Just discovered ggmagnify hughjonesd.github.io/ggmagnify/re.... love it! But quite probable that I will overuse slightly creating figures for my next talk. You have been warned.

What I most want employers to understand is that writing code and performing meaningful data analysis are not the exact same skillset. #rstats

Brutal.

📢We’re hiring! 3 Research Associates to join Professor Arthur Kaser's lab at #CITIID to investigate FAMIN, a core enzyme we discovered that prevents inflammation and autoimmunity. ➡️https://buff.ly/Gtbb6ss ➡️https://buff.ly/W4cr9xC ➡️https://buff.ly/kDv7VdI Apply by 9 April.

A thought about job adverts. I assume seeking "exceptional" individuals selects for specific character traits (eg self confidence). My goal is to get candidate with best potential, even if they don't yet think of themselves that way. What words do you use to encourage the widest pool of applicants?

glue::as_glue() documentation says result is a vector with S3 class "glue". But is.vector(glue("thing")) returns FALSE Can anyone explain? #rstats conundrum

The UK could do this too. We should.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

😱🤯 -- Just looked up the cost to go gold open access at Nature Eco Evo: US$12850! That's $21,600 NZD. That's the same cost as a Royal Society Master's Scholarship! This has gone too far. Absolutely bonkers.

Filling in a reference where I am asked to score someone from 1 to 10, where 5 is average. Tempting to include a suggestion they start with 0 to put 5 in the middle. (It's Friday night. I should be less irritable. But they also sent the form with a 107 minutes deadline to submit. Hence, irritable)

🧬 New today! 📄 Higher eQTL power reveals signals that boost GWAS colocalization 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @mikelove.bsky.social @klmohlke.bsky.social & colleagues

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

Game changer.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Two Cambridge

Join IGES for our next two journal clubs! Register here: www.geneticepi.org?id=255 🗺️ On 2/23, Mateus Gouveia will show how race and ethnicity align with continuous, rather than discrete, genetic variation. 🧮 On 3/6, Diptavo Dutta will introduce joint sparse canonical correlation analysis (jsCCA).

Opinion: When a mere few months’ hiatus in UKRI funding opportunities imperils the futures of those without permanent posts, it only underlines the fragility of UK biomedicine, says a researcher #AcademicSky #Research ow.ly/q32l50Yhv9m

The Blue Journal thanks Eckart De Bie, MD, MPhil, for his contribution to the January issue Inflammation and Obesity Correlate in Pulmonary Hypertension but Associate with Diverging Outcomes @mark-toshner.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ajrccm/artic...

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