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and I have only deadends left :(

I didn't get a chance to post about this properly, what with prepping for ESHG, but all of you over at #SMBE2026 might get a kick out of Lift&Add

Is there really eduroam at Arlanda Airport or is someone spoofing things?

NTU's School of Biological Sciences is hiring faculty, Assistant Professor to Full Professor. The environment is collaborative and the start-up funding is genuinely generous. Four research areas. Campus visits 28 Sep to 2 Oct 2026. Apply here www.ntu.edu.sg/sbs/about-us...

Slooooooowly starting my return towards Australia after ESHG and a visit to Tartu!

To all attending #eshg2026: if you are ready to spent extra attention to detail throughout the entire conference, I recommend the informal ESHG bingo card. Brought by our great postdoc @lydiasagath.bsky.social @eshg.bsky.social First bingo gets a kanelbullar from me… tinyurl.com/eshgbingo2026

MAVEs are transforming how labs evaluate genetic variants, providing functional evidence at scale. Join Dr Abbye McEwen for an introduction to MAVEs and to learn how these datasets may help resolve variants of uncertain significance. Register free: bit.ly/3Seq0LL #AtlasOfVariantEffects

Lift&Add is live 🙂 suprised that trying to the answer the simple problem - how do I get more marsupials in my alignments? - has let to a method paper, but happy nonetheless. academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Finnair's AI customer service bot pronounces the airline name as "Fine-air" and it's all downhill from there, friends.

Please share: Abstract deadline approaching (June 15) for the 2026 Annual Symposium of the Society for Immune Polymorphism (Nov 2-4, Netherlands). Intimate community meeting on variation and evolution of immunity and immune genes. Exciting lineup of invited speakers. #MHC #HLA sip-sassenheim.org

It's drab academia not dark academia

I cannot be the only person irrationally annoyed when RFP is not shown as red in processed IHC images, can I?

I *know* it is the height of petty to sit here thinking about emailing a conference organiser about their unavoidable card surcharge just because I missed the early bird deadline, but also, the way they're doing it is illegal under ACCC rules, so, like... definitely a two wolves situation.

Dr Kate Firipis once wanted to be a teacher, inspired by a childhood curiosity about the world around her. Today, she’s part of a team working on lab-grown skin that could transform recovery from severe wounds. Donate today to support researchers like Kate: www.svi.edu.au/support-us/d...

🧬 Join us at the 25th International Gene Forum – with stellar speakers from around the world (again)! Register now to secure your spot! 📅 August 25–26, 2026 📍 Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia 🌐 Information & registration: www.geneforum.ee #Geneforum2026 #Geneforum

Honestly this should be a cause for national embarrassment. There's no justifying these timelines, especially the perverse delay between the panel meeting and the final announcement for DPs this year. Somehow grant panels in other countries can handle multiple cycles a year and yet here we are.

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Very proud of my people for our continued contributions to the izakaya scene.

I'm a big fan of this tourism campaign.

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I've been waiting for a new debit card from my bank since the *12th of April* for reasons I can't understand, and while at first I was happy to let a bunch of monthly subscriptions silently lapse, now I'm late on all kinds of proper bills and it's getting a lot more annoying.

Submissions will continue until funding rates improve!

Listening to my mother on the phone explaining what I work on to my father and I could definitely be a lot better at science communication, yikes 😰😰😰 We're at like minus twenty points.

Please sir, can I have some funds?

A time lapse study of the fluid dynamics of the domestic cat: four photos in four minutes

I do have to wonder if this happens often?

Grant rejection on Easter Friday and no chocolate to wash it down with.

We're hiring at NTU SBS, Singapore. Tenure-track faculty position in Biomedical Data Science (computational biology, AI in biology, bioinformatics). Great infrastructure, great place to do science. Please share. apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119013

Registration for MSS26 in Melbourne will close next Monday - we still have a few tickets available, and an amazing line-up of speakers across all areas of variant effects work, so if you were on the fence, check out our program and then smash that "Register now" button! www.mss2026.org

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

An international team, including Associate Professor Davis McCarthy and colleagues, has developed a breast screening artificial intelligence (AI) tool that estimates a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer more accurately than current methods. Find out more: www.svi.edu.au/news-events/...

Threaded below for your convenience, if you're one of those people who does not live online on weekends! (Also my hair looks great thanks for asking)

Job alert: open position for a Professor or Associate Professor of Computational Genomics in Health and Disease at University College London. Based in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment of UCL, and UGI, and funded by the UCL Health Strategy. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 🧪

Finally, today's offering! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This began life as a very different project which failed because we couldn't agree on defining eqtl sharing across cohorts. So two young members of the lab dug deeply into this - first @ijbeasley.bsky.social, then @patrickgibbs.bsky.social

Second, this piece, which is more reflexive than our usual. I cannot claim much credit for the work @paikusuma.bsky.social writes about here, but being even just a little part has been a huge privilege. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

First, a couple of weeks ago: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Single cell RNAseq on blood from 200 donors across 4 sites in Indonesia spanning regional axes of genetic and environmental diversity. This is one of very few scRNA data sets from the Global South, including urban and rural settings.

We've preprinted three very different manuscripts in the last two weeks and I'm sitting at the salon getting my hair dyed hot pink so I hope you're all ready for some tweetorials (or whatever we're calling them these days)

Power is a major confounder in the analysis of cross-ancestry 'portability' in human eQTLs https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.26.708346v1

We posted a preprint on Zenodo: “The important role of community engagement in genetic research: Lessons from the study of Bornean contemporary hunter–gatherers” (zenodo.org/records/1875...). We present a practical, field-tested approach to doing genomics with Indigenous communities. 1/

Hi yes I will have more to say about this in a few hours but please enjoy this paper. It's been a huge labour of love and effort for the last four years, and a significant part of our research efforts, and I'm so so so thrilled it's finally ready to share. Tldr: scRNA-seq in Indonesia hard but fun

Just discovered the wonderful covers of 'Genes to Cells', the journal of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan @mbsj-official.bsky.social – absolutely beautiful! here some examples inspired by mitosis, CRISPR, the DNA helix, and plant pigments

Making figures for this paper be like

I've started my own lab 🎉 PhD/postdoc positions available - reach out if curious about cerebellum evo-devo and autism spectrum disorders. We’re based at Uni Tartu, Institute of Genomics (home to Estonian Biobank), and funded by @simonsfoundation.org @embo.org, and the Estonian Research Council.

What's the German word for 'desperately avoiding my email because of all the blown deadline reminders in there so actually getting some stuff done'?

Yes, ungroup(), I definitely want you to insist that NK comes before Naive when I sort alphabetically because you are so into ASCII sorting that no other options exist... Anyhow, another tiny bug squashed. We'll finish this paper yet.

Choose your adventure at Lorne Genome: https://www.lornegenome.org/afternoon-activities 🏄‍♀️: 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟 and wipe out in front of your PI/students 🥾: 𝐇𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 (pretend months in the lab haven't destroyed your cardio) 🍷: 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐞 + 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐜 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 (assuming this hasn't sold out immediately)

Starting to suspect my cat is some highly sophisticated being with two quantum states as he spends his days in the balcony, asleep on a chair, and regularly switching between pointing east or west *but I never see him move between the two*.