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Associate Professor of Genetics and Genome Sciences at UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory Transposons, Structural Variation, Genomics, Gardening, Loud Music, Mom

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Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

06.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 1371 πŸ” 503 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 136

Abstract submissions are open, and the program will be largely driven by the submissions! If you're on the east coast for Biology of Genomes, this will be a fun few day jaunt to CT afterwards. Bonus- if you drive from Long Island, the ferry is a ton of fun!

11.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
HLi Lab - Vacancies Openings

I am looking for a postdoc to develop high-performance algorithms in computational genomics. Email or DM me if interested. For more information, see hlilab.github.io/vacancies. RTs appreciated!

14.01.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 64 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i hate elon musk for a lot of reasons
but one of them is that now sometimes i first see interesting papers on linkedin

LINKEDIN

06.01.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 173 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1
Crap Taxidermy book with elongated fox on the cover.

Crap Taxidermy book with elongated fox on the cover.

Reminds me of this gem of a book.

05.01.2026 21:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@cedricfeschotte.bsky.social, this Barbados cocktail is for you. It's 5 o'clock where we aren't!

05.01.2026 21:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy holiday season, science people!

30.11.2025 23:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They do! After your post, I want to get the stoneground sansho, too. I love Sichuan peppercorns for the numbing/tingliness, so I'm excited to add that aspect to my togarishi chili too.

26.11.2025 00:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I have the Yawataya Isogoro versions of a yuzu and a plain one, and they are spicy and flavorful, and have a similar long lasting tingliness! I'll put your recommendation on my to order list for when these lose flavor. They do lead to infinitely better ramen and breakfast fried rice, etc.

25.11.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes are found in hundreds of copies in the human genome.

Do sequence variations in these paralogs change the ribosome function? Yes!

I am excited to share our new preprint @mbarnalab @jkpritch in collaboration with Calico:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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19.11.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Beautiful photo and quote, and your puppy had a great family, a lot of gorgeous hikes, and an amazing life. Hope you're doing as well as can be expected.

20.11.2025 01:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's to something beautiful to start the day this Halloween Friday. I thought you might enjoy my spooky beautiful cat(tleya). β™₯️

31.10.2025 13:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Today is the our @jacksonlab.bsky.social scientific symposium and faculty retreat, and I'm excited to hear about research being conducted by JAX trainee's and our institution's scientific trajectory. Love my research communities here in central Connecticut and Bar Harbor.

27.10.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Postdoctoral Associate The Beck Lab is seeking an enthusiastic, independent, and highly motivated postdoctoral fellow to join our innovative research group at the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and University of Co...

On the last day of #ASHG25, attending a telomere session entitled "end results" seems fitting. It's been a great meeting talking with vibrant young geneticists, and on this note, I'm hiring a postdoc! thejacksonlaboratory.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/External_JAX...

18.10.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I want to try something again at #ASHG25 this year: I'll block some time on Thursday and Friday afternoons to meet with trainees who would be interested to chat on any topic.

I did this last year and it was great to meet a whole bunch of new people, at all career stages!

06.10.2025 23:14 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Kicking off the Annual Society of Human Genetics meeting in drizzly Boston with a program committee meeting! Welcome to #ASHG25, and hope to see your smiling, brilliant faces!

14.10.2025 16:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

IT IS TIME.

22.09.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 1642 πŸ” 590 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 97
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My work today is sponsored by...

10.09.2025 19:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey Drosophilists: Might you maintain Fuyama's original gynogenetic "gyn-F9" (BDSC #5353) stock in your library?

The current stock from Bloomington is not producing progeny with ms(k81) males.

Thank you!!!

24.08.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's exciting to see the continuing legacy of T2T sequencing methods being discussed on @scifri.bsky.social ! 🧬
Complete genomes are helping us understand more and more about genetic function and diversity in areas of our DNA that were unreadable just a few years ago.

01.08.2025 21:11 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This was both fun and terrifying to tape! Awesome to talk with @glennislogsdon.bsky.social and @aphillippy.bsky.social about our sequencing data / paper, the improvements to large-scale sequencing projects, and what this means for our understanding of our DNA!

01.08.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone asked me just today if RSS is β€œstill a thing”.

Friends, it definitely is! Though I will always sigh for google reader, RSS remains a fantastic way to pull in news from the sources you want to read, without β€œthe algorithm” sucking you into rage and despair.

01.08.2025 02:24 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

'Tis a good joke, and both as a co-senior author on this study and an analogous assembler of a genome, one takes longer and the other is way harder and involves more sleep deprivation. Also, a great paper is fun, but the continued ROI on the latter is endless joy (and frustration)!

25.07.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My wife assembled two complete human genomes and we couldn’t get that published anywhere.

25.07.2025 12:47 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Lovely write up on our paper from @jacksonlab.bsky.social. It's been <4 years since I joined the HGSVC, and together with Peter Audano and Parithi Balachandran in my lab, @tobiasmar.bsky.social, @glennislogsdon.bsky.social, and many others, we've done a lot. Here's to great collaborators!

24.07.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Check out our latest work co-led by @dcsoto.bsky.social and @jmuribescr.bsky.social identifying hundreds of human duplicated gene families using the new T2T-CHM13 assembly, with a focus on those potentially contributing to brain evolution πŸ§ͺ: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lTQtL7PXu...

21.07.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5
JSCBB Biotech Building in Boulder, CO

JSCBB Biotech Building in Boulder, CO

Are you bravely deciding to do a postdoc in the US? And also interested in some combination of genomics, immunology, and transposons? If so, consider applying to my lab at the BioFrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

πŸ§ͺ🧬 #TESky #interferosky

17.07.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Long-read RNA sequencing of transposable elements from single cells using CELLO-seq - Nature Protocols Single-cell long-read RNA sequencing enables the high-fidelity mapping of single-cell expression data from highly sequence-similar transposable elements to unique genomic loci by correcting errors fro...

Very happy to share our protocols paper for CELLO-seq. This will make single cell long read RNA-seq more accessible and provides analysis guidelines. We hope this helps the #transposon #TEsky community and folks working on #singleCell isoform and allelic #gene expression. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

16.07.2025 16:55 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
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I has a monarch growing in my garden. That and the fireflies tonight have made my day more tolerable. What is keeping your head above water?

11.07.2025 03:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
a Β½ gallon of neutral milk

a Β½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

06.07.2025 15:42 πŸ‘ 13489 πŸ” 2571 πŸ’¬ 149 πŸ“Œ 106