Nick Stroustrup
@nstroustrup.bsky.social
A British/American group leader at @crg.eu . We study the biology of aging using molecular genetics, engineering, systems biology, and probabilistic machine learning.
Lab page: http://lifespanmachine.crg.eu
Lab page: http://lifespanmachine.crg.eu
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Today we had a great EvoMG Seminar by Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social from FLI, who told us about some of their recent aging work using the fascinating short-lived killifish.
Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social
evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...
Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social
evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Today we had a great EvoMG Seminar by Dario Valenzano @dvalenzano.bsky.social from FLI, who told us about some of their recent aging work using the fascinating short-lived killifish.
Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social
evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...
Hosted by @mirimiam.bsky.social
evomedgenomics.com/events/exter...
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What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A detIled account of all the characters involved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A detIled account of all the characters involved. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Come hear us talk about causality in biology, next Monday and Tuesday!
🧬 1 month to go! Join us at the Collaboratorium Annual Symposium: Causality in Biology & AI. 12 speakers, big questions.
#CRG #EMBL #EMBLBarcelona #BCNCollaboratorium
#CRG #EMBL #EMBLBarcelona #BCNCollaboratorium
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Come hear us talk about causality in biology, next Monday and Tuesday!
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Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you.
More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Are you looking for a PhD? Join us in Barcelona! You'll dive into a community of >100 PhD students from 30 countries exploring the frontiers of biology. You can also join an online workshop on 6 November (15:00 CET) to learn how to find the right lab for you.
More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
More info: www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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moonbow last night over our neighborhood
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
moonbow last night over our neighborhood
Thrilled to hear that our BBVA fundamentos grant was funded. Thanks to @bbvaenespana.bsky.social for their support of new causal methods in aging. With only 4 of these awarded each year in the life sciences, a special congrats to our post-doc Jeremy Vicencio for teaming up to make it happen!
Congrats to @nstroustrup.bsky.social and Jeremy Vicencio for a new grant from Fundación BBVA's Fundamentos programme to support a pioneering project on the biology of ageing. The proposal seeks to build better biomarkers of ageing.
www.crg.eu/en/news/bbva...
www.crg.eu/en/news/bbva...
October 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Thrilled to hear that our BBVA fundamentos grant was funded. Thanks to @bbvaenespana.bsky.social for their support of new causal methods in aging. With only 4 of these awarded each year in the life sciences, a special congrats to our post-doc Jeremy Vicencio for teaming up to make it happen!
There's some super interesting nemography going on these days!
C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]
September 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There's some super interesting nemography going on these days!
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September 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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OH NO!
"The White House issued a proclamation today, Sept. 19, 2025, around 4:36 PM PDT imposing a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa holder who enters the U.S. after Sept. 21, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT. In CA, this will take effect tomorrow, Sept. 20, 2025, at 9:01 PM PDT." Emergency notice at Stanford.
"The White House issued a proclamation today, Sept. 19, 2025, around 4:36 PM PDT imposing a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa holder who enters the U.S. after Sept. 21, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT. In CA, this will take effect tomorrow, Sept. 20, 2025, at 9:01 PM PDT." Emergency notice at Stanford.
September 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
OH NO!
"The White House issued a proclamation today, Sept. 19, 2025, around 4:36 PM PDT imposing a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa holder who enters the U.S. after Sept. 21, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT. In CA, this will take effect tomorrow, Sept. 20, 2025, at 9:01 PM PDT." Emergency notice at Stanford.
"The White House issued a proclamation today, Sept. 19, 2025, around 4:36 PM PDT imposing a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa holder who enters the U.S. after Sept. 21, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT. In CA, this will take effect tomorrow, Sept. 20, 2025, at 9:01 PM PDT." Emergency notice at Stanford.
Ups!
A U.S. study found eating under 8 hrs/day was linked to **91% higher cardiovascular death risk** vs. 12–16 hrs/day. 👉Read:
newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-...
#AgingResearch #LongevityScience #HeartHealth
newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-...
#AgingResearch #LongevityScience #HeartHealth
8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death
03/19/24 Editor’s note: The research authors have shared their full poster presentation for updated details about their research abstract. Please see the digital file attached, in the right hand colum...
newsroom.heart.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ups!
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Extraordinary paper. I LOVE this sentence:
“This translates to a net lateral gene transfer rate of ~250 genes L−1 seawater day−1 and involves both “flexible” and “core” genes. “
Must read in detail, but these numbers are amazing. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
“This translates to a net lateral gene transfer rate of ~250 genes L−1 seawater day−1 and involves both “flexible” and “core” genes. “
Must read in detail, but these numbers are amazing. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryoplankton
Abstract. Lateral gene transfer is a major evolutionary process in Bacteria and Archaea. Despite its importance, lateral gene transfer quantification in na
academic.oup.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Extraordinary paper. I LOVE this sentence:
“This translates to a net lateral gene transfer rate of ~250 genes L−1 seawater day−1 and involves both “flexible” and “core” genes. “
Must read in detail, but these numbers are amazing. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
“This translates to a net lateral gene transfer rate of ~250 genes L−1 seawater day−1 and involves both “flexible” and “core” genes. “
Must read in detail, but these numbers are amazing. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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If you think AI is cool, wait until you learn about regression analysis
August 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If you think AI is cool, wait until you learn about regression analysis
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DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
August 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one
🪶
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If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.
www.nature.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
August 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
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New blog article on Statistical Thinking: confidence limits for bootstrap overfitting-corrected predictive performance measures for regression models, useful for strong internal validations including confidence bands for debiased calibration curves: fharrell.com/post/bootcal #statistics #StatsSky
fharrell.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
New blog article on Statistical Thinking: confidence limits for bootstrap overfitting-corrected predictive performance measures for regression models, useful for strong internal validations including confidence bands for debiased calibration curves: fharrell.com/post/bootcal #statistics #StatsSky
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We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.
Deadline: 30/09/25👇
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We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.
Deadline: 30/09/25👇
www.upf.edu
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Please RT!
We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.
Deadline: 30/09/25👇
Please RT!
We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.
Deadline: 30/09/25👇