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Ewan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 4h

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

www.embl.org

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 1d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Research at ARUK @alzheimersresearchuk.org · 1d

Applications for our Doctoral Clinical Fellowships are open! Thanks to our new partnership with the UK Dementia Trials Network, we’re excited to be introducing an optional clinical trial placement as part of this.

Learn more and apply by 19 November: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/grants/clini...

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 1d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

forum.image.sc

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 2d

I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.

I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 2d

Faculty positions in animal morphogenesis that may be filled at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in one of my favorite Departments" Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. 1/n
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 2d

VACANCY - We have an opportunity for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group, working to develop computational models of epigenetic dynamics in the Polycomb system.

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

Closing date - 9 November 2025
Salary - £37,500 - £45,350
Contract - 36 months, full-time

Postdoctoral Researcher (Howard Group) | John Innes Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Howard Group at the John Innes Centre, working on cutting-edge science in the field of Computational and Systems Biology.

www.jic.ac.uk

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 3d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 2d

A new role for the #amygdala in response to #fear and #anxiety: Experiments in mice show that the amygdala’s #MedialNucleus can trigger an immediate #BloodSugar spike. In PNAS Journal Club: www.pnas.org/post/journal...

#metabolism #FightOrFlight #brain #cortisol

A scan of the human brain shows the amygdala (orange) helps orchestrate a metabolic reaction to stress, not just a behavioral response.
Image credit: Kateryna Kon / Science Source.

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Alliance of Genome Resources @alliancegenome.bsky.social · 2d

The IMPC Strategic Conference will be held virtually on Thursday 22 January 2026

Registration is free but required: www.mousephenotype.org/news/2025-vi...

@impc-phenotypes.bsky.social @mousegenome.bsky.social

‘International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium:

Insights from the Past, Shaping the Future’

Which will be held virtually on

Thursday 22 January 2026

from 11:00-18:00 EDT / 17:00 – 00:00 CET

This online meeting will focus on three pillars.

First, it will briefly present the progress and achievements of the IMPC programme to date (Session I).

Second, it will showcase the extent to which the programme has impacted basic and applied biomedical research along with its translational effects on understanding disease mechanisms and advancing human health (Session II). This Session will also include the presentation of the IMPC survey results.

Third, it will solicit ideas and opinions from IMPC members and the scientific community at large on the value and justification for continuing and KOMP/IMPC programme as well as suggestions for future directions and priorities (Session III).

Registration is free, but mandatory.

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Helen Barron @helencbarron.bsky.social · 2d

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet **

Deadline: 2nd December

1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6

2. TUS and TMR in humans:
tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj

Happy to chat to interested applicants.

Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation | mrcbndu

tinyurl.com

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Oliver Barnstedt @obarnstedt.bsky.social · 2d

Our lab at the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen is looking for a highly skilled and motivated TECHNICAL ASSISTANT. Are you proficient in histological and wet lab techniques and lab management? Then come apply for our position (4 years contract)! umg.recruiting-portal.com/r/z004xflh7r...

European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI) -- Technical Assistant (f/m/d)

Technical Assistant (f/m/d)

umg.recruiting-portal.com

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 5d

1776: Beans are housed. One swallow. Apples are gathered. Ivy continues to blow. Bat is out.

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Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social · Jul 29

A call for time to think in research

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 13d

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 5d

This is how I integrate Quarto and Zotero with minimal suffering (long rambling post, scroll down to the section on bibliography or search for Zotero): cameronpatrick.com/post/2023/07...

Cameron Patrick - Some Quarto PDF formatting tips, with particular reference to thesis writing

I’ve just spent most of a day faffing around trying to get Quarto to produce a nice PDF file that I like the look of and which meets my university’s formatting requirements for a PhD thesis. Maybe my ...

cameronpatrick.com

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Dr. Fiona @fionachembot.bsky.social · 5d

Early profs and profs alike:

What is your advice for people who are JUST starting their labs? First goals and tasks?

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JAX Genomic Education @jaxeducation.bsky.social · 5d

⚠️ Last chance! @jacksonlab.bsky.social's Machine Learning kicks off October 13 with the virtual format providing access to experts in #MachineLearning, #Neuroscience & #BehavioralScience.

✅ Live-streamed lectures
✅ Interactive Q&A sessions
✅ 6 months of recorded access
www.jax.org/education-an...

Short Course Machine Learning for Automated Quantification of Behavior

This JAX Short Course will focus on the fundamentals of quantitative behavior analysis, machine learning, and data science, and will be aimed at researchers from the fields of neuroscience, genetics, ...

www.jax.org

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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 7d

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 7d

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act

Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

www.theguardian.com

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Cambridge Neuroscience @camneuro.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Deadline for Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship extended till 13th Oct 2025!

12 fellowship awards available, ~£117k each, for individuals from any sector in the UK or globally, with ideas at any stage to advance treatments for neurological conditions 🧠💡

Info: cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...

Fellowship Programme - Cambridge NeuroWorks

Fellowship programme Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, offering two transformative fellowship streams …

cambridgeneuroworks.org

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Zach Pennington @zachtpennington.bsky.social · 9d

I’m hiring at all levels and accepting graduate students through Psychology and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience. Reach out if you’re interested in joining a collaborative, fun, creative, and supportive team in beautiful Vancouver! 🏔️ ⛷️ 🏖️ 🌆

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