🧬 🦠 🏙️ Urban vs rural lifestyles create dramatically different gut microbiomes. But how do these different gut microbiomes affect the host? Excited to share our new paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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!

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

I can relate. I have been a stutterer since I was a child. I hated being the only one who did. Figuring out the best way to work a sentence w/o stuttering is still exhausting. Graduate school forced me to work extra hard on presentation skills. I got better. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Here are some great opportunities at UNC-Chapel Hill, in a very strong biology department.

I am hiring! - looking for a Staff Scientist to co-run my research group with me. Staff Scientist is a senior professional scientist role at EMBL. Please forward to people you might know who could be interested! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Big day in Lab- one grad student defended (so proud)! Another lectured for me (90 min!) because I had to give a talk for a consortium. Another gave an hour talk for the dept. Another is away getting married. Another had his thesis paper come out today! Phew! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This work, led by my excellent graduate student Grahame Evans, was so much fun to do. we expanded the PRIMUS/PADRE relatedness tool suite to a new and improved all-in-one, scalable and user friendly tool, COMPADRE. Tools for genetic relatedness will always be one of my most fav parts of our work.

Our paper on clonal expansions in Sperm is out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... If you are interested in working at an intersection of Mendelian genomics/Population genetics/Clonal expansions +Cancer genetics/ and of course mutagenesis, please rich out about postdoc in my lab

"If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light" -Rumi

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Fu...

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at @stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely! chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

WE ARE... hiring! Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

We were interviewed by NPR's program Shortwave about our stuttering paper! Aside from my mouth saying "polymorphic" while my brain was thinking "polygenic" I think it came out fantastic! Please check it out! #NPR #VGI www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

Seeking a Project Manager for the PRIME project: "Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines. tryptyr.myalcon.com?gad_source=1...

📢PUBLISHED @natgenet.nature.com 📰Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering. By Hannah G. Polikowsky, Jennifer E. Below and colleagues. ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

fascinating and huge study into the origins of stuttering I've been anxiously awaiting this @natgenet.nature.com piece from @piperbelow.bsky.social to publish! news.vumc.org/2025/07/28/l... 🧪🧬 there are clips of the researchers talking about the findings and an animated vid w/study highlights

Check out our new work! vimeo.com/1104948937/0...

Exciting paper on genetic influences on speech fluency, out now in @natgenet.nature.com. In a big step forward for the field, genome scans of almost 100,000 people with self-reported stuttering, & 1 million controls, identify 57 associated loci. Great work by @piperbelow.bsky.social & her team.🗣️🧬🧪

Stuttering is the most common speech fluency disorder and is as heritable as many common complex traits. Yet, genetic research of stuttering has lagged behind other human traits. In collaboration with #23andme we conducted the first large-scale GWAS of stuttering. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.” There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

Curious what people think - is this obvious? Surprising? Important to show? @jahemker.bsky.social in our lab checked whether long reads solve the problem of detecting CNVs and found that yes they do better than short reads but if you want to do well your reads need to be ULTRA long not just long1/n

I’ve never even considered using AI in my writing, but just six grants a year!? I feel targeted. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

The July 2025 Pre-Conference Edition of our newsletter is out! Read it for the latest news from IGES and more details about our upcoming Annual Meeting and Education Workshop. 👉 iges.memberclicks.net/assets/2025_...

I watched the greatest Superman, Christopher Reeve, deliver this speech about what "family values" really means at the 1996 DNC in Chicago.

🚨We're hiring!🚨 St. Olaf is launching a new Neuroscience Major and seeks a tenure-track neuroendocrinologist to help shape its future 🧠✨ Passionate about inclusive teaching, research, and mentoring at a SLAC? Join us! #NeuroJobs @animbehsociety.bsky.social @neuroethology.org ‪@sbn-bsky.bsky.social‬

Excited for our publication on how the geographic scale of a sample affects the discovery of rare, deleterious variants to be out this week. With a mix of theory, simulation, and data analysis, we show when samples are narrow vs broad, the number of variants discovered and their frequencies change

📣 Latest from the lab: Performance of deep-learning-based approaches to improve polygenic scores www.nature.com/articles/s41... Its thought deep learning will substantially improve PGS but the reality is MANY have tried but no/little gain has been seen so far. Here we report our negative results.

We have 2-3 group leader positions opening @fimm-uh.bsky.social !! We are looking for outstanding candidates in human genetics and precision medicine. This time we have a focus on population health data science. E.g. AI for EHR/health data        Generous starting package 💰 shorturl.at/FAk6n

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.

news.vumc.org/2025/03/19/j... This is the greatest honor of my career!

❤️So true. And reminds me of Nancy Cox's @geneticssociety.bsky.social Presidential Lecture: Checking, Balancing, and Celebrating Diversity: Celebrating Some of the Women Who Paved the Way

I wrote up an FAQ about the recent federal grant cuts. A few points: 🧵

Excited to help lead the data analysis and submission core for this exciting project. news.vumc.org/2025/01/23/2...

The Below lab is honored to receive this inaugural research grant from the Sarah Kyle Anorexia Nervosa Research Foundation! This project will improve understanding of the epigenetic risk profile associated with this important condition. www.einpresswire.com/article/7637...

I’m so proud of this work showing how distant relatedness can be leveraged to identify carriers of rare pathogenic variants to better characterize risk and ideally improve patient care. Out today in Nature [email protected] rdcu.be/dSn7F

Thrilled to see our paper published in AJHG today: Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics with my amazing advisors @charleston.bsky.social @nmancuso.bsky.social

Missing these two besties. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Got a NOGA yesterday for four more years of funding, and today I’m on a plane headed to attend the thesis defense of a new post doc joining my lab- as a PI, this is like the best week ever!