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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/mryvhdwj #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency

A full-time PhD position is available for application, focusing on research into molecular mechanisms and transcriptional regulation in embryonic stem cells and mouse primordial germ cells at the University of Iceland.

The project is funded by the Research Fund of the Science and Innovation Council and will be conducted at the Biomedical Center within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Iceland, under the supervision of Erna Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. The PhD student will also be affiliated with the Graduate Program in Life and Medical Sciences (GPMLS), which is a joint program involving all research groups in the life sciences at the University of Iceland.

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Join our lab to study transcriptional regulation in mouse germ cells and embryonic stem cells at @haskoliislands.bsky.social in beautiful Reykjavík! Apply here: tinyurl.com/34y6jcrd #epigenetics #TranscriptionFactors #transcriptomics #stemCells #pluripotency

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

@heidasigurdar.bsky.social and I wrote a few words on how the Icelandic government needs to do a better job nurturing science to resist the anti-science movement that has now gotten supercharged after Trump took office. A rough translation screenshot below. www.visir.is/g/2025268042...

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Hvers virði eru vísindi? - Vísir

Mánudaginn 20. janúar tók Donald Trump við forsetastól Bandaríkjanna í annað sinn. Trump dró Bandaríkin samstundis út úr Parísarsamkomulaginu sem hefur það markmið að draga úr losun gróðurhúsalofttegu...

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Belinda Barnet @manjusrii.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Donate to Wikipedia. Do it today, and every time one of the broligarchs has a tantrum because he can’t buy it

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is not quite true. Many genes not on either the X or Y chromosomes containing genetic variats have been found to influence sexual development. A person can definitely have a Y chromosome and go through female sex development. Also, the deviation from binary sex is closer to 2% not 0.018%

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

4/ ...that is not simply determined by whether people carry two X chromosome or an X and a Y chromosome. A lot has happened in genetics since the sex chromosomes were first identified well over a century ago.

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

3/ Genetically, of course, at fertilization, it is determined what genetic variants one inherits and therefore roughly where on the sex determination spectrum the individual will land. However...

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

2/ Before sex determination starts at around week 6 post fertilization the embryo is neither phenotypically male nor female. Before sex determination but after the rudimentary gonads have formed, we speak of the "indifferent" gonad as it hasn't started developing in either direction.

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

1/ In reaction to Trump's executive order stating that there are only two genders based on the sex of the embryo at conception, there have been many posts going around stating that the fetus is female at conception, which is based on a misconception of #sex_determination.

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 21/01/2025

Die Zeit won't even show the salute.

Zeit Online showing a black and white picture of Elon Musk giving the salute, with blue painter's tape covering his arm. The headline is "Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß" (A Hitler salute is a Hitler salute is a Hitler salute).

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It is a Nazi salute irrespective of the intention... but I get your point.

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

"Appears to make" is still not saying it like it is.

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Erna Magnúsdóttir @e-rna.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Apparently Instagram has blocked the search for #democrat, but you can search for #republican. I'm too addicted to Meta's platforms but something's got to change.

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