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shaunmahony.bsky.social
Studying gene regulation and transcription factor binding with machine learning. Assoc Prof at Penn State. 🇮🇪
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A very special first post on Bluesky: I’m excited to share that I’ll be starting my lab at Penn State this coming January in the Dept of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology! I’ll be hiring at all levels soon. Check out updates, thoughts, and positions on the lab account: @hanna-lab.bsky.social

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Free in-person registration is open for #MLCB2025! Sept 10-11 at @nygenome.org and online at youtube.com/@mlcbconf. Paper/abstract deadline is June 1, more deets including our fantastic invited speaker lineup at mlcb.org! Please RP.

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🧬 Just out in Bioinformatics Advances: "Perspective on recent developments and challenges in regulatory and systems genomics" Find the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf106

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Our New perspective explores breakthroughs & challenges in regulatory & systems genomics: from cis-regulatory code & 3D chromatin to spatial omics & AI models. đź”— doi.org/10.1093/bioa... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #RegulatoryGenomics

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ai.stanford.edu/postdoctoral... Postdoc candidates with strong expertise in AI for bio should apply for this new Stanford SAIL fellowship. We encourage applicants who would like to work with multiple SAIL faculty (we are part of SAIL as well). Come join us

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our work on the molecular differences between transcription factor isoforms is out now in Molecular Cell! key point: 2/3rds of TF isos differ in properties like DNA binding & transcriptional activity many are "negative regulators" & misexpressed in cancer www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 65 days ago • 7 comments

Why AI won’t replace scientists capable of making disruptive conceptual breakthroughs - they pose questions that challenge, rather than align with, the training data set thomwolf.io/blog/scienti...

submitted 69 days ago • 7 comments

@austintwang.bsky.social is a fantastic grad student in the lab who will be completing his PhD in the Fall & is looking for research position in AI for bio in industry. www.austintwang.com 1/

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

By crushing cancer research, what are Elon & Trump making more efficient? Their NIH funding cuts are illegal—so instead, they're suffocating the grant approval process for cancer researchers with so much red tape that labs & clinical trials will be forced to shut down.

submitted 94 days ago • 34 comments

🎆Next #FragileNucleosome meeting is less than a week away! We are delighted to host @manucazottes.bsky.social, @robertadolling1.bsky.social & @leandrosboukas.bsky.social ! We will discuss evolution of XIST regulatory network, cancer epigenetics, and MDEMs! 🗓️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

🚨PA colleagues: "Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania." "If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC Get out your Other Support and share that info!

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

NIGMS MIRA explicitly asks for the following in investigator biosketches: “Include descriptions of significant service to the scientific community that are beyond normal mentoring and committee duties expected at the PD's/PI's institution.” They can’t then punish a PI based on the type of service

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments

Another school curtails admissions, even offers already made. This is on #Trump, #Musk and #Vought. Time to fight back. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 97 days ago • 56 comments

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments

It looks like 8/8 study sections that were scheduled to begin today have been cancelled: www.csr.nih.gov/RevPanelsAnd...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Are other outlets covering this? It's effectively another freeze on NIH funding. By my count, 3/8 study sections were cancelled today, 4/8 are cancelled tomorrow. Will only get worse as we hit those that were not posted before 1/20 @zey.bsky.social ? www.thetransmitter.org/funding/fede...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

JD Vance has expressed a “deep hostility to the entire academic enterprise, not just the so-called woke parts,” writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. "He wasn’t talking about making more room for right-wing ideas in universities or even dreaming of taking them over. He wanted to destroy it all."

submitted 105 days ago • 33 comments

Bluetorial: The rationale for the “NIH” indirect cost “plan” is based on misunderstood (unintentional or intentional) accounting and math The value of real government transparency

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

Here's a quantitative illustration of what's happening with NIH funding.

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments