Caitlin Stewart
@caitlinstewart.bsky.social
Canadian/British genomics PhD working in NYC. Posts about science post academia, LGBTQIA+ issues, travel photos, and my bengal cats. She/her pronouns.
Pinned
JCI -
Clonal hematopoiesis detection by simultaneous assessment of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, blood plasma, and saliva
www.jci.org
So proud my postdoctoral work is finally out!
We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.
Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.
Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
What’s the frequency?
In this research letter, @caitlinstewart.bsky.social & team use clonal hematopoiesis as a model for simultaneous assessment of somatic mutations across multiple biosamples.
buff.ly/6fQcHgy
In this research letter, @caitlinstewart.bsky.social & team use clonal hematopoiesis as a model for simultaneous assessment of somatic mutations across multiple biosamples.
buff.ly/6fQcHgy
August 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
What’s the frequency?
In this research letter, @caitlinstewart.bsky.social & team use clonal hematopoiesis as a model for simultaneous assessment of somatic mutations across multiple biosamples.
buff.ly/6fQcHgy
In this research letter, @caitlinstewart.bsky.social & team use clonal hematopoiesis as a model for simultaneous assessment of somatic mutations across multiple biosamples.
buff.ly/6fQcHgy
So proud my postdoctoral work is finally out!
We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.
Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.
Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
JCI -
Clonal hematopoiesis detection by simultaneous assessment of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, blood plasma, and saliva
www.jci.org
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
So proud my postdoctoral work is finally out!
We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.
Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
We designed an assay to measure cfDNA and DNA mutations in samples collected simultaneously to lower limits of detection in liquid biopsy assays, using clonal hematopoiesis as an example.
Read the article here:
www.jci.org/articles/vie...
Finally! I remember reading this at the time and not believing it.
But the authors are right in saying that to "retract because of a dispute about data interpretation, you’d have to retract half the literature”.
Interested to see what happens next.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But the authors are right in saying that to "retract because of a dispute about data interpretation, you’d have to retract half the literature”.
Interested to see what happens next.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Controversial ‘arsenic life’ paper retracted after 15 years — but authors fight back
The journal Science retracts a headline-grabbing study, but the authors vigorously defend their data and say the retraction is unwarranted.
www.nature.com
July 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Finally! I remember reading this at the time and not believing it.
But the authors are right in saying that to "retract because of a dispute about data interpretation, you’d have to retract half the literature”.
Interested to see what happens next.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
But the authors are right in saying that to "retract because of a dispute about data interpretation, you’d have to retract half the literature”.
Interested to see what happens next.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
Starting up OnlyLabs, where people can pay to watch researchers who used to have federal funding do Hot Uncensored Cutting Edge science experiments.
July 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Starting up OnlyLabs, where people can pay to watch researchers who used to have federal funding do Hot Uncensored Cutting Edge science experiments.
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science is hiring an executive director:
jobs.schmidtmarine.org/companies/bw...
Fully remote, pretty good compensation and benefits.
jobs.schmidtmarine.org/companies/bw...
Fully remote, pretty good compensation and benefits.
Schmidt Marine
At Schmidt Marine, we created the Ocean Job Board to help drive ocean conservation forward by providing access to top jobs across the community.
jobs.schmidtmarine.org
July 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science is hiring an executive director:
jobs.schmidtmarine.org/companies/bw...
Fully remote, pretty good compensation and benefits.
jobs.schmidtmarine.org/companies/bw...
Fully remote, pretty good compensation and benefits.
Finally deleted twitter for good. It was just garbage on my feed at this point.
Going to be on Bluesky much more now - anyone have good recommendations of who to follow?
Looking for anything: art, science, journalism, photography, writers, whatever.
Going to be on Bluesky much more now - anyone have good recommendations of who to follow?
Looking for anything: art, science, journalism, photography, writers, whatever.
July 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Finally deleted twitter for good. It was just garbage on my feed at this point.
Going to be on Bluesky much more now - anyone have good recommendations of who to follow?
Looking for anything: art, science, journalism, photography, writers, whatever.
Going to be on Bluesky much more now - anyone have good recommendations of who to follow?
Looking for anything: art, science, journalism, photography, writers, whatever.
I’ll be at the Festival of Genomics and Biodata in Boston next week. Send me a message if you’ll be there and want to meet up!
For my Boston people not attending FOG, I’ll be around the 23-26 of June and would love to see you outside of the conference!
#FOGBoston
For my Boston people not attending FOG, I’ll be around the 23-26 of June and would love to see you outside of the conference!
#FOGBoston
June 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’ll be at the Festival of Genomics and Biodata in Boston next week. Send me a message if you’ll be there and want to meet up!
For my Boston people not attending FOG, I’ll be around the 23-26 of June and would love to see you outside of the conference!
#FOGBoston
For my Boston people not attending FOG, I’ll be around the 23-26 of June and would love to see you outside of the conference!
#FOGBoston
Happy and proud to see this out!
Congratulations to lead author @benjcrousseau.bsky.social and the rest of the Diaz team! I played a small role in this, the amount of work they did to put this together was huge.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFj85TA51...
Congratulations to lead author @benjcrousseau.bsky.social and the rest of the Diaz team! I played a small role in this, the amount of work they did to put this together was huge.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFj85TA51...
June 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Happy and proud to see this out!
Congratulations to lead author @benjcrousseau.bsky.social and the rest of the Diaz team! I played a small role in this, the amount of work they did to put this together was huge.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFj85TA51...
Congratulations to lead author @benjcrousseau.bsky.social and the rest of the Diaz team! I played a small role in this, the amount of work they did to put this together was huge.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFj85TA51...
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
Happy April Fool's! If you didn't know, there is a traditional in the astronomy community to post joke papers to the arxiv today, so here's a few highlights. Emphasis on a few (these are just a couple of my favorites), stay tuned for the @astrobites.bsky.social review post for the full collection!🔭
April 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Happy April Fool's! If you didn't know, there is a traditional in the astronomy community to post joke papers to the arxiv today, so here's a few highlights. Emphasis on a few (these are just a couple of my favorites), stay tuned for the @astrobites.bsky.social review post for the full collection!🔭
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
A preprint by @elembio.bsky.social on an on flowcell simplified hybrid capture approach that retains high specificity and enables PCR-free workflow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A simplified hybrid capture approach retains high specificity and enables PCR-free workflow
Hybrid capture is a critical technology for selective enrichment of genomic regions of interest, enabling cost-effective focused sequencing in both clinical and research applications. We present a sim...
www.biorxiv.org
March 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A preprint by @elembio.bsky.social on an on flowcell simplified hybrid capture approach that retains high specificity and enables PCR-free workflow www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Scientific Reaearch Lead at SAIL (sail.mskcc.org) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center! Going to be exploring the world of single cell and spatial omics again. 🧪🦠🧬
Very excited for this opportunity and to be with my MSK colleagues again!
Very excited for this opportunity and to be with my MSK colleagues again!
Single-cell Analytics Innovation LabChaligne Lab Website
sail.mskcc.org
March 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Scientific Reaearch Lead at SAIL (sail.mskcc.org) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center! Going to be exploring the world of single cell and spatial omics again. 🧪🦠🧬
Very excited for this opportunity and to be with my MSK colleagues again!
Very excited for this opportunity and to be with my MSK colleagues again!
Reposted by Caitlin Stewart
HHMI Science Department is hiring! We are looking for an outstanding immunologist/ cancer biologist to join our senior leadership team. Remote work eligible, 24 weeks a year onsite, possibility of running a small lab with HHMI support
@hhmi.bsky.social
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
@hhmi.bsky.social
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Senior Director - Scientific Officer
Current HHMI Employees, click here to apply via your Workday account. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) advances the discovery and sharing of scientific knowledge to benefit us all. As a biom...
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
HHMI Science Department is hiring! We are looking for an outstanding immunologist/ cancer biologist to join our senior leadership team. Remote work eligible, 24 weeks a year onsite, possibility of running a small lab with HHMI support
@hhmi.bsky.social
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
@hhmi.bsky.social
hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
Excellent observation by my friend Grittney Tam at #AGBT2025 - all the speakers who are men were compensated by Illumina for their invited talks, but not the only woman speaker?
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Excellent observation by my friend Grittney Tam at #AGBT2025 - all the speakers who are men were compensated by Illumina for their invited talks, but not the only woman speaker?
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
November 20, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline.
I’ve had whooping cough despite being vaccinated (the vaccine doesn’t work in everyone and people like me rely on herd immunity), it was awful.
Antivaxxers stopped vaccinating kids in my area and I got it.
We’ll relive the devastation soon enough and hopefully come round to vaccinate again.
Antivaxxers stopped vaccinating kids in my area and I got it.
We’ll relive the devastation soon enough and hopefully come round to vaccinate again.
The only reason anti-vax attitudes were able to take root in the modern era is because vaccines are so fucking good at their job people forgot why we need them
November 16, 2024 at 4:26 PM
I’ve had whooping cough despite being vaccinated (the vaccine doesn’t work in everyone and people like me rely on herd immunity), it was awful.
Antivaxxers stopped vaccinating kids in my area and I got it.
We’ll relive the devastation soon enough and hopefully come round to vaccinate again.
Antivaxxers stopped vaccinating kids in my area and I got it.
We’ll relive the devastation soon enough and hopefully come round to vaccinate again.
New preprint alert!
My first paper from working with Gencove! We looked at low cost library options for low coverage sequencing.
Check it out and come ask questions at my poster on the same topic at #AGBT24 if you’re coming!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My first paper from working with Gencove! We looked at low cost library options for low coverage sequencing.
Check it out and come ask questions at my poster on the same topic at #AGBT24 if you’re coming!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A comparison between low-cost library preparation kits for low coverage sequencing
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
www.biorxiv.org
February 1, 2024 at 12:30 AM
New preprint alert!
My first paper from working with Gencove! We looked at low cost library options for low coverage sequencing.
Check it out and come ask questions at my poster on the same topic at #AGBT24 if you’re coming!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My first paper from working with Gencove! We looked at low cost library options for low coverage sequencing.
Check it out and come ask questions at my poster on the same topic at #AGBT24 if you’re coming!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
My work water bottle (which sits on my desk year round) is finally seasonable again.
December 8, 2023 at 7:40 PM
My work water bottle (which sits on my desk year round) is finally seasonable again.
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
December 6, 2023 at 11:38 AM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
“I do not blame academia for my addiction. I am, however, arguing for a space where we can talk more freely about the addictions that plague us, a space that makes room for people in recovery instead of expecting them to go it alone.”
Thoughts in 🧵
Thoughts in 🧵
for the Huffington Post, I wrote about alcoholism, addiction, & academia:
“I have hope for the first time in a long time that I can emerge out of the darkness of addiction into the light. I cannot do this if I am not radically honest about where I’ve been.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/alcoho...
“I have hope for the first time in a long time that I can emerge out of the darkness of addiction into the light. I cannot do this if I am not radically honest about where I’ve been.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/alcoho...
I'm An Alcoholic — And My Profession Makes It Hard To Stay Sober
"Those of us who struggle with alcoholism and addiction have internalized the pervasive message that we are simply screw-ups."
www.huffpost.com
November 30, 2023 at 1:51 PM
“I do not blame academia for my addiction. I am, however, arguing for a space where we can talk more freely about the addictions that plague us, a space that makes room for people in recovery instead of expecting them to go it alone.”
Thoughts in 🧵
Thoughts in 🧵
Something rarely discussed is addiction and stress regarding staying sober in academia. We hear a lot about mental health challenges but this particular one is something that needs to be more widely discussed!
Excited to read the article on Thursday. Congrats Alicia!
Excited to read the article on Thursday. Congrats Alicia!
I’m getting nervous about my article coming out—the social headline will read:
“I'm An Alcoholic — And My Profession Makes It Hard To Stay Sober”
but my whole goal is to dispel the shame & stigma & help people in recovery. so I’m going to be brave, like always, & hope for grace.
“I'm An Alcoholic — And My Profession Makes It Hard To Stay Sober”
but my whole goal is to dispel the shame & stigma & help people in recovery. so I’m going to be brave, like always, & hope for grace.
November 29, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Something rarely discussed is addiction and stress regarding staying sober in academia. We hear a lot about mental health challenges but this particular one is something that needs to be more widely discussed!
Excited to read the article on Thursday. Congrats Alicia!
Excited to read the article on Thursday. Congrats Alicia!
I moved to the US under Obama and even then was afraid to live in a red state as an LGBTQ+ person. I can’t imagine it now.
Thinking a lot these days about who can afford to leave red states and who is left behind.
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
newrepublic.com
November 23, 2023 at 4:12 PM
I moved to the US under Obama and even then was afraid to live in a red state as an LGBTQ+ person. I can’t imagine it now.
Gencove isn’t on bsky yet so posting this for them!
Join us Tues Dec 5th at 12pm ET for the next installment of Genomics Unmuted. We're excited to welcome Mary T. Yohannes and Zan Koenig from the Broad Institute to share recent work on harmonizing data from the HGDP and 1kGP. bit.ly/dec_unmuted
Join us Tues Dec 5th at 12pm ET for the next installment of Genomics Unmuted. We're excited to welcome Mary T. Yohannes and Zan Koenig from the Broad Institute to share recent work on harmonizing data from the HGDP and 1kGP. bit.ly/dec_unmuted
November 23, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Gencove isn’t on bsky yet so posting this for them!
Join us Tues Dec 5th at 12pm ET for the next installment of Genomics Unmuted. We're excited to welcome Mary T. Yohannes and Zan Koenig from the Broad Institute to share recent work on harmonizing data from the HGDP and 1kGP. bit.ly/dec_unmuted
Join us Tues Dec 5th at 12pm ET for the next installment of Genomics Unmuted. We're excited to welcome Mary T. Yohannes and Zan Koenig from the Broad Institute to share recent work on harmonizing data from the HGDP and 1kGP. bit.ly/dec_unmuted
Hello world!
I’m a Canadian who did her PhD in genomics in the UK, then moved to NYC for 2 postdocs and finally left for a start up this year!
I post about science, being queer, travel adventures, and my bengal kitties.
So, here’s Hazel looking cute.
I’m a Canadian who did her PhD in genomics in the UK, then moved to NYC for 2 postdocs and finally left for a start up this year!
I post about science, being queer, travel adventures, and my bengal kitties.
So, here’s Hazel looking cute.
November 22, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Hello world!
I’m a Canadian who did her PhD in genomics in the UK, then moved to NYC for 2 postdocs and finally left for a start up this year!
I post about science, being queer, travel adventures, and my bengal kitties.
So, here’s Hazel looking cute.
I’m a Canadian who did her PhD in genomics in the UK, then moved to NYC for 2 postdocs and finally left for a start up this year!
I post about science, being queer, travel adventures, and my bengal kitties.
So, here’s Hazel looking cute.