Read ‘Sperm sequencing reveals extensive positive selection in the male germline’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and collaborators in @nature.com below:

nature.com/articles/s41...

Labcorp is recruiting summer interns in bioinformatics! One of my colleagues did this internship last year and found it to be a wonderful introduction to working in industry careers.labcorp.com/yzXKMn1

Whoops, wrong hashtag.

If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!

This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!

Hey everyone! I'm extremely excited to announce that today marks the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of Steve Silberman's ground-breaking NeuroTribes, with a new foreword by John Elder Robison.

4 more days to propose sessions for the annual SCIENCE TALK conference! Taking place in war-torn Portland, OR next Spring (March '26), Science Communicators convene to build the future of the craft for a more resilient Society. #wayfinding
www.associationofsciencecommunicators.org/conferences/...

Me at 1130pm last night trying to turn around a same-day revise and resubmit before my workplace is shut down

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

Seems prescient but in reality always important

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol

2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy.

news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

“Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses. This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding.”
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Looking forward to reading this piece by a number of colleagues: Should a genomic diagnosis be a ticket or a roadmap? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

MMR vaccines do not cause autism (see my 🧵 of studies)

At the same time, one potential cause of autism is rubella, which is *prevented* by MMR vaccines.

Which means...vaccines may actually help prevent autism.

🧵

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21592401/

Looking forward to hearing thoughts from both researchers and the autistic community 🧬

PSA: To find grants from a specific institute/center in the new grants.gov format, you can search by the “Assistance Listing” number for the specific IC. NHGRI’s number is 93.172.

On Dec. 18, Olivia Li turned 4. Barely five weeks later, she slipped into unconsciousness, a rare and unexpected consequence of a flu infection.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/h...

The Spectrum10K project is an important example of why community preferences must be honored in autism genetics/genomics, and this work suggests alternative language for scientists. We also hope to provoke individual reflection and furnishing discussions about policy and practice.

From abstract: “Although the language of research cannot be assumed to straightforwardly correspond to individual researchers’ beliefs, the presence of widespread ableist language may indicate structural and institutionalized ableism, including ableist assumptions at the foundations of research.”

My wonderful former postdoc @nicolasugden.bsky.social led this work, with both quantitative analyses of 13,136 entries from 1980-2022 related to autism genetics/genomics in NIH RePORTER and qualitative coding of 166 grant abstracts for specific terms.

🎉 Lab paper alert: “Autism ableism seen through research abstract contents: A mixed-methods analysis of language in NIH-funded genetic and genomic autism research.” We found ableist/stigmatizing language ubiquitous throughout grant abstracts from 1980-2022.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Best of luck to the brave soul who would like to be the next Director of the National Institute of Mental Health hr.nih.gov/jobs/search/...

Science has already saved countless lives and will save many more if we let it. Hearing firsthand from patients whose lives have been saved by medical research (tinyurl.com/m65339fh) shows how vital this funding is, even for those lucky enough not to have needed it yet.
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#ScienceSavedMe

Good summary by my friend @helenpearson.bsky.social of what we have been saying for years: if there’s an epidemic in autism, it’s of diagnoses, which is not a bad thing www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Another lovely night in DC