Benjamin Werner
@benjaminwerner.bsky.social
We crawl by inches.
Group Leader at Barts Cancer Institute in London. Working on somatic evolution, ecDNA, clonal haematopoiesis, gITH, clonal evolution…
https://www.bartscancer.london/staff/dr-benjamin-werner/
Contact: [email protected]
Group Leader at Barts Cancer Institute in London. Working on somatic evolution, ecDNA, clonal haematopoiesis, gITH, clonal evolution…
https://www.bartscancer.london/staff/dr-benjamin-werner/
Contact: [email protected]
Approximately 1.7% of the US population demonstrated at No Kings.
Or in other words, 98.3% did not demonstrate.
Make of it what you want.
Or in other words, 98.3% did not demonstrate.
Make of it what you want.
I see this take around from time to time and totally disagree. ICE just murdered a woman standing up to them. No Kings is among the largest protests in history.
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
The complacency is coming from elites in media, business, universities, and the Democratic leadership
January 12, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Approximately 1.7% of the US population demonstrated at No Kings.
Or in other words, 98.3% did not demonstrate.
Make of it what you want.
Or in other words, 98.3% did not demonstrate.
Make of it what you want.
In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.
I am no expert, but the constitution of the United States hopefully says something else?
Does congress agree?
I am no expert, but the constitution of the United States hopefully says something else?
Does congress agree?
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 AM
In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.
I am no expert, but the constitution of the United States hopefully says something else?
Does congress agree?
I am no expert, but the constitution of the United States hopefully says something else?
Does congress agree?
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The la Caixa Foundation is offering well-paid prestigious doctoral fellowships (deadline 28th January). Anyone interested in applying to do PhD with me at @ifisc.uib-csic.es please get in touch. Happy to help competitive candidates with their application.
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
Doctoral INPhINIT fellowships - Incoming Call 2026
We grant 30 fellowships for researchers of any nationality who wish to pursue a doctorate in a STEM discipline at research centres of excellence in Spain or Portugal.
lacaixafoundation.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:53 AM
The la Caixa Foundation is offering well-paid prestigious doctoral fellowships (deadline 28th January). Anyone interested in applying to do PhD with me at @ifisc.uib-csic.es please get in touch. Happy to help competitive candidates with their application.
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
lacaixafoundation.org/en/doctoral-...
Great music and science alike make you feel it could not have been any other way.
January 5, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Great music and science alike make you feel it could not have been any other way.
I am somewhat surprised MAGA hasn’t noticed yet that truly great Emperors name months after them.
I mean Trumpuary, come on, what an honour it would be for everyone to have been born in truly the bestest months of them all.
I mean Trumpuary, come on, what an honour it would be for everyone to have been born in truly the bestest months of them all.
December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I am somewhat surprised MAGA hasn’t noticed yet that truly great Emperors name months after them.
I mean Trumpuary, come on, what an honour it would be for everyone to have been born in truly the bestest months of them all.
I mean Trumpuary, come on, what an honour it would be for everyone to have been born in truly the bestest months of them all.
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Jacob Scott, a founding bioRxiv and medRxiv Affiliate with 73 preprints posted, loves the community of open science advocates around the preprint servers. Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints are posted ~48 hours after submission.
#bioRxiv #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices
#bioRxiv #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Jacob Scott, a founding bioRxiv and medRxiv Affiliate with 73 preprints posted, loves the community of open science advocates around the preprint servers. Thanks to Affiliates like him, preprints are posted ~48 hours after submission.
#bioRxiv #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices
#bioRxiv #openRxiv #OpenScience #preprints #CommunityVoices
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Calling cancer data scientists! 📊 💽 🧮
We have a number of open positions in our core facility @icr.ac.uk These are bioinformatician staff scientist like roles to work on exciting single cell, spatial & other genomics data from across our Institute. A PhD is required. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
We have a number of open positions in our core facility @icr.ac.uk These are bioinformatician staff scientist like roles to work on exciting single cell, spatial & other genomics data from across our Institute. A PhD is required. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
Data Scientist in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research
View details and apply for this Data Scientist vacancy in Sutton.
Salary : Salary range £39,805 to £53,500 (Dependent on experience )
Reporting to: Professor Trevor Gra...
jobs.icr.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Calling cancer data scientists! 📊 💽 🧮
We have a number of open positions in our core facility @icr.ac.uk These are bioinformatician staff scientist like roles to work on exciting single cell, spatial & other genomics data from across our Institute. A PhD is required. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
We have a number of open positions in our core facility @icr.ac.uk These are bioinformatician staff scientist like roles to work on exciting single cell, spatial & other genomics data from across our Institute. A PhD is required. jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13...
Upon becoming a research group leader you transform into a LLM.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Upon becoming a research group leader you transform into a LLM.
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Explore the origins, patterns and consequences of mutations across biological systems! #MITS26
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Explore the origins, patterns and consequences of mutations across biological systems! #MITS26
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
🗓️ Conference dates: 13-15 April 2026
Participate in expert-led knowledge exchange on how genome evolution shapes human health and ageing 🧬
Check out our exciting speakers ➡️ bit.ly/4hmbnyr
#Genomics
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My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15.
www.mskcc.org/research/ski...
www.mskcc.org/research/ski...
Faculty Positions
The Sloan Kettering Institute is seeking innovative scientists to join our faculty.
www.mskcc.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My institution---the Sloan Kettering Institute, the basic science arm of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center---is hiring new faculty this cycle! Applications close Nov 15.
www.mskcc.org/research/ski...
www.mskcc.org/research/ski...
Haha.
L'État, c'est moi
L'État, c'est moi
BREAKING
President Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Any settlement will ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
Full Story: nyti.ms/3WNm2sv
President Trump is demanding that the DOJ pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Any settlement will ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
Full Story: nyti.ms/3WNm2sv
October 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Haha.
L'État, c'est moi
L'État, c'est moi
Congratulations @mattjones.bsky.social @katerinakraft and the entire team
Delighted to share our new study in @natcellbio.nature.com showing that the unique epigenetic landscape of ecDNA can enable the oncogenic enhancer activation of transposable elements! This was a great collaboration with @katerinakraft.bsky.social and @sedonamurphy.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/mwfbu4w4
Enhancer activation from transposable elements in extrachromosomal DNA - Nature Cell Biology
Kraft, Murphy, Jones et al. identify extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA)-interacting elements (EIEs) enriched for transposable elements within ecDNA in colorectal cancer cells. They show that EIE 14 integrat...
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October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Congratulations @mattjones.bsky.social @katerinakraft and the entire team
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Looking forward, I am launching my lab in the @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social and IMES at @mit.edu, and will continue studying how the unique regulatory landscape of ecDNA enables tumor evolution. We're looking for creative scientists to push this frontier - if you're interested, get in touch!
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Looking forward, I am launching my lab in the @mitkochinstitute.bsky.social and IMES at @mit.edu, and will continue studying how the unique regulatory landscape of ecDNA enables tumor evolution. We're looking for creative scientists to push this frontier - if you're interested, get in touch!
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man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
man who tried to slash social security spending promises communism is coming if you just ignore the enormous job losses this year due to the technology he's developing for private profit
Yes, a citizen approach to brain surgery!
Dont trust the experts, do your own research.
Also, don’t use any electronics, this quantum mechanics hoax just tries to move you to the radical left.
Can someone give him a lab practicum please. Maybe he understands then?
Dont trust the experts, do your own research.
Also, don’t use any electronics, this quantum mechanics hoax just tries to move you to the radical left.
Can someone give him a lab practicum please. Maybe he understands then?
This makes so much sense. Never call a plumber of electrician to fix things at your house: just do your own research
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
October 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yes, a citizen approach to brain surgery!
Dont trust the experts, do your own research.
Also, don’t use any electronics, this quantum mechanics hoax just tries to move you to the radical left.
Can someone give him a lab practicum please. Maybe he understands then?
Dont trust the experts, do your own research.
Also, don’t use any electronics, this quantum mechanics hoax just tries to move you to the radical left.
Can someone give him a lab practicum please. Maybe he understands then?
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We are hiring a postdoc to profile the evolvability of tumors in longitudinal samples from three clinical trials as part of the ARPA-H ADAPT program. This is essentially an evolutionary bioinformatics position. If you are interested, please apply here ASAP apply.interfolio.com/172521
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October 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We are hiring a postdoc to profile the evolvability of tumors in longitudinal samples from three clinical trials as part of the ARPA-H ADAPT program. This is essentially an evolutionary bioinformatics position. If you are interested, please apply here ASAP apply.interfolio.com/172521
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📢Exciting news! Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social is issuing another call for commentaries ahead of #AACR26! The meeting's theme is "Precision, Partnership, Purpose: Advancing Cancer Science to Save Lives Globally" - we want to hear YOUR ideas on how to achieve this goal. (1/2)
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📢Exciting news! Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social is issuing another call for commentaries ahead of #AACR26! The meeting's theme is "Precision, Partnership, Purpose: Advancing Cancer Science to Save Lives Globally" - we want to hear YOUR ideas on how to achieve this goal. (1/2)
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Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de
October 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Professorship in plant genetics.
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The Botanical Institute at Kiel University is advertising a W2 professorship. Great opportunity to do plant research in the north of Germany. See:
www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...
The continued move to open science and data and code availability is great.
In cancer evolution, most publications now make data and code available, helping to speed up subsequent discoveries enourmesly.
In cancer evolution, most publications now make data and code available, helping to speed up subsequent discoveries enourmesly.
October 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The continued move to open science and data and code availability is great.
In cancer evolution, most publications now make data and code available, helping to speed up subsequent discoveries enourmesly.
In cancer evolution, most publications now make data and code available, helping to speed up subsequent discoveries enourmesly.
If Trump gets the Peace Noble today, he should aim for Literature next.
He clearly has all the best words.
He clearly has all the best words.
October 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
If Trump gets the Peace Noble today, he should aim for Literature next.
He clearly has all the best words.
He clearly has all the best words.
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Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Somatic mutation and selection at population scale - Nature
A new version of nanorate DNA sequencing, with an error rate lower than five errors per billion base pairs and compatible with whole-exome and targeted capture, enables epidemiological-scale studies of somatic mutation and selection and the generation of high-resolution selection maps across coding and non-coding sites for many genes.
www.nature.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Our latest work is out in Nature today. In this paper, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The October issue of Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social is now online! The cover features two papers on the role of #ecDNA heterogeneity in tumor evolution and adaptation to therapy - you can find these papers and much more here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
October 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The October issue of Cancer Discovery @aacrjournals.bsky.social is now online! The cover features two papers on the role of #ecDNA heterogeneity in tumor evolution and adaptation to therapy - you can find these papers and much more here: aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscov...
In the hope the academic system has and continues to improve since.
For every Nobel that goes to a criminally under-recognized woman scientist (Brunkow, Karikó), or fails to go (Candy Lee), a week of mourning and reform for an academic system wherein you can do Nobel-prize-worthy-work and still end up without a conceivable path to being a professor.
BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
In the hope the academic system has and continues to improve since.