Excited to share our latest work on the factors that determine what genes we find (and don't find!) in GWAS and burden tests. We describe a critical concept that we call *specificity*. Led by Jeff Spence and Hakhamanesh Mostafavi:

Whoa!

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

Sir, we use the Dollar in this country.

IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇

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This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

I've officially reached old status 👴 Preparing a "career talk" for the new ATIP-AVENIR prom! See you soon @lblanchoin.bsky.social and @tgalli.bsky.social

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

“Cat’s in the cradle” came on & I suddenly have all the feels. I listened to this song all the time in my 20s but it hits differently in my 50s, which I suppose is the point of it all. Now looking up the rest of Harry Chapin’s oeuvre (only heard ‘Taxi’ before) while looking up flights to India.

Some iocaine perhaps to jog his memory?

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

I'd argue that JD is willing to criticize Usha's lack of Christianity for the same reason he's willing to vilify his family and community in Hillbilly Elegy: He's convinced himself that he was able to escape his humble origins--while others weren't--because he worked harder and had more faith.

My department at Dartmouth Medical School is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We are looking broadly for a biochemist or cell biologist. Please share this add! apply.interfolio.com/171438 @dartmouthbcb.bsky.social @futurepislack.bsky.social

Wow! Hard to remember a World Series like this in recent years. Gutted for the Blue Jays but no quit in the Dodgers

Día de los Muertos

The problem of working out exactly which sort of snake did the biting may soon be a thing of the past—and an awful lot of lives may be saved in the process

🚨Our collaboration with @centriolelab.bsky.social & @gautamdey.bsky.social is out today in @cp-cell.bsky.social We show that #Expansion #Microscopy is a broad-spectrum modality for Euks, enabling 3D phenotypic maps rooted to phylogeny. #ProtistsOnSky #SciComm #SciSky www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

And now the long wait begins for the next season of ‘Slow Horses’ And I really need to take better care of my 👣

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

Man that was a tense 9th inning One could even say the LA team dodged catastrophe big time

Really cool study: a fully recombinant antivenom made not from horse serum but from nanobodies i.e. tiny, single-chain antibodies derived from alpacas and llamas. These molecules are smaller, more stable, cheaper to produce, and less likely to trigger immune reactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paul Nurse describing the main job of a PI (From ‘The Thinking Game’, 2024)

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet. Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times. Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀 #PublicHealth

The print version of @theonion.com is worth every dime.

This is trumps biggest legacy: just blatantly lying to the public on a regular basis. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"

Dr. Steven Henikoff receives the 55th Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical Research. www.brandeis.edu/rosenstiel/r... (Personal note: I continue to be inspired and astonished by my postdoctoral mentor & current colleague)

🧪hey all, a friend and colleague, @maddoxfornc.bsky.social, is running for Congress in North Carolina. He is a scientist, professor, and parent, perspectives that are especially important right now. I hope you will support his run for Congress. Find out more here: www.maddoxforcongress.com/about/

Zara Weinberg was a brilliant light both in and out of science. She changed the lives of everyone she interacted and loved for the better. Her legacy will live on through all of us and we will fight for a better world on behalf of her memory.

The President of the United States is so upset about his failed campaign for a Nobel Prize that he's now trying to claim someone else's prize as his own. Pathetic.

Sharks absolutely get cancer, and people claiming otherwise are pseudoscientific grifters preying on the desperate. Even if sharks did not get cancer, eating shark would not cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

Excited to announce the final version of the Mosquito Cell Atlas is out now in @cellpress.bsky.social!! 🦟🩸 There is SO much left to find & investigate in this dataset (& the rich biology of the Aedes aegypti mosquito)! We hope this helps scientists in many fields! www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Listened just yesterday to a podcast discussing the rapidly increasing shortage of medical doctors including orthopedics. Surgeries for joint replacement will double in the next decade. Florida seniors: Good luck getting an appointment!

DeSantis orders Board of Governors to ‘pull the plug’ on H1-B visas in universities floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/29/_...

I am extremely grateful and deeply honored to be conferred the new title of Xander University Professor by @harvard.edu 🙏 🧠🧪🧬

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

THis 👀looks really interesting!

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia lol Writing on social media, Musk said that Grokipedia.com is “now live” and its goal is the “truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.” LOL

A man who spent 43 years in prison before his conviction was overturned now faces deportation @apnews.com

A: no, it isn’t B: he’s trying to soften this language because he’s going to get sued into oblivion.

Seattlelites: the arboretum is lit! And worth visiting this week

Double vaccinated for flu & Covid today! Even better, I was right behind Julie Theriot (pictured) & Beth Traxler (the photographer), so we to got to say "hi" before heading off to our respective labs. Feeling great so far. Thankful to UW for making it easy to be healthy (and network with colleagues)

The Johri Lab has an open postdoc position. Please send me an email, if interested. Start date is flexible. Please do share! Thank you in advance.

Spread the word! There is a professor position opening at our University @upcite.bsky.social. There are several possible (great) labs to join, but if you are interested in DNA methylation and epigenetics in mammals, don't hesitate to contact me directly!