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Simon Wengert

@simon-wengert.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Copenhagen University | foundation models for genomics | mtDNA heteroplasmy | ageing & psychiatric diseases

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Please share! Fully funded PhD position (UK home fees) at U. of Dundee for someone interested in combining wet-lab (Dr Murdoch) and computational approaches (🙋‍♀️ 2nd supervisor), with plenty of scope for learning new skills across both areas. 🧪🧬 Deadline 21 September
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Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Kaessmann Lab @kaessmannlab.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’re hiring! Experimental #Postdoc and computational and/or experimental #PhD positions in evolutionary genomics are available in our lab in Heidelberg: home.kaessmannlab.org/openPositions Please repost and spread the word!
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Juuso Koponen @juusokoponen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
📊 My and @jhilden.bsky.social’s book has been out of print for some time, as our publisher closed down its general publishing arm. We are working on a 2nd edition, but it is not going to be ready anytime soon, so we’re making the current edition available as an e-book for €9.90. payhip.com/b/zbl43
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Data visualization handbook
The Data visualization handbook by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén is a practical guide for creating compelling graphics to explain and explore data. It is primarily aimed at designers, journalists, ...
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Simon Wengert @simon-wengert.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Midway through the CSHL Symposium on AI in Biology and this far it's been a blast! Tomorrow I will be presenting our work on genomic foundation models for large-scale biomedical data analysis in poster session #3, 4:30 pm, poster #291. Come find me to connect and discuss :) #cshlsymp26
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Uri Alon @urialonlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Identify. Attack. Resolve. The immune system follows a perfect defense program: ignore weak/self signals, attack true threats with force, then shut down to avoid damage. (1/2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Excitability as a design principle in the immune system
A simple pulse-and-rest circuit may explain how immune cells strike hard at threats yet avoid self-destruction.
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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We are hiring a Research Software Engineer at @embl.org Heidelberg to enhance and maintain open-source infrastructure for spatial omics. 🔗 Deadline: 15/02/2026 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/d...
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Research Software Engineer - Spatial-omics
The Oliver Stegle team and the Bioimage Analysis Support Team at EMBL Heidelberg are looking for a research software engineer to contribute to the development and maintenance of highly-used open-sourc...
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
GWAS has been an incredible discovery tool for human genetics: it regularly identifies *causal* links from 1000s of SNPs to any given trait. But mechanistic interpretation is usually difficult. Our latest work on causal models for this is out yesterday: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A short🧵:
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Causal modelling of gene effects from regulators to programs to traits - Nature
Approaches combining genetic association and Perturb-seq data that link genetic variants to functional programs to traits are described.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.
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Gosia Trynka @gosiatrynka.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Hiring Senior Computational Postdoc to lead large-scale scRNAseq analysis for Project JAGUAR, one of the world’s most comprehensive single-cell immune resources from Latin American ancestries. If big data, global partnerships, human diversity and immune regulation excite you, apply! bit.ly/3XyFWrW
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Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Join EMBL's Interdisciplinary Postdoc Programme! 3 years funding, self-designed interdisciplinary project co-led between EMBL PI and PI in one of EMBL's actual, prospect or associate member states. In particular: AI&Theory, use mathem. models, physics principles and AI www.embl.org/about/info/p...
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EIPOD-LinC Fellowship Programme – Postdoctoral Programme
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loic-yengo.bsky.social @loic-yengo.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
First time on Bsky and first big announcement! I am excited to announce that our new study explaining the missing heritability of many phenotypes using WGS data from ~347,000 UK Biobank participants has just been published in @Nature. Our manuscript is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Estimation and mapping of the missing heritability of human phenotypes - Nature
WGS data were used from 347,630 individuals with European ancestry in the UK Biobank to obtain high-precision estimates of coding and non-coding rare variant heritability for 34 co...
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Bastian Grossenbacher-Rieck @pseudomanifold.topology.rocks · 29/10/2025
Want to generate point clouds? Our (w/ Ernst Röell) #NeurIPS2025 paper shows a topology-driven method that is fast, simple, and high-quality. 🔥 1/n
Our pipeline
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Stegle Lab @steglelab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
We're seeking a PhD student passionate about ML, biology, and driving impact in healthcare! You'll be working on multi-omics factorization models for personalized medicine, co-supervised by @junyanlu.bsky.social. 👉 Project: www.helmholtz.de/assets/hidss... ✍️ Apply: hidss4health.de/application
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Application - Helmholtz Information & Data Science Academy
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Jolien Rietkerk @jolienrietkerk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
‘Genetic Risk Effects on Psychiatric Disorders Act in Sets’, the title of our new preprint on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social! This huge collaborative effort advances our understanding of psychiatric genetic architecture and emphasizes the importance of looking beyond additive effects. 🧵1/n; 🧪👩🏽‍🔬🧬
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Simon Wengert @simon-wengert.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
After an immensely enriching and rewarding PhD in @caina89.bsky.social lab at @pioneercampus.bsky.social, I am excited to announce that I moved to beautiful Copenhagen for my postdoc in Simon Rasmussen's group @cbmr.science!
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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Postdoc opportunity! At National Genomics Infrastructure in Uppsala we're looking for a postdoc in genomics R&D. Cutting-edge methods dev in an excellent, international environment at the junction between academia and infrastructure. Deadline May 23! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Postdoctoral Researcher, NGI Uppsala, SNP&SEQ Technology Platform - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Researcher, NGI Uppsala, SNP&SEQ Technology Platform, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University
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Na Cai @caina89.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Very happy to share *two* new projects from my group now on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on mtDNA variation effects on tissue-specific gene expression conducted using RNAseq data in 49 tissues in the GTEx project! 🧵 1/n
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Simon Wengert @simon-wengert.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
After 4 fantastic years of research, together with @caina89.bsky.social & Matthias Heinig, I’m thrilled to share the first tissue specific map of apparent mtDNA heteroplasmy in humans and their relationships with donor age and mtDNA gene expr across 49 tissues! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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