Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, according to a new analysis. scim.ag/4wF

#NIH-supported research: A careful analysis found that air pollution from coal power plants is associated with greater mortality than previously thought. bit.ly/3GIP30v

2 friends are getting divorced after 26 years of marriage and my god this is the NICEST divorce I’ve seen! Woman had left her job to take care of the house. Now the husband is buying her a house, doing it for her taste because he knows it better than her, building her multiple

There should be a Science Olympics where we watch people do hard experiments

Our GWAS for restless legs syndrome is online! Thanks to my friends Cal Liao, @Jay__Ross , Memoona Rasheed , @_idita , ece bayram for all your support! Thanks Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) CARTaGENE AllofUsResearch making large-scale meta-analyses possible! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Kind of gross that people are mocking the massive geographic bias in genetics and genomics studies. As of 2019, 71.8% of participants were recruited from only three countries: the US, UK, and Iceland. nature.com/articles/s4200…

Just watched the full House hearing & testimony of NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertignolli. A few takeaways: • the proposed budget, in addition to not increasing for inflation, wants to condense NIH from 27 to 15 institutes. The NIH does not think this is a good idea. 🧵1/?

Come join us on our SV, graph genome hackathon August 27–29, 2025: fritzsedlazeck.github.io/blog/2025/hack… Seats are filling up! It will be great opportunity to work together on some prototypes. We will publish them together in F1000. Rice University BCMHouston #bioinformatics #openscience

This is a map of repetition among all symptoms in the DSM-5.

Glad to share that long-read sequencing is now solving short read-negative rare disease cases from Central Asia & Transcaucasus, part of the Central Asian & Transcaucasian Genomics (CATG) . We report CSNK1E-CGG expansion in PME with incomplete penetrance: bit.ly/46HrELm Thanks to MJFF&GP2, The Neurogenetics Lab UCL ION

Most people know that ALS is a deadly disease. But most don't know that an ALS diagnosis is often missed at early disease stages due to lack of specific biomarkers. Now, a plasma proteomic signature of 33 proteins (based on Olink Explore) achieved discrimination of >95%!