Lots to learn from Rwanda www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

We have turned America into a parking lot—1.31 billion parking spots or 4.76 for every car, to be precise—and it has made us sick and poor. Public health policy has a real stake in parking policy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Checkout our latest manuscript where we use kraken2, a k-mer based read classifier, to identify putative contaminants and endogenous reads prior to aligning with bwa-aln. 1/3

Congratulations @shyama-mama.bsky.social on a great piece of work! academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

In re:

Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/universities-are-continuing-to-retaliate-against-…

Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart? 🏺🧪 Early studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed with Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social www.vox.com/unexplainabl... Historically, our stories about Neanderthals have revealed a lot more about ourselves than about these early humans.

Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The tech bro fascination with eugenics is so on brand. The idea that you could make accurate, actionable predictions from individual genotypes (with all their complex, non-linear interactions) from averaged, linearly modeled population-level genomic statistics is just another big data fantasy

Turns out that metatranscriptomic sequencing of animal gut contains can identify exotic plant viruses that are biosecurity threats. Work led by Jackie Mahar and Solomon Maina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It was only a matter of time. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The encampments are gone and with them the TV crews but some folks have spent the months since working overtime to criminalize every single thing about them and any possible association with them. The behind the scenes retribution and score settling would shock you.

Another week, another blog:) this one is for my academic friends entering the European postdoc job market. laurenleek.substack.com/p/the-postdo...

Looking for reviewers before Christmas

Are you an Early Career Research (PhD, postdoc, new group leader) working in Animal Ancient DNA? Want to present your work to the @aarc-community.bsky.social community? Express your interest in participating in our AaRC TikTalk Seminar series with the link below! #aDNA

I hate seeing Bluesky becoming overrun with follower-chasing accounts that post a mix of unattributed photos, AI dreck, and bad photoshop jobs. Fortunately, there are block lists: bsky.app/profile/maur...

And this is excluding marine...so the number eould be higher 🧪😭

An interesting question that came up going over a comps proposal: do sweeps without introgression bias ABBA-BABA based D or F statistics?

A message for the #AcademicChatter folks out there: at some point in their careers, all great artists suffer from impasto syndrome. You're doing fine. #NewPI #PhDchat

Congratulations to the #USA you brought back the bourgeoisie, let’s see how long it’ll take the proletariat to wake and do something about it.

Very excited (and a bit nervous) to announce that I will be hiring two Postdocs for my new group(!) in Copenhagen to study the Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA which survives in present-day humans. Retweet will be much appreciated :) Link for application: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Awesome! This is a very cool book from a scientist, mom, colleague, and friend! She wrote it to help her kids understand that they are loved and normal. Really important in today’s climate that is becoming less tolerant of differences by the day. ❤️😍🤩

Eleven quick tips for properly handling tabular data https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012604 🧪 #Rstats

The Palestinian 🇵🇸 women achaeologists and fieldworkers who worked at the excavation of - and recognised - the Tabun 1 #Neanderthal skull! I'm an anthropologist, I didn't know! It's crucial to highlight the story of the people behind discoveries! #WomenInSTEM #WomenInPrehistory #PaleoAnth #science

I often show my students this visualization of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe. Our attitude toward burning fossil fuels would change significantly if we could actually see CO₂. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?11719

When a car starts, the welcome message on the giant screen should say, “Don’t kill anyone!”

Check out this cool paper from the lab of Jacob Corn using @nanoporetech.com to look at large scale genomic alterations following genome editing. A big thank you for acknowledging the contributions of @fgcz-en.bsky.social team members #genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

You may not know it from the looks of us, but NativeBio is in every space where we are needed to protect #DataSovereignty and #LocalBenefit We are happy to spread the word about the GIDA Conference and we especially hope to see you all there! www.gida-global.org/gidsc2025

A #map of the world in the #Spilhaus projection with the global #ocean as the main focus. It includes arrows of the global currents (@oceanandice.bsky.social) and sea surface temperature & velocity (Niklas Röber). It shows the interconnectedness of the world's oceans with #Antarctica at the centre!

What do you do when an orca eats your research project? Why, you continue tracking of course! #trackingNotSlacking 🌊 New paper describes how orcas catch bluefin tuna, and shows the longest high-resolution tracking of an orca ever! @exetermarine.bsky.social 🦑🐠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations" www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Yesterday, our leadership team Alex Brown and Azure Hermes joined IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) Adam Ford at #ANZ24 to discuss #privacy, data protection, and Indigenous data sovereignty. Thanks to IAPP for inviting these critical conversations. #IndigenousDataSovereignty

This seems strangely familiar and equally as short sighted

The expected outcome of brand allyship. Nevertheless, it sucks to see it happening to rapidly. Remember to show up for our trans siblings. Protest for them. Treasure them at Pride. Your ire belongs to brand floats.

a haunting front page, and rightfully so: we should be haunted by this. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Unbelievable work

It’s been 20+ years since most public #Universities started running like businesses, with VCs getting huge salaries. But somehow, they are all in financial trouble? Am I missing something? 🤔

“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.” - Neil deGrasse Tyson #AcademicSky #Altmetrics #HigherEd

Your bicycle is not surveilling you.

Here’s the updated Computational Biology Starter Pack! Let me know if you'd like to be included. go.bsky.app/QVPoZXp

Humans share 70% of our DNA with zebrafish. So when you're having difficulty getting anything done, it's usually because a zebrafish is using the DNA.

I have been on Promotion and Tenure Committees for several years now. Here are some things I wish candidates knew. A thread! Complete with ridiculous gifs 😀 PTR committee members, please add to this thread! 1/x

We now have openondemand.org live on the @ucdavis.bsky.social cluster Hive. I predict it'll be game changing in providing HPC access for folks not at ease w/ the unix commandline. Need to run Rstudio w/ 100 cores? No prob. Want to launch a desktop to run a GUI w/ 1Tb of RAM? We've got you covered.

A thread with some new starter packs in genomics and bioinformatics 🧵 1/13...