we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

PhD fellowship in the genetics of growth and development in pregnancy in the Rasmussen Group

📢 We’re hiring a PhD Fellow 📢
Genetics of fetal and placental growth using measures derived from ultrasound imaging in pregnancy.

Co-supervised by Simon Rasmussen (CBMR, @cbmr.science) and me (SSI, @ssi-dk.bsky.social).
Start: Oct 1, 2025
Deadline: July 24, 2025
📎 employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Cool! Huge congrats to you and the Pathoplexus team, very
well deserved!

No More General Anesthesia YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken

A real, actual thing BCBS is doing youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

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It's an incredible honour to have received this #OpenData prize from Swiss Academies of Arts & Sciences for @pathoplexus.org!

Though not everyone in Pathoplexus could be there in person, it was a fantastic & thought-provoking event, & I'm so glad were part of it! #OpenScience #OpenSource

Well done! Congratulations 🍾

We're incredibly honoured to be winners of the Swiss Academies of Arts & Sciences National Prize for Open Research Data 2024! 🎉🎊

"Pathoplexus ensures open access and provides a cutting-edge infrastructure for interactive and programmable data exploration"

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Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.21.24317689v1 The host genetics of SARS-CoV-2 has previously been studied based on cases from the earlier waves of

Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11....

Central role of glycosylation processes in human genetic susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infections with Omicron variants The host genetics of SARS-CoV-2 has previously been studied based on cases from the earlier waves of the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, identifying 51 genomic loci associated with infection and/or severit...

New preprint out on genetic susceptibility to infection with Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. International GWAS meta-analysis discovers loci not found for earlier variants of the virus and indicates central role of glycosylation.
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www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Key discussions on genomic surveillance, capacity building, and data sharing at the WHO International Pathogen Surveillance Network Global Partners Forum. Great to connect with colleagues worldwide! #IPSN #SSI

I thought it might be worthwhile to do a quick primer on CDC.gov datasets and public data resources.

1. DATA.CDC.GOV (data.cdc.gov/browse)
Datasets from across the agency, in browsable, machine readable format (Socrata system). Other/older collections are on:

2. WONDER.CDC.GOV (wonder.cdc.gov)

Microflora Danica: the atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes

10,686 shotgun metagenomes from a variety of environments across Denmark

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New, scientist-run virus database vows to be transparently run and simple to use Pathoplexus is starting with sequences for Ebola strains and two other risky viruses

From Science Magazine: “We believe that building trust through transparency is essential for encouraging broader participation in data sharing,” says Pathoplexus co-founder Anderson Fernandes de Brito @andersonfbrito.bsky.social

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#Pathoplexus #OpenScience