I wonder what percent of the #SMBE2023 attendants managed to reach end with an intact name tag 😄

Gloomy northern weather is not something I am looking forward to after beautiful time in Italy. Thankfully, #SMBE2023 was a huge motivation boost! Many thanks to the organizing committee, volunteers and scientists presenting and discussing their exciting research.

A wearable ultrasound scanner, incorporated into a bra, could allow more regular monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. “With more frequent screening, our goal is to increase the survival rate to up to 98 percent,” says Canan Dagdeviren. mitsha.re/rkzw50PoWUH

I mean, supervised ADMIXTURE sounds like a really accurate name for a child.

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles with Biotech Company That Made Billions Thanks to “HeLa” Cell Line democracynow.org/2023/8/2/headl…

I am very excited to share the manuscript about our highly efficient immunopeptidomics workflow IMBAS. Combined with AlphaPeptDeep Wen-Feng Zeng we acquire deep immunopeptidomes even from limited sample amounts. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out!

This is so unbelievable. @ERC grantee Fatma Guney F. Güney is not given #EU #Schengen visa to attend conferences. How is this possible? Where is diversity, inclusion, and equity that academia is talking about?

This might just be the most useful tool ever build... HLAfreq: Download and combine HLA allele frequency data biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Question for #immunogenomics people: Is there any study on the divergence time of HLA alleles? I am looking for a phylogenetic tree of alleles and the only one I could find was that paper: doi.org/10.1007/s00251… Are there any such attempts for loci other than DRB1?

The MX Biobank paper is out today in nature! This is the first national-scale genomic database in Mexico and the largest independent project led by my lab Cinvestav since I returned to my home country to help building local capacity. rdcu.be/dojZ5

Today marks the 100th year of the Republic of Türkiye 🇹🇷 Today, we celebrate the rise of the people of a nation under a secular state after a long war of independence, the people who rejects being subjects of an emperor/caliph. Long live the Republic! #cumhuriyet

Islamism is inherently anti-semitic and zionism is inherently anti-muslim. Neither of them has the potential for a long-lasting peace.

Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model? 1/ signal.org/blog/signal-is…

Horrified, devastated, speechless. There are no words to express the shock and sorrow we all feel in MSF this moment!

Thank you Aaron Swartz. Hope you will be able to rest in peace one day when we completely dismantle this broken system.

Thank you Tobias for accompanying and guiding me through this long journey! I very much enjoyed the research environment you created in the lab and feel privileged to have worked with you. #PhD

Reminds me of Turkey: Universities in Israel tracked people's social media accounts and based on their "likes" they were suspended from their studies for supporting the Hamas attack. Haifa suspends 8; most facing disciplinary proceedings are Arab citizens. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

A despicable move from the government of Turkey. The proposal for the new high school biology curriculum is filled with intellegent design nonsense, openly rejecting evolution as an "unproven theory". Below is the statement (in Turkish) from our society.

This is the worst-case scenario, mass hunger has overtaken parts of Gaza, and Israel has no exit strategy from a war prolonged to keep Netanyahu in power. Hamas was willing to sacrifice Gaza, and Netanyahu, Israel. Hostages still not home, Palestinian suffering endless.