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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21h

Nature’s 2025 PhD survey asked doctoral candidates worldwide what advice they would give to someone considering a similar degree. Respondents gave advice on choosing supervisors, managing mental health, and surviving academic culture. #Academicsky 🧪

27 things we wish we’d known when we started our PhDs

Nature’s survey of PhD candidates reveals hard-won wisdom on choosing supervisors, managing mental health and surviving academic culture.

go.nature.com

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Madlen Stange @mstange.bsky.social · 5d

#Seminar
Join our #MEEGene seminar at
@leibnizlib.bsky.social
on zoom next Tuesday, Oct 14, 3pm CEST and listen to
Laura Tensen @lauratensen.bsky.social from @unigreifswald.bsky.social talking about comparative #genomics in red #leopards.
Email [email protected] for login details.

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 5d

@nicholemather, not on #Bluesky, on the appointment as new Scientific Advisory Board head at the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Genome Campus in Cambridge

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · 5d

OMG, what a great opportunity!

Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 5d

We're hiring! My team at @nygenome.org is looking for a statistical genetics postdoc to decipher functional architecture of complex diseases from cutting-edge CRISPR+scRNA-seq data, with @nevillesanjana.bsky.social lab. Happy to meet at #ASHG25, apply here
jobs.silkroad.com/NYGenome/Car...

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lappalainen & Sanjana Labs - 101 Avenue of the Americas, 7th Floor, New York, New York - New York Genome Center

Find a career with New York Genome Center

jobs.silkroad.com

Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · 5d

Intrigued by her work? Check out the episode of the 'Lost Women of Science' podcast about Dorothy Anderson and her work on cystic fibrosis!

www.lostwomenofscience.org/podcast-epis...
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Breakfast in the Snow

Dr. Dorothy Andersen’s work paved the way for new treatments of cystic fibrosis that have turned a deadly disease into a treatable condition.

www.lostwomenofscience.org

Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · 5d

As these findings were atypical for celiac disease, she began collecting records of similar cases, published her findings and described the condition she named cystic fibrosis. She and her team further developed a diagnostic test and contributed to the development of life-extending treatments.
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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · 5d

Do you know the name Dorothy Hansine Andersen?

She was the first researcher and physician to discover cystic fibrosis and its autosomal recessive inheritance pattern. As a pathologist, she recognised distinctive organ damage in the pancreases and lungs of deceased children with celiac disease.
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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 4

Congratulations to the Best Thesis Winners, Jana Henck & Julian Milosavljevic 💐

Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 3

Other geneticists who liked this session also liked the following books:

Die Reise unserer Gene & Hybris: Die Reise der Menschheit: Zwischen Aufbruch und Scheitern (Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe)

Human Peoples (Lluís Quintana-Murci)

Mütter Europas: Die letzten 43.000 Jahre (Karin Bojs)

Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 3

Dr Valentina Coia dives into the ancient DNA analysis of the Iceman and how much it adds to our understanding of who he was and where he came from. Was he a Sardinian tourist?

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 3

Did you know that the Iceman had tattoos, and there is some evidence that they were done to mark acupuncture points?

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 3

The best sessions are always those that are both educational and entertaining. Thanks to Prof Albert Zink for his wonderful dissection of the life and death of Ötzi the Iceman

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Christian Gebhard 🧬📊 @christiangebhard.com · Apr 2

Now on to the opening session @ #gfh2025, starting with local music!

Anyone else attending #gfh2025 and wanting to meet, e.g. at the booth of @juhumgen.bsky.social ?

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

Interdisciplinary and cultural experiences at the opening session of #gfh2025

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

We can't wait to see you at our booth on the exhibition floor! Get your own button and join the Junge Humangenetik 🫶

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

Hey young geneticists at #gfh2025, great to see so many of you here in Innsbruck.

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

We might have forgotten your favourite website, but you never will! Just let us know and add it to the list. //TB

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

You're using site shortcuts, but getting tired of browsing all the websites one by one? Then check out the Instant Multi Search Chrome extension. It might be exactly what you need.

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/aamga...

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

...So instead of opening Pubmed and searching for your gene of interest, just tell your browser to take you straight to the results. For me, it's just "p" + Space + [genesymbol]. You have to set your browser settings first, of course:

support.google.com/chrome/answe...

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

This has nothing to do with genetics, but everything to do with browsing the internet. You can boost your search efficiency by using "site shortcuts" in your browser's address bar (omnibox)...

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

And AutoPVS1 guides you through the PVS1 decision tree really quickly. Then there's VarChat, a chatbot that classifies your variant for you. I guess there is no perfect automation of classification, so always double check 🕵️‍♀️

autopvs1.genetics.bgi.com
varchat.engenome.com

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

It can really be a pain to classify a variant - all those criteria and specifications...😱

Did you know that there is a registry where you can easily find specifications for your gene of interest?

cspec.genome.network/cspec/ui/svi/

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

...or curations of the "clinical exome" like MorbidGenes & PanelApp Australia (they are super fast at extracting the latest gene disease association)

morbidgenes.uni-leipzig.de
panelapp-aus.org

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

For many genes you have to scroll through Pubmed for the latest updates. Perhaps Pubtator will make your search easier...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/pub...

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Junge Humangenetik @juhumgen.bsky.social · Apr 2

Instead of going through their homepages one by one, @deciphergenomics.bsky.social summarises all this information in their clinical tab

www.deciphergenomics.org/gene/fbn1/ov...

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