Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...

Congrats to Dr. @saracarioscia.bsky.social and Dr. Dylan Taylor!!

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

In work led by @lalli.bsky.social, we present recombination maps and a diverse haplotype reference panel (1000 Genomes Project) for the T2T-CHM13 human reference genome. These resources improve the accuracy of phasing and imputation, especially around common CNVs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just a reminder that the NIH has been shut down, and nobody is reporting it. $29 billion in congressionally allocated research funds have been suspended with no announcement, timeline, or explanation. @joshtpm.bsky.social, why has this been reported as an “arcane administrative loophole”?

Me, a fan of The Killers AND a critic of whitewashing in fiction: “He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus”

Somehow, Jesus returned.

Guess who’s back

I kind of think the Jordan Peterson types are right that there’s a deep hunger among some young men to explore their masculinity and it’s pretty unfortunate that they’ve been duped into thinking weeping beef Professor and homophobic UFC fighter are better options than “guy in town who is good dad”

the "DEI pilots" thing is not only untrue, but the opposite of true. The piloting profession in the late 20th century was so dominated by one Guy Type that they had to invent a new kind of training that forced pilots to listen to their first officers so they would stop flying planes into the ground

[delivery room] mom: it's a boy. let's name him after you. dad: no, let him go first, i've already got a name. *all the dads high-five*

Word defaults to "Keep source formatting" when you paste, while Powerpoint defaults to "Match destination formatting". EVERYONE KNOWS it should be the exact opposite; this is positively evil.

Much of my early time in gov

🧪An estimated one in 10 people, about nine million Egyptians, were chronically infected with HepC. In a public health campaign extraordinary for both its scale and its success, Egypt screened its entire population, brokered a deal for hugely discounted drugs and cured almost everyone with the virus.

It's incredible how accurately Shel Silverstein predicted AI decades ago

!foryou

An extremely wise friend once called Gamergate the Spanish Civil War of the modern fascist movement

Honestly, I wish some people would just admit to themselves, “Some young people annoy me” and it doesn’t have to turn into a whole… fucking human rights issue