8 high level positions at NIH posted including 6 institute director positions (NIMH, NIGMS, NICHD, NIDCR, NHGRI, NLM). Only open for 2 weeks (applications due November 21). Application materials include a) CV b) vision statement c) a photocopy of doctoral degree. hr.nih.gov/careers/open...

Excited to be attending my first SITC Annual Meeting! On Friday, Brandon Fischer from @nebanovich.bsky.social will present a poster on some of our work on Chlorotoxin CAR T cells. Check it out! #SITC25

reminder that my (wonderful, diverse, interdisciplinary) department at the University of Oregon is seeking applications for an Associate/Full Professor of Data Science -- deadline 10/31 and only cover letter/CV needed to apply academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328

My science 💜 is full as I reflect on a great week at #ASHG25! 5 posters from the lab, symposium on #epilepsy 🧠 #genetics 🧬, catching up with so many friends and colleagues. Already excited for #ASHG26 in Montreal - see you there!

Thank you! I am so honored and had such a wonderful time at #ASHG. What an amazing and inspiring society!

Great presentations from the lab this week at #ashg25.

Bulk of the lab are presenting posters today!

I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!

After a short *3 hour* flight delay excited to be in the air on the way to Boston for #ASHG25. Looking forward to sharing the lab's work.

Great new work from the Barthel lab!

Happy to share that this work together with @opentargets.org is now out at Nature Communications.

Excited for a major milestone in our efforts to map enhancers and interpret variants in the human genome: The E2G Portal! e2g.stanford.edu This collates our predictions of enhancer-gene regulatory interactions across >1,600 cell types and tissues. Uses cases 👇 1/

Interesting @nebanovich.bsky.social @florisbarthel.bsky.social glad we just installed an @elembio.bsky.social Aviti24 @tgenresearch.bsky.social. @aphillippy.bsky.social is this with standard cloudbreak chemistry or the high accuracy ultraQ chemistry

"We’re currently at about 54% of last year’s total [of funded R01s]...Another way to look at this is that we’re missing 1,809 new R01s."

First pre-print from the Lucas Lab led by Matthew Giammar and @joshdcryoem.bsky.social online today! We develop a new, extensible Python implementation of 2DTM and apply it to build pixel size optimization, constrained search and characterize molecular motions in situ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper identifying evidence of off-target probe binding in the 10x Genomics Xenium Breast Gene Panel is now available as a reviewed preprint at #eLife elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... We look forward to revising the paper to incorporate reviewer recommendations and other updates 🧵👇

Gotcha. I just did the math for NIGMS, and they're still short ~200 R01 equivalents compared to last year, with only 7 MYF'd. MYF funding for other mechs could contribute to fewer grants, but it still doesn't seem like the math works out. Maybe more will show up Reporter to reduce the shortfall.

🚨 New @10xgenomics.bsky.social eBook out now! Hear from Dr @saskiafreytag.bsky.social, @wehi-research.bsky.social on how spatial biology is helping identify therapeutic cancer targets. Plus, insights from other leading researchers worldwide. 📖 Download here: pages.10xgenomics.com/web-2025-08-...

So proud of @saahimall.bsky.social for crushing her comps today. She's a force in the lab and seeing her present her plan for the next few years was awesome. #nocrumbs

Our lab at Yale @yalemedicine.bsky.social seeks #postdocs with in vivo expertise to pioneer research at the intersection of tissue remodeling & aging. Work with us to uncover immunological & vascular drivers of ovarian aging, applying single-cell, spatial omics, and ML! jobrxiv.org/job/yale-uni...

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

In my small corner of biology, I’m constantly reassured by how frequently we confirm main findings. And then when differences do show up, they very rarely end up being fraud, but instead tell us something important about differences in experimental design.

Great summary

One critical lesson here for future republics. institutions, foundations or agencies of national importance should be placed clearly outside the controls, oversight, or influence of the executive, or anyone appointed by the executive!

Well, this is a huge Executive Order power grab... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/3

Whoa! 👀

So excited to share @saahimall.bsky.social just had her her first 1st author publication published in AJP lung! Huge accomplishment!!! This study wouldn't have been possible without the amazing @jensucre.bsky.social! journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

👀👀👀 @elembio.bsky.social

Yesterday was the last day of @tgenresearch.bsky.social's summer internship supported by the Helios foundation. Bittersweet to say goodbye but happy to see them presenting their great work. Special congrats to Francesca, Lauren, and Yafnelt who were recognized for their outstanding presentations.

BIG NEWS: “Senate appropriators on Thursday approved an FY26 Labor-HHS bill that included a slight bump in funding for the NIH, with a strong 26–3 bipartisan vote.” Thank you to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee on both sides of the aisle! www.axios.com/pro/health-c...

Whoa!

Shout out to the WSJ journalists who reported on Vought’s impoundment by footnote, causing the White House to walk it back. Impact journalism!!

I am seeking a postdoc for my group at UCLA. We work at the intersection of population genetics x microbiome (garud.eeb.ucla.edu). If interested, please message me!

Check out @saahimall.bsky.social's #skysplain of our latest work! Very proud of all her hard work on this study and REALLY excited for what she's got planned next! #bpd #lungdevelopment #genomics #science

Congrats to @saahimall.bsky.social on her first study from her PhD! Also, science is always more fun when done with friends. Great to work as always with @jensucre.bsky.social and @jkropski.bsky.social!

Latest news feature in @natbiotech.nature.com on recent developments in spatial biology to unravel disease mechanisms, with insights from experts in field. @aruthak.bsky.social @nebanovich.bsky.social @ai4pathology.bsky.social @jasmineplummer.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really excited about this new work from Sam Hart (and joint with @kelleyharris.bsky.social) trying to disentangle mutational differences between groups of cancers. Check out Kelley's thread with the major results!

absolutely crushing

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated. As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️ On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

All of my NIH grants terminated this afternoon along with those of all of my colleagues including big (and extremely successful) P01 grants.

Happy to share the published version of Omar & Sayan’s paper. We generated a DNA-damage-associated cardiomyocyte protein co-expression network to gain insights into tolerance to genetic variation and disease. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint! My (now former) postdoc @kvastad.bsky.social led this integration of GWAS and spatial transcriptomics (ST) data to identify tissue structures with enrichment of disease-implicated genes = likely causal drivers of disease biology. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉 This paper has been a long time and a labour of love (and hardship) for multiple group members, but, finally: we MPRA'ed 25k introgressed variants (Denisovan and Neanderthal) segregating at allele frequencies > 0.15 in humans today to evaluate their potential to regulate gene expression.

Why are they trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? #WithoutNSF the US would not be at the forefront of science innovation in the world. #SaveNSF #StandUpForScience www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...