One year during our Columbia PhD program recruitment day there was a total subway meltdown with half the the faculty stuck in tunnels, missing their scheduled meetings.

Happy and honored to receive the 2026 ESHG award! Many thanks to past and present lab members and collaborators; it’s our work together that is recognized here. See you at the @eshg.bsky.social meeting in Gothenburg 🇸🇪 in June!

👀 Absolute banger paper. Leveraging cattle/pig GWAS/eQTL to help explain the missing regulatory gap in humans. Consistent with previous works, selection makes identifying relevant eQTLs in humans challenging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Sweden continues major investments in research and life science, with more KAW foundation funding for trainee positions in the Data-Driven Life Science Program, with total investment of 330 MEUR / 380 MUSD!

On Monday, Johan Rockstrom spoke at PBL in The Hague. His presentation was perfect, the science well explained. It’s bad, worse than we think (as usual), we need to take measures, it can be done, tipping points, acceleration of acceleration, food systems, move away from fossil fuels. Questions from

Junk RNA

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

I am reviewing a simply amazing paper from a relatively young US-based lab, which is in danger of shutting its doors later this year. My emotions are all over the place. The fact that this does not uniquely identify the lab I’m referring to just deepens the tragedy of this moment in US science.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Kuinka vaikeaa on ollut tämänkin artikkelin pointtien sisäistäminen suomalaisille taloustieteilijöille? Kerrataan: 1) Suomi on euromaa, joten rahoituskestävyydessä vertaillaan muihin euromaihin. 2) Mielekäs vertailutapa on nettovelkasuhde. 3) Suomi vertailussa euromaiden aatelia. 4) EU:n ...

Suomalainen dystopia nousi sitten seuraavalle tasolle. Ruokajono, joka perustettiin 30 vuotta sitten tilapäiseksi avuksi, lopetaan nyt, koska tarve ruoka-avulle on niin huutava, ettei siihen pystytä enää vastaamaan vaan liian moni avunhakija on pitänyt käännyttää pois. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

The difference between Finnish and EU average unemployment rate. The red line marks the time the most right wing government in Finnish history replaced Sanna Marin’s center left government.

The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data: Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me. 1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies? (Continued below)

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

I have an opening for a staff scientist or bioinformatician in my group at the Sanger Institute (closing date 24 March). Our current projects focus on disentangling rare and common variant contributions to rare neurodevelopmental conditions and to neurodevelopmental and perinatal traits. 1/2

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Minua alkaa oikeasti pelottaa, että suomalainen eliitti ja media ei tajua sitä, kuinka todella pihalla valtavirtainen makrotaloustiede on taloudellisesta todellisuudesta. Yli 10 prosentin työttömyydessä siunataan jopa 15 mrd. euron sopeutusta tuleville vuosille odottaen suhdanteen korjaavan. #tiede

The culmination of a lot of excellent work, @marlmatos.bsky.social defending her PhD thesis today. Co-mentored by @tuuliel.bsky.social, exceptional insights into molecular quantitative trait loci in CD4+ T cells @einsteinmededu.bsky.social

pretty stunning chart

The political lesson of the last 20 years is that when putatively left-of-center parties promise voters hope and change, but then deliver more of the same, it ends up creating the backlash conditions for right-wing authoritarianism. It’s a very straightforward truism.

Upeeta kun ensin talouskurin opeilla leikataan Suomesta kaikki kasvun edellytykset ja sitten kun kasvua ei kuulu niin siihen tarjotaan lääkkeeksi samaa talouskuria. Onko suomalaiset oikeesti näin tyhmiä, vai pelkästään Hesarin pääkirjoitustoimitus?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

This is super cool science, empowered by our infrastructure team at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social @scilifelab.se !

AI bot writes emo blog about not getting to play coder on GitHub… we are literally re-creating simulacrum of the most cringe ppl on the internet…

🖥️🧬🚀 I am excited to share that our #omnideconv study is finally published on Genome Biology: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

⚡️ NEW: Jeffrey Epstein Recruited NSA Codebreakers for Genome “Manhattan Project” The financier pursued cryptographers to “hack” the genetic code, & develop “new signals... Story for Drop Site by @ryangrim.bsky.social, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Emily Jashinsky www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

Yesterday the UK Government published a data provision notice paving the way for coded GP data in England to be shared with consented cohorts like UK Biobank. Hear from Val, a UK Biobank participant on her hopes for the future.

Reminder that the abstract deadline for the Biology of Genomes meeting at CSHL is on Feb 13! We have a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers (Janet Kelso and Jonathan Pritchard) and session chairs. Submit your best science to this exciting and engaged meeting! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

🧬 New preprint alert! After years of collaborative work across 52 datasets we are presenting eQTLGen phase 2: a genome-wide eQTL meta-analysis covering 43,301 blood samples: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/8)

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

Please share this with your network: Postdoctoral position available in my group. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I started offering career advice to two junior colleagues today in separate meetings, and both times I caught myself thinking that, if I'm honest, I don't have very good advice on navigating the current funding and job climate. I think it's important to say that no one does.

Kohta paljastuu kaikille, että hyvinvointivaltio tukikin rakenteellisesti taloutta ja talouskasvua, jolloin sen romuttaminen oli onneton rakenteellinen uudistus negatiivisin pitkän aikavälin vaikutuksin. Kiitos! #talous #politiikka #yhteiskunta

Nature and Science journalists denied entry to event featuring NIH Director

Does the noncoding genome actually carry more genetic information than coding seqs? Motivated by this question we mutated every bp in the 10kb MYC locus. Results are even more exciting: Decoding the MYC locus reveals a druggable ultraconserved RNA element www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Because of technical issues with the SciENcv website, NIH is extending a period of leniency accepting old format biosketches through May 2026 (see FAQ #5): grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...

RFKJr's principal accomplishment as the nation's health guardian.

A want new mandatory course in school curricula worldwide: Everyday logistics in urban environments. Content: How to exit the subway. How to enter the subway. How to move in stairs. How to queue.

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NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

The interesting applications of AI are all, like, "we built an open framework that uses processors on recycled cell phones to identify and triangulate the location of rare bugs in tropical rainforests" while big tech is going "what if we burned down that rainforest to summarize your emails?"

Lunchtime panel of faculty experts on Venezuela and oil politics in one of our larger event spaces on campus was standing room only today. Packed with students, faculty, community members. Makes me wonder why we aren’t doing teach-ins like this every week.

Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social