Benjamin Schuster-Böckler

Homeland security to suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs Democrats accuse DHS of ‘kneecapping’ programs that help speed registered travelers through security lines

My trip to Florida is starting out great 😅

Heading to # AGBT in Orlando tomorrow! Ping me if you're there, too - would love to meet up!

Looks a lot like AI slop. We're so doomed...

Modeling the evolutionary dynamics of clonal hematopoiesis @natgenet.nature.com @moffittnews.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts

Three UK research councils suspend funding opportunities
“Temporary block on grant applications by MRC, BBSRC and EPSRC heightens concerns over funding cuts”

Many congratulations to Lauren Murphy!

In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

Put your high-level hypotheses in a stand-alone coloured box that no reviewers can miss

🧬 We’re #Hiring a #Bioinformatician/ Computational Biologist!
#Single-cell genomics, #Epigenomics & #3Dgenome biology in #Zebrafish #DevBio 🐟
📍 @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social, CABD, Seville (Spain)
🕒 Full-time, 3-year position (start March 2026)
📅 Apply by Feb 15, 2026
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Vincenzo D’Angiolella @vdangioe3lab.bsky.social et al show that the little-studied F-box protein FBXO42 exerts many of its cellular roles by limiting PP4 phosphatase activity to ensure proper DNA damage signaling
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Epigenetics that matters! Very cool work on hard to hard-to-access cell types . Finally some solid epigenetics examples that should be used in textbooks! Congrats to Mathieu and team @embl.org Rome!

Expression of interest: Associate Member/Professor The University of Oxford and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research are adding to our growing group of cancer researchers. We are seeking individuals at mid-stage career stage with interest in joini...

The Luwig Institute for Cancer Research in Oxford is offering a generously core-funded "associate member" fellowship for mid(-ish) career researchers in any area of cancer research that would complement our existing portfolio: www.ludwig.ox.ac.uk/news/express...

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The BSB lab at lunch, sitting around a big wooden table, some people wearing paper crowns

T'is the season of lab lunch photos with paper crowns! Maybe we'll add Christmas jumpers next year 😉

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Missing my flight back to London because a close relative's in hospital. Against all odds, a kind human at British Airways changed my flight to tomorrow for free. I wish I could thank them more. That was truly first class customer service #kindnessofstrangers

REV1 inhibition enhances trinucleotide repeat mutagenesis Abstract. Trinucleotide repeat instability has been implicated in the pathogenesis of numerous neurodegenerative disorders. While germline expansions desta

Check out our latest work on Triplet Repeats!
REV1 inhibition enhances trinucleotide repeat mutagenesis url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsob/article...

I might be wrong, but I think the difference is that one finds the alignment of two strings, whereas the other determines whether two strings match with at most k mismatches. These two problems are related, but the latter can be optimised because it's bounded.

#histopathology #tissueclearing #lightsheetmicroscopy #postdoc #sciencecareers #munich | Ali Maximilian Ertürk Hiring: PostDoc in Tissue Clearing & 3D Histopathology 🧪🖥️ My lab at Helmholtz Munich is seeking a highly motivated PostDoc/Scientist to strengthen our efforts in advanced imaging of cancer tissues. ...

We are hiring!
We are looking for a Postdoc to drive our efforts on using tissue clearing for 3D histopathology.

@erturklab.bsky.social

#Histopathology #TissueClearing #PostDoc

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As a deliberate and successful attempt to get everyone talking about a questionable metric, Spotify ages and epigenetic clocks are pretty indistinguishable.

Mid-career Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur, Paris - Research Institut Pasteur and the CNRS are launching a call for a mid-career group leader position in AI in genomics. We are looking for an experienced researcher (typically with > 8 years of research experien...

There a is a joint call between @pasteur.fr and @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social for a mid career group leader position in AI and genomics (or molecular biology). Don't hesistate to spread the word if you know anyone relevant.

research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...

How a grassy Oxfordshire field became an illegal mountain of waste in just months Satellite images reveal how a grassy field in Oxfordshire was transformed into an illegal waste site in just a few months.

How a grassy Oxfordshire field became an illegal mountain of waste in just months

Data Scientist in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research View details and apply for this Data Scientist vacancy in Sutton. Salary : Salary range £39,805 to £53,500 (Dependent on experience ) Reporting to: Professor Trevor Gra...

Calling cancer data scientists! 📊 💽 🧮
We have a number of open positions in our core facility @icr.ac.uk These are bioinformatician staff scientist like roles to work on exciting single cell, spatial & other genomics data from across our Institute. A PhD is required. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

Text of letter reads: “With apologies to the authors and to the staff at Royal Society Open Science who are blameless in all this, but I am not willing to devote time to review a Royal Society that continues to honour Elon Musk with its fellowship. Mr Musk stands in clear breach of the code of conduct which applies to all Fellows. He runs one of the most voluminous sources of misinformation on the planet (his social media platform X), to which he personally contributes without any regard for the Society's values of truth and evidence. Moreover, as head of DOGE he presided gleefully over the dismantling of USAID, an action hat has already lead to the deaths of an estimated 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. In the coming years millions more will die because of his actions. I am truly sickened by the Royal Society's failure to sand up for its values or indeed for umanity. Until I see a clear demonstration that it is prepared to enforce its code of conduct, I cannot see myself devoting time to reviewing for the Society's journals. Yours faithfully, Stephen Curry” P.S. Please feel free to forward this communication to the President of the Royal Society

Regretfully (for the sake of the authors and journal staff), I have this morning declined an invitation to review for a @royalsociety.org journal because of the Society’s continued refusal to stand up for its values in dealing with Elon Musk FRS.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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(tagging a few people who I saw mention Illumina 5-base chemistry recently - I'd appreciate a boost: @albertvilella.bsky.social @dddiaz.com @synthesisconduit.bsky.social)

Researchers applying for the UK's Global Talent visa face high upfront costs Upfront cost of visa to applicant and employer in 2025 UK Denmark £692 India £602 Australia £405 Israel £362 US £305 Italy £235 Netherlands 1 £207 Germany | £170 Spain 1£144 Sweden | £117 South Korea | £98 France £84 Japan £21 £5,941 £O £2,000 £4 Source: Fragomen for the Royal Society • Excludes ongoing costs such as mandatory healthcare premiums or fees such as language tests

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

I am looking to get my hands on some #Illumina 5-base methylation data - does anyone have a bam file that I could use for some testing? Please RT for reach!

Mucus-derived glycans are inhibitory signals for Salmonella Typhimurium SPI-1-mediated invasion Host mucins and synthetic glycopolypeptides block Salmonella virulence via glycan-mediated suppression of Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1). In this study, Wheeler et al. reveal that gastroint...

For others: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.116304

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)01075-7

It would be nice to link to the original article, or at least provide the DOI. I see a mention of author names and journal in the text but that's not bet convenient for anyone trying to read the source material...