Anna Poetsch

Lieber @bundestag.de , für viele ist der #ÖPNV essenzielle Infrastruktur. Warum darf der überhaupt bestreikt werden?

My comment was specifically about MSCA, where I was (as a reviewer) shocked about the review process.
For ERCs it is a completely different evaluation system.

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Are you interested in @ceplas.bsky.social single cell data and spatial transcriptomic data analysis and inference? Then apply for this PhD position in our graduate school HDS-LEE in my group co-supervised by Prof Assent. www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j.... For questions don't hesitate to contact me.

You did not get your #MSCA and you are upset, because you really wanted to work on somatic cell evolution on the way to malignancy with single cell data and 🧬machine learning 💻?
Then get in touch!
There are other ways to fund a postdoc ;-)

Yes, indeed. At the same time I have always been wondering whether it is a good idea to focus so much on PhD students with project funding. It might be worth shifting it a bit to postdocs to accommodate this bottleneck and at the same time the numbers in the system would go down.

But how do you want to fix it? I understand the plan to reallocate big funds from super-PIs to the base, but ultimately - even then - money will be the limiting factor. So do you think the numbers of applicants should go down? And if yes, how would that be done?

Well, for MSCA the review process is broken. It is mostly all about whether it is written the right way, much less about the content.
What brings it over the threshold, is whether the candidates were advised properly on how to write it.

Congratulations, Rita!

GHGA Podcast: Der Code des Lebens Der Code des Lebens – der Wissenschaftspodcast von GHGA beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten der menschliche Genomforschung. Wie ist unser Erbgut entstanden? Wie funktioniert Genomforschung und...

Are you interested to hear about DNA Language Models (in German)? Then I would have apodcadt for you. It was a really nice conversation and I hope you’ll like it!

www.ghga.de/de/codedesle...

Congratulations!🥂

I am sorry and hope you will feel better once your plants distract you from all this.

Congratulations, @anatv.bsky.social!

In essence: Don't say you are interested, show that you are!
"I am interested in topic xyz, because my work on xyz showed that there are a lot of unanswered questions, for example xyz. And I think answering them is important, because of xyz. For me to do this in your lab is ideal, because of xyz."

I once mentored a student from a different lab about applying and I told him to show that he has ideas about the lab's papers.
A few weeks later, the PI came to me and said "I had this student applicant, who suggested future directions for our papers 😳"
Mission accomplished 😊

Come to Germany and do a PhD with DKFZ. You'll be supported by an international community doing amazing science in a fantastic place.

I joined the DKTK from the UK 3 months ago and couldn't be happier with how easy it has been fitting in. The quality of work here is phenomenal and you should apply!

Or is iraira actually from Portuguese? So there was no pointless anger in Japan before Europeans came?

What a coincidence that ira in latin is anger :-)

Thank you :-)

Congratulations @vakil-takhaveev.bsky.social @sturlalab.bsky.social and everyone else involved. It was really a pleasure to play a small part in it. I am looking forward to celebrating the next time we meet!

Click-code-seq reveals strand biases of DNA oxidation and depurination in human genome. #DNAoxidation #HumanGenome @natchembio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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!

Thank you for having me, it was really a very informative, stimulating and motivating few days!

It was a pleasure to talk Genome Stability for a few days with the DFG - FOR5504 for. It is really exciting to see the community in and around Cologne looking for genome stability in whole organisms and the context of the sequence. I am excited about what else is going to come.

Me: I got a new type of compliment from an audience member: "Your talk was so Gen Z"
My lab: This was not a compliment...
Me: 🥲 (but..., but..., I still think it was meant to be one...)

(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz: KI-designtes Virus tötet Kolibakterien US-Forscher haben mithilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz Viren hergestellt und ihnen bestimmte Eigenschaften gegeben, weltweit sind sie damit wohl die Ersten. Die Möglichkeit KI-generierten Lebens schei...

I am happy to share some thoughts on using AI to generate viruses (in German). www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Die ersten KI-generierten Viren als Hoffnung im Kampf gegen resistente Bakterien Forschende aus Stanford haben erstmals Viren entwickelt, die von einer KI entworfen wurden. Einige dieser KI-Viren konnten antibiotikaresistente Bakterien infizieren und abtöten - ein möglicher Durchb...

The ARD Wissenschaftsredaktion talked to me about AI generated viruses. Interested? Here you can listen to it (in German). www.swr.de/leben/gesund...

There is a new Master of Physics of Life in the house. Congratulations, Adnan! Well done! It was really a superb Defense!
@poldresden.bsky.social

Die ersten KI-generierten Viren als Hoffnung im Kampf gegen resistente Bakterien Forschende aus Stanford haben erstmals Viren entwickelt, die von einer KI entworfen wurden. Einige dieser KI-Viren konnten antibiotikaresistente Bakterien infizieren und abtöten - ein möglicher Durchb...

The ARD Wissenschaftsredaktion talked to me about AI generated viruses. Interested? Here you can listen to it (in German). www.swr.de/leben/gesund...

(S+) Künstliche Intelligenz: KI-designtes Virus tötet Kolibakterien US-Forscher haben mithilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz Viren hergestellt und ihnen bestimmte Eigenschaften gegeben, weltweit sind sie damit wohl die Ersten. Die Möglichkeit KI-generierten Lebens schei...

I am happy to share some thoughts on using AI to generate viruses (in German). www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...