Travelling home from London, happy to report I've now reached... Bangkok

Once again stranded in Doha but at least I've made a friend

Anyhow I saw the best garden hedge in London today A+++ no regrets

Second time I fly LHR-DOH ever, also second time that I suspect I'll be stuck in Doha overnight. It takes talent to be this good at booking flights

Heading to Greenwich the right way this beautiful morning

Got swooped by magpies three times on the way to the bakery this morning. Spring is finally here!

Thrilled to share our latest work on meiotic recombination, where we mapped rates and distributions by sequencing thousands of individual sperm. This study was led by Stevan Novakovic and @caitlinharris.bsky.social , in collaboration with @davisjmcc.bsky.social and Cynthia Liu.

Final year PhD students, I know you’re desperately trying to finish experiments/revisions/submissions/write a thesis & just survive - but please spare a few minutes to apply to your dream postdoc labs. It easily takes A YEAR from first contact, even if everything goes to plan on both sides.

Students can be customers, or they can get a university education. They can't do both.

📣 Ready to lead your own lab? NTU Singapore's Nanyang Assistant Professorship offers a 100% paid salary & a S$2.75M start-up package. We're visiting the US this Sept to recruit top talent. Meet us in NYC, Boston & more! #FacultyJobs #TenureTrack Register HERE: lnkd.in/gSy5qpA7

Dear editor sorry my review is late I am finding typing it up somewhat challenging at this moment

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

I was absolutely one of those kids, and I am always grateful for it. Still have my Marx and Engels and my Weber. Seeing this play out is both crushing and disappointing.

the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education 1/

Been watching the Hornblower movies and I'm super impressed by all the bilingual and trilingual actors. Hornblower just got himself captured by the Spanish and they swore at him very thoroughly in very proper Castilian, and this is after two episodes of very decent French from everyone.

Turns out imputation of introgressed archaic regions in aDNA works really well — sometimes even better than for the rest of the genome. More on this (and other cool results) in our new preprint 👇 #aDNA #ArchaicIntrogression #imputation doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

We honour the life and legacy of Geoff Begg, a former SVI laboratory assistant whose ingenuity helped revolutionise protein science. Find out how Geoff created the world's first automated protein sequencer, the Sequenator: www.svi.edu.au/news-events/...

Thoughts on Illumina pip-seq in general and vs 10X?

Now that I've given my talk at today's excellent #ourdna symposium I can share this slide I put together for it. I knew these numbers, because I was the one paying for things, but still:

Wtf Uchicago, wtf chicagomaroon.com/48215/news/u...

Planning a trip to Europe in early December... I need to be in Madrid on the 7th, in Vienna on the 14th, and in Tartu in between those two, but do I know anyone in Helsinki around then? And do you wanna hang out?

Professor Andre La Gerche and Assistant Professor Guido Claessen recently shared the Heart, Exercise and Research Trials (HEART) Lab’s research findings at a standout seminar with study participants. Find out more and watch the recording: www.svi.edu.au/news-events/...

A PR company working for Colossal Biosciences is sending AI generated pieces to respected science journalists & asking them to publish the articles under their own names. This is so dodgy & just goes to show our critical expert scientific commentary is working. Sci comm failure 101 for Colossal.

Very random question, but is human.genome.dating down for people everywhere, or just in Australia? Starting to suspect it is somehow geoblocked?

These are trying times so may I offer you a photo of my cat, Pinot Noir, looking like a renaissance masterpiece to ease them, even if just a tiny bit? I know (too?) many of you are familiar with his butt from zoom meetings, but this is his *actual* good side.

Double the discovery, double the momentum 🚀 Europe doubles down on research competitiveness with a major boost to #HorizonEurope: €95.5 billion foreseen for 2021-2027 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰 €175 billion proposed for 2028-2034 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

Second time I've had to use Xref to give a professional reference, and second time the website provides zero details of what the position is. Since this person is currently applying for multiple jobs neither one of us knows what this reference is for.

The startup named Herasightm after the goddess who threw her disabled child off a mountain, seems focused on public outreach using embryo selection for IQ to win over far rightwing pseuds & techbros

Thanks @newscientist.com for shining a light on the smear campaign against @toriherridge.bsky.social, @devoevomed.bsky.social, @flintdibble.bsky.social & myself just for fulfilling our critic & conscience role to provide expert commentary about de-extinction www.newscientist.com/article/2490...

Hard at work here in Singapore with @gthibault.bsky.social

Wrapping up three fun days in Indonesia with plenty of science catching up and planning and, as ever, excellent company at all times. Very looking forward to Yogyakarta and APCHG in November!

Dr Emma van der Westhuizen from the Structural Biology Lab has secured a grant to advance a promising new approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy Body Dementia and related dementias. Find out about the new boost for brain health: www.svi.edu.au/news-events/...

📣📣 Cool job alert! The @bakerresearchau.bsky.social is recruiting up to 2 new PIs in Biomedical Data Science 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/85989791... You’d join an awesome institute in an incredible city (Melbourne, Australia) as well as partnerships like with @cam.ac.uk… you’ll also get to work with me 😁

I'm excited to share work on a research direction my team has been advancing: connecting machine learning derived genetic variant embeddings to downstream tasks in human genetics. This work was led by the amazing Divyanshi Srivastava! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in using functional data to understand clinical variants? Been hunting for a good review of the topic? We just wrote one! rdcu.be/exaEU

I just called the wildlife hotline and it was a great IVR system. Press 1 for birds and raptors. Press 2 for possums and gliders. You will hear possum facts while you are in the queue. (I was calling about this little fella, who shouldn't be out at this hour, but has since gone back home)

My colleague asked me to circulate this job posting for Professor / Associate Professor in Computational Biology / Genomics at the University of Tokyo (P.S. I'm not affiliated): www.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/informati...

Disappointed to see that @natureportfolio.nature.com journals only extend OA fee waivers to authors in low income and lower-middle income countries, and leave out upper-middle income countries, where the max per-capita income is 14,005 USD as per the 2025 cut-offs.

🧪🖥️🧬 It's here!! Our second MPRA, which is totally different from the first. For starters, there's no human sequences anywhere! Instead there's marsupials, wolves, pandas and a lot of hard work from lab members past & present, chief amongst them @navya-shukla.bsky.social (looking for a postdoc btw)

Lunch while working from home: I may be stuck on Aim 2 of this grant but at least I'm very well fed... Not to mention the luxury of my very own self-proclaimed poison taster, or whatever he thinks he is 😹

🧪🖥️🧬 It's here!! Our second MPRA, which is totally different from the first. For starters, there's no human sequences anywhere! Instead there's marsupials, wolves, pandas and a lot of hard work from lab members past & present, chief amongst them @navya-shukla.bsky.social (looking for a postdoc btw)

Since FTs are out I can tell you that I was ranked 14th in Biology... and as far as I can tell they funded 13 😭

I know the article is way more than this, but I can't get over Neanderthals making bone broth 125ky ago.

We have co-organized a MAVE course with Wellcome Connecting Science! Meeting is in November, but the 🗓️📝Application deadline is 18 August 2025 ⏰https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/multiplex-assays-of-variant-effects-maves-approaches-analysis-and-interpretation-20251123/

Great faculty opportunities within the Cellular Genomics Programme @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Please share with your networks and do contact me if you would like to find out more sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...

🚨 Most variant screens measure growth or abundance. What do they miss? That variants impact a spectrum of protein and cellular phenotypes. Variant in situ sequencing (VIS-seq) finds what’s missing: image cells 🔬 first, decode later, revealing multi-scale phenotypes for thousands of variants.👇 1/9

It's so good to see that my cat is finally getting the respect he deserves.

😂😂😂😂

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties. Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods. 🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.