The position for a postdoc is now officially open.
I can answer any questions related to the position, but please apply only thru the university system.
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Hienoa, että Suomessa on aktiivista porukkaa, jotka ovat laatineet Susi & suomalaiset -kansalaisaloitteen. Kiitos teille ja nostan hattua! Linkistä pääsee allekirjoittamaan kansalaisaloitteen. Jaetaan tätä eteenpäin! 🐺✨
www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/16...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
Excellent news for the end of the year!
Our project on past and present bacteria with @jmuurine.bsky.social and great collaborators got funded.
We will be looking for a postdoc for 2026-27 with expertise in bacterial genomics and/or molecular dating methods.
If interested, DM me.
Please share.
Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.
Great to share the latest work from our group and collaborators. First CARRIAGE study paper led by @drdaggarwal.bsky.social and the heroic efforts of Katie Bellis and Beth Blane in the lab plus all the team at @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social Huge thanks goes to the 22,000 participants of the study
Nordic AMR Conference 2026 flyer. Keynote speakers are Timothy Walsh, Dan Andersson, Claas Kirchhelle, Barth Smets and Anu Kantele. Abstract deadline 1st of December and registration opens on 8th of December..
The abstract deadline for Nordic AMR Conference 2026 has been extended. Also see the list of keynote speakers.
More information at www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.
A huge thanks to all the amazing speakers and participants at #SPAAM7 yesterday 🧬🙌
The sessions were full of inspiring talks and great discussions!✨
Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.
Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science
@ggronvall.bsky.social explains how in recent weeks, the Trump administration—including NIH Director Bhattacharya—has rationalized the defunding of scientific research by citing COVID-19's lab leak theory.
Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Describe your work in one gif
#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky
Here’s the thing about suggesting “cooking classes” as an alternative to insulin for diabetics.
It’s ignorant. It’s ableist. It’s eugenicist. We know all of this.
It’s also incredibly privileged.
It assumes that healthy eating is accessible to everyone & that not doing it is a choice 🧵
Suomen Kauppakamari on erikoisessa asemassa: ei viranomainen, mutta sillä on lakisääteisiä tehtäviä, kuten kauppatodistusten ja alkuperätodistusten myöntäminen. Näihin asioihin tulee myös valtion rahoitusta – eli meidän verorahoja.
💸🤔 1/8
Sture-setä on taas reilu jätkä. Napannut kuvakaappuksen mun face-päivityksestä ja jakanut Twitteriin. Sieltähän sitten kaikki röllit löysi tiensä mun faceen.
Jep, oon facessa mun päivitykset on olleet pääosin julkisia. Eipä ole enää. Lähdin Twitteristä, kun halusin eroon noista.
blaOXA-58. On kyllä bakteerien geeni jos sillä on jotain väliä. Perustelu on että laajensi ymmärrystäni antibioottiresistenssistä silloin kun aloittelin väikkäriä.
Todella mielenkiintoinen juttu. Ja Onnistuu myös mielestäni hienosti selittämään kestävyyden taloudellisen ulottuvuuden viimeisessä osassa. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
Äitini on tällainen henkilö, ollut varmaan aina. Siivoaa, havannoi ja pitää kunnossa talonsa takana olevaa metsikköä.
It's time for MEGA: let's make Europe great again! The Nazis & Operation Paperclip crippled European science & culture. Now the US is conducting its own purge. The EU should invest billions into academia, set up new programmes and research centres. Should have done this before Brexit already.
Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you.
Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.
Ei varmaan enää voi allekirjoittaa? Oli pieni ongelma sähköpostin kanssa ehdokkuuteni alkutaipaleella niin on mennyt kaikenlaista ohi. Olen ehdolla Sipoossa.
To wrap this already long thread up, a reminder: now that Europe has to rearm, we really, really need to remember these lessons of the past.
Finland wasn’t the only country to understand that strong defence requires a strong society.
But our current crop of politicians seem to have forgotten it.
We sequenced a dozen metagenomes!!! You won't believe what happened next...
🦠🧫🖥🧬🧪🔬
Every metagenomic paper without experimental design:
Kiitos vinkeistä! Itse olen toistaiseksi käyttänyt sitä vain kielen parantamiseen ja jonkun verran koodausapuna. Siinä se on erityisen hyvä, kielimalli kun on.
Jo melkein puolet suomalaisista uskoo Yleisradion olevan politisoitunut uutislähde.
Kymmenen vuotta disinformaatiota ja oikeistopopulismia on vetänyt Suomea syvälle suohon.
Trumpin Amerikan meininki saadaan tännekin, jos oikeisto ei lakkaa uskomasta tyhmään paskapuheeseen.
