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To me, this was the most memorable talk at Biology of Genomes this year! A very cool tour de force of genetics

Starting now — come join to hear from our great speakers!

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.

Donate to Support PATHS: Mentorship Program for STEM High Schoolers, organized by PATHS Mentorship The Program for Advancing The Health Sciences (PATHS) is a Vi… PATHS Mentorship needs your support for Support PATHS: Mentorship Program for STEM High Schoolers

I just learned about this amazing program that matches high schoolers interested in STEM with mentors, including many past and present NIH trainees. These types of programs are even more important in this day and age. If you're able to help support it, they have a gofundme.

To be successful, many scholars and policymakers recognized that broadening participation in science also needed to be effectively coupled to the development of evidence-based management and mentoring skills (reference 14). For example, the same data that demonstrate the value of diversity also show that it can produce challenges, such as undermining group cohesion and decision-making (references 11,13). In response, many of the recently targeted training grants and professional developmental programmes were explicitly designed to link efforts to broaden participation in science with developing or rewarding a demonstrated ability to support scientists and trainees from historically excluded groups. This acknowledgement that current training mechanisms required the active development of additional skill sets and policies beyond traditional mentoring methods was a powerful framework to improve training environments so that they better support all scientists, regardless of racial, ethnic or socioeconomic background.

Oh and one last thing: it provides a SKILL based argument for things like the PDEP and contributions to DEI statements, critically illustrating that these were NOT ideological statements but competencies that more diverse training environments required for the benefit of all trainees

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Had a nice time at #ASHG25 sharing my science and catching up with friends/colleagues (and applying for faculty positions late into the night 😅)

Can’t believe #ASHG25 is finally here! Excited to share what I’ve been working on as lead analyst for the Global Lipids Genetics Consortium 🧬👩‍💻

Join me at the Plenary Session on Friday, Oct 17 (5–6:30 PM) — I’ll be presenting some unpublished results from our genome-wide interaction study 👀

You can totally tell when someone unqualified to effectively manage people is wielding Management 101 strategies to cosplay managing.

She is so cooked (complimentary)

For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.

I love the south and its glorious strip malls. Cremation Society of Virginia smack dab between a Dunkin’ and a nail salon

Trump imposes new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in sweeping overhaul - The Economic Times H1B Visa Fees: President Trump has introduced a $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visas, aiming to attract highly skilled individuals and discourage the displacement of American workers. This decision sign...

No more postdocs on H1B visas, that would seem to be an obvious outcome. Probably not at the professor level either.

m.economictimes.com/nri/work/tru...

the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s

The image is an event flyer for the Mutational Scanning Symposium (MSS) 2026. On the left, the MSS logo features a cluster of squares in shades of orange, green, and gray forming an abstract representation (of Australia), next to the text "MSS 2026 Mutational Scanning Symposium" in orange and gray. Below it, details about the event read: "March 25-27, 2026 in Melbourne, Australia." The phrase "REGISTRATION IS OPEN!" is prominently displayed in orange, followed by information about abstract submissions. A URL in blue text at the bottom provides further information. On the right, six invited speakers are showcased in a grid layout. Each speaker has a photo with their name and affiliation underneath: Prof Matthew Hurles (Wellcome Sanger Institute), Prof Maitreya Dunham (University of Washington), A/Prof Fumitaka Inoue (Kyoto University), Dr Alex Wagner (Nationwide Children's Hospital), A/Prof Melissa Call (WEHI), and Prof Mark Dawson (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre).

Registration is now open for the Mutational Scanning Symposium!! This is one not to miss. Invited speakers include @mehurles.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @maitreya.bsky.social @uwgenome.bsky.social
#VariantEffect26 Register soon for the early bird rate!
ℹ️➡️https://www.mss2026.org

Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at jonathan.wosen@statnews.com #journorequest

I got my COVID and flu shots at CVS totally without incident today…I was even offered a free bag of popcorn

A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award.

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[Looks up from coding]

[Sees updates]

[Goes back to coding]

I am super excited to share that I will be joining the Hypothalamic Center at University of Texas Southwestern as an Assistant Professor this February 2026 🤘🏿🤠! This is such a dream job working with the best colleagues.

I’m to the “build a miniature greenhouse model” phase of faculty app procrastination

Frankly, this is the only thing that will lead to change at this point.

And further, scientists, both in healthcare, academia, and industry, need to do the same. Let's see how well the country functions when the college classrooms, labs, and hospitals are empty.

I see we’ve moved on from pumping face creams with plant stem cells

We LOVE our trainees ! From @nihvigils.bsky.social today ❤️❤️

Listed are some of the many NIH research training programs that were terminated! Together, these programs supported thousands of trainees, whose careers are now in limbo. Such a great loss for discovery and innovation. We must protect our next generation of scientists!
#HandsOffNIH #ProtectScience

At Harvard, Trump administration cuts hit young scientists hard More than 700 graduate students and nearly 800 postdoctoral researchers at Harvard get salaries, stipends or tuition support from federally funded research.

“We feel like the lost generation.” A story on the collapse of US science, which is hitting young scientists hardest www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

I'm team "stay and fight for better for all academic workers"

We want to call attention to a few sections of this post from @safa-science.bsky.social from a few weeks ago:

"My grant wasn’t affected in this case. Why will this [ruling] affect me?"

"Don't we need to respect SCOTUS to protect rule of law?" and

"But if SCOTUS says it's legal, how can we argue?"

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Percy honoring the age-old tradition of falling asleep during sports

August 22, 2025 Dear Director Bhattacharya: I write to you regarding your plans after the Supreme Court ruling yesterday. As you know, the Supreme Court did allow a stay on the required grant reinstatements based on a controversial jurisdictional issue but also found that the grant termination processes used were likely illegal. I know you are deeply concerned about public trust in NIH. I hope that you understand that proceeding to fail to reinstate or to re-terminate grants that had been found to have been illegally terminated will not increase the public trust in NIH. This would also be substantially damaging to science.

I just sent this email to Director Bhattacharya and am sending him a hard copy by registered mail.

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