Tuuli Lappalainen

Made a short video as a response. 3 questions remain for me.

1) What is the definition of a "DEl activity," and how is it being communicated to NIH staff so they can determine whether a grant qualifies?

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In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

I have an opening for a staff scientist or bioinformatician in my group at the Sanger Institute (closing date 24 March). Our current projects focus on disentangling rare and common variant contributions to rare neurodevelopmental conditions and to neurodevelopmental and perinatal traits. 1/2

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Minua alkaa oikeasti pelottaa, että suomalainen eliitti ja media ei tajua sitä, kuinka todella pihalla valtavirtainen makrotaloustiede on taloudellisesta todellisuudesta. Yli 10 prosentin työttömyydessä siunataan jopa 15 mrd. euron sopeutusta tuleville vuosille odottaen suhdanteen korjaavan.
#tiede

The culmination of a lot of excellent work, @marlmatos.bsky.social defending her PhD thesis today. Co-mentored by @tuuliel.bsky.social, exceptional insights into molecular quantitative trait loci in CD4+ T cells

@einsteinmededu.bsky.social

pretty stunning chart

The political lesson of the last 20 years is that when putatively left-of-center parties promise voters hope and change, but then deliver more of the same, it ends up creating the backlash conditions for right-wing authoritarianism.

It’s a very straightforward truism.

Upeeta kun ensin talouskurin opeilla leikataan Suomesta kaikki kasvun edellytykset ja sitten kun kasvua ei kuulu niin siihen tarjotaan lääkkeeksi samaa talouskuria.
Onko suomalaiset oikeesti näin tyhmiä, vai pelkästään Hesarin pääkirjoitustoimitus?

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

This is super cool science, empowered by our infrastructure team at @scilifelab-ngi.bsky.social @scilifelab.se !

AI bot writes emo blog about not getting to play coder on GitHub… we are literally re-creating simulacrum of the most cringe ppl on the internet…

Congratulations!!

🖥️🧬🚀 I am excited to share that our #omnideconv study is finally published on Genome Biology: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

⚡️ NEW: Jeffrey Epstein Recruited NSA Codebreakers for Genome “Manhattan Project” The financier pursued cryptographers to “hack” the genetic code, and develop “new signals intelligence” to understand inter-cellular communication. Story for Drop Site by @ryangrim , @MazMHussain , and @emilyjashinsky https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-recruited-nsa-codebreakers-genome-russia-skolkovo-bill-gates-mit

⚡️ NEW: Jeffrey Epstein Recruited NSA Codebreakers for Genome “Manhattan Project”

The financier pursued cryptographers to “hack” the genetic code, & develop “new signals...

Story for Drop Site by @ryangrim.bsky.social, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Emily Jashinsky

www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

Yesterday the UK Government published a data provision notice paving the way for coded GP data in England to be shared with consented cohorts like UK Biobank.

Hear from Val, a UK Biobank participant on her hopes for the future.

The Biology of Genomes Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meetings & Courses -- a private, non-profit institution with research programs in cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, genomics, bioinformatics.

Reminder that the abstract deadline for the Biology of Genomes meeting at CSHL is on Feb 13! We have a fantastic lineup of keynote speakers (Janet Kelso and Jonathan Pritchard) and session chairs. Submit your best science to this exciting and engaged meeting!
meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.asp...

🧬 New preprint alert! After years of collaborative work across 52 datasets we are presenting eQTLGen phase 2: a genome-wide eQTL meta-analysis covering 43,301 blood samples: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/8)

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

The lesson for all the students out there is that science is a community project. Most of us make individually small contributions to this project. Success is measured at the collective level. Many of our professional (and personal) dysfunctions could be fixed by more fully embracing this view.

Please share this with your network: Postdoctoral position available in my group.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17847/a...

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

I started offering career advice to two junior colleagues today in separate meetings, and both times I caught myself thinking that, if I'm honest, I don't have very good advice on navigating the current funding and job climate. I think it's important to say that no one does.

Kohta paljastuu kaikille, että hyvinvointivaltio tukikin rakenteellisesti taloutta ja talouskasvua, jolloin sen romuttaminen oli onneton rakenteellinen uudistus negatiivisin pitkän aikavälin vaikutuksin. Kiitos!

#talous #politiikka #yhteiskunta

Nature and Science journalists denied entry to event featuring NIH Director

Does the noncoding genome actually carry more genetic information than coding seqs? Motivated by this question we mutated every bp in the 10kb MYC locus. Results are even more exciting: Decoding the MYC locus reveals a druggable ultraconserved RNA element www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Because of technical issues with the SciENcv website, NIH is extending a period of leniency accepting old format biosketches through May 2026 (see FAQ #5):

grants.nih.gov/faqs#/common...

RFKJr's principal accomplishment as the nation's health guardian.