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Assistant prof at UCLA using the Bayes for the genomes
https://pimentellab.com
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The American Journal of Human Genetics
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🧬New today! 📄Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobank 🧑🤝🧑
@loldeloo.bsky.social
@apimplaskar.bsky.social
@bpasaniuc.bsky.social
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Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobank
We quantify inclusion bias in a health-system-linked biobank using classification models to distinguish enrolled individuals from the background population. To evaluate its impact on genetic findings ...
https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(26)00075-3
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Jerome
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Happy to see this work out now in Genome Biology! Check out the final version here for your FACS DMS needs:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Great work by Albert from my lab! Albert has a few more papers coming shortly and will be graduating soon. Then off to a PD! He is a great PD catch and you should consider him :)
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My preprint on keju, a statistical tool for Massively Parallel Reporter Assay (MPRA) data, is out! keju improves sensitivity, calibration, and reliability over previous methods by closely modeling important uncertainty sources in MPRAs. Check it out:
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.24.707790v1
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Destroying the earth to make shit memes with GPT: (the idea was not mine, fortunately)
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Arbel Harpak
5 months ago
@jbenning.bsky.social
@jedidiahcarlson.com
et al. exemplify how confounding can lead to flawed inference on genetic causality. In studies of human behavior and social outcomes, the cost of downplaying this problem can be steep.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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I'm so tired.
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Ben Langmead
6 months ago
New tool "bwt-svg" for making illustrations of the BWT and the many auxiliary arrays and other structures related to it. Pyodide-based no-installation-necessary interface here:
benlangmead.github.io/bwt-svg/
. (H/t to
@robert.bio
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen
6 months ago
The proteasome-substrate-shuttle protein UBQLN2 contains—like other quality control system proteins—a long region devoid of lysine (a lysine desert) Martin Grønbæk-Thygesen (from
@rhp-lab.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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The Wells Lab of UCLA
6 months ago
The first (of hopefully many) reports to come from our collaboration with
@hjp.bsky.social
We present a new type of cell fitness assay that allows you to both quantify and explain differences across human donors in cell proliferation and sensitivity to environmental toxicants.
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Super excited to get this out. This collab started a few years ago and is the first paper from it. Here, with experimental and computational approaches we: 1. establish that cell villages can be just as accurate (one might argue more accurate!) than arrayed-based designs
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Joshua Weitz
6 months ago
Radical transparency 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...
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Harvard Dean Was Paid $150,000 as an Expert Witness in Tylenol Lawsuits
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/health/harvard-dean-autism-tylenol-lawsuits-payment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU8.7zw_.lNMONV-PFO8E&smid=url-share
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Super excited to have this out. Thanks very much to the reviewers who helped improve this manuscript. Congrats to
@jingyour.bsky.social
!
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6 months ago
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Pretty sure that’s the point
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7 months ago
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Chris Geidner
7 months ago
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
7 months ago
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
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BF Francis Ouellette
7 months ago
From
@jxtxfoundation.bsky.social
| JXTX + CSHL 2025 Genome Informatics Scholarships | Up to $750 for domestic or $1,250 for international travel | Application deadline is September 15, 2025 |
#OpenScience
🧬 🖥️ 🧪 ⬇️
jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-6-...
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JXTX + CSHL 2025 Genome Informatics Scholarship
JXTX + CSHL 2025 Genome Informatics Scholarships
https://jxtxfoundation.org/news/2025-6-09-gi
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unlawful whatever 🐝
7 months ago
Y'all The ICE building in Portland is painting a line in front of their building But they don't even know how to spell government
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Gen Wojcik
7 months ago
Science will always be political when it tries to help people who the political establishment doesn't center as the default American. Health disparities? Climate change? Public health? Have always been political, will always be political.
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Dan Garisto
7 months ago
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a convoluted, 36-page emergency order about NIH grant terminations. Two main takeaways: -$2 billion (not the government # of $780 million) in NIH grants will likely be re-terminated -future legal challenges will be much harder w/
@maxkozlov.bsky.social
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US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants
The decision will hinder lawsuits against grant terminations, legal specialists say.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02721-5
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Arjun Bhattacharya
7 months ago
Very proud of
@ytchang11.bsky.social
for her first publication from her doctoral research! She conducted very meticulous genomic analyses that uncovered novel isoform-specific mechanistic hypotheses underlying genetic loci associated with multiple cancers.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isoform-level analyses of 6 cancers uncover extensive genetic risk mechanisms undetected at the gene-level - British Journal of Cancer
British Journal of Cancer - Isoform-level analyses of 6 cancers uncover extensive genetic risk mechanisms undetected at the gene-level
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41416-025-03141-y
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Very excited to have this out! Here, we take inspiration from model selection MR to decouple direct and indirect effects in DMS experiments. Check out Jingyou's explainer and paper below:
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8 months ago
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Graham Coop
8 months ago
It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ
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Alicia Izquierdo
8 months ago
Suspension of all grants to UCLA
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-31/trump-freezes-nih-nsf-funding-ucla
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Super proud of my first student,
@jingyour.bsky.social
! Well done! Looking forward to the amazing work you will do in the future 🥲
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Nicholas Mancuso
8 months ago
Super excited to see this out. What started as some math in a grant in 2020, to a student deciding to take this on in 2022, to published in 2025. These things can take time and patience is key!
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Bede Constantinides
10 months ago
New preprint! Deacon is a versatile tool for filtering FASTA/FASTQ files and streams at hundreds of megabases per second using minimizers, built with rapid metagenomic host depletion in mind, but equally useful for search.
github.com/bede/deacon
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Very excited to have this work out by
@jeromics.bsky.social
! Please check it out. I think my favorite story from the supplement is how impactful normalization can be in this context.
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9 months ago
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Nate Coraor
9 months ago
Qapla’! A great ending to a wonderful talk on science engagement and learning with students from
@jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
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St. Jude Research
10 months ago
St. Jude researchers and international collaborators developed a more affordable and accessible technique of single-cell RNA analysis that combines microscopy with RNA detection.
ow.ly/Er0i50WaQnv
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Christopher Webb
10 months ago
Powerful statement by Sen. Alex Padilla. Please notice that anytime senators or representatives try to conduct oversight, they’re blocked. In this case, a sitting US senator was tackled to the ground and handcuffed—for asking a question. Where the hell has Chuck Schumer been on this?
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BWJones
10 months ago
And then they attempted to block the Senator's staff from recording his apparent arrest:
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Brunilda Balliu
10 months ago
🚨 Applications are open for the UCLA Postdoct Training Program in Neurobehavioral Genetics 🧠🧬 Deadline: 6/30 👉
neurogen.semel.ucla.edu/curriculum/
Contact me if you're interested to write a proposal together combining genetics + functional genomics + digital phenotypes from wearables/smartphones!
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Patti Zettler
10 months ago
Check out the latest from me, Steve Cha,
@sarahd1.bsky.social
&
@cspinet.org
's
@drpeterlurie.bsky.social
. Whatever one thinks of the merits of FDA's decision, the process by which decisions (and policies) are made matters. And the process here spells trouble for public health and innovation.
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Yun S. Song
10 months ago
The 2026 Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics (ProbGen) meeting will be held at UC Berkeley, March 25-28, 2026. We have an amazing list of keynote speakers and session chairs:
probgen2026.github.io
Please help spread the news.
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J. David Jentsch 🏳️🌈
10 months ago
When everything is "normal", writing and administering an NIH T32 program is crazy. Despite being an immense amount of work (probably the single most effort-demanding grant one can direct), it comes with no salary for the PI...
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Katherine Xue
10 months ago
Want to write to your community about the importance of science funding? Join me on zoom this Friday at 12pm ET / 9am PT to learn to write an op-ed as part of the
#McClintockLetters
initiative! Sign up to write a letter and register for the workshop here:
blogs.cornell.edu/asap/events-...
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Brian Wasik
10 months ago
Lots of colorful and revealing language in here about the new NIH Director from NIH staff speaking to
@walkerbragman.bsky.social
www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his...
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“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya
Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.
https://www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his-depth-sold-his-soul-clueless
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Eli Weinstein
10 months ago
Thrilled to announce that I am joining DTU in Copenhagen in the fall, as an assistant professor of chemistry. My research group will focus on fundamental methodology in machine learning for molecules.
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Keri Backus
10 months ago
New paper from our lab joint with Val Arboleda
@val-arboleda.bsky.social
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Yun S. Song
10 months ago
How can one efficiently simulate phylodynamics for populations with billions of individuals, as is typical in many applications, e.g., viral evolution and cancer genomics? In this work with M. Celentano,
@wsdewitt.github.io
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Amy Goldberg
about 1 year ago
Last call—hiring for my lab moving to UCLA!
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I’m super honored to be selected, and immensely grateful. Huge thanks,
@hypothesisfund.bsky.social
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11 months ago
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Nicholas Mancuso
11 months ago
Hi trainees! I'm at Biology of Genomes and would be thrilled to chat about your work, any questions about academia/science, and Andor. Please don't hesitate to reach out here, by email, or by shouting at me!
#bog25
#bog2025
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Aaron Quinlan (he/him)
11 months ago
The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is sponsoring the Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics symposium! - We are seeking nominations bu June 1. - September 18-19, 2025 - Please share with the star postdocs that you know.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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