Ana Viñuela
@anavinuela.bsky.social
Computational Biologist interested in genomics of age related diseases, T2D and more. Digo (más) tonterías en español. Lecturer at University of Dundee, UK.
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-8537
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-8537
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I am reminded every winter that it costs more to provide healthcare for winter related health complications of homelessness ( frost bite, complex amputations, infectious complications) than to provide warm safe shelter for the homeless. Becoming homeless could happen to almost anyone.
February 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I am reminded every winter that it costs more to provide healthcare for winter related health complications of homelessness ( frost bite, complex amputations, infectious complications) than to provide warm safe shelter for the homeless. Becoming homeless could happen to almost anyone.
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Se llama Eva Ramón Gallegos y es la científica mexicana que ha conseguido eliminar el virus del papiloma humano, causante de más de 300.000 muertes en el mundo anualmente. Demostrado con personas, no ratones. Ahora preguntaros por qué sabemos de Barbacid y no de esta mujer.
February 12, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Se llama Eva Ramón Gallegos y es la científica mexicana que ha conseguido eliminar el virus del papiloma humano, causante de más de 300.000 muertes en el mundo anualmente. Demostrado con personas, no ratones. Ahora preguntaros por qué sabemos de Barbacid y no de esta mujer.
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Find you a colleague who tolerates you live-slacking them a MST3K-style commentary on their paper as you read it.
February 13, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Find you a colleague who tolerates you live-slacking them a MST3K-style commentary on their paper as you read it.
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¿SABÍAS QUE...
el nombre de BRONTOSAURIO procede de Brontë, apellido de las hermanas Anne y Emily Brontë, quienes descubrieron y desenterraron su primer esqueleto completo?
el nombre de BRONTOSAURIO procede de Brontë, apellido de las hermanas Anne y Emily Brontë, quienes descubrieron y desenterraron su primer esqueleto completo?
February 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
¿SABÍAS QUE...
el nombre de BRONTOSAURIO procede de Brontë, apellido de las hermanas Anne y Emily Brontë, quienes descubrieron y desenterraron su primer esqueleto completo?
el nombre de BRONTOSAURIO procede de Brontë, apellido de las hermanas Anne y Emily Brontë, quienes descubrieron y desenterraron su primer esqueleto completo?
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From #OUP 's @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal | Amos Bairoch (1957-2025): pioneer of bioinformatics and founder of Swiss-Prot | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience CC/ @sib.swiss 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓🇨🇭
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Amos Bairoch (1957–2025): pioneer of bioinformatics and founder of Swiss-Prot
Amos Bairoch, one of the founding figures of bioinformatics, passed away on 1 December 2025 at the age of 68 (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 2025a).
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
From #OUP 's @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal | Amos Bairoch (1957-2025): pioneer of bioinformatics and founder of Swiss-Prot | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience CC/ @sib.swiss 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓🇨🇭
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I’m shocked 🙄
February 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
I’m shocked 🙄
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It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.
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The UK government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been ruled unlawful by the High Court
I'm still in Japan, but had a feeling this ruling would come while I was away and so a story will be coming shortly...
I'm still in Japan, but had a feeling this ruling would come while I was away and so a story will be coming shortly...
February 13, 2026 at 10:12 AM
The UK government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been ruled unlawful by the High Court
I'm still in Japan, but had a feeling this ruling would come while I was away and so a story will be coming shortly...
I'm still in Japan, but had a feeling this ruling would come while I was away and so a story will be coming shortly...
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The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
February 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM
The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!
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I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
February 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.
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One thing I've slowly learned about Cdn science policy is that, from the government perspective, the announcement is the only point of the exercise. They allocate $, announce it with great fanfare and chest thumping (no matter the scale), then it's forgotten.
February 11, 2026 at 7:18 PM
One thing I've slowly learned about Cdn science policy is that, from the government perspective, the announcement is the only point of the exercise. They allocate $, announce it with great fanfare and chest thumping (no matter the scale), then it's forgotten.
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New #preprint from the lab led by talented pharmacy grad student Ella Schwab: "Mouse macrophages from diverse niches show generally divergent age-related transcriptional remodeling signatures" showing a #metaanalysis of 🐭 macrophage aging RNA-seq data.🧪🖥️🧬 🔬. A🧵 1/4
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 11, 2026 at 7:37 PM
New #preprint from the lab led by talented pharmacy grad student Ella Schwab: "Mouse macrophages from diverse niches show generally divergent age-related transcriptional remodeling signatures" showing a #metaanalysis of 🐭 macrophage aging RNA-seq data.🧪🖥️🧬 🔬. A🧵 1/4
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I really wish announcements about new schemes from public funders like the ESRC weren't made via paywalled articles...
ESRC to pilot two new applicant-led calls.
Existing schemes will remain open, says leader of Economic and Social Research Council Stian Westlake.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Existing schemes will remain open, says leader of Economic and Social Research Council Stian Westlake.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
ESRC to pilot two new applicant-led calls - Research Professional News
Existing schemes will remain open, says leader of Economic and Social Research Council
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I really wish announcements about new schemes from public funders like the ESRC weren't made via paywalled articles...
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Found out today that an institution where I’m a guest speaker can’t help me with arrangements for accommodations (arrangements, not costs) because I come with my family. Pretty ironic given today we‘re meant to celebrate women in science.
"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury."
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
In this #ScienceWorkingLife, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #WomenInScienceDay
February 11, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Found out today that an institution where I’m a guest speaker can’t help me with arrangements for accommodations (arrangements, not costs) because I come with my family. Pretty ironic given today we‘re meant to celebrate women in science.
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What's the best place to look up current estimates of how many truncated/non-functional genes each of us have? there was a paper from @dgmacarthur.bsky.social and co around 2014 that had an estimate from the 1000 genomes project (around 40 per person?), but I guess we have better estimates now.
February 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
What's the best place to look up current estimates of how many truncated/non-functional genes each of us have? there was a paper from @dgmacarthur.bsky.social and co around 2014 that had an estimate from the 1000 genomes project (around 40 per person?), but I guess we have better estimates now.
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Laugh it up pythoncels, the fact that LLMs are worse at R means that we will lead the resistance when ChatGPT starts unleashing the plagues
Can confirm, this is data science best practices for R users.
me: I would like to see the model underneath the code that runs it please
data science best practices: fuck you. die and go to hell.
data science best practices: fuck you. die and go to hell.
February 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Laugh it up pythoncels, the fact that LLMs are worse at R means that we will lead the resistance when ChatGPT starts unleashing the plagues
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🧬 WORKSHOP: Explore emerging applications, methodological advances and computational approaches shaping the future of long‑read sequencing: www.jax.org/education-an...
Topics span cancer, rare and common disease, transcriptomics, genome evolution + more
📍 Farmington, CT | 📅 May 11 – 14
Topics span cancer, rare and common disease, transcriptomics, genome evolution + more
📍 Farmington, CT | 📅 May 11 – 14
February 11, 2026 at 12:52 PM
🧬 WORKSHOP: Explore emerging applications, methodological advances and computational approaches shaping the future of long‑read sequencing: www.jax.org/education-an...
Topics span cancer, rare and common disease, transcriptomics, genome evolution + more
📍 Farmington, CT | 📅 May 11 – 14
Topics span cancer, rare and common disease, transcriptomics, genome evolution + more
📍 Farmington, CT | 📅 May 11 – 14
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UKRI funding changes are already causing junior researchers to leave the country.
Some STFC-funded research groups are already "haemorrhaging" early career researchers, according to @lucienheurtier.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Some STFC-funded research groups are already "haemorrhaging" early career researchers, according to @lucienheurtier.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI funding changes ‘pushing junior researchers abroad’ - Research Professional News
Disruptions to core funding streams raise fears for a “generation” of early career researchers
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
UKRI funding changes are already causing junior researchers to leave the country.
Some STFC-funded research groups are already "haemorrhaging" early career researchers, according to @lucienheurtier.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Some STFC-funded research groups are already "haemorrhaging" early career researchers, according to @lucienheurtier.bsky.social.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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February 11, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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¿Sabíais que podéis hacer vuestro CV según formato de la UE en Europass? ¿Y que es fácil y queda bonito? ¿Y que no lo mira nadie, pero puedes generar un perfil público en el que puedes incluir autoevaluaciones de experiencias digitales?
February 10, 2026 at 9:54 AM
¿Sabíais que podéis hacer vuestro CV según formato de la UE en Europass? ¿Y que es fácil y queda bonito? ¿Y que no lo mira nadie, pero puedes generar un perfil público en el que puedes incluir autoevaluaciones de experiencias digitales?
A multi-agent platform for assessment and improvement of bioinformatics software documentation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.09.704801v1
February 10, 2026 at 9:54 PM
We keep losing people, promotions are froozen, but the University of Dundee somehow "needs" 20 new senior (grade 10) management jobs...
Good, good, all good. 🤦🏻♀️
Good, good, all good. 🤦🏻♀️
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 PM
We keep losing people, promotions are froozen, but the University of Dundee somehow "needs" 20 new senior (grade 10) management jobs...
Good, good, all good. 🤦🏻♀️
Good, good, all good. 🤦🏻♀️