🦣🧬🦣🤯💥We are pleased to share our new paper about ancient RNA expression profiles from the Woolly Mammoth, now published in Cell @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... If you want to know more, read the 🧵 below:

Come to Germany and do a PhD with DKFZ. You'll be supported by an international community doing amazing science in a fantastic place. I joined the DKTK from the UK 3 months ago and couldn't be happier with how easy it has been fitting in. The quality of work here is phenomenal and you should apply!

I am always delayed by days in replying to emails despite my best efforts.... But indeed nothing that can't wait! 😅

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...

In #Day5 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Thailand 🇹🇭, Jia Wang from Cancer Research Malaysia 🇲🇾 is teaching participants how to perform mutational signature analysis, and also giving a talk on the Malaysian Breast Cancer cohort @eventswcs.bsky.social

Come join the Workshop on Phylogenomics in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia, from January 25 through February 7, 2026! Applications close November 15! #phylogenetics #evolution #genomics #ai evomics.org/apply-worksh...

In Day 4 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Thailand 🇹🇭, we learnt from Nivedita Mukherjee from NCBS Bangalore 🇮🇳 how to perform driver gene identification - students were hard at work doing coding exercises, and we met the Dean of International Affairs @KKU! @eventswcs.bsky.social

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Super valuable life and science lessons from @erictdawson.bsky.social #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social

In his talk on how to perform genomic analyses ethically @erictdawson.bsky.social summarises #ProjectJudith and how he brought a super fast computer to @liigh-unam.bsky.social, and we put it together! Now working doing our genomic analyses #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social

We start #Day3 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Asia 🇹🇭 with a lecture by @erictdawson.bsky.social on how #mutation calling works and how to use the available tools. Bonus: we're all sporting new mustaches! @connectingscience.bsky.social

Yesterday we had great sessions on data formats (my section!), and talks on #Asian genomics by Sabari Radhakrishnan and Jia Wang. I closed with a discussion of #ethics in patient sample collection #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social

#Day2 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Khon Kaen 🇹🇭 2025! We start with a talk by Sirinya Sitthirak from KKU talking about genomic studies #cholangiocarcinoma tumourigenesis, which has the highest incidence in Thailand. Studies led from SA Asia so pretty cool to see! @connectingscience.bsky.social

Now amazing local organiser and professor @akoiwang.bsky.social from Khon Kaen University 🇹🇭 leads the official opening ceremony #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social

And we kick off the @connectingscience.bsky.social #CancerGenomeAnalysis course in beautiful Khon Kaen, Thailand 🇹🇭, with almost 30 participants from around Asia! Today we start with introductions, a discussion of cancer genomics in #Asia. Looking forward to it 🙌🏾

I'm hiring a lab technician to help me explore some exciting new questions about virus-host interactions! Biochemistry and/or mammalian cell culture experience is desired.

Just presented in our findings on #acral #melanoma in Mexico 🇲🇽 on #ESMO2025, and we had amazing presentations by Melissa Davies, Nyasha Chambwe and Marzia del Re on the importance of #diversity in #cancer research. Happy to see Sara from @melanomaresearch.bsky.social there!! @myesmo.bsky.social

Let's go #ESMO2025! See you at the first Mini Oral session on Basic Science and Translational Research! (Cologne Auditorium, CityCube A, 8:30am!)

Our #Scientistsatwork photo competition is open for submissions. This is a competition for scientists themselves. Winners will receive £500, a subscription to Nature & have their photo featured alongside an interview in Nature. Deadline - March 28th @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/sc...

Alessandro and I discussed a paper analyzing a deleterious genetic interaction that causes melanoma in swordtail fishes.

Twenty-four years ago today, our paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder” was published: www.nature.com/articles/350.... A personal thread about the ups & downs of the journey we took to get to that point....1/n 🗣️🧬🧪

Despite regulation, commercial sunbeds remain popular with young people and indoor tanning is experiencing a boom in popularity. An outright ban of sunbeds is likely to be cost effective for the NHS, says this Analysis www.bmj.com/content/391/...

This only happens to you once

Come join us next year at the @embo.org meeting "The Many Faces of #Cancer evolution"! Organised by @ciriellolab.bsky.social @magnanilab.bsky.social @turajliclab.bsky.social & Céline Vaillot! In beautiful Rimini 🇮🇹 More information in the poster below ⬇️ and at meetings.embo.org/event/26-cancer-evo

"We present exciting and novel new findings on the topic of the gel I'm about to run, with confirmatory experiments I'll run next Tuesday..."

FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Our paper on the evolution of MUC19 in humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans is finally out today in Science! This has been a six-year effort by 13 authors to weave together 3 separate but related evolutionary stories around this one gene (more on thread 🧵). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here my advice for young scientists: while technical and lab expertise are vital, core skills such as writing for non-specialists can open new doors - from securing grants to creating broader impact for scientific publications. See #RealTalkResearch series - youtu.be/Tu4bl3PJPHQ?...

Please consider supporting our students! The only Latin American team 🇲🇽 in BIOMOD, an international #science competition. They worked on an innovative treatment for colon cancer using nanotechnology & DNA origami 🧬🔬 Learn more! youtu.be/GV0cnb3biJQ?... Donate: crowdfunding.tec.mx/s/detallepro...

We are super happy to host Miguel García-Knight @levelab.bsky.social at @liigh-unam.bsky.social today! He's talking about the intriguing work on virus characterisation and surveillance he's doing in Mexico 🇲🇽 at IIB-UNAM Check out the call for participants for the Global Culicidae project!! ⬇️

Amazing new work from @patriciapossik.bsky.social's group!!! Check it out - An amazing repository and characterisation including PDXs, sequencing, cell lines - with new biological insights! #acralmelanoma

New semester, new bluesky account! We start this new semester at UNAM welcoming new and current students of the Genomic Sciences Undergraduate Program at UNAM in Juriquilla!

"Access to a PhD-level expert in your pocket" I'd like to have a word with ChatGPT's PhD advisor please I'd like them to tell me about their discovery of the cyτlasma and the centrosome/lysosmoe duality

"Access to a PhD-level expert in your pocket" Prompt: Can you make me a map of Mexico with the names of all states? can you list them after the image as well? I was born in the great state of Cusidad le Mexico. We're proud of our French origins. Also I see Yucatan finally took over its neighbours

Happy #RNA Day everyone!!! 🎉🎉🎉 #AUG1st #RNASky

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Science finally retracts the Arsenic life paper www.science.org/content/arti...

Some of our IGS undergraduate summer interns gave talks on their research. Topics: simulation modeling of pancreatic cancer; immune markers in premature infants with leaky gut; enzyme-coding genes in breast milk; and understanding why the fungus C. albicans adheres to human cells.

"Take care of your physical, emotional, and mental health in your daily life, especially in science, which tends to be very demanding." "Be persistent; it's never too late." "Be kind, enjoy every stage; everything is a learning curve." Are powerful advice as part of the "My Science and

Excited to share a new preprint from the lab with @ryandhindsa.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by @sherrynyeo.bsky.social, @erinmayc.bsky.social, and friends, we continue our journey to find viral DNA in our favorite place-- the overlooked and discarded reads in existing data! 1/

We already have "chat with an article" it's called EMAILING THE AUTHOR

🎉 The revised version of CORNETO, our unified Python framework for knowledge-driven network inference from omics data, is published in peer reviewed form 🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 💻 Code: corneto.org 🧵 Thread 👇

Become our colleague! Tenure-track Assistant Professor position at The Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. unil.ch/cig/en/home.... More details for how to apply are here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Me encontre con este cruce legendario del viejo twitter y no puedo evitar compartirlo, porque me hace jijear mucho cada vez que lo veo 🤣🤣🤣

🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧬‼️ It's finally out! I am very happy to share our new paper with you! 🫁 First exome study in Mexican lung adenocarcinoma patients—moving beyond Eurocentric data to uncover population-specific insights www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/26... #CancerGenomics #MexicanScience