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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Seeing this paper finally published feels incredibly rewarding. Prairie voles are especially interesting because their social and pair-bonding behaviors parallel questions we care about in humans.

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our previously preprinted study "Influence of cis-regulatory elements on expression divergence in human segmental duplications" is now published in @genomeresearch.bsky.social! Please check it out: genome.cshlp.org/content/earl...

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

People see the destination and judge whether you arrived, but rarely see the effort and sacrifice it took to get there. The joy is in the journey, not just the destination. Remembering that helps us slow down, breathe, appreciate life, and show more grace to ourselves and others.

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just learned github exposes every user's public SSH keys at github.com/<username>.keys i removed one of mine, and a random throwaway account snatched it within seconds, killing the keypair for me.

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It was an amazing meeting with very cool science!

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thrilled to share that my abstract was selected for a 15-minute talk at #bog26 @cshlmeetings.bsky.social! I'll present our prairie & meadow vole assemblies using CiFi long reads, we built the first chromosome-scale diploid assemblies that fully resolve the Avpr1a duplication linked to pair bonding 🐭

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I had a blast working on this paper! This was the first mammalian assembly paper using the new CiFi tech, and we combined multiple lines of evidence to verify a prairie-vole-specific duplication of Avpr1a. All methods will be open source and reproducible, enabling the community to build on them.

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Age verification? My first game was "↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → X O".

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 10/12/2025

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Tattoo ink induces inflammation in the draining lymph node and alters the immune response to vaccination.” Explore the article here: ow.ly/zhn450XGvmW For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/7BgF50XGvmV.

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I watched a video titled “Why Smart People Struggle to Succeed” and the ideas were surprisingly accurate. Here is the breakdown:

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Morning dew turned my windshield into a perfect pattern of glassy bubbles!

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I did not expect to find a paper in a new graph genotyper (using colored de bruijn graphs) which quotes Maya Angelou on line 1! academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

For decades, NIH funding has fueled breakthroughs in cancer, heart disease and more. But a new policy puts progress at risk. We need Congress to oppose this abrupt change. Join me in emailing lawmakers today! #SaveNIHresearch bit.ly/4hxmfsK

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Protect research funding

Federal funding for biomedical research is under threat.

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Stephen Floor @snf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities

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recombseq.bsky.social @recombseq.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

🚨 Keynotes at RECOMB-seq 2025! 🚨 🌟 Alicia Oshlack – computational transcriptomics @aliciao.bsky.social 🌟 Rayan Chikhi – sequencing data structures @rayanchikhi.bsky.social 🗓️ Dates: April 24–25, 2025 📍 Seoul, South Korea recomb-seq.github.io/speakers/

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 28/01/2025

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

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USAspending.gov

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I couldn't be more thrilled to be part of this amazing lab!

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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

I'm delighted to release the first half of my new textbook in human genetics: web.stanford.edu/group/pritch... "An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome: an introduction to human population genetics, variation and disease"

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An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

It was an extraordinary meeting full of exciting talks and interesting research!

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

ChatGPT has acquired a new procrastination skill.

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

I am pleased to announce that I am joining the Dennis Lab as a postdoc. Very excited to be working with @mydennis.bsky.social!

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

UC Davis students begin protest against genocide in Palestine www.sacbee.com/news/local/a... (good for them!) Admin emails saying they are actively working with protestors and "UC Davis cannot and will not discipline students for speech protected by the First Amendment." (good for them too!)

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

it's my duty to regularly remind everybody that the barreleye fish is real and exists on this planet with us. 🦑🧪https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/fish/pacific-barreleye-fish-facts

discoverwildlife.com

Meet the very weird Pacific barreleye fish, which is famed for its see-through skull

Learn all about the weird barreleye fish and how it captures its prey in this expert guide

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

First step in a community project to provide a uniformly assembled, annotated and searchable set of bacterial genomes, our preprint on our initial release of 1.9 million genome assemblies+taxonomic estimates. (figure compares with previous 661k dataset) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #microsky

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Tamer Mansour @drtamermansour.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

The workshop, scheduled for January 22-23, 2024, is an exceptional opportunity for those interested in the genetic study of Golden Retrievers. The workshop is open for all, free of charge, but it requires prior registration. www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/events/advan...

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Advanced GWAS tutorial in Golden Retriever dogs

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

I love it when I make mistakes in the t-SNE plots; often, they end up looking visually appealing.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 07/01/2024

Trying to start a habit of blogging again. Not sure this qualifies as a microblog; I might need to go even shorter ... Anyway, here are some thoughts on licensing in open source (academic) projects!

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Sourmash and branchwater licensing: thoughts on extractive engagement with projects

What licenses should be used, for what purpose?

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

It's been a long time since I did deep learning. Setting up everything with Cuda, Nvidia, ubuntu, TensorFlow, etc... is so quick now. Only 4 hours of fixing problems!

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

"my students left lab sessions with results, feeling their time had been well-spent. But I worried I was deceiving them about the actual experience of practicing science, which rarely produces data on the first try."

science.org

Why I teach my students about scientific failure

“It’s a lesson I wish I’d learned before starting grad school,” this professor writes

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Mohamed Abuelanin 🦖 @mabuelanin.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

Distinguished leadership means more than guiding to flawless results right away. It's about creating a space where mistakes are part of learning, shaping individuals who are not just skilled in execution but also strong in critical analysis and thought.

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Titus Brown @titus.idyll.org · 14/12/2023

I think this is interesting - for both faculty & research, as well as faculty/students/teaching: "The biggest driver of productivity at work today isn’t about the remote-versus-office tug-of-war, or generative AI. It’s trust."

charterworks.com

The wrong way to define productivity

Why trust is the most important overlooked driver.

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