I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

What things are you doing in your lab to reduce plastic waste? Take a look at what the Bird lab is doing. #sustainabilityinscience

#JobAlert🔥 We are looking for a Research Assistant to join our team at the CRUK Cambridge Institute Cambridge University!! If you are interested in the connection between #epigenetics and therapy resistance in cancer please consider applying! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41982/ Deadline 18 August, please RT!

Wknd 🧵- THE Life in 20 Pictures 1/20 Born in a poor family. Early photo with ‘poverty’ brand buttoned down shirt

AlphaMissense, a tool by DeepMind, can help researchers learn more about the effects that missense mutations have on disease, and could help identify previously unknown disease-causing genes, according to a new Science study. Learn more: scim.ag/49l

Are you keen on discovering how chromatin regulates gene transcription? kloselab.co.uk are looking to recruit PhD students to join our team! If you are interested, there are links in the thread below to the application process and funding opportunities. Please RT!

AlphaMissense is better correlated with functional assays of missense impact than earlier prediction algorithms biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Want to visualise ALL AlphaMissense predictions? huggingface.co/spaces/kashyap…

Research assistant/lab manager position open in Adrian Bird’s lab. Come and join us! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

To all budding compbio & ML folks interested in bio: Don't just only run behind the latest ML model hype train. The greatest long run impact will come by really assimilating prior bio/compbio literature with the goal of really understanding strategies for how to model biology. 1/

Preprint alert! 🎉I am excited to share the work from our enjoyable collaboration with Wendy Bickmore Josh Brickman labs. Investigating the role of PRC2 in stabilising the developmental transcriptional response during endodermal differentiation. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Our study on MeCP2 & heterochromatin is finally published Nature Communications. Great collaboration with researchers @WTcell The Roslin Institute MPI of Immunobiology & Epigenetics and VIB. nature.com/articles/s4146…

RANT - after watching this distressing video and the ones of that illegal structure falling on people. Read at your own risk. India has - more than ever before - become a nation where only those with access to wealth and power are able to lead comfortable lives within the

Narendra Modi within hours of India winning the T20 world cup - Tweeted - Posted a video - Called Virat Kohli - Called Rohit Sharma - Called Rahul Dravid - Called the Indian team What a hardworking Prime Minister, if there was any other ordinary Prime Minister, they would waste

This is legit.

#Snakemake 8.20.4 has been released. It provides a massive speedup of job processing, most notable during dry-run. #sciworkflows #reproducibility snakemake.github.io

If you are interested in shaping the future of #Snakemake, implement new features or plugins, or fix bugs, join us at the CERN in March 2025 for our Snakemake hackathon: indico.cern.ch/event/snakemak… This includes the ability to take a super exciting tour on the LHC!

Cost of having DNA methylation: DNA replication by DNA polymerase epsilon is a source of C to T mutations in CpGs, especially methylated ones. This expands our understanding of one of the most widespread endogenous mutational mechanisms. nature.com/articles/s4158…

stuck with R for RNAseq analysis because DESeq2 and tximport are in R? now we have: Gene count estimation with pytximport enables reproducible analysis of bulk RNA sequencing data in Python academic.oup.com/bioinformatics…