www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... thoughtful new local ancestry method by Rita Geleta, @alexgioannidis.bsky.social & others. Really looking forward to using it! 🧬

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Breaking: The Trump administration this morning sued ​Harvard over the Ivy League school's ​alleged failure ​to protect Jewish and ⁠Israeli students in a lawsuit that seeks ​to recover billions of dollars of taxpayer ​money. www.reuters.com/world/us-sue...

Israeli settlers carry out series of West Bank attacks as security forces stand by

Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers

Pay attention to Lebanon. Trump and Netanyahu started a regional war in the Middle East, creating a humanitarian disaster. And now, the Israeli army has killed over 1,000 people in Lebanon—about 20% of them are kids. Congress should not bankroll this escalating war of choice.

Greece's culture ministry said that divers who carried out an underwater excavation last year uncovered a decorative marble fragment from the wreck of the ship, the Mentor, which was transporting precious Greek antiquities to England. The find suggests there could be more on the seabed to recover.

Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies

The Israeli bombardment in Lebanon has killed more than 680 people and displaced over 800,000, according to Lebanese officials. Follow live Middle East updates. nyti.ms/4b6i7iH

China’s genius plan ft.trib.al/YYI7wOj

This matches my experience. The implementation of this system has increased inequality in some cases. Underrepresented groups are underrepresented in getting extra exam time in my classes, imposing an additional burden on those groups, as others shift their exam times forward, chasing the curve.

Life is what happens when you’re busy trying to get your paper published

Student acceptance of violence to silence speakers is at a record high. In 2020, 1 in 5 students said violence was acceptable to stop a speaker. In 2025, that number is 1 in 3. That’s a 79% increase in just five years. And it’s chilling.

The attorney general would be wise to read the words of the Supreme Court, which has repeatedly held that the "proudest boast" of America's free speech tradition is "freedom for the thought that we hate."

"He retired from public performances in the 1970s and focused on teaching. He taught for many years at the University of California, Santa Cruz, splitting his time between there and Cambridge." Tom Lehrer had it all figured out. RIP to one of my heroes. www.npr.org/2025/07/27/8...

After restrictions on aid imposed by Israel, medics in Gaza are fainting in hospitals and lack supplies to stop patients’ malnourishment. “The expression ‘skin and bones’ doesn’t do it justice.” nyti.ms/3J5WDXp

I'm disturbed by tenured faculty on here behaving like high school bullies. I ask them to look up ad hominem and recognize that what Mamdani did was atrocious and newsworthy. Why are we defending an uber-privileged applicant whose father was faculty at the Ivy League university he was applying to?

After a quarter of a century, the UCSC Genome Browser remains an essential tool for navigating the genome and understanding its structure, function and clinical impact https://go.nature.com/40wPxkB

It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of our friend and colleague Dr. Atul Butte. A hui hou Atul. We will miss you.

Sad.

I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

Most proteins are left-handed, but scientists have found an ancient molecule that works in both mirror-image forms https://go.nature.com/4mCImRm

Very sad to see this. Cemal Kafadar is a deep, evenhanded scholar, and had a formative influence on my understanding of Ottoman history as an undergraduate. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Imagine getting this text

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives @zey.bsky.social

"The secret history of Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa" Financial Times on.ft.com/3FepkzK The new jihadist leader of Syria went to fight for Saddam Hussein & fought for al-Baghdadi of ISIS, but now being a religious minority resisting him makes you bad (Assad remnant) according to NYT (below).

If you live in San Francisco, you should punish whoever is behind your city suing the EPA.

The CIA has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude how the Covid pandemic originated. The agency has issued a new assessment this week, with analysts saying they now favor the theory that it emerged from an accidental leak at a research lab in Wuhan, China.

More U.S. eighth graders are getting low scores on a federal reading test now than at any time in the exam’s three-decade history, according to the latest test scores.

Researchers paid $9 billion over 5 years for their findings to be freely accessible. This is based on a study of the global expenditure on article processing charges (APCs) paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023. arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

It’s a wrap! Another successful @pacsym.bio session on “Overcoming health disparities.” Great papers and panel/discussion session. Thanks to authors and co-organizers.

Our work w/ two co-first authors Drew DeHaas and Ziqing Pan is now published. GRG allows large amounts of WGS polymorphism data to be analyzed in RAM via graph traversal & algebra operations & has some intrinsic connection w/ popgen data generating process & is different from ARG

A new era of genomics is here 🧬 Complete human genome sequences have filled gaps in genomes, while pangenomes capture genetic diversity across populations. Check out "Beyond the Human Genome Project" review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @khmiga.bsky.social @benedictpaten.bsky.social