Charles Vaske
@seavaske.com
Genomics, bioinformatics, diagnostics, cancer, housing, and transit. Слава Україні https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-6612
The editors of the NYT when they see RFK lying on the CDC website: "determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy."
This is a very rare sort of cowardice in journalism, a subservience to authority and in defiance of truth and honesty and journalistic integrity. Shameful.
This is a very rare sort of cowardice in journalism, a subservience to authority and in defiance of truth and honesty and journalistic integrity. Shameful.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The editors of the NYT when they see RFK lying on the CDC website: "determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy."
This is a very rare sort of cowardice in journalism, a subservience to authority and in defiance of truth and honesty and journalistic integrity. Shameful.
This is a very rare sort of cowardice in journalism, a subservience to authority and in defiance of truth and honesty and journalistic integrity. Shameful.
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Today is The Day of Dignity and Freedom in Ukraine, which commemorates the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan) in 2013. If you want to know more, there is the documentary available on Netflix with subtitles.
www.netflix.com/de-en/title/...
#UkrainianView
www.netflix.com/de-en/title/...
#UkrainianView
Watch Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom | Netflix Official Site
Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.
www.netflix.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Today is The Day of Dignity and Freedom in Ukraine, which commemorates the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity (Euromaidan) in 2013. If you want to know more, there is the documentary available on Netflix with subtitles.
www.netflix.com/de-en/title/...
#UkrainianView
www.netflix.com/de-en/title/...
#UkrainianView
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UC Santa Cruz was ranked the #1 public research university in the world for highly cited researchers over the past 10 years (2014-2024) by Clarivate.
UC Santa Cruz is the top public research university in the world for highly cited researchers amid strong 2025 list
25 UC Santa Cruz researchers earned a spot on the prestigious annual list.
news.ucsc.edu
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
UC Santa Cruz was ranked the #1 public research university in the world for highly cited researchers over the past 10 years (2014-2024) by Clarivate.
Great talk by @erika-alden.bsky.social at #Scverse2025 on what's the next PDB? What is PDB? It's the protein database that underlies the recent protein folding Nobel Prize and billions in recent biotech investments. Unlike other big science, PDB was an organic effort of $10B of separate grants.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Great talk by @erika-alden.bsky.social at #Scverse2025 on what's the next PDB? What is PDB? It's the protein database that underlies the recent protein folding Nobel Prize and billions in recent biotech investments. Unlike other big science, PDB was an organic effort of $10B of separate grants.
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PangyPlot: a new #bioinformatics tools for visualizing pangenomes that supports linear coordinates and large graphs. Applied to @pacbio.bsky.social HiFi genomes to visualize two cystic fibrosis-relevant region not possible to resolve with short read genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
PangyPlot: a new #bioinformatics tools for visualizing pangenomes that supports linear coordinates and large graphs. Applied to @pacbio.bsky.social HiFi genomes to visualize two cystic fibrosis-relevant region not possible to resolve with short read genomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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@stevenxge, not on Bluesky, on the new feature in iDEP: bioinformatics.sdstate.edu/idep/
New in iDEP: label your k-means clusters with enriched pathways—just a few clicks. Try it on your RNA-seq data today:
New in iDEP: label your k-means clusters with enriched pathways—just a few clicks. Try it on your RNA-seq data today:
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
@stevenxge, not on Bluesky, on the new feature in iDEP: bioinformatics.sdstate.edu/idep/
New in iDEP: label your k-means clusters with enriched pathways—just a few clicks. Try it on your RNA-seq data today:
New in iDEP: label your k-means clusters with enriched pathways—just a few clicks. Try it on your RNA-seq data today:
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@brielin.bsky.social's fantastic work on causal gene network inference from Perturb-seq is published! We estimate total causal effects using guides as instruments, then deconvolve into direct & mediated effects with a directed analog of graphical lasso. Deets: nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64353-7
Large-scale causal discovery using interventional data sheds light on gene network structure in k562 cells - Nature Communications
The authors give a method for learning causal gene networks using Perturb-seq data. In K562 cells, they find a network with small-world and scale-free properties. Analysis shows a relationship between...
nature.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
@brielin.bsky.social's fantastic work on causal gene network inference from Perturb-seq is published! We estimate total causal effects using guides as instruments, then deconvolve into direct & mediated effects with a directed analog of graphical lasso. Deets: nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64353-7
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🟣 November means Pancreas Cancer Awareness! 🟣
Via Pancan.org Research Roundtable Webinar: Advancements in Earlier Detection of Pancreatic Cancer.
20 November 11 am PT / 2 pm ET. Register here ⬇️
pancan.org/facing-pancr...
Via Pancan.org Research Roundtable Webinar: Advancements in Earlier Detection of Pancreatic Cancer.
20 November 11 am PT / 2 pm ET. Register here ⬇️
pancan.org/facing-pancr...
Research Roundtable: Advancements in Earlier Detection of Pancreatic Cancer - Thursday, 11/20
Join PanCAN on World Pancreatic Cancer Day, November 20, at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET, for a free webinar featuring top scientists and leaders in the field talking about the latest advances in testing an...
pancan.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🟣 November means Pancreas Cancer Awareness! 🟣
Via Pancan.org Research Roundtable Webinar: Advancements in Earlier Detection of Pancreatic Cancer.
20 November 11 am PT / 2 pm ET. Register here ⬇️
pancan.org/facing-pancr...
Via Pancan.org Research Roundtable Webinar: Advancements in Earlier Detection of Pancreatic Cancer.
20 November 11 am PT / 2 pm ET. Register here ⬇️
pancan.org/facing-pancr...
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What's happening in the United States right now is like how Germany's universities began to empty out as the Nazis were consolidating power. Except this time, there is no United States for those scholars to flee to.
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
What's happening in the United States right now is like how Germany's universities began to empty out as the Nazis were consolidating power. Except this time, there is no United States for those scholars to flee to.
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End qualified immunity.
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
End qualified immunity.
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Two back-to-back stories on mitosis led by my incredible postdoc @krunovuk.bsky.social at @institutrb.bsky.social, in which we challenge the gliding model of CENP-E-driven chromosome congression! Today in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Two back-to-back stories on mitosis led by my incredible postdoc @krunovuk.bsky.social at @institutrb.bsky.social, in which we challenge the gliding model of CENP-E-driven chromosome congression! Today in @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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So many gene clusters and operons chock full of hypothetical proteins. So much of our world is deeply unknown. Any feature in this window that starts with an "HFM" is likely unknown. This is just a glimpse into one fragment of a random microbe that grew in my soap. #TritonTrue
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So many gene clusters and operons chock full of hypothetical proteins. So much of our world is deeply unknown. Any feature in this window that starts with an "HFM" is likely unknown. This is just a glimpse into one fragment of a random microbe that grew in my soap. #TritonTrue
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More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.
www.pbs.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year, part of an organized, politically savvy campaign to enshrine a conspiracy theory-driven agenda into law.
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1/6 Movi 2 is here: faster and more space-efficient for pangenome queries. Its fastest mode uses half the memory of Movi 1 while running ~30% faster. github.com/mohsenzakeri...
GitHub - mohsenzakeri/Movi: Fast, Cache-Efficient, and Scalable Queries on Pangenomes
Fast, Cache-Efficient, and Scalable Queries on Pangenomes - mohsenzakeri/Movi
github.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
1/6 Movi 2 is here: faster and more space-efficient for pangenome queries. Its fastest mode uses half the memory of Movi 1 while running ~30% faster. github.com/mohsenzakeri...
Jenny Chase is a legendary analyst of solar power, not least for pointing out how projections are always too low. So these projections are very funny for falling into the same trap, a sharp shoulder that is completely unjustified, and has no evidence. Much more solar than this will be installed.
42. Annual build volumes of solar are rising, but they are not guaranteed to rise forever. This is a symptom of solar starting to actually make a dent in power demand, with negative feedback effects such as power price cannibalization.
October 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Jenny Chase is a legendary analyst of solar power, not least for pointing out how projections are always too low. So these projections are very funny for falling into the same trap, a sharp shoulder that is completely unjustified, and has no evidence. Much more solar than this will be installed.
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She acknowledged Filipp was Ukrainian, loved his country, and didn’t want to go to Russia. She broke him, re-educated him, and made him Russian.
While Moscow denies forcibly removing children, one of Putin’s own officials has publicly confirmed that’s exactly what Russia is doing.
While Moscow denies forcibly removing children, one of Putin’s own officials has publicly confirmed that’s exactly what Russia is doing.
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
She acknowledged Filipp was Ukrainian, loved his country, and didn’t want to go to Russia. She broke him, re-educated him, and made him Russian.
While Moscow denies forcibly removing children, one of Putin’s own officials has publicly confirmed that’s exactly what Russia is doing.
While Moscow denies forcibly removing children, one of Putin’s own officials has publicly confirmed that’s exactly what Russia is doing.
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It's just unbelievable how easy it is for propaganda to manipulate people. Take a capitulation demand, call it a "peace deal" and watch idiots around the world pressure victim of the aggression to "take the deal." 😐
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
It's just unbelievable how easy it is for propaganda to manipulate people. Take a capitulation demand, call it a "peace deal" and watch idiots around the world pressure victim of the aggression to "take the deal." 😐
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2. Our new analysis suggests that protest events in 2025 have occurred across a wider range of US counties than we observed during Trump's first term. And the current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
2. Our new analysis suggests that protest events in 2025 have occurred across a wider range of US counties than we observed during Trump's first term. And the current protest movement has already reached deeper into Trump country than at almost any point during the first Trump administration.
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Forensic genetics in the omics era. #ForensicGenetics @natrevgenet.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Forensic genetics in the omics era - Nature Reviews Genetics
Recent advances in forensic genetics have improved the range, precision and reliability of forensic information obtainable from biological trace material. The author reviews how non-targeted and…
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Forensic genetics in the omics era. #ForensicGenetics @natrevgenet.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Now: Erica Vaccari: Reimbursement of germline genetic testing for cancer is impacted by socioeconomic characteristics and insurer type #ASHG25 🧪🧬🖥️
October 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Now: Erica Vaccari: Reimbursement of germline genetic testing for cancer is impacted by socioeconomic characteristics and insurer type #ASHG25 🧪🧬🖥️
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Anyways, this passed! In a purple city in a county that Trump won in 2024, they will enforce laws requiring ICE agents to unmask.
October 16, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Anyways, this passed! In a purple city in a county that Trump won in 2024, they will enforce laws requiring ICE agents to unmask.
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"In cancer many of the underlying modifications are large structural variants (SVs), (translocations, inversion, duplications, and deletions) that standard short-read sequencing often misses or cannot mechanistically interpret".
www.the-scientist.com/emerging-3d-...
www.the-scientist.com/emerging-3d-...
Emerging 3D DNA Structure Technology Powers Genomic Discovery
Mathew Easterday from Dovetail Genomics highlights how combined sequence and structure analysis reveals genome architecture’s role in disease.
www.the-scientist.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"In cancer many of the underlying modifications are large structural variants (SVs), (translocations, inversion, duplications, and deletions) that standard short-read sequencing often misses or cannot mechanistically interpret".
www.the-scientist.com/emerging-3d-...
www.the-scientist.com/emerging-3d-...