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Helena Kilpinen

@hkilpinen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine @HiLIFE_helsinki, @FIMM_UH, @UH_Neuro and Faculty of Medicine. Stem cells, single cells, genomics, and neurodevelopment.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Excited to launch an openRxiv partnership with the scientist-run AI review service qed (@qedscience.bsky.social), the brainchild of @odedrechavi.bsky.social 1/n openrxiv.org/enabling-rev...
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Enabling options for review: from training and transparency to author-centered AI tools - openRxiv
Peer review is widely viewed as a critical aspect of biomedical communication. Ideally, it provides authors with feedback so they can improve manuscripts and gives readers, particularly nonspecialists...
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
In praise of fundamental research Our editorial this week argues that I n these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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From MRI to Ozempic: breakthroughs that show why fundamental research must be protected
In these financially straitened times, funders must recognize that great discoveries often arise from work that was looking for something completely different.
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Gosia Trynka @gosiatrynka.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Beyond Transcriptomics: Can Imaging Bridge the Gap in Variant Interpretation?-join @hkilpinen.bsky.social @melinaclaussnitzer.bsky.social Alessandro Palma from @fabiantheis.bsky.social @enoutahi.bsky.social and myself at #ASHG25 for our Featured Symposium.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/08/2025
Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp
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How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
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Helena Kilpinen @hkilpinen.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Still time to apply for this, closes Aug 15th. Come work with us!
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 07/07/2025
'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

FAST COMPANY Article: 

While retirement typically occurs, after
completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals
called "micro-retirement." Micro-
retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months.
Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
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Vincent Pasque @pasquelab.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Exciting Research Professorship Position in Stem Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Leuven. Amazing research ecosystem, great colleagues, high quality of life, tenure track. For those interested in joining us, please see below: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If you don’t have time to take a walk, then you don’t have time to do science. Charles Darwin would take two walks every day on his "thinking path", not as a break from science, but as a crucial part of it.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before" <- this open letter should be read by everyone in #HigherEd openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo @kbibbinsdomingo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Wonderful tribute to a dear colleague- well worth the read www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/06...
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UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55
Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and cli...
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Helena Kilpinen @hkilpinen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Job alert ‼️ @thomasdwkim.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc in single-cell genomics via the NORPOD program of the @nordicembl.bsky.social. Collaboration between @fimm-uh.bsky.social and @dandrite.bsky.social on multimodal data integration in neurodevelopment. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Single-Cell Genomics through the NORPOD program
Postdoctoral Researcher in Single-Cell Genomics through the NORPOD program
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Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) @fimm-uh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📣 We are recruiting 2-3 early-stage group leaders. 📣 Join an institute where cross-disciplinary teamwork and national health-data resources let you ask the questions no one else can! 🚀 Apply here by 10 Aug to start your own research group: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #ScienceJobs
Portrait of Simone Rubinacci, PhD, smiling and seated, wearing a black top. Blue background. To the right is a quote:
"What makes FIMM special is how seamlessly everything is integrated. Biologists, clinicians, and data scientists work closely together, not just in theory but in practice. On top of that, access to large-scale national data enables us to ask questions that simply couldn’t be explored elsewhere."
Below the quote:
Simone Rubinacci, PhD
FIMM-EMBL Group Leader since 2024
Logos of the University of Helsinki and FIMM are at the top right.
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Helena Kilpinen @hkilpinen.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Back at #ESHG25 after (way too) many years! Talking tomorrow on Sun at 9:30 about some of our cell painting work in neurons - come say hi. See also these presentations from my team: #eshg25
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Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) @fimm-uh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
FIMM, the Faculty of Medicine, and the Faculty of Science @helsinki.fi invite applications for POSITIONS OF RESEARCH FELLOW (UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER) AND/OR POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER at the intersection of AI, molecular medicine and health data science. Apply by 5 June: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/05/2025
Breaking News: A baby with a rare disorder made medical history by receiving the first custom gene-editing treatment. The technique used has the potential to help people with thousands of other uncommon genetic diseases. nyti.ms/4j49xBy
A baby surrounded by medical devices is being held up by someone with gloved hands. A headline reads: "Baby Is Healed With World's First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment." Photo courtesy of Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania.
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Peri Kurshan @pkurshan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
FACULTY JOB ALERT! The Albert Einstein Dept of Neuroscience is hiring a new assistant professor in any area of neuroscience! We have funds specifically earmarked for this search. #Neuroscience #AcademicJobs #NeuroSky Job just posted: faculty-einstein.icims.com/jobs/17175/f... Please share widely!!
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Medical Education | Biomedical Research
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Anna Vähärautio @anna-vaharautio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yesterday, excellent science in the fully booked 2025 edition of Single Cell Omics symposium @helsinki.fi, with 300 participants! With Judith Zaugg & @mkuijjer.bsky.social,@haikalab.bsky.social, Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä, Maria Kasper, @e-manieri.bsky.social, Giole La Manno & @hagentilgner.bsky.social.
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Helena Kilpinen @hkilpinen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This piece is spot on. While the situation in Finnish universities is perhaps not as bad yet, we are definitely on the slippery slope already. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 28/01/2025
If you’re at a European institution and are looking to poach American scientists, this would be a very good week to do it
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
How to do differential expression with scRNAseq data? State of the art is "pseudo-bulk" analysis with RNA-seq methods like edgeR or DESeq2, where "cell type" is encoded as discrete categories. Biologically, discrete categories are not always the most appropriate concept.(1/3) doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Analysis of multi-condition single-cell data with latent embedding multivariate regression - Nature Genetics
Latent embedding multivariate regression models multi-condition single-cell RNA-seq using a continuous latent space, enabling data integration, per-cell gene expression prediction and clustering-free ...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finl... re @zbmed.bsky.social new contract
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Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
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Helena Kilpinen @hkilpinen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A fun day in the lab today with some very special guests, colors, and slime-making. Downside: they now think that this is what I do every day.. #nextgeneration #bringyourkidstoworkday
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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
There's a new open call for a junior faculty position at the Centre for Genomic Regulation. The CRG is an excellent place to start your own lab! recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Many people take "non-traditional" career paths in academia. My Leading Edge colleagues and I did! We wrote for PLOS Biology about how non-linear careers are increasingly common, but funding agencies and search committees penalize these paths. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Supporting nonlinear careers to diversify science
Those who follow non-linear career trajectories often face disadvantages in academia. This Perspective looks at why individuals might choose non-linear careers and how these benefit diversity in scien...
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