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Lina Kim

@linathekim.bsky.social

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PhD candidate at ETH Zürich studying microbiome bioinformatics, oncology, and alloHCT with @sturlalab.bsky.social. MIT and biotech industry alum. 🇺🇸 ->🇨🇭 Migrating from 🐦 @linathekim

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Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · Nov 20

Thrilled to share that the ETH Laboratory of Toxicology is now LIVE on BlueSky! Follow @sturlalab.bsky.social for updates on 🦠 #microbiome #science, 💻 #bioinformatics, 🧬 #dnadamage, and of course 🧪 #oncology.

Also: sneek peeks into our 🇨🇭 Swiss life and fun!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · 2d

In light of the season: how click chemistry (Nobel in Chemistry 2022) is expanded for genomics research at @ethz.ch!

#ChemSky 🧪🖥️🧬

ETH Laboratory of Toxicology @sturlalab.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting contribution from our lab at the 8th EU–US Conference on Endogenous DNA Damage and Repair! 🔬🌍

Dr. Vakil Takhaveev (@vakil-takhaveev.bsky.social) presented a great showcase of how innovative sequencing approaches advance our understanding of genome integrity. 💡🧬

Click-code-seq reveals how transcription, epigenetics, and aging shape DNA damage in the human genome.

Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · 6d

@jorgepena.bsky.social please tell me you get addressed as Professor Peã+A

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 10d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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ETH Laboratory of Toxicology @sturlalab.bsky.social · 13d

🎓 Big congrats to our MSc student Emanuel Schönbächler for successfully defending his thesis: “Expanding Click-Code-Sequencing for Mapping Oxidative and Alkylation DNA Modifications.” 💥🧬

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Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · 12d

🧪 for those interested in #DNA and #cancer

ETH Laboratory of Toxicology @sturlalab.bsky.social · 12d

If you need information on carcinogenic alkylating agents, check out this amazing new book chapter! 📘✨

Authors: Jasmin Huber, Monika Kojic, Claudia Aloisi, and Shana Sturla 👉 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Congrats to all authors for this outstanding contribution to the field of molecular toxicology! 👏🧬

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 15d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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NPR @npr.org · 18d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · 19d

"It now holds that if many of Kirk’s views were repugnant, his willingness to calmly argue... [made him] an exemplar of how we should engage politically across difference.

This thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d

For those who were directly targeted by Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric, bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech signal the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views, Nikole Hannah-Jones writes in an essay for The New York Times Magazine.

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

www.nytimes.com

Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · 27d

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · 27d

It's Monday!
...and a new #MVIF program is out! 🤩

Free registration: cassyni.com/s/mvif-42

⭐️ Highlights:
🇦🇺 @gbouras13.bsky.social
🇺🇸 Danica Schmidtke

⭐️ Keynote:
🇺🇸 Peter Turnbaugh

⭐️ Talks:
🇸🇬 Minghao Chia
🇺🇸 @arzamasovalex.bsky.social ‪
🇳🇿 Brooke Wilson

Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · Sep 18

Some awesome scientists. They're on a productice high right now, check out their work! 👩‍🔬🧪🧬🖥️

#MicroSky #WomenInSTEM

ETH Laboratory of Toxicology @sturlalab.bsky.social · Sep 18

🌍 Our team had the privilege to showcase our latest advances in developing #NAMs under the equator at #WC13! ✨

🔬 @georgaichinger.bsky.social – microbiome-competent biokinetic modeling
🧪 Blandine Descamps – prediction of emerging mycotoxins toxicokinetics
⚖️ Hélène Bigonne – sex-informed PBK models

Lina Kim @linathekim.bsky.social · Sep 18

Stand-up #science and character! Ask @vakil-takhaveev.bsky.social about fungi, #cancer, and anti-aging 🧪

You can also get Vakil's attention by posting your favorite 🍄 below.

ETH Laboratory of Toxicology @sturlalab.bsky.social · Sep 18

Our fantastic postdoc Vakil Takhaveev (@vakil-takhaveev.bsky.social) rocked the EFMC Young Medicinal Chemists’ Symposium in Porto 🇵🇹 @euromedchem.bsky.social, presenting how DNA-damage sequencing can reveal anti-cancer drug mechanisms and push precision oncology forward! ✨🧬

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Felix M Key @keyfm.bsky.social · Sep 15

Open postdoc position in in my lab in Berlin @mpiib-berlin.mpg.de.

Join us to push the frontier in ancient microbial genomics. Please apply until Oct 17th. Reach out in case you have any questions.

www.mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2193291/job_...

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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · Sep 12

We are looking for a postdoc to study single-cell transcriptional heterogeneity in the human skin microbiome.

We have a new protocol mostly developed, but need someone to see it through. Experience with protocol dev or RNAseq appreciated.

Funded by a new grant from MIT-HEALS.

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ETH Laboratory of Toxicology @sturlalab.bsky.social · Sep 11

Great discussions at the #Metabolomics2025 in Prague ! ✨
Our brilliant postdoc Jacob Folz presented his research on "Quantifying rate and global profile of gut microbiota metabolism ex vivo by LC-MS/MS". 🦠
Stay tuned - his new publication is on the way ! 😉

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Emma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social · Sep 10

Come and be my colleague at the Dunn School! It‘s a brilliant place to work and exciting to be building up our immunology team. Do apply. Do pass on the news 💉🧬🦠🔬🧫

The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · Sep 10

We're hiring (again)!

We are looking for an associate professor in cell and molecular biology, with a particular focus on immunology (defined broadly)

If you have a great record and exciting plans, consider joining our thriving and welcoming department

www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

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The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our PhD studentship programme is officially open; pass it on

If you are looking for a fully-funded PhD in the mechanisms underlying human disease, here are the details...

Great science and a great environment!

www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...

Applications now open for our PhD studentship programme - Dunn School

Applications are now open to apply for our four year, fully-funded PhD programme in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease.

www.path.ox.ac.uk

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UBC Microbiology and Immunology @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social · Jul 22

Microbiology and Immunology and the Michael Smith Labs are seeking candidates for an Assistant Professor of Teaching in STEM Public Engagement position.

Learn more and apply at: www.msl.ubc.ca/careers/

#IndigenousinSTEM #BlackInNature #WomenInSTEM #MinoritiesInSTEM #DiversityInSTEM #STEMEducation

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Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social · Sep 3

There is a new position open in the Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes! This is for someone in the area of microbial genomics 🧬 Please re-post and send to people, thank you!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham

Recruiting now: Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · Sep 1

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · Aug 20

Applications for faculty positions at Rockefeller are now open! We are seeking exceptional, creative scientists to join our faculty.

Learn more below:

Faculty recruitment - Our Scientists

Applications for faculty positions are currently being accepted. Application deadline is October 6, 2025.

www.rockefeller.edu

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am delighted to announce that the UW Department of Biochemistry has opened searches for TWO tenure-track positions.

Descriptions and links in the following two posts.

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Microbiome Virtual International Forum @microbiomevif.bsky.social · Sep 1

You can follow all of our speakers with one click by using our starter pack!

go.bsky.app/D8cSja3

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