Eradicating tumors with a mRNA vaccine in the experimental model
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

This program transformed my career! Please apply.

@hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today — theonion.com/biologists-c...

We are extending the deadline to Feb 27, since we still have a few slots. 👉 A semi-informal event to interact with your peers, learn about cutting-edge research, and hear from two leaders in the field (Sophie Armitage & Dieter Ebert).
And it's free! 🎉
PIs, please recommend to your grad students!

Just a quick reminder that the abstract deadline is approaching for the DZG Graduate Meeting in Evolutionary Biology 2026: Feb 20! 👈
We still have a few places left 🤗🌈

Hi yes I will have more to say about this in a few hours but please enjoy this paper. It's been a huge labour of love and effort for the last four years, and a significant part of our research efforts, and I'm so so so thrilled it's finally ready to share.

Tldr: scRNA-seq in Indonesia hard but fun

📢2nd Annual Meeting of the EFIS-IL Sex Differences in Immunity Study Group!
🗓️October 8-9, 2026
📍Hamburg, Germany
🔗https://linktr.ee/EFIS_ISD
@yefis-immunology.bsky.social @dgfi-org.bsky.social @sfi-immunologie.bsky.social @swimm-immuno.bsky.social @irishimmunology.bsky.social @finnsocimm.bsky.social

Tissue Regulatory T Cells FOXP3+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) have well-defined roles in limiting systemic immune responses against diverse stimuli. However, the observation that a subset of Tregs also enter nonlymphoid tissues,...

Our latest review is out, a comprehensive synthesis of #tissue #Tregs. It has been a decade since @annualreviews.bsky.social #immunology last reviewed #TissueTregs, and there have been enormous advances and conceptual leaps forward in the field

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My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.

#BlackHistoryMonth is a great time to celebrate #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! 🧪🐡👩🏿‍🔬 #histsci She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & the 🧵

To argue "infections" are an extrinsic factor to heritability is bizarre to me - as if aging takes place in a vacuum.

Infections are part of longevity. Infection resistance is heritable (e.g. AMP polymorphisms in mammals, insects).

I don't disagree longevity is highly heritable... 1/2

🔔HIRI has opened a new call to recruit Group Leaders. If you are interested in opening an RNA Biology and Infection lab, join us! Deadline: February 15. More info here 👇

Deadline for #SMBE2026 abstract submission is coming up (Feb 3)!

Consider symposium S14 "Evolution of Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Genomic Age", organized by @jcwinternitz.bsky.social, @arcova.bsky.social, @michalvinkler.bsky.social and @diyarhamidi.bsky.social.

Tha'ts what scientists want too. We need AI that makes sure you don't break the dishes (or centrifuge)

It's the annual meeting of the evolutionary biology section @dzg-evol.bsky.social of the German Zoological Society (DZG). Meeting language is English, we welcome participants from all countries and nationalities. Invited speakers are Sophie Armitage (Freie Uni Berlin) and Dieter Ebert (Uni Basel).

Please share: We are hosting the 2026 DZG evolutionary biology graduate meeting at Uni Hamburg on March 25-27: "Interactions and Coevolution: from Molecules to Species". #PhD students, early postdocs and advanced Master students in evolutionary biology are welcome to register! t1p.de/dzg2026evolbio

The human pangenome continues to grow and improve! Release 2 is here! Click through for the details, but this is a pretty amazing dataset including not just the phased assemblies, but PacBio HiFi, ONT Ultralong, Dovetail/Illumina Hi-C, PacBio Kinnex, and Illumina WGS for all samples

Establish your own independent research group as Group Leader - AI in Biology.

We’re looking for individuals interested in bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology.

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“Everyone thinks their genes are the cause for them getting an age-related disease, it’s actually your immune system.” - @erictopol.bsky.social the author of Super Agers on #HealthandVeritas podcast
pod.link/1588414491/e... @thehowie.bsky.social @hmkyale.bsky.social

Text: Society for the Study of Evolution International Event Grants. Applications due September 15.

Applications due Monday September 15 for the International Event Grants! These grants support symposia, workshops, courses, and other evolutionary biology events, including virtual events. Learn more and apply now: rb.gy/76fgi

Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!

This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...

#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region The HLA region plays an important role in human health but is often excluded in large-scale GWASs. We performed haplotype-based associations from genotype data to investigate pleiotropy across thousan...

📣New today!
📄Haplotype analysis reveals pleiotropic disease associations in the HLA region
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jkpritch.bsky.social @finngen.bsky.social & colleagues

Graffiti at the end of an underpass in Heidelberg saying 'LAB!'.

Some PIs will stop at nothing to motivate their lab members. 🧪

Join the annual meeting of the Society for Immune Polymorphism (SIP), November 3-5, Netherlands!

A meeting for everyone interested in polymorphic immune molecules (e.g. #MHC/#TCR) and their functional diversity across species.

Early bird/Abstract deadline is Aug 15:
sip-sassenheim.org

Computational Immunology Summer School Join the Computational Immunology Summer School to explore the fascinating world of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoires (AIRRs), mastering cutting-edge bioinformatics tools and lab techniques to uncover the secrets of immune system diversity.

📣 2 #Immunology #Summer_Schools that might be of interest to you:

If you are working on adaptive immune receptor repertoire:
ut.ee/en/content/c...

If you want to get deeper into new advances in Immunology:
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#ImmunoSky

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say

'Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40yrs or younger. Wn the researchers looked at race and sex combined, Black women fell to the bottom, with the AI not detecting disease in half of them'

Interested in starting your research group in AI and applications to science? Check out our upcoming online event for DFG funded opportunities in Goettingen!

Looks great! Thanks for the explanation. Obviously, we are now curious what the selected locus is that drives this, and the ecological context. 😄 Looking forward to the preprint!

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Complete sequencing of ape genomes - Nature Complete sequences of chromosomes telomere-to-telomere from chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, Bornean orangutan, Sumatran orangutan and siamang provide a comprehensive and valuable resource for future evol...

📢 new paper alert for the primate and genomics nerds. telomere to telomere ape genomes. I led MHC annotations on this work w/ @biotobi.bsky.social and @meyerbritta.bsky.social And hey it’s my first nature paper 🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...