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benjaminwerner.bsky.social
Tales of a theoretician. Group Leader at Barts Cancer Institute in London. Theoretical Biologist with a focus on Somatic Evolution. https://www.bartscancer.london/staff/dr-benjamin-werner/ Contact: [email protected]
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I met my PostDoc supervisor ages ago at a Monod conference + conference food was amazing! (Probably the Science is good as well)

Come and join our @mathonco.bsky.social department in sunny Florida: thisweekmathonco.substack.com/p/open-rank-...

Elon Musk gutting science funding in the US should at least be consequent. Stop selling electric cars using all the technology based on bogus quantum mechanics and return to good old horse carriages (For the purpose of this post we are not talking about the evolution of horses).

The AACR issues a Call to Action. www.aacr.org/about-the-aa...

Is Donald Trump aware some months are named after roman emperors? Can we give him a months for leaving the rest of us alone?

There are leaders that bring down walls and those building them. It is for the people to reject walls that have been broken down before!

Openings at the University of Bern, closing on 1st March. I can highly recommend Switzerland as a place to do research.

Trumps thoughts never seem to go beyond the 0th order approximation of any complex problem.

Our Division at UCSD Medicine is hiring postdocs in biomedical informatics on our T15 grant. Please apply if interested or share with others who might be! @ucsdmedschool.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @ucsdhealth.bsky.social

Mindscape Bonus Episode | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter. I try to lay things out in a way that would be informative to partisans on both sides of the spectrum (with my own views perfectly evident). #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

Whoever is responsible @ryanairofficial.bsky.social , loud party music at 5.45 in the airplane can be improved upon.

Oh no. Egg purchases in the US are now limited to a dozen eggs per person per day. What are they supposed to eat fir breakfest?

Most urging question, what is category 2?

Same thing in rock’n’roll and science. Or as Lemmy framed it: When I was young I was the only game in town I thought I had it down for sure, But time went by and I was lost in what I found The reasons blurred, the way unsure

Gleichschaltung maybe the most important change towards a fully fascist society en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichs... and its happening in real time and out in the open in the US. They are not there yet, but well on the way.

The Royal Society's Research Grants are now open for applications. These grants are aimed at early career researchers, or researchers returning from a career break and provides funding for promising new projects. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/resea...

Hi folks, I'm excited to share a whale of a tale (sorry, bad pun), where we engineer snowflake yeast to express sperm whale myoglobin, and explore how oxygen-binding proteins may have helped overcome anatomical limitations to early multicellularity. 🧪 #MEvoSky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

OpenAI complining that DeepSeek violated OpenAI’s terms of services is, lets see what is the word, hypocritical

Nathaniel MonPere from @benjaminwerner.bsky.social lab in the Centre for Cancer Evolution @qmbci.bsky.social modelling #clonalhaematopoiesis in ageig at the Annual Symposium of @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social

I always here about how great the system of checks and balances in the US is. But halting the scientific program at the NIH and NSF with an executive order of the president seems like a clear failure of the system to me. How is it acceptable that this is the lone decision of a troubled mind?

Certain types of music are very essential to my writing of manuscripts. So much so that I probably should add them to acknoweldgments, or maybe I add a playlist to Github?

How to analyse and present high dimensional data in biology is an important problem. The current situation is bad. Even as an expert, it is hard to judge what claim of current large scale single cell RNA analysis are actual biology or not. Important and misleading results look very much alike.

Question to the economists here: What would happen to the US and in extension to the world economy if Trump was to impose tariffs on every country in the world?

The probability to die between 78 and 82 is around 30%

Applications for this "Black Leaders in Cancer" #PhD studentship with our lab @icrlondon.bsky.social close on Thursday... if you know of someone who might be interested please do pass the link on.

Managing tip of the morning: Mark all emails read allows a happy start into the new year.

Donald Trump just now: Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin’s bullet ripped through my ear, but I felt then and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.

Bob Dylan on Science? And I’ll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin’ But I’ll know my song well before I start singin’ And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

0.055% of 2025 already passed. You are welcome!

Writing two dense pages for a high impact publication only takes about a life time.

I did my PhD with Arne in Plön. Can only highly recommend applying for positions.