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Daniela Robles-Espinoza
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Studying cancer genomics in Latin America. PI @liigh-unam.bsky.social | Int'l fellow @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. Views my own. She/her/hers
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daniela-oaks.bsky.social
I am always delayed by days in replying to emails despite my best efforts.... But indeed nothing that can't wait! 😅
joshua-goodman.com Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 2d
Just got the best out-of-office message I've ever seen from a fellow academic:

"I am currently away on leave. If this is an emergency... well, I doubt it. What could possibly be an emergency in my line of work?"
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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jrossibarra.bsky.social
¿Hiciste tu doctorado en México? ¿Quieres hacer un postdoc en California? ¿Te interesa la genética evolutiva? ¡Checa esta beca y mándame un mensaje! alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu/research-and...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships - University of California Alianza MX
Submitting an Application Current Fellows 2025 Cohort Additional Information Humberger Toggle Menu Interested in applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship? Eligibility The program seeks applican...
alianzamx.universityofcalifornia.edu
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
In #Day5 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Thailand 🇹🇭, Jia Wang from Cancer Research Malaysia 🇲🇾 is teaching participants how to perform mutational signature analysis, and also giving a talk on the Malaysian Breast Cancer cohort @eventswcs.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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jlsteenwyk.bsky.social
Come join the Workshop on Phylogenomics in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia, from January 25 through February 7, 2026!

Applications close November 15!

#phylogenetics #evolution #genomics #ai

evomics.org/apply-worksh...
Apply: Workshop on Phylogenomics 2026 - Evolution and Genomics
Application for the 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics Use this form to apply for the 2026 Workshop on Phylogenomics being held in Cesky Krumlov, Czechia from 25th January through 7th February, ...
evomics.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
In Day 4 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Thailand 🇹🇭, we learnt from Nivedita Mukherjee from NCBS Bangalore 🇮🇳 how to perform driver gene identification - students were hard at work doing coding exercises, and we met the Dean of International Affairs @KKU! @eventswcs.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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python.org
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
Super valuable life and science lessons from @erictdawson.bsky.social #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
In his talk on how to perform genomic analyses ethically @erictdawson.bsky.social summarises #ProjectJudith and how he brought a super fast computer to @liigh-unam.bsky.social, and we put it together! Now working doing our genomic analyses #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
We start #Day3 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Asia 🇹🇭 with a lecture by @erictdawson.bsky.social on how #mutation calling works and how to use the available tools. Bonus: we're all sporting new mustaches! @connectingscience.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
Yesterday we had great sessions on data formats (my section!), and talks on #Asian genomics by Sabari Radhakrishnan and Jia Wang. I closed with a discussion of #ethics in patient sample collection #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
#Day2 of #CancerGenomeAnalysis Khon Kaen 🇹🇭 2025! We start with a talk by Sirinya Sitthirak from KKU talking about genomic studies #cholangiocarcinoma tumourigenesis, which has the highest incidence in Thailand. Studies led from SA Asia so pretty cool to see! @connectingscience.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
Now amazing local organiser and professor @akoiwang.bsky.social from Khon Kaen University 🇹🇭 leads the official opening ceremony #CancerGenomeAnalysis @connectingscience.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
And we kick off the @connectingscience.bsky.social #CancerGenomeAnalysis course in beautiful Khon Kaen, Thailand 🇹🇭, with almost 30 participants from around Asia! Today we start with introductions, a discussion of cancer genomics in #Asia. Looking forward to it 🙌🏾
October 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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erinedoherty.bsky.social
I'm hiring a lab technician to help me explore some exciting new questions about virus-host interactions! Biochemistry and/or mammalian cell culture experience is desired.
October 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
Just presented in our findings on #acral #melanoma in Mexico 🇲🇽 on #ESMO2025, and we had amazing presentations by Melissa Davies, Nyasha Chambwe and Marzia del Re on the importance of #diversity in #cancer research. Happy to see Sara from @melanomaresearch.bsky.social there!! @myesmo.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
Let's go #ESMO2025! See you at the first Mini Oral session on Basic Science and Translational Research! (Cologne Auditorium, CityCube A, 8:30am!)
October 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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magdalenaskipper.bsky.social
Our #Scientistsatwork photo competition is open for submissions.

This is a competition for scientists themselves.

Winners will receive £500, a subscription to Nature & have their photo featured alongside an interview in Nature.

Deadline - March 28th

@nature.com

www.nature.com/immersive/sc...
#ScientistAtWork photo competition
A celebration of the striking and colourful work that scientists do around the world.
www.nature.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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delvecchyo.bsky.social
Alessandro and I discussed a paper analyzing a deleterious genetic interaction that causes melanoma in swordtail fishes.
October 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
Twenty-four years ago today, our paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder” was published: www.nature.com/articles/350....
A personal thread about the ups & downs of the journey we took to get to that point....1/n
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Image shows the first two printed pages of the paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder” by Cecilia Lai and colleagues, published in Nature in 2001 (volume 413, pages 519-523). The abstract reads as follows: Individuals affected with developmental disorders of speech and language have substantial difficulty acquiring expressive and/or receptive language in the absence of any profound sensory or neurological impairment and despite adequate intelligence and opportunity. Although studies of twins consistently indicate that a significant genetic component is involved, most families segregating speech and language deficits show complex patterns of inheritance, and a gene that predisposes individuals to such disorders has not been identified. We have studied a unique three-generation pedigree, KE, in which a severe speech and language disorder is transmitted as an autosomal-dominant monogenic trait. Our previous work mapped the locus responsible, SPCH1, to a 5.6-cM interval of region 7q31 on chromosome 7. We also identified an unrelated individual, CS, in whom speech and language impairment is associated with a chromosomal translocation involving the SPCH1 interval. Here we show that the gene FOXP2, which encodes a putative transcription factor containing a polyglutamine tract and a forkhead DNA-binding domain, is directly disrupted by the translocation breakpoint in CS. In addition, we identify a point mutation in affected members of the KE family that alters an invariant amino-acid residue in the forkhead domain. Our findings suggest that FOXP2 is involved in the developmental process that culminates in speech and language.
October 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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bmj.com
Despite regulation, commercial sunbeds remain popular with young people and indoor tanning is experiencing a boom in popularity.

An outright ban of sunbeds is likely to be cost effective for the NHS, says this Analysis
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Sunbed
October 2, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
daniela-oaks.bsky.social
Come join us next year at the @embo.org meeting "The Many Faces of #Cancer evolution"! Organised by @ciriellolab.bsky.social @magnanilab.bsky.social @turajliclab.bsky.social & Céline Vaillot! In beautiful Rimini 🇮🇹

More information in the poster below ⬇️ and at

meetings.embo.org/event/26-cancer-evo
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
"We present exciting and novel new findings on the topic of the gel I'm about to run, with confirmatory experiments I'll run next Tuesday..."
"Submitting an abstract without all the data collected" and it's the facade of a building without any actual building behind it. A white apartment complex module or something with a freight entrance or garage door and some sliding glass doors, but it's just sky behind it. Stolen from the Internet.
September 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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flybase.bsky.social
FlyBase needs your help! We ask that European labs continue to contribute to Cambridge, UK FlyBase, whereas US and other non-European labs can contribute to US FlyBase. For more information and how to donate: wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...
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August 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM