Update! The posting for the postdoc opening in my lab is up! Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/319...

I'm looking for postdoc opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. If you're looking for a postdoc with a broad skill set spanning evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, and various omics methods, feel free to reach out. Some recent pubs: (1) doi.org/10.1126/scie... (2) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY!!! The Rutgers IRACDA program is phenomenal: 70% of postdoctoral fellows land faculty positions. Martha Soto (LinkedIn below) is the amazing director and leader of this program. Please apply or reach out if you have questions. www.linkedin.com/posts/martha...

I'm looking for postdoc opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. If you're looking for a postdoc with a broad skill set spanning evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, and various omics methods, feel free to reach out. Some recent pubs: (1) doi.org/10.1126/scie... (2) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Props and planning, great work!

“Donald Trump, the man who uses Palestinian as a pejorative, as a slur, has no plan for Palestinian freedom.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social slams Donald Trump at the ‘No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC over his Gaza ‘peace-plan.’ Watch his full speech: zeteo.com/p/no-kings-p...

Sanders: In my state, people received notices from insurance companies that their health care premiums in some cases would triple or quadruple. That is going on all over the country, at a time when we already pay by far the highest prices in the world for health care…

I'm recruiting a postdoc for my group (based in beautiful Eugene, OR). Please get in touch if you're interested, esp if you'd like to chat at #ASHG25!

New in #GENETICS: Using deep mutational scanning to create a mutant library and measuring protein–protein interactions, @christianlandry.bsky.social and the team determined the in vivo binding strength of motifs that bind to the SH3 domain in #yeast mutants. buff.ly/uOXTpZG

Students successful in TPUSA (via recruitment and harassing people) are in line for cushy positions in the right-wing think tank industry or Republican politics upon graduation. That is what the most outspoken ones work for, and ruining lives is a plus.

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

#MammothMonday factoids: A comparison of 23 woolly mammoths (how cool is it to have that many mammoth genomes!) and 28 living elephants identified at least 1.2 million mammoth-specific genetic changes, including 4,786 amino acid substitutions in 3,097 genes 1/n 🧪 🐘 🦣 PMID: 37030294

The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of: 1/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Elected officials questioning the legality of ICE processes being arrested

This is a fantastic program and a great opportunity 👇👇👇👇👇

““We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military.”” They’re not being coy about their vision for the future.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The two middle aged joggers on the side street are TERRIFYING.

“Oregon is our home. Keep troops off our streets.”

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

The President made the biggest cut to food assistance in our nation’s history. Families will go hungry so Trump’s billionaire friends can get richer. They can hide the numbers. They can bury the reports. But they cannot hide this moral tragedy from the eyes of God.

We in the West don't see them, but REAL PEOPLE in drought and conflict zones have been killed by Musk. It's not over. DOGE is a death machine, still rolling.

To sum up: the President is not enforcing the law about TikTok access in order to structure the timing and sale of another giant social media platform to his political allies.

Three high schoolers, who likely didn't make a career out of enabling and encouraging fascism, were shot in Colorado today.

Explicit calls for violence, even war on many Americans, is very bad. Even worse since they have no idea who killed Kirk or why. But if you’re not familiar with these prominent right-wing figures, they regularly advocate violence and repression against the broadly defined Left, often based on lies.

The Department of Homeland Security cowardly pushed people around at the Portland protest.

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

I hope to take a PhD student in 2026 to study siphonophores. Please reach out if you are interested in applying this fall. For examples of recent lab projects see www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.

This quote belongs on page one of every legal brief filed against this administration.

It appears this Aakash Singh worked for Sen. Tillis and is a 2017 law grad. He needs to be infamous.

I'm hiring a postdoc to work in theoretical / computational phylogenomics! More info at tinyurl.com/63hb5ew8. Please share!

There should be punishments for politicians blatantly lying about their own voting record

Not cool that Nancy Mace is taking credit for a bill she (and every TN Republican) opposed when Marsha Blackburn basically invented this move… Find your own thing, Mace! @atrupar.com (FLASHBACK— we confronted her lackey and he pretended to not know how she voted🤷🏻‍♂️👇🏽 )

Predictably, RFK Jr. isn’t helping.

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology? 2) Are you in the US? 3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa? 4) Are you available to travel September 4-6? If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

Incredibly proud of this work where we developed a method for understanding the information contained in millions of genomes. Another example of NIH funded research.

Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

Autocratic leader, building on racist propaganda, falsehoods about crime data, and an alleged assault on a member of his extralegal office devoted to gutting the budget, moves to have federal armed personnel take direct control of the streets of the capital city.

If there's a way to make more of a mockery of such a trusted and influential position in public health and scientific research, then I really don't want to see it. Pathetic capitulation and total lack of integrity. Battacharya will go down in history for all the wrong reasons.

A reminder yet again that the people who position themselves as the "defenders of women's sports" when attacking trans people actually hate women's sports and women athletes... especially Black women athletes...

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3195):

This preprint from Helen Sakharova is one of the coolest things to come out of my lab: “Protein language models reveal evolutionary constraints on synonymous codon choice.” Codon choice is a big puzzle in how information is encoded in genomes, and we have a new angle. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Being awful to Americans who honorably served the country for nearly two decades, just to be bigots.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.