Tuuli Lappalainen
@tuuliel.bsky.social
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Professor at KTH, NY Genome Center, SciLifeLab, working on functional genomics and human genetics.
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tuuliel.bsky.social
We're hiring! My team at @nygenome.org is looking for a statistical genetics postdoc to decipher functional architecture of complex diseases from cutting-edge CRISPR+scRNA-seq data, with @nevillesanjana.bsky.social lab. Happy to meet at #ASHG25, apply here
jobs.silkroad.com/NYGenome/Car...
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lappalainen & Sanjana Labs - 101 Avenue of the Americas, 7th Floor, New York, New York - New York Genome Center
Find a career with New York Genome Center
jobs.silkroad.com
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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jeremymberg.github.io
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jkpritch.bsky.social
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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scottwiener.bsky.social
The regime’s new proposed “compact” with universities — conditioning federal funds on giving up academic freedom & free speech & throwing trans & non-US students under the bus — is unconstitutional.

Every university must reject it. It’s classic hang together or hang separately.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com
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patrickgoymer.bsky.social
As we mourn Jane Goodall, this @nature.com article explores three ways in which she changed science:

1. Altering the way we view both other primates and ourselves
2. Inspiring generations of women scientists
3. Communicating science in a way that engaged the public

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science
The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.
www.nature.com
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maxkozlov.bsky.social
Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding
Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.
www.nature.com
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth
tuuliel.bsky.social
Same here, but this was me moving to a new city... This happened 12 years ago and since then I’ve checked a bag maybe 5 times.
tuuliel.bsky.social
I had a connection at CDG once, and they lost (=stole) my checked luggage - for good. I never got it back.
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erictopol.bsky.social
This is a big advance, folks. We've never had a disease-modifying drug for this devastating inherited disease
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.economist.com/science-and-...
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sthlmresilience.bsky.social
MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone.

Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org
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slavov-n.bsky.social
Some proteins are primarily regulated by one mechanism: RNA abundance, translation, or clearance.

The regulation of most proteins is dominated by different regulatory mechanisms across cell types.

Gratifyingly, this complex regulation defines simple rules ⬇️

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
tuuliel.bsky.social
Yup. This was me 10 years ago.
ncweaver.skerry-tech.com
Why is this horrible for Universities?

Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card.

This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"
gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad.

One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.
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katestarbird.bsky.social
Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.
tuuliel.bsky.social
I write the ”90% noncoding with a likely regulatory function” without a reference as just basic framing. Never come across anyone really questioning that.
tuuliel.bsky.social
The second link doesn't work. Anyways: 90%+ of signals not not having coding proxies is IMO very well established; the actual reg mechanism is often not shown, and I use phrasing "with a likely regulatory function". Introns are huge, hence few of those could be explained by tagging coding variants.
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hakyim.bsky.social
I'm hiring a computational biologist interested in complex trait genetics using deep learning approaches. Reach out to me, if interested.
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aniloza.bsky.social
It's been a busy time for NIH grants staff — the agency seems on track to spend its budget this fiscal year

But, because of multi-year funding, fewer projects are being funded than in previous years.

The number of R grants has fallen from 5,633 to 3,758

analysis by @jaspar.bsky.social
Graph titled "value of grants awarded in 2025 has caught up to average of previous years." Graph shows average of 2016-24 spending and how much has been spent so far in FY25 Graph titled "Amount of first-year R01 and R21 grants." Graph compares average of 2016-24 to 2025.