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Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...

The publisher Springer claims it can only discuss why it retracted Planck's paper with... Planck! But until they hold a seance, they are happy to sell you a completely redacted version: a blank page for $39.95.

Live footage of me at BGA 2026 as an early-career student @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social

So happy and proud to see this paper out in @natcomms.nature.com today! We show that traces of human DNA can persist on cave walls for thousands of years. Absolutely fantastic work by the wonderful Alba Bossoms Mesa at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and a great team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Caroline Wright (Exeter) sharing fundamental knowledge What does the "average" human genome look like?" >900k 🧬 #UKB / #AllofUs / Genome: 1️⃣ ~4.4–5.5 million variants 2️⃣ 2–3 ClinVar P/LP (mostly AR) 3️⃣ ~62–70 de novo variants 4️⃣ ~1 in 5 people in top 1% of PRS for ≥1 disease

Stunning photographs encompass different ways in which science is used to decipher our complex & beautiful world. #ScientistAtWork images in @nature.com. 📷🧪

Interested in the role of mu-opioid receptors on key mechanisms of pain, stress and reward? Come join our team as a PhD student working on a newly discovered OPRM1 human knockout model! 🧬 Find out more at the link below⬇️

1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.

📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics. Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch. You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...

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We are hiring! PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16... Project summary here: lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec... Deadline: July 1st.

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

I read A LOT of books, not least as part of my job on Start the Week. Here are four that are truly extraordinary. One about fate, one about nature, one an explorer and one about a game. Get them all, bathe in their brilliance

“Tie says she only wants to use gene editing to alleviate human suffering. A little over a year ago she was biohacking pets; trying to create glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats & even dragons to be sold to consumers. ‘I’m personally really interested in the unicorn’ she said at the time.”

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

Bai et al. find that structural variants explain "at least 4.7% of the common genetic variation for complex traits", meaning about 1% of trait variance (on average across many traits). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Music expert here. This is actually a common misconception. Actually it is only when it sounds good to MY ears that it's good music.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

Bristol is recruiting a Lecturer in Philosophy, with specialisation in one of and teaching competency in at least three of: Aesthetics Ethics Philosophy of AI Philosophy of Education Political Philosophy Value Theory 24 month post with teaching orientation. www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

12th VPDVP conference (Padova, 26th June 2026)

With our wonderful Head of Library retiring after years of commitment to the Institute, we are excited to welcome a new colleague who will lead the library into its next chapter. More information & application: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

I'd love to see this level of detail across monozygotic twins - has anyone done it?

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

What makes an artwork beautiful, and can your brain's response decode such hidden dimensions of aesthetic appeal? We built a framework to find out 🎨 🧠 @natcomms.nature.com @cognizelab.bsky.social First author: @neocosmliang.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroaesthetics #DefaultMode

Very excited about this preprint that we just posted. It introduces the Genomic-Relatedness Matched Association (GRMA) study. It’s an extension to family-based GWAS that uses extended relatives beyond only siblings in diverse-ancestry data with very little bias. (Link below.)

go and work w @alpar.bsky.social in copenhagen for a 2y postdoc on comparing llms and humans on metaphor processing (including eye-tracking fun stuff): employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

I’m delighted to share our work leveraging homozygous deletions to discover rare disease diagnoses and novel disease genes - see the preprint here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽

We are offering Postdoc & PhD positions 🥼 If you are interested in the intersection of X chromosome inactivation, epigenetics, aging, sex-biased disease, and allele-specific multi-omics, feel free to reach out or share this with interested candidates. More info: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

🧬 New preprint! We present an All by All analysis in All of Us: common and rare variant association testing across 392,030 whole genomes and 3,602 phenotypes. 1.337 trillion tests, ~50k significant signals, all publicly browseable. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint—A critical review on what we know about beat perception (and why that matters 🙂) w/ Gábor Háden. See doi.org/10.31234/osf...

“...there is no effective substitute for the subtle interplay of words and from time to time one becomes wearied by the exact formulations of science and longs for a poetry which speaks to one’s bones.”

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

(2) This is true, and we also try to make this clear in the abstract and discussion. However, the central point of our analysis is that for 77.2% of the voxels reported in the published paper, no inference about concordance can really be made.

The Musicality Genomics Consortium #MusicGens has #fellowships available to attend the 2026 Iceland meeting (pending funding availability). These fellowships are intended to support early career researchers who are from the #GlobalSouth See for more information : musicgens.org | lnkd.in/efgT65tW

This is the May cover of NN but it has already been debunked on biorxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Such a clear statement about the ridiculous pace of publishing (not just NN).

The new, updated and thoroughly revised 10th anniversary edition of @adamrutherford.bsky.social’s brilliant book. Written with such clarity, insight and brio!

I am hiring a PhD student to join our group in Lund, Sweden working on an ERC-funded project to untangle color and polarization vision in some amazing crustaceans – minute water fleas and pugnacious mantis shrimp! Please forward this to promising students. Apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨New in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Genetic principal components (PCs) are commonly used to adjust for population stratification in genetic studies. In this paper, we quantify how much direct genetic signal is lost when using these “catch-all” adjustments. 🧵

[2016] A French literature Prof was celebrated by the French national assembly, Nobel prize winners, former government ministers, MPs, decorated scientists and academics for winning award ... [2026] ... that he now appears to have made up. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Super excited to see this out! Fantastic collaboration with Luke O'Connor and trainees Amber Shen and Xinran Wang. Thread with details will come soon, but linear ARG provide a HIGHLY efficient representation of genotype data that can be treated as a linear operator www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper 🚨 "Cultural evolution – of the arts". Together with @masonyoungblood.bsky.social we wrote a short paper – half essay, half bibliometric analysis – aiming to describe this emerging research area (1/3) doi.org/10.1017/ehs....