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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · 13h

The recruitment campaign is on! We’re seeking outstanding MSc, PhD, and Postdoctoral candidates to join @cra-chusj.bsky.social . If you’re passionate about epigenetics, development, and neurodevelopment, consider exploring the opportunities available in my lab.
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · Jun 5

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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EMBO @embo.org · Jun 5

EMBO is delighted to announce that this year the EMBO Gold Medal is awarded to Tanmay Bharat @tbharat-lab.bsky.social ‬ @mrclmb.bsky.social and David Bikard @dbikard.bsky.social @pasteur.fr for their remarkable contributions to the #LifeSciences.

www.embo.org/press-releas...
#award 🧪

EMBO Gold Medal 2025 awarded to Tanmay Bharat and David Bikard – Press releases – EMBO

Every year, EMBO awards the Gold Medal to group leaders in the early stages of their careers for their remarkable contributions to the life sciences in

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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · May 14

Congrats to all winners! ...but especially to own, Michelle Robb, for the Best Poster Award at #DOHaDCanada2025! Michelle presented our recent advances on Early Embryonic Alcohol Exposure ! 🏆

DOHaD Canada @dohadcanada.bsky.social · May 14

Congratulations to the 8th DOHaD Canada Annual Scientific Meeting presentation winners:

Jade Gamelin Kao – Best Oral Presentation
Michelle Robb – Best Poster
Dana Watts – 2nd Place Poster
Flore Lavoie – 3rd Place Poster
Maurya Hart – 3rd Place Poster

Thank you to all the participants!

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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you, #DOHaDCanada2025, for organizing and for the invitation to present our work on Early Embryonic Prenatal Alcohol Exposure! #FASD #DOHaD #communautéFRQ

DOHaD Canada @dohadcanada.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you to everyone who attended the 8th DOHaD Canada Annual Scientific Meeting. A special thanks to our outstanding co-chairs, Dr. Tina Montreuil and Dr. Sarah Lippé, for organizing the event. Here are some highlights. #DOHaDCanada2025 #ScientificMeeting #Gratitude #EventRecap

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DOHaD Canada @dohadcanada.bsky.social · May 13

Congratulations to our co-president, Dr. Kristin Connor (@kconnor.bsky.social), for being awarded the Nick Hales Award by the International DOHaD Society. #DOHaD2025

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · Apr 24

Come join us at @mcgill.ca as an assistant professor in virus-host interactions! Please share widely.

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Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Microbiology & Immunology, (C2-240724)

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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ME Torres-Padilla @metorrespadilla.bsky.social · Apr 21

Paper Out👇🥳 thanks to ALL authors, Nakatani-san @tamas-schauer.bsky.social @palmrinmoy.bsky.social and bluesky-less

RIF1 regulates Replication Timing in mouse embryos & (suprising) findings disentangling effects on transcription and LADs...lots to think about 🙄👍🤔

👉 www.cell.com/developmenta...

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Centre de recherche du CHUM @crchum.bsky.social · Apr 10

Sophie Petropoulos, chercheuse au CRCHUM, et son équipe révèlent pour la première fois que l’embryon préimplantatoire de cochon d’Inde est très similaire à l’embryon humain, ce qui ouvre la voie à une meilleure compréhension de l’infertilité et du développement humain précoce.

Le cochon d’Inde : un modèle animal prometteur pour l’étude de l’embryon humain

Sophie Petropoulos, chercheuse au CRCHUM, et son équipe révèlent pour la première fois que l’embryon préimplantatoire de cochon d’Inde est très similaire à l’embryon humain, ce qui ouvre la voie à une...

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Stylianos Lefkopoulos (he/him) @slefkopoulos.bsky.social · Apr 9

🥂Congratulations to Petropoulos & co for their new Open Access study in our journal (@naturecellbiology.bsky.social): single-cell #transcriptomics, spatial, functional and comparative analyses show that the guinea pig presents high similarity with early human #embryogenesis.
bit.ly/3RaRwWY

The guinea pig serves as an alternative model to study human preimplantation development - Nature Cell Biology

Petropoulos and colleagues perform single-cell transcriptomics, spatial, functional and comparative analyses, and show that the guinea pig presents high similarity with early human embryogenesis.

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Gareth Lim @glim2016.bsky.social · Apr 13

The Lim Lab at the @crchum.bsky.social is recruiting PhD students or Postdoctoral Fellows to study the roles of 14-3-3zeta in #adipocytes or pancreatic #betacells.

Projects are supported by CIHR, NSERC, or Diabetes Canada.

Please share with people who might be interested!

Thanks!

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Esther Verheyen 🇨🇦 @estherverheyen.bsky.social · Apr 12

I urge folks to sign this letter and share it with their university colleagues to get critical mass.

Dylan MacKay @dylanmackayphd.bsky.social · Apr 12

Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share
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National Letter

Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...

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Kristin Connor @kconnor.bsky.social · Apr 8

🔊Share widely!
Were looking for a Tier 2 CRC in Human Metabolic Disease!

Just posted but hurry as app deadline is May 15!

Got expertise in #obesity or #diabetes and are an emerging expert in your field?

Apply now!!!!

carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

Assistant or Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Tier 2, Biology or Health Sciences or Neuroscience (Human Metabolic Disease) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Plannin...

About the Position The Faculty of Science invites applications for a Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) appointment in Biology, as applicable to Human Meta...

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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · Apr 8

Dear USA colleagues, paradoxically the environment is warmer for doing science north of the border.♥️

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · Apr 4

This should save grant reviewers a lot of time on some of those proposals…..

Just because you are unique doesn’t mean you are useful over a picture of a wooden headed axe.

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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · Apr 4

Jim Johnson 🇨🇦 @jimjohnsonsci.bsky.social · Apr 4

www.nature.com/naturecareer... UBC LSI Job!!

Assistant Professor (tenure track) – Chromatin, Epigenetics - Vancouver, British Columbia (CA) job with The University of British Columbia (UBC) | 12837841

Assistant Professor (tenure track) - Chromatin Regulation, Genetic Regulatory Mechanisms, Epigenetics, Epigenomics

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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · Apr 4

Maxim Greenberg @maxvcg.bsky.social · Apr 4

This is a devastating and essential read. Here is a gift link for those without subs. The part about outside perceptions of scientists compared with almost a blue-collar reality is spot on (without even mentioning meager salaries). www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

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Petr Svoboda @svobodalab.bsky.social · Apr 4

Argonautes 2025 will cover progress in:

Structural insights
Effector complexes: formation, composition & function
Post-transcriptional silencing
Transcriptional silencing & DNA cleavage
Post-translational modifications and regulations
Medical aspects

27-30/8/2025
argonautes.img.cas.cz

Pls RT!

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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · Apr 3

For Canadian cancer researchers concerned about travelling to the US (🙋🏼‍♂️), please check out and plan to be at the Canadian Cancer Research Conference in Calgary this November. All welcome. www.ccra-acrc.ca/conference/

Conference - CCRA

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Serge McGraw @sergemcgraw.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thank you @stemcellnetwork.ca for internship scholarship to the lab to support the next generation of stem cell scientists!!

a baby is saying thank you with a serious look on his face .

ALT: a baby is saying thank you with a serious look on his face .

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Anja Groth @groth-anja.bsky.social · Mar 28

A few days left to apply for exciting PhD and Postdoc opportunities in wonderful Copenhagen and join our efforts in understanding Epigenetic Cell Memory.

The Groth lab @grothlab.bsky.social · Feb 12

🚨𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!🚨The Groth @groth-anja.bsky.social, Mailand, Nilsson @nilssonlab.bsky.social & Krietenstein @nilskrietenstein.bsky.social labs are hiring 𝟔 𝐏𝐡𝐃&𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐬 to join the new Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yvd93na2 & please share!

6 Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC)

The Center for Epigenetic Cell Memory (EpiC) is a new Center of Excellence that will be established based on funding by the Danish National Research Foundation.

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Ben Martin @benjaminmartin.bsky.social · Mar 27

Come by my colleague!! Assistant professor position in molecular neurobiology at @mcgill.ca and the Lady Davis Institute! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

Montreal is an amazing city and the Lady Davis is a great institute to work at!

Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology (C1-250306)

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...

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Epigenetics at Helmholtz Munich @epihmgu.bsky.social · Mar 25

🌟 SAVE THE DATE: Talent Forum 2025!

🗓️ November 18–19
📍 @www.helmholtz-munich.de‬, Germany

Showcase your research and network with global talents in #Epigenetics & Nucleic Acids Research!

Apply by July 31 for a speaker spot —travel & accommodation covered.

🔜 Website coming soon!

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The Allard lab @allard-lab-ucla.bsky.social · Mar 24

📣 Tenure track job alert! Assistant and associate tenure-track position at McGill University in toxicology and/or pharmacology. I know the department very well and could not speak more highly of the supportive environment it provides and of its leadership!

www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Assistant / Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics - Montréal, Quebec (CA) job with McGill University | 12837963

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Toxicology (L000054

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Esther Verheyen 🇨🇦 @estherverheyen.bsky.social · Mar 22

Now seems like a great time to share a starter pack I made when I joined BlueSky! Let me know if you'd like to be added: go.bsky.app/6aMSMpy

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