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Julien Roux
@julienroux.bsky.social
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Bioinformatician, Department of Biomedicine @ Uni Basel & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Interested in bulk and single-cell omics, data analysis, experimental design, data visualization, R/Bioc, open science, EDI, etc 🧬 🖥️
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julienroux.bsky.social
We have a 3-years position open in our facility. Come join us to do great science in a nice team!
jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Universität Basel: Bioinformatician (100%)
The Department of Biomedicine (DBM) is a joint effort between the University of Basel and the University Hospitals Basel. It unites basic and clinical scientists to advance our understanding of health...
jobs.unibas.ch
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 AM
julienroux.bsky.social
Sex differences in health and disease www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Sex differences in health and disease
www.embl.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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biozentrum.unibas.ch
Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science🧪. To mark this day, we feature three female scientists from our core facilities and share their professional journeys, which reflect the diversity of careers in science. #WIS #STEM
👉 www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/research/res...

youtu.be/BVkxirHBqJk
Women in Science 2026
YouTube video by BiozentrumBasel
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February 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
nome.bsky.social Nome @nome.bsky.social · 7d
Just because good news is worth celebrating:

There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.

HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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adriatica.bsky.social
Applications close for this 4-year postdoc on Feb 9th (2 days!). The associated post for a technician should be online next week 👀
February 7, 2026 at 11:16 AM
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hugodarras.bsky.social
The most satisfying genome assembler to run, ever. Huge appreciation for the team behind hifiasm 👏
Efficient near-telomere-to-telomere assembly of nanopore simplex reads - Nature
A genome assembly method called hifiasm (ONT) allows the assembly of chromosomes from telomere to telomere without the need for ultra-long reads, and outperforms conventional methods on most evaluatio...
doi.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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nicorobine.bsky.social
LOL. I can’t think of a better way to make sure they get loudly booed! Italian fans, please don’t disappoint
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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haoyin.bsky.social
Cell type-specific responses to #Dapagliflozin in Diabetic arterial wall of db/db🐭

Take a look at this powerful multimodal single-cell dataset
scRNA-seq scATAC-seq Xenium (479 genes) #SpatialTranscriptomics
n=8🐭/group

Rama Natarajan lab #ATVB 2026
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
February 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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itaiyanai.bsky.social
Interested in radical exploration in science? There's evidence that it can actually be the best strategy for discovery. We talk about it in our new episode of the Night Science Podcast episode with Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social)!
Apple podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
January 19, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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kellervalsecchi.bsky.social
Stunning lecture („Antrittsvorlesung“) by @hilgerslab.bsky.social - friend, mentor and scientific inspiration at the very same time 😀 Happy that our paths join again in #Basel
February 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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krademaker.bsky.social
The webinar series on spatial transcriptomics analysis is now open for registration!

Join me on 18 March to learn how we at @bayraktarlab.bsky.social integrate single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to map the rules of neurological conditions.
training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · 17d
We're pleased to announce that our next webinar series is now live.

Decoding spatial transcriptomics through sequences, pixels, and bioinformatics will run from 18 February – 8 April 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Coordinated by: @ajaymishra24.bsky.social, Kristy Ou, and Flaminia Zane.

🧬🖥️📊
Webinar series at EMBL-EBI. Decoding spatial transcriptomics through sequences, pixels, and bioinformatics. A step-by-step guide to spatial transcriptomics analysis. 18 February - 8 April 2026. Webinar series organisers, Ajay Mishra and Kristy Ou. Webinar organiser Flaminia Zane. Registration is free but essential.
January 29, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy
Why would Switzerland dissolve its Science Council? Saving no money and losing expertise which Swiss education, research and innovation need.
https://swr-web.vercel.app/en/blog/stellungnahme-des-swr-zu-seiner-geplanten-aufloesung
Statement by the Swiss Science Council (SSC) on its planned dissolution
swr-web.vercel.app
January 30, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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markowenmartin.bsky.social
This poster is outside my little lab. There is nothing else like it. Please support this artist! @redpenblackpen.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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alejofraticelli.bsky.social
🚨WE'RE RECRUITING AT @irbbarcelona.org !!!!

--- ADVANCED GENOMICS FACILITY MANAGER ---

An amazing opportunity to help us drive the fight against cancer and other aging-related diseases using Single-cell, Bulk and Spatial genomics!!!!

APPLY NOW!!!!

recruitment.irbbarcelona.org/jobs/7124180...
Head, Advanced Genomics Technologies Core Facility (Ref. CF/26/01) - IRB Barcelona
IRB Barcelona invites applications for the position of Head, Advanced Genomics Technologies Core Facility. The successful candidate will report to the Director, Technology Strateg...
recruitment.irbbarcelona.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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jensfoell.de
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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plosbiology.org
#Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in #STEMM fields, top institutions & in senior positions. Analysis of millions of biomed & life science articles reveal that female-authored articles spend longer under review than comparable male-authored ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4658FZN
Evolution of the median time under review of articles with female first authors, male first authors, female corresponding authors, and male corresponding authors.
January 21, 2026 at 8:55 AM
julienroux.bsky.social
Nice sunrise over the Rhine in Basel! 🤩
January 21, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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harmitmalik.bsky.social
🙏 to all who have contributed great ideas & motivational strategies to this thread. It’s clear that the effect of ongoing turmoil is heterogeneous; everyone, incl tenured professors, are facing changes, but those in transitional stages (looking for grad/postdoc/faculty positions) have it worst. 1/
harmitmalik.bsky.social Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 27d
Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers.

I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.
January 19, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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jordancollver.bsky.social
Visualising a fun fact.
#sciart
Cartoon illustration showing the gap between Stegosaurus and T-Rex is about 90 million years, whereas between T-Rex and humans is "only" 65 million years. The T-Rex turns her head toward the human, licking her lips. The human is nervous, to say the least.
January 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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stevensalzberg.bsky.social
very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
Take a close look at this picture.

What an interesting coin or artifact, you probably think 🤔. Such interesting detail, intricately carved or molded 🧐 ... HAHA sucker, you're looking at a SPIDER'S BUTT.

Let's meet Cyclocosmia ricketti, the Chinese hourglass spider.

CW: spiders & their butts
"C.ricketti, female from Jiangxi Province, China (CKYH), left: opisthosomal disc; right: details of radial ribs;" Source is given in thread.
January 15, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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immunologyking.bsky.social
disheartening.
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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devezer.bsky.social
every big data paper with a bold story that is impossible to comprehend, evaluate, and independently verify reminds me of DOPRA. i've come to increasingly appreciate small, unassuming papers with humble conclusions that you can track word for word, data point by data point, assumption by assumption.
A tweet from Lior Pachter from July 26, 2024: "I think this paper is a Denial of Peer Review Attack (DOPRA). It's kind of like a DoS (denial of service) attack. There is so much data, so many methods, so much code, so many figures, so many panels, so much supplement, so much text, that it is overwhelming. 18/"
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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fabmusacchio.bsky.social
I didn't even realize how long I had been waiting for a tool like this!
adamjkucharski.bsky.social Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Jan 13
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?

I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/

It all started a few years ago... 🧵
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM