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ewanbirney.bsky.social
Executive Director EMBL. I have an insatiable love of biology. Consultant to ONT and Cantata (Dovetail)
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Out today in AJHG, this work from my (recently graduated) student Teng Heng on recessive effects in 44k British South Asians from the Genes & Health project @genesandhealth.bsky.social . She found 185 independent hits of which >40% were novel. Worth looking for these in your own cohorts!

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3 days I ago I posted a thread about how genomics, imaging and AI is changing how we do fundamental research - here I want to look at an application area of understanding life, namely improving the health of citizens. bsky.app/profile/ewan...

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Congratulations to Wendy Bickmore on her election as an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences www.nasonline.org

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Endogenous retroviruses - they’re a thing in vertebrate development. Check it out 👇👇

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Welcome, Noel O’Boyle! Joining as EMBL-EBI’s new Chemical Resources Team Leader, Noel brings with him a background in chemistry, programming, & data-driven drug discovery 💊 Find out more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

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Extraordinary times in Spain. April 28’s once-in-a-lifetime massive blackout💡didn’t stop the CRG. Thanks to our Facility Management crew and the @prbb.org, generators kicked in, protocols ran like clockwork, samples stayed frozen and years of research were safeguarded. We thank our crisis heroes!

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Jupiter Core xkcd.com/3083

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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Great to see this out! Such a cool study. And I just so happen to have a recording of Ewan presenting this work last summer at NHGRI for those who are interested. Eye opening stuff on the interplay between genetic and environmental factors: youtu.be/ffXDI8802Ss?...

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🔬 Coming up this May! Three outstanding speakers are taking part in our seminar series: @ewanbirney.bsky.social, @prhsteinmetz.bsky.social, and @afarkkila.bsky.social . 🗓️ Check out all the details 👉 www.med.uio.no/ncmbm/englis... @uio.no @nordicembl.bsky.social

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Great talk by Yanhua Rao at #AACR2025 on GSK’s new clinical WRN inhibitor. Proud to see our unpublished data spotlighted for revealing new MoA insights. Exciting times ahead! @mgarnett.bsky.social

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Great intro from @ewanbirney.bsky.social to my and Bettina Welz's (from @wittbrodtlab.bsky.social) new preprint, which forms the core of my PhD work. Very excited to see this out and to get as much feedback as possible on it!

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