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Benjamin Werner

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We crawl by inches. Group Leader at Barts Cancer Institute in London. Working on somatic evolution, ecDNA, clonal haematopoiesis, gITH, clonal evolution… https://www.bartscancer.london/staff/dr-benjamin-werner/ Contact: b.werner@qmul.ac.uk

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Postdoktorand:in im Bereich Genomik von Korallenpopulationen und Naturschutzgenetik (x/d/w/m) - Bewerbung | Alfred-Wegener-Institut Bewerberportal Postdoktorand:in im Bereich Genomik von Korallenpopulationen und Naturschutzgenetik (x/d/w/m) - Bewerbung | Alfred-Wegener-Institut Bewerberportal

The marine conservation group @hifmb.de is looking for a postdoc and a Phd student to study coral genomics and conservation genetics. Join us to develop solutions for coral conservation and dive into the world of early branching metazoans: Deadlines coming up fast. jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/21...

23.01.2026 07:15 — 👍 9    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0

How many more to go?

21.01.2026 08:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Beyond stupid is a good summary of current affairs

18.01.2026 19:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Approximately 1.7% of the US population demonstrated at No Kings.

Or in other words, 98.3% did not demonstrate.

Make of it what you want.

12.01.2026 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.

I am no expert, but the constitution of the United States hopefully says something else?

Does congress agree?

09.01.2026 10:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Doctoral INPhINIT fellowships - Incoming Call 2026 We grant 30 fellowships for researchers of any nationality who wish to pursue a doctorate in a STEM discipline at research centres of excellence in Spain or Portugal.

The la Caixa Foundation is offering well-paid prestigious doctoral fellowships (deadline 28th January). Anyone interested in applying to do PhD with me at @ifisc.uib-csic.es please get in touch. Happy to help competitive candidates with their application.

lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...

07.01.2026 07:53 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Great music and science alike make you feel it could not have been any other way.

05.01.2026 22:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Usually on long distance flights

28.12.2025 21:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Even worse, Spiderman is always the same movie with different actors 🧐

28.12.2025 19:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Have you asked Physicists?

18.12.2025 20:20 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Calling dips on Trumpuary, if that comes to be, I will have the unfortunate duty to sue someone for $10 billions.

18.12.2025 20:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am somewhat surprised MAGA hasn’t noticed yet that truly great Emperors name months after them.

I mean Trumpuary, come on, what an honour it would be for everyone to have been born in truly the bestest months of them all.

18.12.2025 20:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There is only one person that suffers from TDS really

15.12.2025 18:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Font of ‘wasteful’ diversity: Trump’s state department orders return to Times New Roman A cable from Marco Rubio reportedly said cutting Calibri from official communication would ‘abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program’

Whats their position on glasses?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

10.12.2025 08:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did the only responsible thing and rewatched season 4 first.

01.12.2025 07:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This assumes Santa has to obey the laws of Physics though. Flying reindeer suggest otherwise.

27.11.2025 21:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

See you in the knockout stage ;)

26.11.2025 22:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I am not sure. There seems to be a Nature paper every week on certain aspects of somatic evolution.

26.11.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sophies World is a very nice introduction to the history of Philosophy suitable for 10 year olds.

24.11.2025 08:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If interested in physics, I loved the Elegant Universe by Brian Green when I was younger.

24.11.2025 08:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Took quite a while

15.11.2025 08:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
bioRxiv Community Voices graphic featuring Jacob Scott, from Case Western Reserve University (USA). The post has a headshot of Jacob and the quote "Scientific advances are too important to hide behind paywalls." The footer says "bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv."

bioRxiv Community Voices graphic featuring Jacob Scott, from Case Western Reserve University (USA). The post has a headshot of Jacob and the quote "Scientific advances are too important to hide behind paywalls." The footer says "bioRxiv and medRxiv are preprint servers of openRxiv."

Jacob Scott, a founding bioRxiv and medRxiv Affiliate with 73 preprints posted, loves the community of open science advocates around the preprint servers. Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints are posted ~48 hours after submission.
#bioRxiv #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices

13.11.2025 18:00 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

13.11.2025 14:59 — 👍 13    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 0

Upon becoming a research group leader you transform into a LLM.

12.11.2025 09:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference 
Mutations in Time and Space

Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026 
Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, UK and online. 

Bursary deadline: 12 January 2026
Abstract deadline: 2 February 2026
In-person registration deadline: 16 March 2026
Virtual deadline: 6 April 2026

Wellcome Connecting Science hybrid conference Mutations in Time and Space Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026 Location: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, UK and online. Bursary deadline: 12 January 2026 Abstract deadline: 2 February 2026 In-person registration deadline: 16 March 2026 Virtual deadline: 6 April 2026

Explore the origins, patterns and consequences of mutations across biological systems! #MITS26

🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026

Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬

Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics

27.10.2025 08:00 — 👍 4    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Faculty Positions The Sloan Kettering Institute is seeking innovative scientists to join our faculty.

My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15.

www.mskcc.org/research/ski...

27.10.2025 14:45 — 👍 17    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

Haha.

L'État, c'est moi

21.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations @mattjones.bsky.social @katerinakraft and the entire team

21.10.2025 14:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looking forward, I am launching my lab in the @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social and IMES at @mit.edu, and will continue studying how the unique regulatory landscape of ecDNA enables tumor evolution. We're looking for creative scientists to push this frontier - if you're interested, get in touch!

21.10.2025 14:42 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them."

Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future. 

There will be universal high income."

Peter Diamandis tweets: "800,000 layoffs in 2025. 10,000 in September alone tied to AI. Jobs are disappearing fast. But here’s the truth no one wants to say: It’s the start of a new gold rush... for those who learn how to build with the machines, not fight them." Elon Musk replies: "Working will be optional in the future. There will be universal high income."

man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit

21.10.2025 03:49 — 👍 8164    🔁 1373    💬 163    📌 87

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