Suomalainen dystopia nousi sitten seuraavalle tasolle.
Ruokajono, joka perustettiin 30 vuotta sitten tilapäiseksi avuksi, lopetaan nyt, koska tarve ruoka-avulle on niin huutava, ettei siihen pystytä enää vastaamaan vaan liian moni avunhakija on pitänyt käännyttää pois.
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The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
The difference between Finnish and EU average unemployment rate.
The red line marks the time the most right wing government in Finnish history replaced Sanna Marin’s center left government.
Oma kokemus lähinnä pandemiakeskusteluista, mutta silloin otin linjaksi että vastailen tasan kun itseä huvittaa/kiinnostaa, muut vaan miettimättä ohitan. Tietty avoimessa somessa saa kaikenlaisia kommentteja ja täggäyksiä eikä niistä kannattaa välittää/valittaa. Alatyylisistä toki blokki.
The @scilifelab.se Ancient DNA Unit is recruiting a (permanent) Research Engineer for planning user projects and generating #aDNA 🧬 data:
Application deadline: March 25th 🧪🏺
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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.
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, & develop “new signals...
Story for Drop Site by @ryangrim.bsky.social, @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Emily Jashinsky
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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.
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!
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🧬 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.
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Please share: we're hiring a new tenure-track faculty member to our Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
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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.
