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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17d

IT IS TIME.

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · 29d

My work today is sponsored by...

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Mia Levine @levine-lab.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hey Drosophilists: Might you maintain Fuyama's original gynogenetic "gyn-F9" (BDSC #5353) stock in your library?

The current stock from Bloomington is not producing progeny with ms(k81) males.

Thank you!!!

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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute @ucscgenomics.bsky.social · Aug 1

It's exciting to see the continuing legacy of T2T sequencing methods being discussed on @scifri.bsky.social ! 🧬
Complete genomes are helping us understand more and more about genetic function and diversity in areas of our DNA that were unreadable just a few years ago.

Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · Aug 1

Complete genomes alert! @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, @christinebeck.bsky.social, and I were on @scifri.bsky.social today talking about "Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes"
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📻 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/65-...

65 Genomes Expand Our Picture Of Human Genetics

Researchers closely examined the genomes of 65 individuals to paint a more complex, and more complete, picture of human genetic diversity.

www.sciencefriday.com

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Aug 1

This was both fun and terrifying to tape! Awesome to talk with @glennislogsdon.bsky.social and @aphillippy.bsky.social about our sequencing data / paper, the improvements to large-scale sequencing projects, and what this means for our understanding of our DNA!

Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · Aug 1

Complete genomes alert! @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, @christinebeck.bsky.social, and I were on @scifri.bsky.social today talking about "Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes"
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📻 www.sciencefriday.com/segments/65-...

65 Genomes Expand Our Picture Of Human Genetics

Researchers closely examined the genomes of 65 individuals to paint a more complex, and more complete, picture of human genetic diversity.

www.sciencefriday.com

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · Aug 1

Someone asked me just today if RSS is “still a thing”.

Friends, it definitely is! Though I will always sigh for google reader, RSS remains a fantastic way to pull in news from the sources you want to read, without “the algorithm” sucking you into rage and despair.

Molly White @molly.wiki · Jul 31

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Curate your own newspaper with RSS

Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

www.citationneeded.news

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Jul 25

'Tis a good joke, and both as a co-senior author on this study and an analogous assembler of a genome, one takes longer and the other is way harder and involves more sleep deprivation. Also, a great paper is fun, but the continued ROI on the latter is endless joy (and frustration)!

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · Jul 25

My wife assembled two complete human genomes and we couldn’t get that published anywhere.

Tobias Marschall @tobiasmar.bsky.social · Jul 23

Two papers in today's issue of @nature.com ‬: 1) we assemble 65 genomes to near completion, including centromeres and the MHC. tinyurl.com/3huhax6w. 2) we sequence 1,019 genomes from the 1kGP with long reads, revealing SVs down to low allele frequencies tinyurl.com/wbx3we9x.

Complex genetic variation in nearly complete human genomes - Nature

Using sequencing and haplotype-resolved assembly of 65 diverse human genomes, complex regions including the major histocompatibility complex and centromeres are analysed.

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Jul 24

Lovely write up on our paper from @jacksonlab.bsky.social. It's been <4 years since I joined the HGSVC, and together with Peter Audano and Parithi Balachandran in my lab, @tobiasmar.bsky.social, @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, and many others, we've done a lot. Here's to great collaborators!

The Jackson Laboratory @jacksonlab.bsky.social · Jul 23

New research, published today in @natureportfolio.nature.com, decodes the most elusive, difficult-to-sequence regions of the genome from populations around the world, rewriting knowledge of human biology and setting a new benchmark for precision medicine. 🧪🧬🔬

The most complete view of the human genome yet sets new standard for use in precision medicine

What if scientists unlocked the most hidden, hardest-to-read regions of our DNA?

www.jax.org

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · Jul 21

Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution 🧪: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...

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Ed Chuong @edchuong.bsky.social · Jul 17

Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

🧪🧬 #TESky #interferosky

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Rebecca Berrens @rberrens.bsky.social · Jul 16

Very happy to share our protocols paper for CELLO-seq. This will make single cell long read RNA-seq more accessible and provides analysis guidelines. We hope this helps the #transposon #TEsky community and folks working on #singleCell isoform and allelic #gene expression. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Long-read RNA sequencing of transposable elements from single cells using CELLO-seq - Nature Protocols

Single-cell long-read RNA sequencing enables the high-fidelity mapping of single-cell expression data from highly sequence-similar transposable elements to unique genomic loci by correcting errors fro...

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Jul 11

I has a monarch growing in my garden. That and the fireflies tonight have made my day more tolerable. What is keeping your head above water?

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · Jul 6

They finally made the milk from that hotel

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Joana L. Rocha @joanocha.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am thrilled to announce that in January 2026 I will be starting my own lab at NYU Biology! Soon enough I will be recruiting postdocs and students! Please reach out if you are interested with a CV and description of your research interests, or if you know of people who could be interested! 🧬🗽 🦊

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Molly Gale (Gale-Hammell Lab) @mollygale.bsky.social · Jun 16

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬

Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Jun 5

Completely germane to absolutely nothing, schadenfreude is my favorite Freud when it comes to certain people.

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Jun 2

There's only ~1 week left for abstract submission for #ASHG25! Get your best stories submitted so we have more fun planning the program. Looking forward to seeing a ton of you genetics researchers in Boston this fall.

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Mike Schatz @mikeschatz.bsky.social · May 6

Kicking off Biology of Genomes with opening remarks by @tuuliel.bsky.social! @cshlnews.bsky.social #bog25

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 27

“This doesn't feel like a strategic plan to reorganize and make the NIH better and more efficient. It feels like a wrecking ball,” says an NIH insider, who asked 60 Minutes to protect his identity due to his concern about reprisal. https://cbsn.ws/3EKcER9

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Apr 22

So long, and thanks for all the wonderful science discussions, Ann Arbor! It was so fun going back to the department I earned my PhD from to give a seminar. ♥️

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 15

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us all safe and healthy

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Christine Beck @christinebeck.bsky.social · Apr 11

Thesis defenses are a giant spot of joy any day. Today is a good science day for @ryan-englander.bsky.social and his amazing mentors @olgaanczukow.bsky.social and Karolina Palucka, who are both fabulous near peer faculty mentors too. Congratulations, all!

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Apr 10

Everyone who told me "what's the harm in hyping de-extinction technology that doesn't work" can choke on a bag of black-footed ferret dicks

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump team cites wolf ‘de-extinction’ as reason to cut endangered species list

The interior secretary hailed a biotech company’s claim to have brought back the dire wolf, while the administration and GOP push to roll back species protections.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nature @nature.com · Apr 9

Nature research paper: Complete sequencing of ape genomes

https://go.nature.com/3EfWwqk

Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature

Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evolutionary comparisons.

go.nature.com

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