In my opinion, scapegoats are at the root of many of society's problems

Happy to share work with Hadi, Yao & Maxime TORTORA characterizing the impact of dynamic CTCF barriers for cohesin loop extrusion biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Advice to students: study fundamental topics that have a long shelf life.

Blog post on using AI in academia with Anne Carpenter, PhD and the great folks at Mid-Career PI Slack! arjun-raj-lab.gitbook.io/arjun-rajs-too…

Exciting times for IMBA! Today, Barbara Kraus joins IMBA as the institute’s Managing Director. Barbara Kraus will work closely with scientific leadership to drive IMBA’s mission of advancing groundbreaking research.

DNA plectonemes are intertwined loops which form when a single DNA molecule is stretched and twisted. Plectonemes are found in bacterial and eukaryotic cells and play important role in several biochemical processes as gene expression etc... 1/5 arxiv.org/abs/2410.23145

I have two job adverts open at the minute: - A PhD position on fast MLIPs for biomolecules (www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/inter…) - A postdoc position on developing a universal molecular mechanics force field (nature.com/naturecareers/…) Feel free to get in touch with questions.

We are recruiting a Tenure-track Assistant Professor "Machine Learning in the Life Sciences" at the Medical University of Vienna. We will nominate the top candidate for a € 1.8 million starting grant by a Viennese foundation. Deadline: Dec 31. Details: medical-epigenomics.org/files/Tenure_T…

The department of Chromosome Biology of the Max planck MPIPZ Cologne is looking for a new group leader. Join us, with Polina Yu. Novikova André Marques Schneeberger lab We are very open minded concerning the project, it just needs to be exciting. jobs.mpipz.mpg.de/jobposting/869…

📢 We are hiring Group Leaders! 🌊 Come join our team Universitetet i Bergen to lead innovative research in molecular, cellular and organismal biology using marine/aquatic organisms! ⌛️ Application deadline Dec. 15. Share this exciting opportunity ⤵️ tinyurl.com/4bwn8u3n EMBL EMBRC (European Marine Biological Resource Centre)

Facebook dug through my post history this morning and found the right picture (true story)

Dear friends, please reply if you know a neurosurgeon in Romania (or close contacts among medical doctors in Romania who may connect with neurosurgeons). This is for a medical emergency, not for academic research.

This is a repost of my original thread about Trump's election, which has since disappeared. This time I am reposting it is a single message. I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not

These slides are NOT about quality in any way. They are instead a perfect illustration of what journals are really about: they are a ***PROXY FOR WINNING*** - this is what makes them so toxic and why we have to reject the whole "proxy for quality" framing, which is bullshit.

In 1997, Julia Hill climbed a 200-foot 1000-year-old Californian redwood tree and did not come down for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.

“We’re very excited to see what people do with this” AlphaFold3 is open at last go.nature.com/4fHAfio

Briefly here to say that SciTwitter is really taking off on BlueSky. Even if you don't plan to leave X (kudos to you!), I recommend u create a BlueSky account. There r good starter packs allow u to bulk-follow folks based on topics of interest. If u need help ping me on BlueSky.

🧵 Auf vielen Smartphone-Apps blitzen aktuell Warnungen zur Luftgüte auf. Wir haben bei unseren Expert*innen der MA 22 – Umwelt nachgefragt, was es damit auf sich hat. Ein Thread. 1/13

Finally, it's happening! The other place is much better. Find me at golobor.bsky.social