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Declan Bennett
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Comp Bio PhD | Postdoctoral Researcher St Jude Children's Research Hospital
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The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars
mrjeffu.bsky.social Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · Sep 19
Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Nice work from Tyler and @cathal.bsky.social on uncovering technical asymmetry in large sequencing projects.

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Consistent asymmetry in DNA damage artefacts across target regions in exome sequencing data
Abstract. Oxidative damage can introduce G>T mutations upon DNA replication. When this damage occurs ex vivo, sequenced DNA exhibits strand asymmetry, w
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September 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This is promising progress after the debacle of ISIF and GMI.

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Minister for Health announces the establishment of a Genome of Ireland project to advance disease prediction and prevention
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January 31, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Postdoctoral x2 opportunities in the west of Ireland

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Research Associate/Postdoctoral Researcher (x2) - Bioinformatics/Genomics Data Science (010788) - Galway (City), Connacht (IE) job with University of Galway (NUI Galway) | 12832708
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for two full-time, fixed term positions as a Research Associate/Postdoctoral Researcher...
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December 3, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Beautiful experimental work!
crisprflydesign.bsky.social Fillip Port @crisprflydesign.bsky.social · Dec 2
Our new preprint is out - please share!

We asked: How can we make CRISPR knockouts in vivo more efficient? And set up an assay that enables detection of CRISPR cutting with 100s-1000s of sgRNAs over entire chromosome arms in living animals.

Grab a ☕ and let’s dive in. 🧵🧪 1/n
#CRISPR #geneediting
December 2, 2024 at 5:54 PM