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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that the PhD program for EMBL is open for winter recruitment round. If you want to understand life at a molecular level and have a quantitative science (you don't have to have done biology - we love our mathematicians/physcists/chemists!) apply www.embl.org/about/info/e...

Application – EMBL International PhD Programme

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · 14h

Big day in Lab- one grad student defended (so proud)! Another lectured for me (90 min!) because I had to give a talk for a consortium. Another gave an hour talk for the dept. Another is away getting married. Another had his thesis paper come out today! Phew! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction

Designing powerful and unbiased genomic studies requires accurate assessment of familial relatedness even when this information is not captured from p…

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · 15h

So happy to see this out! Please feel free to contact me if anyone wants to roll COMPADRE out in their data and wants help/advice!!

Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · 15h

This work, led by my excellent graduate student Grahame Evans, was so much fun to do. we expanded the PRIMUS/PADRE relatedness tool suite to a new and improved all-in-one, scalable and user friendly tool, COMPADRE. Tools for genetic relatedness will always be one of my most fav parts of our work.

The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 20h

📣New from @piperbelow.bsky.social & co!
📄COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction

COMPADRE: Combined pedigree-aware distant relatedness estimation for improved pedigree reconstruction

COMPADRE improves pedigree reconstruction through a novel combination of genome-wide IBD-sharing estimates with shared IBD segment data. COMPADRE achieves higher accuracy in comparison to existing too...

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Vladimir (Vova) Seplyarskiy @vseplyarskiy.bsky.social · 1d

Our paper on clonal expansions in Sperm is out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
If you are interested in working at an intersection of Mendelian genomics/Population genetics/Clonal expansions +Cancer genetics/ and of course mutagenesis, please rich out about postdoc in my lab

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 2d

"If everything around you looks dark, look again, you may be the light"

-Rumi

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Erin Green @erinrgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Job alert ‼️ UChicago Micro is hiring! Open to tenured/tenure track faculty at all levels in any area of microbiology. Come join our amazing and growing department. apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies

Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · 9d

a man in a robe is holding a pile of papers in his hand .

ALT: a man in a robe is holding a pile of papers in his hand .

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 13d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 22d

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Details - Assistant Professor, Developmental Psychology CAHSS | University of Denver

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Polly Fordyce @pollyfordyce.bsky.social · 22d

Please apply to our tenure-track faculty position at
@stanford-chemh.bsky.social! We are searching for a new colleague working at the interface between computation and molecular sciences. See post below and pls forward widely!
chemh.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Faculty Recruitment

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Dr. Nikki Crowley @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social · 22d

WE ARE... hiring!

Penn State Biology & the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences is recruiting a tenure track or tenured neurobiologist (Assistant or Associate Professor rank), and the committee is open to a broad scope of scientific questions.

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Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at · Jul 23

📢 Open Call! The Max Perutz Labs invite applications for a Tenure-Track Professorship in Mechanistic Cell and Developmental Biology. More details ➡️ tinyurl.com/3fbkp89c

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · Sep 4

We were interviewed by NPR's program Shortwave about our stuttering paper! Aside from my mouth saying "polymorphic" while my brain was thinking "polygenic" I think it came out fantastic! Please check it out! #NPR #VGI
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What causes stuttering? It might be in your DNA : Short Wave

For a long time, scientists have suspected that stuttering — a common speech condition that affects an estimated 1 in every 100 people — could be heritable. Despite how common it is, it's still a rema...

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Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social · Sep 1

Seeking a Project Manager for the PRIME project:
"Building Infrastructure for Patients, Researchers and Industry for Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)". Closing date for applications is 15 September 2025. #pwME #MEcfs
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PRIME Project Manager

The PRIME project is looking for an experienced and dedicated project manager. This role will be crucial to the successful delivery of PRIME, with the post holder responsible for the strategic executi...

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · Aug 29

You found it, and haven’t yet invited me out to give a talk so we can go?

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · Aug 20

ATTN: Robert Wood Johnson has money to support “canceled” research on racial-indigenous health equity

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Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · Aug 13

Over 20 years after Julius’s lab and mine cloned TRPM8, it is rewarding to see this science helping patients. The TRPM8 agonist Tryptyr treats dry eye by increasing tear production. A reminder that NIH-funded curiosity-driven research translates to medicines.
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TRYPTYR (acoltremon ophthalmic solution) 0.003% eye drops | Alcon US

TRYPTYR is a prescription eye drop used for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. See prescribing information, how to save, and more.

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Nature Genetics @natgenet.nature.com · Jul 29

📢PUBLISHED @natgenet.nature.com

📰Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering.

By Hannah G. Polikowsky, Jennifer E. Below and colleagues.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide analyses in over one million self-reported cases and controls identify genetic variants associated with stuttering and find genetic correlations with autism, depression and impaired musica...

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Holly Fletcher @hollyfletcher.bsky.social · Jul 28

fascinating and huge study into the origins of stuttering

I've been anxiously awaiting this @natgenet.nature.com piece from @piperbelow.bsky.social to publish!

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there are clips of the researchers talking about the findings and an animated vid w/study highlights

Large-scale study uncovers 57 genetic hotspots into stuttering origins

Findings published in Nature Genetics point to 48 genes associated with stuttering and highlight neurological pathways of risk.

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · Jul 28

Check out our new work! vimeo.com/1104948937/0...

Update

This is "Update" by Kindea Labs on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Jul 28

Exciting paper on genetic influences on speech fluency, out now in @natgenet.nature.com. In a big step forward for the field, genome scans of almost 100,000 people with self-reported stuttering, & 1 million controls, identify 57 associated loci. Great work by @piperbelow.bsky.social & her team.🗣️🧬🧪

Large-scale genome-wide analyses of stuttering - Nature Genetics

Genome-wide analyses in over one million self-reported cases and controls identify genetic variants associated with stuttering and find genetic correlations with autism, depression and impaired musica...

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thanks to @aaas.org for covering our paper! www.science.org/content/arti...

Genome-wide study makes ‘quantum leap’ in understanding stuttering

Analysis of DNA from 23andMe users points to variants in genes linked to brain function and sense of rhythm

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Piper Below @piperbelow.bsky.social · Jul 28

Trainees Dillon Pruett and Alyssa Scartozzi, who helped lead this research, are featured in a discussion of our work in this #VUMC Reporter article: news.vumc.org/2025/07/28/l...

Large-scale study uncovers 57 genetic hotspots into stuttering origins

Findings published in Nature Genetics point to 48 genes associated with stuttering and highlight neurological pathways of risk.

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