ICYMI: Do you love studying gene regulation, have a solid track record in academia and/or industry, but don't want to be a PI? Join our lab as a wet-lab Senior Investigator Scientist! jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF634/sen…

New episode of #MapMen with me and Mark Cooper-Jones Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? Share and enjoy! 🗺️ youtu.be/PVemGumEEgo?si…

This applies to scientific writing too. Project proposals, abstracts, introductions... - the clearer your THEREFOREs and BUTs are between every key idea you introduce, the more compelling it is to read.

These days I seem to be quibbling with #1percentclub questions every episode (in this case, the answer on the card is 6 - but surely both 8 and 10 are arguable?)

Outside café, suffering from hay-fever (ie sneezing five times), I get out a tissue. Woman sitting a full 10m away approaches & asks me not to sneeze, as the particles might spread around. I stare at her, tissue in hand. So yeah the universe's heat death can't come quickly enough

We're looking for a computational biologist interested in copy number analysis to work in our translational lab! Perfect opportunity for someone just completing an MPhil or PhD- deadline is 11th July: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47150/ Cambridge University #hiring

Poetry for Neanderthals - Election Special!! Feat. Krishnan Guru-Murthy & Hannah Fry I introduced them to Poetry for Neanderthals and made them try to describe election terms by only using words with one syllable Check them out on Channel 4's election coverage tonite from 9:45pm !!

🚨👨🏽‍🔬👩🏿‍🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Want to come work at MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research with me on biostatistical and ML models to understand how viruses infect and adapt to new hosts and new tissues? Apply @ my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…, deadline 22 July! #bioinformatics UofG Sii

This is wild. AI-powered bots are real and are a big part of why the rhetoric on this website is so toxic. This is an orchestrated effort. Stay vigilant out there.

Even more incredible is that you can more-or-less fit the proof of this in a tweet (see replies). Fermat, eat your heart out 😉

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Medical Statistics in the School of Medicine at the University of St Andrews. Please share with potentially interested folk. vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/45…

Cats and academia - the perfect mix.

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Sunday grant writing, paper writing, thesis reading… 🤪 meanwhile…. I want to live like my cat 🐈. #unfazed 🤣

Very excited to see elbow, The Villagers Band & Hamish Hawk today - might be playing a cheeky escape room game in the meantime 😅 Heritage Live

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4) The scientific method also applies to computational results: proper controls and negating all alternative hypotheses are just as important in computational biology as in bench experiments.

We have an AZ PhD studentship for 2025! A fantastic opportunity to work with organoids, AI and cancer biology. A unique, multidisciplinary collaboration between us in industry and Rawlins Lab at University of Cambridge. Please share within your network! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48526/

heatmap in ggplot2 yunuuuu.github.io/ggalign/articl… I always use complexheatmap, but this seems to be a good alternative if you want to stay within the ggplot. #rstats