UBC and BC Cancer are recruiting a cancer stem cell faculty member at the Associate Professor or Professor rank for the new Connie Eaves Chair in Cancer Stem Cell Research. A great position recognizing a giant in the field. Please share. #Vancouver ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

⚠️New study: we mapped DNA-binding of topoisomerase TOP2B in cancer, uncovering surprising hotspots of DNA damage. TOP2B, normally essential for DNA stress relief, can act as a double-edged sword. co-led by @LiisUuskula @ChristianLee, out now @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... [1/7]

♨️Live @ #BGEconnects: Finished “EBP – How genomics is transforming understanding of biodiversity through reference genome production” by Harris Lewin, chair of @ebpgenome.bsky.social. “Reference-quality genomes can now be produced at scale”, he says. “We need to work together to scale up.” #BGE

Canada is ranked 1 in education, 3 in safety, 4 in justice, 4 in overall best country. We are not a broken country. We have not suffered a lost decade. Our existence is in the balance. Vote.

PatchWorkPlot: simultaneous visualization of local alignments across multiple sequences arxiv.org/abs/2503.20766 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/yana-safonov...

4) Their definition of epigenetics is also somewhat awkward (see e.g. www.nature.com/articles/nrm...). This is a very cool paper, but the science would shine brighter without the somewhat forced attempt to dress established knowledge as a new concept via awkward terminology.

Canada has existential choices to make in the Trump era. It had become complacent about its many virtues, and has had a sharp awakening, writes Michael Ignatieff. www.prospectmagazine...

This is incredible

the united states no longer condemns russia’s invasion of ukraine. aligning the us with belarus, sudan, north korea and other failed states. a reflection of changing policy and a wake up call for us allies.

MW: Highlighting the importance of collaborative research to his own work - pointed out that a very fruitful project in his lab was spearheaded as a collaboration by a student who rotated in both labs and brought them together, the PIs now work together successfully on join projects #LorneGenome25

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

"What I Believe" by Bertrand Russell is 100 yrs old and still relevant (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73782). "The good life, as we conceive it, demands a multitude of social conditions, and cannot be realized without them. The good life, we said, is a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

You heard it here first folks, borders aren’t real, they’re just an artificial line someone drew. This quote will 100% start one of my book chapters.

You are making a big difference in standing up to tyranny. Your decision to cancel the family trip to the United States is freaking them out. As Donald insults our nation, businesses are watching our tourism dollars dry up. Boycott all trips to the United States. www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

PubMed launched in 1996, but took time to take off as an Internet-enabled replacement. Now it's easy to forget how miserable the alternative was. Thank you, National Library of Medicine, for keeping grad students where they belong: listening to true crime podcasts while pipetting.

We found that copies of the LINE1 transposon are key “architects” of the nucleolar genome in human embryonic stem cells. This work brings together two facets of Barbara McClintock’s pioneering research: nucleolar organizer regions and transposable elements. www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy... GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

Excited to share our preprint describing a new naked mole rat reference genome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9

BIOMORA24 is go!!! Going to be an amazing few days of science, meeting old friends & meeting people in the flesh who I’ve only seen online/read papers of/emailed!