We offer 3 half-price seats for researchers from low- and middle-income countries for our upcoming #GWAS course. This initiative supports access to high-quality training in genomic data analysis. More info: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... @oscargenomics.bsky.social

Our medical affairs people are gems www.illumina.com/company/news...

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

Turns out constellation mapped reads do linked-read type co-location plots, and more Informatics advances reveal the TruPath™ Genome towards comprehensive genomic insights www.illumina.com/science/geno...

We have a little mojo back;) Illumina Raises 2026 Guidance on Strong Q1 NovaSeqX Demand, Clinical Consumables Sales www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/i...

Does anyone else follow the 'reefing principle' with dynamic risk? As a sailor, when the wind starts increasing you have a limited window of time to reduce sail area (reef) before the force of wind makes it a difficult and dangerous thing to do, so if you even THINK about reefing, you HAVE to reef

Neighbor Sovereign Buoy Bureaucracy

This is my spirit animal, complete with matching mustache and expression of bewidlerment

Best rule for social media: don't share or comment on anything you don't like. Sounds simple right? One step further - unfollow anyone who does. You can de-rage farm you feed very quickly. If you don't like something, just ignore it, sharing what you hate only gives it air and propagates it

Man, scientific publishes all seem to think I'm a bot after trying to read skim-read 100 papers a day and the reCAPTCHAs are getting out of control

Hi this joke is for me

This tweet is all of us.

This is pretty wild

My first name is a random set of numbers and letters and other alphanumerics that changes hourly forever - Aesop Rock

What we should (and are!) be using AI for www.illumina.com/company/news...

Someone recently suggested to me using AI to digitally clone incapacitated people so we can ask the clone to make decisions about their medical welfare

I always suspected all the guff about dog breed personalities was hocus, nice to see some proof

I think memetic evolution is one of the most interesting and important concepts of our time, and I'm aghast at how this scientific term has been utterly devolved by common use, to the point where people cannot have rational conversations about it because the heuristics are too strong now

Cardiogenetic testing at scale: the TruGenome Cardiovascular Disease Test and CardioSeq Clinical Trial www.illumina.com/science/geno...

Illumina's Pharma Research Alliance Expands, Adds Paired Genomics-Proteomic Dataset www.genomeweb.com/business-new...

Bill Bramhall cartoon.

With a nice shout-out for our Genomic Code paper proposing that the genome instantiates a generative model of the organism www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Want to learn about how our new BioInsight division is delivering data and unique omics research to pharma? Partnering to translate population-scale signals into mechanistic insights for faster drug discovery www.drugdiscoverynews.com/partnering-t...

“We’re staying away from federal dollars because we don’t trust them, especially right now.” - Joseph Yracheta, executive director of the Native Biodata Consortium Bhattacharya talk a lot about trust. But the actions he oversees lead only to its deterioration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...

Small pleasures: typing "worrisomely" into an email and finding it is, after all, a real word

Why one of the world's most common viruses may have lifelong consequences for you 🔽 Researchers have discovered 22 genes that make people prone to persistent Epstein-Barr virus infections which are linked to long-term conditions inc rheumatoid arthritis, cancer & obstructive pulmonary disease.

Love this quote

1/ Your genome report says you have a disease-causing mutation. Reanalysis 13 months later: it was a sequencing artifact. MedSeq found 164 "rare variants" appeared in >10% of their patients. Population databases missed them all.

In patients with melanoma who had surgical removal of tumor, receiving a customized mRNA cancer vaccine increased protection against recurrence by 44% at 2 years when compared to standard therapy. At 5 years, it appears that protection slightly increases to 49%.

Performance-based contracts for drugs - I love it. Incentivize maximum outcomes not maximum patient eligibility www.npr.org/2026/01/20/n...

Right now I have at the feeder: Evening Grosbeak, Dark-Eyed Juncos, Boreal Chickadees, American Goldfinches, and Blue Jays 😍

I blame the game Risk and Mercator Projection...

Illumina Obtains CMS Reimbursement for TruSight Oncology Comprehensive Test www.genomeweb.com/cancer/illum...

I asked my 10 year old daughter about determinism and free will, whether any choice made is always fated. She replied that we can only choose what is possible and probable. I like her theory - choice availability and likelihood of fulfilment are limited and probabilistic, but choice itself is not

#mathsky My kids brought home a card matching game from maccas, and I am mildly obsessed with deriving some of the algebraic formulas used in its design. I'll lay out the game rules and materials below, and I'd be delighted if someone (sans AI assist) could produce the formula for me?

Illumina introduces Billion Cell Atlas to accelerate AI and drug discovery This is going to be one kahuna of a dataset! www.illumina.com/company/news...

Happy new year/paper! A new tech (scG2P) maps genotype (DNA) to phenotype (RNA) in single cells, bringing together the worldviews of genetic & transcriptional heterogeneity. With scG2P we define how mosaicism drivers increase clonal fitness in the aging esophagus aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...

Illumina launches powerful software for connected, intuitive, and scalable multiomic analysis: Illumina Connected Multiomics www.illumina.com/company/news...

Apparently I'm entering 2026 on life-support 😮‍💨

Our Epigenetics contest has a winner, congrats Emma Luckett! www.illumina.com/company/news...

Coming from a world of diagnostics, I feel like people promoting AI tools don't understand the concepts of positive or negative predictive value. Getting most things right is not the same as few things wrong, or being able to say you you didn't find anything because there was nothing to find

Earlier this year we announced the completion of the world's largest whole body imaging project, capturing scans from 100,000 of our participants. Now the latest images from this project have been made available to our approved researchers. 🔽✅

llumina, Other Genomics Firms Ramp Up Data Offerings for Pharma, With Eyes on AI www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/i...

Exciting! Beta thalassemias are quite common in some parts of the world www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild, seen today edition! Norther Harrier Harbour Seal Blue Jay Grouse Raven

Am I trolling Co-Pilot this morning to lighten my Monday? Yes, yes I am

Abbott to Acquire Exact Sciences for $23B

I see so many takes saying "but generative AI cannot possibly do or be this uniquely human thing" from people who haven't any idea how or why actually humans do or are those things Don't presume to know the categorical exclusion criteria for processes or phenomena we do not functionally comprehend