🧪🧬🐟 New paper claxon: Collaboration with UDSM, Tanzania, funded by @sidasweden.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wie wilde er ook al weer een hond? Serieuze vraag

- I worked in the distribution centre for aluxury department store - I worked at a factory that garage doors. -I worked at a bakery, delivering bread to the countryside using a transport bike - I worked in the family garden business and dug graves. - I calculated trajectories for ballistic missiles

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

This was a favorite on Irish Twitter.

I invite applications for a PhD position. Join our team exploring how rapid evolution in communities allows maintenance of genetic variation and species diversity! Application deadline is 7th May 2026. See lab.hrcek.net

New paper claxon: "Variation in cranial and caudal keel bone composition and its association with keel damage severity in laying hens" Our findings indicate that reduced keel bone mineralization was associated with increased susceptibility to deformation and fracture. 🧬🐔🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.ps...

An old adage is that there are reasons for war and there are causes. The reasons are what people in power tell the people.

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

Vacancy at Wageningen University: Assistant Professor Economic Modelling of Farms and Firms in Food Supply Chains www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/a...

Brilliant idea by @arjenlubach.bsky.social: The NAAGGA hat. ‘Naagga’ means ‘No’ in Greenlandic. Sold out already! lubach.shop/product/naag...

Are we trying too hard with overly complex models? Alex Lipka and Reeka Howard argue that we do when it comes genomic prediction! 🧬🧪 Open Access: G3 Genes Genome Genetics, jkaf244, doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

New paper claxon, together with @mrtnj.bsky.social. Final paper of the PhD project of Mohamma Sallam! 🧬🐔 rdcu.be/eR4Tl

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Monty Python understood p-hacking

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

*Postdoc in Evolutionary genomics at Stockholm University* We are recruiting a postdoc for a large interdisciplinary project to investigate evolutionary drivers and genomic consequences of pollen evolution in response to pollination mode shifts in flowering plants. 1/5 su.varbi.com/what:job/job...

I totally recommend this position on @trstngnthr.bsky.social lab. Great place to do science, and amazing people to do it with! #aDNA 🧪 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

We are looking for an Associate Professor in statistical genetics or health data science (fixed term 36 monts). The position will be in our Aarhus hub at the National Centre for Register-Based Research at Aarhus Universitet. Read more here: international.au.dk/about/profil...

This man on every news show everywhere please.

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

I could not agree more. As Mike Ritchie said in his #ESEB presidential address: learned societies have never been more important than now! @eseb.bsky.social

Having a great time with the SLU leadership on our kick-off retreat in Lysekil. Setting our focus and agenda for the autumn term. The environment certainly helps our sunny disposition!

Results of our (extremely long-term) side project with @amygoldberg.bsky.social and @jgschraiber.bsky.social out now in G3: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo... We benchmarked methods for estimating ancestry proportions under mapping bias and present an adjusted GenotypeLikelihood to mitigate its impact (1/2)

Incredible! Fascinating piece by @elisabethbik.bsky.social Discontinuous ridiculous stools – a preprint full of tortured phrases and stolen data scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/28/d... h/t @retractionwatch.com

what’s needed is to end crime and disorder in the White House

Must-read poetry

It’s an ODE to the Rapist in Chief’s “Art of Deflection” -from the Epstein list 🤣😂🤣

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqTs... After Ozzy yesterday, another rock icon bites the dust: George Kooymans of the Golden Earring. Internationally mostly known for Radar Love and Twilight Zone, but in the Netherlands so much more than that. This is from their acoustic tour, the Naked Truth:

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

No Cheating. Post the last picture of your pet(s)

The #GENETICS Primers section is expanding, with Beth De Stasio as Senior Editor and six new Associate Editors joining the team. These guides help bring real research into the classroom. 📢 Browse existing Primers: buff.ly/gOac8h6

Dementia Don.

Our latest Plant Genetics and Genomics series showcases research work that identifies new mechanisms in plant evolution, develops new resources, and much more. 🌱 Check out these latest studies published in #G3journal and #GENETICS ⬇️ 1/5 🧵

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

New paper claxon. "Host transcriptome profiling for resistance against lumpy skin disease (LSD)". Collaboration between SLU and Sciensano. Funded by EU through the DEFEND project. 🧪🐄🧬 rdcu.be/ewnGP

I postulate that Lindau Nobel Meeting organisers are some seriously sick puppies. mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/recordings/4...

Doctors are AMAZED at these 10 ways to BOOST your immune system: The Tetanus vaccine The Measles vaccine The Polio vaccine The Mumps vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine - @hislopmd.bsky.social

PhD student alert: how about working in the industry while at the same time doing a PhD? Here is a fully salaried PhD position at VÄXA Sweden in collaboration with SLU. 🐄🧬🧪. The PhD is on genetic approaches to lower methane emissions in dairy production. English 👇 ledigajobb.vxa.se/jobs/6112392...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Never forget that what we are seeing happen right now was an explicit and open campaign promise of Trump's.

New article claxon: Genetic markers associated with bone strength and density in Rhode Island Red laying hens with @mrtnj.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ps... 🐔🧪🧬

The de-extinction of the dire wolves? "Colossal Baloney"— @stemcells.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto... @latimes.com by @hiltzikm.bsky.social

when he sends citizens to foreign concentration camps, it’s no longer a slide to authoritarianism—it’s full blown fascism! 😔 this is not an administration, it’s a criminal regime in a hostile takeover of 🇺🇸 democracy. #FightFascism #TraitorTrump #DefendLiberty 🔔

From March 29 to August 31 you can see my work in the Natural History Museum Rotterdam. Building plans for life - 3D models from Mieke Roth The exhibition is both in English and in Dutch. www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/exposities/n...

HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES. Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

GODDAMIT. IT’S NOT A RESURRECTED DIRE WOLF. 20 edits in 19,000 genes. IT’S NOT GOING TO AID CONSERVATION. EVERY WRITE UP THAT SWALLOWS AND REGURGITATES THIS GUFFERY WOLFSHIT IS DOING PR FOR A FUNDING ROUND.

This is high art

This week Anne Dietrich from SLU joined our AECP group at ETH Zurich as a visiting scientist. Anne is working with us on solutions for more resilient and environmentally friendly crop production. We are happy to have her on board!🥳 www.slu.se/en/ew-cv/ann... aecp.ethz.ch