much more! www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Passive voice should be avoided.

Today I learned that one French translation of virtual is dématérialisé. The image in my mind of watching paper forms dematerialise as they become virtual apps is quite compelling!