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Swaying Dandelion

@swayingdandelion.bsky.social

Geneticist/epigeneticist. Mom to humans and cats, she/her

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My department @utoronto.ca (www.utm.utoronto.ca/biology/) is hiring a molecular biologist in any field (e.g., ecology, evolutionary biology, etc.). Please encourage any excellent finishing PhD students, postdocs or assistant professor to apply here:
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississa...

30.07.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 100    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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data wrangling is an essential skill for genomics data analysis. Here is the dplyr cheatsheet from posit
rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets...

30.07.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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 πŸ§ͺ: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...

21.07.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
a scene in the animated lord of the rings movie. Gandalf the grey is standing in a lush green forest, wearing grey robes, and a blue pointy wizard's hat while wielding a staff. He's pointing up as if to think of something, and the image is captioned "It's never too late to start something over, including a new version of yourself."

a scene in the animated lord of the rings movie. Gandalf the grey is standing in a lush green forest, wearing grey robes, and a blue pointy wizard's hat while wielding a staff. He's pointing up as if to think of something, and the image is captioned "It's never too late to start something over, including a new version of yourself."

Good morningβœŒοΈπŸ€

25.07.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 12952    πŸ” 2116    πŸ’¬ 163    πŸ“Œ 74

among the many things they don’t tell you about having kids is the amount of money you will shell out to buy various berries

20.07.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 8213    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 352    πŸ“Œ 174
With this felt plush sewing pattern PDF you can make colorful Anglerfish, Dumbo Octopus, Giant Isopod, Ravioli Sea Star and Sea Anemone with tiny Clownfish for your felt aquarium!

With this felt plush sewing pattern PDF you can make colorful Anglerfish, Dumbo Octopus, Giant Isopod, Ravioli Sea Star and Sea Anemone with tiny Clownfish for your felt aquarium!

Need something cute and crafty in your life? Check out these felt sewing patterns by Little Dear - ocean creatures are 50% off this month!

My fave (of course) is the Deep Sea collection, partly bc I helped Little Dear choose the animals 😊

www.etsy.com/listing/1695...

#craftsky

18.07.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5
JSCBB Biotech Building in Boulder, CO

JSCBB Biotech Building in Boulder, CO

Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

πŸ§ͺ🧬 #TESky #interferosky

17.07.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You forgot the part where she’s eating the meal you prepared while you serenade.

12.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excellent visualisation of slime molds reaching for food πŸ§€πŸ«œπŸ₯’πŸ— Loving the picky one!

πŸ§ͺ #science #biology

05.07.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Duckling splashing in water on a lily pad: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/Eyebleach/...

04.07.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5919    πŸ” 936    πŸ’¬ 111    πŸ“Œ 52
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The Klem Lab at LSU is hiring a postdoctoral researcher in computational biochemistry!
Application info: klem-research-group.github.io/join/
♻️ Please share with anyone who might be interested! #chemjobs #postdoc #compchem #biochemistry #enzymes

02.07.2025 15:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages.

ki.se/en/about-ki/...

25.06.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 14

Our new paper out now in Science explores how neural activity in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) *drifts* over time - and *jumps* at key boundaries - to help organize events in memory.

πŸ”— www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a quick summary of what we found πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

26.06.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. πŸͺΆ

26.06.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

Beware the wife guys, they’re always the ones that end up mackin on some married coworker in a dimly lit night club.

25.06.2025 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Characterizing protein sequence determinants of nuclear condensates by high-throughput pooled imaging with CondenSeq Nature Methods - CondenSeq is an imaging-based, high-throughput platform for characterizing condensate formation within the nuclear environment, uncovering the protein sequence features that...

In the nucleus, many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) form condensates. What IDP sequence features drive this behavior? We developed CondenSeq, a high-throughput approach to measure nuclear condensate formation, and applied it to ~14,000 IDPs to find out!

rdcu.be/eq975

17.06.2025 03:26 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity.

This is a major win for public health.

16.06.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 33228    πŸ” 8467    πŸ’¬ 378    πŸ“Œ 415
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We are happy to seek 3 post-docs across Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow & UCL in an exciting project to investigate mechanisms linking glial ageing/longevity & neurodegeneration (MRC-funded). Info attached @nathanwoodling.bsky.social
@ukdri.ac.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

16.06.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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Damn

13.06.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Beetween

If you are interested by epigenetics, early human development in excellent scientific environment in middle of Paris, we are recruiting a postdoc.
app.beetween.com/WeaselWeb/p/...
Don't hesitate to apply or share the post !

13.06.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne

A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne

"Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery.

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE:"
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #History
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13.06.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 274    πŸ” 121    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month.

Worked on novel antivirals.

04.06.2025 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5501    πŸ” 1615    πŸ’¬ 96    πŸ“Œ 131

You weren’t going for r splatter art? lol

28.03.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lungfish xkcd.com/3064

17.03.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 12053    πŸ” 1321    πŸ’¬ 99    πŸ“Œ 90
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Very much this.

08.03.2025 02:34 β€” πŸ‘ 598    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 7
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RNA xkcd.com/3056

26.02.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 18011    πŸ” 2588    πŸ’¬ 156    πŸ“Œ 170

Happy birthday! I’ve been really into Whiplash by aespa, and also APT by ROSΓ‰ & Bruno Mars.

12.02.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How I've been thinking about all of the rapid horrible changes in the United States I'm not telling you how to think or feel, but maybe letting you know where I'm at might be useful.

I've been seen lots of feckless despair and detachedness among scientists in the US at the moment. How we might live up to this critical moment when things seem the worst.

scienceforeveryone.science/p/how-ive-be... πŸ§ͺ

08.02.2025 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 3

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

21.01.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 14426    πŸ” 4545    πŸ’¬ 504    πŸ“Œ 1305

Tell her it requested a lawyer and you had no choice but to let it go.

02.01.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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