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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 12d

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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Cade Mirchandani @cademirch.bsky.social · 16d

snkmt 0.2.0 is out! New features:

1. Multi-database support - switch between dbs via ctrl+p (like VSCode)
2. Workflow filtering - hide/filter by snakefile, status, or date for cleaner navigation

github.com/cademirch/sn...
#snakemake #bioinformatics #workflow #opensource #python #cli #tui

GitHub - cademirch/snkmt: A TUI for monitoring Snakemake workflows in real-time.

A TUI for monitoring Snakemake workflows in real-time. - cademirch/snkmt

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 15d

Job Alert! We're hiring a BIOINFORMATICIAN / NGS SPECIALIST to support our new Molecular Biodiversity Lab in the @terra-cluster.org at @unituebingen.bsky.social. Like the idea to use your skills for understanding biodiversity? To work on diverse questions in a wonderful place? Apply!
Please repost!

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Human Evolution Research Program Uppsala University @humanevouu.bsky.social · 15d

Application deadline in less than a week! Apply to join the Uppsala Human Evolution team!

Human Evolution Research Program Uppsala University @humanevouu.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are recruiting an associate professor (senior lecturer) at our program in Human #Paleogenomics and #PopulationGenetics. Come and join the Uppsala team! Please see the ad for more information. Application deadline: Sept 30st.
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Associate Professor in Human Paleo- and Population Genomics - Uppsala University

Associate Professor in Human Paleo- and Population Genomics, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

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nikogeldner.bsky.social @nikogeldner.bsky.social · 21d

Call for a tenure-track position at our Department of Plant Molecular Biology in Lausanne! We are searching for promising early-career researchers in the broad field of plant-organismal interactions. Deadline: November 30, 2025 - Please re-post!

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Career Opportunities: DBMV: Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in the field of Plant-organism (22484)

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Christopher B. Cameron @invertevo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please share with your big picture colleagues.
Join us @umontreal.ca as an Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology.
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Careers

The applicant will contribute to strengthening research on global change in the Department of Biological Sciences and will participate in the integration of biology training into the faculty program in Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD).

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Schulenburg Lab Kiel @schulenburglab.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

W 3 professorship in Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology - Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein (DE) job with Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | 12844416

Kiel University aims to attract more qualified women to professorship positions. The Institute of Zoology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural...

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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share that I’ve started as Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark! 🧑‍🎓

I also received an a NNF Emerging Investigator grant to use genomics + machine learning to study extinction.

👉 PhD & Postdoc positions coming soon — follow for updates!
Reposts appreciated 🙏

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Dave Watson @ecosystemunraveller.com · Aug 29

Ahoy there researchers. I just checked the ‘libgen’ database used by Anthropic and found the full text of 95 of my scientific papers and one book. It’s super easy to add your details to this class action so you can join with other creative primates whose copyrighted work was taken without consent.

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Aug 28

Full programme on ancient DNA, human biology and medicine out now for our packed November 14 @gensocuk.bsky.social symposium! Join us at the @royalsociety.org in London.

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Biostatistics

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Joanne Flynn @joanneflynn19.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are hiring! The Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is looking for faculty at the Assistant or Associate professor level (tenure track). Please consider joining our vibrant microbiology and immunology community at the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Aug 10

Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

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Cambridge Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 1

📣 Work with us! 📣

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology (Human and Animal Relations in Prehistory)

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge seeks to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology, to start on 1 January 2026 or as soon thereafter as possible. Subject to

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · Jul 31

Longdust, a new tool to identify highly repetitive STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions (LCRs). Similar to SDUST but for long regions.
github.com/lh3/longdust

GitHub - lh3/longdust: Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome

Identify long STRs, VNTRs, satellite DNA and other low-complexity regions in a genome - lh3/longdust

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Eileen Furlong @eileen-furlong.bsky.social · Jul 30

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org
has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th
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Group Leader - Genome Biology Unit

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking research in Genome Biology? Join us at EMBL! We are seeking a motivated scientist to lead an independent research group addressing exciting and original biological...

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Bianca De Sanctis @bdesan.bsky.social · Jul 20

The L (or horseshoe effect) can happen from banded input like figs 1-2 here journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... . I always thought this explained the human pca too?

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Noah Fierer @noahfierer.bsky.social · Jul 18

New pre-print from my group - project led by PhD student Michael Hoffert. We set out on a daunting mission to generate a 'periodic table' of bacterial diversity (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A periodic table of bacteria?: Mapping bacterial diversity in trait space

Bacterial diversity can be overwhelming. There is an ever-expanding number of bacterial taxa being discovered, but many of these taxa remain uncharacterized with unknown traits and environmental prefe...

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Bianca De Sanctis @bdesan.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is awesome and I already want to use it 👀

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Tanja Pyhäjärvi @pyhatanja.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are seeking two postdoctoral researchers or doctoral researchers for: (i) Remote sensing advised country-wide genotype-phenotype linking, and (ii) Country-wide study of genetic adaptation and population structure dynamics in a changing climate. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Two postdoctoral researchers and/or doctoral researcher, Future Forests

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Jul 11

Nice job at Aarhus University @au.dk: we need more professorship in genetic biodiversity!
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · Jul 8

Come be my colleague (& @jacquelyngill.bsky.social's and other great folks)!

UMaine is hiring a Genetics Facilities Manager to lead the CORE eDNA and DNA Sequencing Labs. Hiring range is $75-85k (up $20k from previous round)

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Genetics Facilities Manager

The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...

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Ricardo Henriques @henriqueslab.bsky.social · Jun 27

🧑‍🔬📰🚀 #RxivMaker is here! A framework automating the creation of publication-ready scientific #preprints from simple Markdown. Goodbye manual formatting, and hello gorgeous manuscripts! A great adventure with @guijacquemet.bsky.social's lab

📜: zenodo.org/records/1575...
👨‍💻: github.com/HenriquesLab...

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Bianca De Sanctis @bdesan.bsky.social · Jul 4

Very cool, thanks! I will totally try it sometime.

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Bianca De Sanctis @bdesan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Hahaha, sorry. Happy to share code if it helps.

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