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Senior Scientist, Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children; Associate Professor Dept. of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto. Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia.
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This is incredible

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

the united states no longer condemns russia’s invasion of ukraine. aligning the us with belarus, sudan, north korea and other failed states. a reflection of changing policy and a wake up call for us allies.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

MW: Highlighting the importance of collaborative research to his own work - pointed out that a very fruitful project in his lab was spearheaded as a collaboration by a student who rotated in both labs and brought them together, the PIs now work together successfully on join projects #LorneGenome25

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 14 days ago • 599 comments

"What I Believe" by Bertrand Russell is 100 yrs old and still relevant (www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73782). "The good life, as we conceive it, demands a multitude of social conditions, and cannot be realized without them. The good life, we said, is a life inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

You heard it here first folks, borders aren’t real, they’re just an artificial line someone drew. This quote will 100% start one of my book chapters.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

You are making a big difference in standing up to tyranny. Your decision to cancel the family trip to the United States is freaking them out. As Donald insults our nation, businesses are watching our tourism dollars dry up. Boycott all trips to the United States. www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

submitted 19 days ago • 302 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 19 days ago • 1165 comments

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”

submitted 27 days ago • 472 comments

We found that copies of the LINE1 transposon are key “architects” of the nucleolar genome in human embryonic stem cells. This work brings together two facets of Barbara McClintock’s pioneering research: nucleolar organizer regions and transposable elements. www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1...

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

My Tidyverse local synteny visualizer is up on GitHub: github.com/cxli233/Tidy... GitHub page contains 2 example datasets, as well as step-by-step instruction & explanations on how it works. Details on required input data are discussed in the GitHub page. Let me know if you run into issues.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Excited to share our preprint describing a new naked mole rat reference genome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

BIOMORA24 is go!!! Going to be an amazing few days of science, meeting old friends & meeting people in the flesh who I’ve only seen online/read papers of/emailed!

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment