Benjamin Schuster-Böckler
@dagams.bsky.social
Group leader at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Oxford. Computational genomics and bioinformatics.
Also find me on genomic.social, a free and non-profit Mastodon instance for genomics (@[email protected])
Also find me on genomic.social, a free and non-profit Mastodon instance for genomics (@[email protected])
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Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF.
BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu
Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
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BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu
Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
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Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative | Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative
bcbi.berkeley.edu
September 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Please help spread the word! We are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Fellows as part of the recently launched Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative (BCBI) at UC Berkeley and UCSF.
BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu
Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
(1/n)
BCBI website: bcbi.berkeley.edu
Apply by Nov 1, 2026: berkeley.infoready4.com#freeformComp...
(1/n)
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Holy moly, @ensembl.org killed biomart! Hope many R scripts are there out there that depend on biomaRt? How many people have informatics practicals, or undergraduate project instructions that depend on a web interface for bulk selection of data?
September 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Holy moly, @ensembl.org killed biomart! Hope many R scripts are there out there that depend on biomaRt? How many people have informatics practicals, or undergraduate project instructions that depend on a web interface for bulk selection of data?
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Reposted by Benjamin Schuster-Böckler
More than 50 studies on cell ageing have apparently used the wrong antibody to identify a key protein in experiments, according to a science sleuth.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Sleuth identifies dozens of studies that used the wrong antibody
The case is the latest example of a scientific workhorse being misused in experiments.
www.nature.com
August 22, 2026 at 8:31 AM
More than 50 studies on cell ageing have apparently used the wrong antibody to identify a key protein in experiments, according to a science sleuth.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Reposted by Benjamin Schuster-Böckler
'Riffing with Roger', an Oxford Mathematics Unoriginal starring Roger Penrose. And another Roger (sort of).
August 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
'Riffing with Roger', an Oxford Mathematics Unoriginal starring Roger Penrose. And another Roger (sort of).
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Hot hooves strikes again!
August 16, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Hot hooves strikes again!
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A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
August 16, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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On this day in 1942, a 5 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother and sister (12) where they were murdered in the gas chamber after selection. The father perished on the 30 Sep 1942. Her name was Betty Stodel
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
August 16, 2026 at 8:12 AM
On this day in 1942, a 5 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother and sister (12) where they were murdered in the gas chamber after selection. The father perished on the 30 Sep 1942. Her name was Betty Stodel
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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On this day in 1942, a 7 month old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother where they were murdered in the gas chamber after selection. The father perished on the 30 Sep 1942. Her name was Edith Poppelsdorf
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
August 16, 2026 at 8:11 AM
On this day in 1942, a 7 month old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother where they were murdered in the gas chamber after selection. The father perished on the 30 Sep 1942. Her name was Edith Poppelsdorf
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
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For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
August 12, 2026 at 12:55 PM
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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In Clacton right now. (Real, not AI!) #VoteBinface
August 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
In Clacton right now. (Real, not AI!) #VoteBinface
This looks pretty cool:
Wally, our command-line genome alignment plotter, is now available as a client-only web app: no install, no upload, runs entirely in your browser: www.gear-genomics.com/wally/
July 14, 2026 at 12:52 PM
This looks pretty cool:
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Yes - he CAN! (Sorry, we had to).
July 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Yes - he CAN! (Sorry, we had to).
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On 6 July 2026 Oxfordshire County Council will repair the lower part of the old stone wall in the alleyway alongside the Mason's Arms in Quarry, but the upper part of the stone wall will be replaced with a metal fence. See this Facebook post plus informative comment www.facebook.com/FriendsofQua...
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July 4, 2026 at 5:56 AM
On 6 July 2026 Oxfordshire County Council will repair the lower part of the old stone wall in the alleyway alongside the Mason's Arms in Quarry, but the upper part of the stone wall will be replaced with a metal fence. See this Facebook post plus informative comment www.facebook.com/FriendsofQua...
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Yesterday we attended the launch of the Women in Research Charter with the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Liz Kendall - along with some of our Fellows. See the Trust being included in the Charter’s “Best Practice pack” - www.gov.uk/government/p...
July 2, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Yesterday we attended the launch of the Women in Research Charter with the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, Liz Kendall - along with some of our Fellows. See the Trust being included in the Charter’s “Best Practice pack” - www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Very excited to share our new Nature study!
We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg
Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!
We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg
Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!
Replication-stress-induced chromatin loops protect fork stability - Nature
Replication stress induces the formation of transient chromatin loops that enclose de novo heterochromatin-enriched stalled replication forks.
www.nature.com
July 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Very excited to share our new Nature study!
We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg
Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!
We discovered that replication stress stabilizes CTCF-dependent chromatin loops enclosing stressed nascent DNA, where G9a-mediated heterochromatin protects it from nucleolytic degradation. rdcu.be/frzLg
Huge thanks to all our collaborators and co-authors!
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Congratulations to Prof Richard Durbin, winner of the 2026 Genetics Society Medal!
His pioneering work in computational genomics has transformed how we analyse and understand genome sequences.
His pioneering work in computational genomics has transformed how we analyse and understand genome sequences.
June 26, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Congratulations to Prof Richard Durbin, winner of the 2026 Genetics Society Medal!
His pioneering work in computational genomics has transformed how we analyse and understand genome sequences.
His pioneering work in computational genomics has transformed how we analyse and understand genome sequences.
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz...
arstechnica.com
June 7, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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We need to make sure this editorial goes viral
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
June 6, 2026 at 2:18 AM
We need to make sure this editorial goes viral
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!
June 4, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Exciting breakthrough technology from the lab, now live in
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!
@cellcellpress.bsky.social
! Instead of cutting the genome where proteins bind (e.g., Cut&Tag), D&D-seq scars the DNA with a deaminase, allowing single cell genome mapping of TFs and chromatin remodellers!
Reposted by Benjamin Schuster-Böckler
