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Legendary Canadian rock band Rush will return to the road Surviving members of Rush, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, are reuniting for a 2026 concert tour with drummer Anika Nilles sitting in for the late Neil Peart.

OMFG. Rush is back on tour! www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Light blue background. Young woman with dark hair makes a sign of strength with her arm and she has a vaccine bandaid on her upper arm. It says "The HPV Vaccine Works!"

The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS

h/t @boghuma.bsky.social

#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪

@romanzug.bsky.social and @socialinsectlab.bsky.social thinking about colony dynamics! Resource variation can mask tradeoffs, but here we show that even if that *doesn't* vary, lucky starts in colony life can lead to better trajectories and if so, a tradeoff is often undetectable despite being real.

Was die einen als “grüne Experimente” diffamieren können die Menschen in vielen anderen Städten längst als Lebensqualität genießen: Kopenhagen, Amsterdam, Wien, Barcelona, Paris, Utrecht, Helsinki…
Weniger Emissionen, weniger Stau für alle, die dann noch Auto fahren wollen & weniger Verkehrstote…

Wolfram Weimer: "Weite Teile der Bevölkerung haben den Eindruck, dass die öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender politisch einseitig berichten"

Bevölkerung:

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

Cell-type-specific dysregulation of gene expression due to Chd8 haploinsufficiency during mouse cortical development Yim et al. use single-cell transcriptomics to elucidate the molecular outcomes of Chd8 haploinsufficiency in the mouse cortex. Their results provide insight into dynamic, cell-type-biased transcriptio...

Out in Cell Genomics: A comprehensive analysis of the cell-type-specific effects of CHD8 loss of function on gene expression in the embryonic and juvenile mouse cortex. Thread 🧵:
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators: a perspective based on cell fate determination Summary: This Review proposes the hypothesis that developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators result from disrupted bistability (i.e. disrupted positive feedback...

Great work, congrats! It also lends further support to the hypothesis that (neuro)developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators and chromatin remodelers (such as CHD8) result from defects in cell fate determination:
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

A modular CRISPRa system for molecular therapy of FOXG1 syndrome Abstract. To date, there is an unmet need for novel approaches that address haploinsufficiency disorders in a targeted and robust manner. Here, we develope

And there's this one!

academic.oup.com/narmolmed/ar...

Historians, entirely unsurprised by genetic ancestry research since 1949

Onward. Forward. Steady. Things have really changed. Now I need your help.

Some major personal news:
 
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
 
On why I left academia, why I left America, and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:
 
Onward. Forward. Steady:

Onward. Forward. Steady. Things have really changed. Now I need your help.

Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
 
I wrote about why I left academia, why I left America, why I left Substack - and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:
 
Some major personal news:

steady.page/en/democracy...

Ecology and evolution of virulence Silva and King discuss the concept of virulence and the ecological and evolutionary factors that shape it.

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋

@kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence!

Check it below and share :)

#MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

Wenn die Berliner Zeitung nicht schon viele Tiefpunkte unterschritten hätte, dann hätte sie es spätestens heute mit der Veröffentlichung eines Artikels aus der Weltbühne von deren Herausgeber @karimkhani.bsky.social über @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social geschafft. Er ist von solcher Verächtlichkeit, 1/x

Kalendereintrag

Zur Stärkung der - na klar - Resilienz von Postdocs bietet die Postdoc Academy der Berlin University Alliance jetzt "Pferdegestütztes Coaching" an. Auf dem Workshop kann man seine Resilienz "durch direkte, nonverbale Rückmeldung von Pferden" stärken.

Impfungen waren und sind Befreiungen von fürchterlichen Geißeln wie Pocken und Kinderlähmung und seither so viel mehr. Dass die Aufhebung von Impfpflichten, die soziale Verbände insgesamt schützen, jetzt als „Befreiung“ verkauft wird, zeigt die ganze Perversion libertären Denkens.

The Ukrainian prime minister in a government building.

It's been how long since Trump said there would be serious consequences for Russia if Putin didn't implement a ceasefire?

In der sich rapide verschärfenden ökologischen Krise ist nicht die angebliche Sprechhaltung von Veganern das Problem, sondern der reale Fleischkonsum der Mehrheit. #Verwechslung #vegan

RFK Jr., back at the lab: "No no, I said two parts roadkill, one part whale juice! Do I have to do this all by myself?"

🚨 We're hiring!
PhD position in Evolutionary Systems Biology at Stockholm University & SciLifeLab

🎓 Focus: evolution, development, computational & mathematical modeling, prediction
📍 Stockholm, Sweden
🕒 4 years, fully-funded
🔍 Details: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators: a perspective based on cell fate determination Summary: This Review proposes the hypothesis that developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators result from disrupted bistability (i.e. disrupted positive feedback...

Great work, congrats! It also lends further support to the hypothesis that (neuro)developmental disorders caused by haploinsufficiency of transcriptional regulators (such as CHD3) result from defects in cell fate determination:
journals.biologists.com/bio/article/...

This preprint is now a published peer-reviewed paper! Thanks to all the co-authors involved, to the funders and to @reviewcommons.org and @embopress.org @emboreports.org for a smooth editorial process! Excited to see this in press! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

@imperiallifesci.bsky.social

Folks going to #ESEB2025 : To help people connect on Bluesky, I've started making starter packs. Here is a first one with the names that were available when I started.

Ping me if you want to be included in the next one!

Our paper, in which @hannapfeifer.bsky.social and I argue that German arms deliveries to Israel are currently neither in accordance with international law nor sensible from a security policy perspective. @mpil.de
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A flyer for the book Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis authored by Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk. The book cover features photos of a turkey vulture, song sparrow, and whimbrel as well as a drawing of an albatross brain.

For anyone interested, here is a link to a CBC Radio interview this morning about our new book on bird brains and behaviour: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

And the open access link can be found in my bio.

#birds #neuroskyence #neuroethology #Canada 🪶🇨🇦🧪🧠

A simple benchmark.

Most people can understand it.
No PhD-level intelligence needed.

Fazit der Sache Brosius-Gersdorf: Eine durch und durch bürgerliche Juristin, deren Ansichten sich am ehesten mit Positionen der FDP decken, wurde als Linksradikale denunziert. Diese Denunziation war nicht mehr aus der Welt zu schaffen. 1/5

Ich möchte alle "bürgerlichen" Medienschaffenden, die an der Demotage von Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf mitgewirkt haben, grüßen. Möge Euch fortan beim Blick in den Spiegel immer der Gedanke quälen, dass Ihr unser Land, unsere Gesellschaft unf unser Leben auf absehbare Zeit schlechter gemacht habt.