Molly Schumer
@mollyschumer.bsky.social
Genetics & Evolution, Faculty at Stanford & Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI. My views do not reflect those of my employer.
schumerlab.com
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Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
Assistant Professor - Virology
Assistant Professor - Virology
jobs.utoronto.ca
January 15, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Job alert! Assistant professor position in the Department of Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto). Amazing department and city. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Please share.
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Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Seeking scientist volunteers for the 2026 spring semester! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? Apply by 1/25. Please share widely. bit.ly/comicscollabspring2026
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🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org
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January 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
🍁Funding for new PhD students ($40k/yr) & postdocs ($70k/yr) coming from outside Canada. Contact me if interested in #Ecophysiology at #UBC in #Vancouver! Possible topics: leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimate, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, more! michaletzlab.org
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Please share!
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Registration deadline is fast approaching for the "Host adaptations to viral infections” Meeting May 10th-13th, 2026, at the CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, Brittany, France! JOIN US and the many amazing speakers! JOIN US!
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Registration deadline is fast approaching for the "Host adaptations to viral infections” Meeting May 10th-13th, 2026, at the CNRS Station Biologique de Roscoff, Brittany, France! JOIN US and the many amazing speakers! JOIN US!
sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...
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The people in Minneapolis are not creating chaos—Trump is. ICE is completely out of control.
Trump is terrorizing an entire city as an act of political retribution.
It's Minneapolis today, it could be Seattle or New York tomorrow. Speaking up matters right now.
Trump is terrorizing an entire city as an act of political retribution.
It's Minneapolis today, it could be Seattle or New York tomorrow. Speaking up matters right now.
January 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The people in Minneapolis are not creating chaos—Trump is. ICE is completely out of control.
Trump is terrorizing an entire city as an act of political retribution.
It's Minneapolis today, it could be Seattle or New York tomorrow. Speaking up matters right now.
Trump is terrorizing an entire city as an act of political retribution.
It's Minneapolis today, it could be Seattle or New York tomorrow. Speaking up matters right now.
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Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled. Story by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled
$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled. Story by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Re-read this #PRDM9 paper: striking evidence from salmonids that #PRDM9-driven #recombination hotspots are conserved across vertebrates, with rapid #hotspot #turnover driven by target erosion over hundreds of millions of years 🧬
Highly recommendation and a must read 👉
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Highly recommendation and a must read 👉
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
PRDM9 helps determine the location of recombination hotspots in many mammals. Study of salmonid fish reveals that #PRDM9 function is conserved across vertebrates, and this peculiar evolutionary runaway caused by PRDM9 has been active for 100s of millions of years🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3DIvFCG
January 15, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Re-read this #PRDM9 paper: striking evidence from salmonids that #PRDM9-driven #recombination hotspots are conserved across vertebrates, with rapid #hotspot #turnover driven by target erosion over hundreds of millions of years 🧬
Highly recommendation and a must read 👉
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Highly recommendation and a must read 👉
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
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@seanryanforbuffalo.bsky.social A valued member of the scientific community right here in Buffalo is being held by ICE. What can you as mayor do about this?
This is sickening. UB scientist being held by ICE despite valid visa and no criminal history. Just for making a wrong turn.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...
www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...
Wrong turn on Peace Bridge lands UB researcher in ICE detention
University at Buffalo research scientist Shovgi Huseynov made a wrong turn on the Peace Bridge & was arrested. He's now in ICE detention.
www.investigativepost.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
@seanryanforbuffalo.bsky.social A valued member of the scientific community right here in Buffalo is being held by ICE. What can you as mayor do about this?
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This is sickening. UB scientist being held by ICE despite valid visa and no criminal history. Just for making a wrong turn.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...
www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...
Wrong turn on Peace Bridge lands UB researcher in ICE detention
University at Buffalo research scientist Shovgi Huseynov made a wrong turn on the Peace Bridge & was arrested. He's now in ICE detention.
www.investigativepost.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
This is sickening. UB scientist being held by ICE despite valid visa and no criminal history. Just for making a wrong turn.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...
www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...
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Reposting to make sure it reaches the intended audience. Note that the call is opened to both international applicants and Canadians currently abroad. Internal pre-application package is due Jan 14, so make sure you get in touch asap if interested!
The Canada Government will offer 400 postdoctoral fellowships to international researchers in early 2026. If you have a background in wildlife microbiome or quantitative genetics and are interested to apply to work on microbiome variation in Sable Island horses or caribou, feel free to get in touch
January 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Reposting to make sure it reaches the intended audience. Note that the call is opened to both international applicants and Canadians currently abroad. Internal pre-application package is due Jan 14, so make sure you get in touch asap if interested!
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Registration for the 2026 NY Area Population Genetics meeting is now open, at events.simonsfoundation.org/e0mEoL?rt=8k.... Registration is free but required; if you are submitting an abstract, note that the deadline is *January 30th*.
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Registration for the 2026 NY Area Population Genetics meeting is now open, at events.simonsfoundation.org/e0mEoL?rt=8k.... Registration is free but required; if you are submitting an abstract, note that the deadline is *January 30th*.
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Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA.
He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.
He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA.
He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.
He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.
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I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!
HLi Lab - Vacancies
Openings
hlilab.github.io
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!
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New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
January 6, 2026 at 3:01 AM
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Just sharing new tool written by Vincent Ranwez to view and manipulate sequences and alignments directly in your terminal
github.com/ranwez-searc...
Pretty convenient!
github.com/ranwez-searc...
Pretty convenient!
GitHub - ranwez-search/SeqTUI: A fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for molecular sequences (DNA, AA). View, translate, convert (to FASTA), and combine sequences aligned or not — all ...
A fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for molecular sequences (DNA, AA). View, translate, convert (to FASTA), and combine sequences aligned or not — all from the terminal. - ranwez-...
github.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Just sharing new tool written by Vincent Ranwez to view and manipulate sequences and alignments directly in your terminal
github.com/ranwez-searc...
Pretty convenient!
github.com/ranwez-searc...
Pretty convenient!
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Are you a recombination researcher heading to #SMBE2026? Submit your abstract to our Symposium, organised by Marie Raynaud, Laurent Duret, and myself. We're excited to have Aurora Ruiz-Herrera from UAB Barcelona as our invited speaker.
🧬🦄🦠🌿🐝🐟🍄🪱
@aruizherrera.bsky.social @duret-lbbe.bsky.social
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@aruizherrera.bsky.social @duret-lbbe.bsky.social
SMBE2026 Symposium 11 | The evolution of recombination landscapes
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts
📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme
#SMBE2026
December 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Are you a recombination researcher heading to #SMBE2026? Submit your abstract to our Symposium, organised by Marie Raynaud, Laurent Duret, and myself. We're excited to have Aurora Ruiz-Herrera from UAB Barcelona as our invited speaker.
🧬🦄🦠🌿🐝🐟🍄🪱
@aruizherrera.bsky.social @duret-lbbe.bsky.social
🧬🦄🦠🌿🐝🐟🍄🪱
@aruizherrera.bsky.social @duret-lbbe.bsky.social
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Happy to share this work with Virginia Sanchez-Puerta (not on bsky) and colleagues on how loss of photosynthesis in these (strange!) plants affects translation and tRNAs in plastids and mitochondria....
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January 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Happy to share this work with Virginia Sanchez-Puerta (not on bsky) and colleagues on how loss of photosynthesis in these (strange!) plants affects translation and tRNAs in plastids and mitochondria....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I am hiring a staff bioinformatician for my new lab at the University of Utah! Please consider applying if you are on the hunt:
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
Jobs | University of Utah
Founded in 1850, The University of Utah is the flagship institution of higher learning in Utah, and offers over 100 undergraduate and more than 90 graduate degree programs to over 30,000 students. Uni...
employment.utah.edu
January 12, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I am hiring a staff bioinformatician for my new lab at the University of Utah! Please consider applying if you are on the hunt:
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
employment.utah.edu/salt-lake-ci...
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Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus Species Complex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus Species Complex
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Pangenomics in the Mimulus guttatus Species Complex onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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I am incandescently angry at this & the total cowardice of the Republicans in Congress who are not putting an end to this & this presidency immediately over this, the most important pillar of our entire national security strategy for 80 years.
Seeing Europeans contemplate creating a tripwire in Greenland is just depressing. That the US is now becoming Europe's enemy is so infuriating. So much wasted time, effort, capital, and so on for a non-threat (US has access to Greenland, it is protected by US already under NATO treaty).
“The US should thank Denmark for being a loyal ally,” says 🇸🇪 PM Kristersson at the annual Swedish Security Conference in Sälen.
Social Democratic opposition leader Andersson is open for sending European and Swedish troops to Greenland.
Social Democratic opposition leader Andersson is open for sending European and Swedish troops to Greenland.
January 11, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I am incandescently angry at this & the total cowardice of the Republicans in Congress who are not putting an end to this & this presidency immediately over this, the most important pillar of our entire national security strategy for 80 years.
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Sequential evolution of antidote and toxin links genetic incompatibility with immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698274v1
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Sequential evolution of antidote and toxin links genetic incompatibility with immune responses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698274v1
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Excited to join PAG this year! Tomorrow (01/11) I will be sharing my work on black-footed cat genomics!
Stop by the "Wildlife Genomics" session @ 8:55 am in Pacific F-G to learn about Africa's smallest cat
Stop by the "Wildlife Genomics" session @ 8:55 am in Pacific F-G to learn about Africa's smallest cat
January 11, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Excited to join PAG this year! Tomorrow (01/11) I will be sharing my work on black-footed cat genomics!
Stop by the "Wildlife Genomics" session @ 8:55 am in Pacific F-G to learn about Africa's smallest cat
Stop by the "Wildlife Genomics" session @ 8:55 am in Pacific F-G to learn about Africa's smallest cat
Significant increase in turnout today at the indivisible protest, with many people motivated to speak out about the violence against our communities and violations of international law. We also had a Portland-style anti-ICE frog!
January 10, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Significant increase in turnout today at the indivisible protest, with many people motivated to speak out about the violence against our communities and violations of international law. We also had a Portland-style anti-ICE frog!
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Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned
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The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left
“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.
www.statnews.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
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