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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 8h

Academic freedom in the U.S. has arguably reached a new nadir—maybe worse than the 50s. This is not only due to the scale and range of the assault on higher ed, which is targeting everything (individuals' views on Gaza, DEI initiatives, the curriculum, collaborative research with other countries)...

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Florent Waltz @florentwaltz.bsky.social · 20h

Huge congratulations to all three Nobel Laureates, and especially Peter Hegemann! 👏 His seminal work on the green alga Chlamydomonas 🦠 laid the foundation for optogenetics. Thank you for putting Chlamy in the spotlight! ✨ Proof that groundbreaking discoveries don't always come from animal models! 🔬

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Gwênlyn Glusman (she/her) ☸️ @gwenlyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have modernized and enhanced the NSF COA generator tool. Results now update dynamically • Published under more than one name? Covered! • Other people share your name? No problem! • You prefer searching by ORCID? Go ahead! Give it a try. Feedback, bug reports, feature requests are MOST welcome! 🧪

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 03/10/2026

NYC is opening 160 car-free (but treat-filled) streets and plazas to enjoy fun and safe fall festivities this spooky season. Find one near you at nyc.gov/trickorstreets.

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My inbox is being flooded with fully AI-generated emails from prospective students. I tried to work out why I can't bring myself to read them, and ended up with some thoughts and advice for writing cold emails in the age of AI. My new post: blekhman.substack.com/p/why-i-am-n...

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Why I am not reading your AI-generated email

I hope this email finds you well-aligned

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If it’s just about the numbers, this game is over and lost before we’ve even begun.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The “point“ of a preprint has always been to engage your scientific community in conversation. It’s not just to drop results and run, or juice your H index, or whatever other thing people who are pumping it full of AI generated slop think they’re getting out of a preprint.

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Ethan Linck @elinck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc to help build tools for inferring complex speciation histories with genomic data. strong computational skills are a must, but this is a training opportunity. 60K$+ salary, 2 years, details flexible. please reach out! (and repost) ad here: jobs.montana.edu/postings/53150

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Postdoctoral Researcher

The Department of Ecology at Montana State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar as part of NSF-funded research on speciation under alternating cycles of gene flow and isolation (fundi...

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john-pool.bsky.social @john-pool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Looking for a postdoc? I know a really good candidate who's seeking a position. Great abstract thinker, strong evo/popgen background and CPU & statistical skills, some math & wet lab exp. Boundless curiosity, scholarly, helps everyone. High impact paper from PhD so far. Message me for details!

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even the light-touch moderation system at arXiv is drowning. AI-generated work (much of it slop) is a grave danger to our traditional systems of peer review.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 01/10/2026

Hey, your grad student just reached out to me — they are wondering:

Glamour.com style section:
I dress better than my boss. Is this a problem? By Morgan Sullivan

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That janitor just goes from building to building helping people. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/equati... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

10-panel SMBC comic update. All the panels are dialogue-less. Two researchers are writing equations on a chalkboard. A janitor watches them from afar. The researchers leave as the janitor is still mopping the floor. The janitor walks up to the chalkboard and writes on it with purpose, admires what he wrote, and leave late in the evening. The two researchers return at dawn, and are shocked by what is written on the blackboard. Over their half-erased equations, the text "ChatGPT, do a breakthru, no mistakes, thankx."

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, Michigan) is performing a broad search to fill one tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level: 🧪

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Kelly Dawe @corncolors.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The UGA Genetics Department is hiring! Please help spread the word. We have an opening for an Associate Professor/Professor in Genetics, Synthetic Biology, and Biological Engineering. See ad for details – and join us here in Athens, GA!

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Jeffrey M Kidd @jeffreymkidd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to share that my department has an open faculty search for an Assistant Professor! The search is broad, focused on candidates who plan to address fundamental questions in genetics and genomics. The due date is soon: Nov 13. You can apply through interfolio. apply.interfolio.com/190644

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Chris Smith @chriscrsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508

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Indiana University Academic Positions

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 30/09/2026

I think administrators cowing to media pressure hurts the reputation of a university much more than piloting a long overdue and quite modest change to grading practices.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is this headline blaming the fish for being overfished?

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Ellen Leffler @ellenleffler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My department at University of Utah is recruiting new faculty, with "Human" and "Genetics" broadly defined. It is a fantastic place to start a lab, with collaboration, creativity and conviviality encouraged. Applications due Oct 16. Please share and apply! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I checked multiple sources... This is the real signed document with an obvious typo.

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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's "White House Accord on Super Intelligence" #smh

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

United States President Donald Trump issues executive order instructing federal government agencies to "use the terms 'Super Intelligence' and 'SI' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' and will not acknowledge the usage of 'Artificial Intelligence' and 'AI' in any applicable setting."

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Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Every child deserves a safe and nurturing home where they ...

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Alex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

MHCflurry 2.3 is out Lots of internal improvements to make both training and prediction faster on multi-GPU Also trained a slightly better model (first new weights in a long time) Thanks to NVIDIA for the Brev credits Try it out and tell me what I broke

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Megan Dennis @mydennis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are recruiting at the assistant professor level ~ Ideal candidates have expertise in genomics and/or biochemistry, applying emerging experimental, computational, AI-driven methods to answer mechanistic questions in human health. Please share! First review 10/30. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07832

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Assistant Professor- Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The September issue of #GENETICS features work from @jonj-udd.bsky.social, @jeffspence.github.io, & Co which determines how genes associated with human recessive disorders fit the predictions of the classic theory of mutation–selection balance. 🔗 buff.ly/v8FpWWA

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu

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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crossing my fingers for genetically engineered super octopuses soon!

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Kacy Gordon @kacylynn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

JOB ALERT: UNC Bio is hiring 2 tenure track assistant profs doing molecular, cell, and dev bio. The search is intentionally broad, so please share widely and spread the word! Find more information and apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Application review begins Nov 1.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Noise/useless science rather than AI slop is a current challenge: "If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage, they should stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

medpagetoday.com

Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TT Assistant Professor position in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease at University of Florida

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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026

President Trump’s war on Iran, now in its seventh month, has led to a plunge in the consumption of oil and gas around the world as fighting disrupts production and transportation. wapo.st/4ycPvNA

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Mahul Chakraborty @mahulchak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excited to share that our lab has received an NIH R01! We'll be recruiting postdocs and graduate students to study genotype-phenotype relationships and genome evolution in Drosophila. Reach out if interested! chakrabortylab.org

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Chakraborty Lab – Texas A&M University

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pls ahre: Open recruitment in the new Department of Systems Biology at UC Irvine. Assistant Professor in Systems Biology, experimental or theoretical, who will complement existing strengths in the department (systems.bio.uci.edu). Application link: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377

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Systems Biology | UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences

Welcome to the Department of Systems Biology at UC Irvine Leading the way to Discovery, Explanation, and Prediction Department of […]

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watch to the end, lol lol lol

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Moffitt Cancer Center is looking a new faculty member in Integrated Mathematical Oncology with "a track record in developing mathematical models for cancer research, strong publications in mathematical biology or computational oncology, and success securing grant funding".

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Open-Rank Tenure-earning Integrated Mathematical Oncology (IMO) Faculty

Working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Mo...

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Tiffany Lowe-Power stands with Minnesota @tlowepower.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Please repost/share We're hiring! UC Davis Plant Pathology seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in plant health & microbiomes. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904 My department is full of great colleagues, and we look forward to recruiting our new colleague!

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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

arXiv has received a 17.2 million investment from three leading philanthropic organizations. Thank you to Simons Foundation International, Siegel Family Endowment, and XTX Markets for your support of arXiv! Read more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/09/23/arxiv-receives-multiyear-investment/

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp... (1/n)

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Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative | Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative

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Ben de Bivort @debivort.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

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Tenure-Track Professor in Life Science and AI

The Life Sciences Departments in Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences seek to recruit a tenure-track professor whose research is at the interface of AI and life sciences, from methodological developme...

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The worst part is how she's wearing a suit instead of an event t-shirt with holes in it. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/taken PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

1-panel SMBC comic update. A man at a desk slams down on it two big green bags with dollar signs on them. He addresses the woman standing in front of the desk, saying "sorry your work was taken over by machines. welcome to quantitative finance. Here’s your sacks of dollars." The caption below the comic reads "Pure mathematicians’ nightmares are different."

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