Really excited about our lab's latest paper led by Kevin Korfmann. Here, Kevin has developed a deep, transformer-based language model for population genetics for inferring coalescent times (times of common ancestry) along recombining chromosomes. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Local pond turtle conservancy that hires a mariachi band for the 4th of July parade is my America

Staff scientist position (computational): I am looking for a computational scientist to join my genomics lab at Stanford. They should have an outstanding skillset in ML/statistical methods for genomic applications, postdoc experience and a strong publication record. #sciencejobs

Preprint on "Finding easy regions for short-read variant calling from pangenome data": arxiv.org/abs/2507.03718

When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.

In #GENETICS, Alexander Stein and Benjamin Werner present a new study about the population genetics of cancer. Learn about their theoretical assessment of the genetic makeup of cancers before and after treatment: buff.ly/cADPpiP

Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time | our latest, led by the amazing maria isabel castaño #cienciacriolla biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New project! There's now a steady stream of discoveries of rare, high-impact genetic variants coming from resources like the UK Biobank and AllOfUs. I was frustrated I couldn't cross-reference my own genome with these discoveries, so I build a tool to do it I've now made

Late summer no childcare 2 kids under 4 m.youtube.com/shorts/dEDEMBM…

📣Online NOW! 📄Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Joshua G. Schraiber Doc Edge & co cell.com/ajhg/abstract/…

You know your likelihood function is wrong but it basically works so you’ll call it

Our paper identifying evidence of off-target probe binding in the 10x Genomics Xenium Breast Gene Panel is now available as a reviewed preprint at #eLife elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr… We look forward to revising the paper to incorporate reviewer recommendations and other updates 🧵👇

Phylo2Vec: A Vector Representation for Binary Trees academic.oup.com/sysbio/article… Society of Systematic Biologists

Cancer is an evolutionary disease, but does knowing a cancer’s evolutionary past help predict its future? Out today in nature, we learnt the evolution of 2000 lymphoid cancers and found it was highly correlated with clinical outcomes! (1/7, link below)

Long-read sequencing identifies aberrant fragmentation patterns linked to elevated cell-free DNA levels in cancer | bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…