It’s the same with academic writing. The difficulty doesn’t lie in formulating grammatical sentences, but in deciding what it is you actually want to say. Writing is part of the process by which you figure that out, and isn’t something that can be outsourced to a machine.

Vuoden 1997 jälkeen on koettu mm. kansainvälinen finanssikriisi ja eurokriisi, pandemia sekä Ukrainan sota. Silti konkurssit nousevat korkeimmalle tasolle sitten vuoden 1997 juuri nyt.

Is there anything more pointless than an online Christmas card from an organisation? Delete. Delete. Delete.

DDLS Research School Postdoc Program opens in January 2026. 🧪🖥️ @lukaskall.bsky.social, Director of the program, explains how the initiative is designed to identify talent and support researchers who want to build long-term careers in Sweden. ↓ www.scilifelab.se/news/intervi...

Euroopan puolustus ja demokratian tulevaisuuden turvaaminen on Euroopan maiden omalla vastuulla. Yhdysvaltain tukeen ei voi enää luottaa, päinvastoin se pyrkii heikentämään EU:n yhtenäisyyttä. EU:n vahvistaminen tärkeintä puolustushankinnoissamme ja teollisuuspolitiikassa. www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

And, ironically, you must remember that the institution can never love you back (though people at it can and often do). Simone’s Maxims is the only required reading in my lab. aacrjournals.org/clincancerre...

Our latest preprint revisits the classic model of mutation-selection balance. Do human recessive genes fit Haldane's 100-year old model? This work is by the wonderful @jonj-udd.bsky.social, and co-mentored by @jeffspence.github.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"On aika lopettaa velaksi eläminen" jää historiaan yhtenä suurimmista vaalivedätyksistä Suomessa. #politiikka

Looking for a postdoc in computational biology? We are looking for a postdoc candidate apply for the fellowship 'Juan de la Cierva' for a project on long-read transcriptomics, multiomics, spatial transcriptomics, single-cell long-reads. Deadline is approaching!! (December 10th)

Together, JAX and NYSCF combine strengths in genetics, stem cells and data science to accelerate discovery and deliver solutions that will make a lasting difference for patients around the world. 🧬 🐁 🔬

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

a life changing opportunity made possible by the Nobel Prize funds awarded to John Sulston -- the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social runs the Sanger Prize scheme, open to an undergrad from any LMIC to spend 3 months here learning all about genomics. more details here www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

We are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Richard so deserves this - a legend in bioinformatics and computational biology - work genome, human genome, Pfam, 1,000 genomes, Sam/bam format, bwa, vcf, psmc… and so many more

Excited to share our new FinnGen single-nucleus multiome preprint! 🧬 We profiled ~10M PBMCs (snRNA-seq + snATAC-seq) from 1,108 Finnish donors to map how genetic variants drive complex disease through chromatin and gene regulation 🧵👇 🔗 Link: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

· #AcademicSky · The European Research Council is launching €7m Plus Grants for ambitious, long‑term research — open to researchers at any career stage but limited to about 30 awards; current ERC grantees and applicants are ineligible, reports @clanicholson.bsky.social.

Interested in pleiotropy dissection but not sure where to start, which methods are useful, which studies offer illustrative examples, or how to robustly validate your results? Look no further 👀 rdcu.be/eSfAZ

Pahinta tässä VM:n talousennusteen pettämisessä on se, että tällä kertaa sillä hyvällä ennusteella on annettu tukea todella radikaalille yhteiskuntapolitiikalle, jossa yhteiskunnan heikoimmassa asemassa olevilta on leikattu keskellä matalasuhdannetta ja samalla aiheutettu maahan suurtyöttömyys.

Jos VM ei olisi taivutellut Euroopan komissiota muuttamaan velkaennusteensa perusteita, EU:n säännöistä ei tulisi Suomelle lainkaan sopeutusvaadetta. Niinpä myös velkajarrusopimuksen perustaminen EU-sääntöjen varaan ei olisi tarkoittanut mitään. Onneksi VM:n virkamiehet olivat aktiivisia! Kiitos!

I think this is probably right and also a complete disaster. Just an utter unwilligness to learn from what we all collectively went through just a few years ago…

type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’

📢 Our Dept. of Systems Biology at Columbia University has an open tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the broad area of quantitative biology. Come join our awesome department in NYC! Please circulate. apply.interfolio.com/177622 Suggested deadline: 12/15/2025. @columbiasysbio.bsky.social

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

Come and join us here in Cambridge! Applications open for a new faculty position, for a researcher in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/faculty...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

There are two complementary views of scientific advance: the "heroes" view, individual geniuses driving unique one-of-a-kind advances, and the "multiple discovery" or zeitgeist view, that the time is ripe for a discovery, and the details of who makes it first, where, and how are, well, details.(1/3)

JOB POSTING: Director, National Human Genome Research Institute hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

How do GWAS and rare variant burden tests rank gene signals? In new work @nature.com with @hakha.bsky.social, @jkpritch.bsky.social, and our wonderful coauthors we find that the key factors are what we call Specificity, Length, and Luck! 🧬🧪🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New 🧬✂️ pre-print! We show that paired prime editing can efficiently generate large deletions — even >1 Mb — with high precision and at scale. We use this to perform the first pooled prime deletion screen across the human genome. 🔗 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A short thread (by Juliane Weller)👇

Nyt kun New Yorkin uusi pormestari kiinnostaa Suomessakin, ajattelin (10+ vuotta kaupungissa asuneena) korjata mediassa pyöriviä virheitä ja väärinkäsityksiä. Kun paikallista kontekstia ei tunneta, niin analyysit ja ihan faktatkin menevät välillä vinoon.

New study of 800K+ genomes from gnomAD reveals most “pathogenic” variants in healthy people aren’t truly disease-tolerant. They are explained by annotation errors, mosaicism, or compensatory variants. 🧬 A big step for precision medicine! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Applications for MCSA are up 64%! 50% now come from outside the EU. Trump effect? The European Research market just got a hell of a lot more crowded. EU should turn on the tap marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Struggling to imagine the chutzpah it takes to say that someone "doesn't understand New York culture" because they're an immigrant.

Amazing job opportunity at the @institutimagine.bsky.social, Head of the Genomics Platform. I am adding an English translation of the opportunity, but fluency in French is a (reasonable) requirement for the position. Application link below. www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/companies...

US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold. [In some cases, to zero.] Story by @alexwitze.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

Esim. tässä todetaan, että juuri näin #velkajarru toimi Saksassa. Eikä vain siirtymän vaan kaikkiin sijoituksiin. Pääomakanta on kohta rikkaiden maiden heikoimpia. Velkajarru oli "probably the worst fiscal rule by any government anywhere" ja "fiscal doomsday machine." swiftpress.com/book/kaput/

Pelottaa ja säälittää #velkajarru -Suomen tulevaisuus, mutta on pakko onnitella Kokoomusta mestarillisesta pelistä. Kokoomuslainen leikkauspolitiikka, hyvinvointivaltion kurjistaminen ja vihreän siirtymän investointien tukahduttaminen on nyt saatu politiikan peruslinjaksi vuosikymmenten ajaksi. 1/

Reminder of our postdoc position! Happy to meet at #ASHG25 this week to discuss.

Just in time for #ASHG2025, a new FinnGen public data release is live! This release features the first clinical laboratory value association results. Analyses cover 383 lab measurements (OMOPIDs) with data from ≥1,000 participants each. Access the results here: www.finngen.fi/en/access_re...

Mutta miksi noin järjettömän paljon EU-sääntöjä tiukempi tavoite? Miksi se pitää teidän hyväksyä? Ja jos tästä aiotaan lukita laki, jonka kaataminen vaatii enemmän kuin yksinkertaisen enemmistön, niin eikö se pitäisi säätää perustuslain säätämisjärjestyksessä? Vallankaappaushan tämä on.

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice. A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past. We will choose the future.

Haluan vedota täällä BSKY:ssa aktiivisiin ja vähemmän aktiivisiin poliitikkoihin. Älkää hyväksykö finanssipoliittista lainsäädäntöä tai poliittista sopimusta, joka lähes varmasti pakottaa Suomen EU-sääntöjä tiukempaan talouskuriin ja varmasti estää elvytyspolitiikan taantumissa. Kiitos huomiostanne!

Järkyttävintä tässä suunnitellussa velkajarrusäännöstössä on se, että sen muuttamiseksi tarvitaan 3/4 kansanedustajista. Millä oikeudella nykyiset edustajat sitovat tulevien edustajien käsiä vuosikymmeniksi? Onko tätä mietitty kansanvallan kannalta ollenkaan?