Josep Mercader
@josepmercader.bsky.social
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Please share! Fully funded PhD position (UK home fees) at U. of Dundee for someone interested in combining wet-lab (Dr Murdoch) and computational approaches (🙋♀️ 2nd supervisor), with plenty of scope for learning new skills across both areas. 🧪🧬
Deadline 21 September
Deadline 21 September
Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
September 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Please share! Fully funded PhD position (UK home fees) at U. of Dundee for someone interested in combining wet-lab (Dr Murdoch) and computational approaches (🙋♀️ 2nd supervisor), with plenty of scope for learning new skills across both areas. 🧪🧬
Deadline 21 September
Deadline 21 September
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This Philly discovery paved the way for the impossible.
Time to learn about one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine 🧪 🧵
#science #news #education #health #research
Time to learn about one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine 🧪 🧵
#science #news #education #health #research
September 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This Philly discovery paved the way for the impossible.
Time to learn about one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine 🧪 🧵
#science #news #education #health #research
Time to learn about one of the most important breakthroughs in modern medicine 🧪 🧵
#science #news #education #health #research
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Yeah so, if Fauci is going to be held in contempt of Congress for pleading the 5th, RFK Jr. had BETTER be held accountable for LYING TO CONGRESS.
In any other administration, this would be grounds for impeachment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
In any other administration, this would be grounds for impeachment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
RFK Jr lied in Senate confirmation hearings, newly revealed documents indicate
Letters obtained by Guardian and AP contradict testimony that 2019 visit to Samoa had ‘nothing to do with vaccines’
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Yeah so, if Fauci is going to be held in contempt of Congress for pleading the 5th, RFK Jr. had BETTER be held accountable for LYING TO CONGRESS.
In any other administration, this would be grounds for impeachment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
In any other administration, this would be grounds for impeachment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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mRNA vaccines vs cancer success
—melanoma (Phase 3, RCT, definitive, announced today)
—triple negative breast cancer
—pancreatic cancer
—non-small cell lung cancer
—glioblastoma
—melanoma (Phase 3, RCT, definitive, announced today)
—triple negative breast cancer
—pancreatic cancer
—non-small cell lung cancer
—glioblastoma
August 19, 2026 at 2:21 PM
mRNA vaccines vs cancer success
—melanoma (Phase 3, RCT, definitive, announced today)
—triple negative breast cancer
—pancreatic cancer
—non-small cell lung cancer
—glioblastoma
—melanoma (Phase 3, RCT, definitive, announced today)
—triple negative breast cancer
—pancreatic cancer
—non-small cell lung cancer
—glioblastoma
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ALL BABIES ARE GOOD BABIES. THERE ARE NO BEST BABIES YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS.
August 17, 2026 at 3:15 PM
ALL BABIES ARE GOOD BABIES. THERE ARE NO BEST BABIES YOU ABSOLUTE MORONS.
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Surprised by this endorsement by The Economist for these companies selecting embryos for up to $50K, "designer-ish babies," whose IQ, height & other features, can supposedly be accurately predicted by polygenic risk scores. They can't.
economist.com/leaders/2026...
www.economist.com/business/202...
economist.com/leaders/2026...
www.economist.com/business/202...
August 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Surprised by this endorsement by The Economist for these companies selecting embryos for up to $50K, "designer-ish babies," whose IQ, height & other features, can supposedly be accurately predicted by polygenic risk scores. They can't.
economist.com/leaders/2026...
www.economist.com/business/202...
economist.com/leaders/2026...
www.economist.com/business/202...
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Se llamaba Faten Ben Omar El Azizi, era jugadora en el Mogreb Atl.Tetuán y una de las promesas del fútbol marroquí. Es una de las fallecidas ahogadas nadando la costa de Ceuta. Se contabilizan ya 72 víctimas mortales, mientras se difunden todo tipo de discursos de odio xenófobos.
August 2, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Se llamaba Faten Ben Omar El Azizi, era jugadora en el Mogreb Atl.Tetuán y una de las promesas del fútbol marroquí. Es una de las fallecidas ahogadas nadando la costa de Ceuta. Se contabilizan ya 72 víctimas mortales, mientras se difunden todo tipo de discursos de odio xenófobos.
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The big picture: admixed and related samples are common in biobanks and cohorts around the world, but researchers have lacked a dedicated tool to analyze both features together. Tractor-Mix opens the door to more powerful GWAS without excluding relatives or losing ancestry-specific insight.
July 20, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The big picture: admixed and related samples are common in biobanks and cohorts around the world, but researchers have lacked a dedicated tool to analyze both features together. Tractor-Mix opens the door to more powerful GWAS without excluding relatives or losing ancestry-specific insight.
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Watch @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators Dave Conti and Sara Cromer present on "Incorporating Polygenic Risk Scores and Social Determinants of Health Across Populations" from the May @ajhgnews.bsky.social journal club, now added to our PRIMED video collection: primedconsortium.org/education#en...
July 17, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Watch @prsmethods.bsky.social investigators Dave Conti and Sara Cromer present on "Incorporating Polygenic Risk Scores and Social Determinants of Health Across Populations" from the May @ajhgnews.bsky.social journal club, now added to our PRIMED video collection: primedconsortium.org/education#en...
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📢 #TOPMed e/sQTL atlas is out in @science.org today!
Happy to contribute to this amazing team effort and rich resource for the genomics community: 69k cis-eQTL + 35k cis-sQTL across 6 tissues/cell types and diverse ancestries.
Still more to discover 😉🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Happy to contribute to this amazing team effort and rich resource for the genomics community: 69k cis-eQTL + 35k cis-sQTL across 6 tissues/cell types and diverse ancestries.
Still more to discover 😉🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cross-cohort analysis of expression and splicing quantitative trait loci in TOPMed
Most genetic variants associated with complex traits are hypothesized to regulate gene expression. To understand the genetics underlying gene expression variability, we characterized 14,324 RNA-sequen...
www.science.org
July 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
📢 #TOPMed e/sQTL atlas is out in @science.org today!
Happy to contribute to this amazing team effort and rich resource for the genomics community: 69k cis-eQTL + 35k cis-sQTL across 6 tissues/cell types and diverse ancestries.
Still more to discover 😉🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Happy to contribute to this amazing team effort and rich resource for the genomics community: 69k cis-eQTL + 35k cis-sQTL across 6 tissues/cell types and diverse ancestries.
Still more to discover 😉🧬
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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So excited to see this published! This method was a long time in the making and is now being widely used to balance scale with depth, especially for participants where unbiased sequencing approaches are so much more useful than arrays
Broad scientists developed the Blended Genome Exome (BGE) sequencing method, which delivers high-quality, unbiased data at a lower cost than existing gold-standard methods and makes large-scale genetic studies more feasible. @genetisaur.bsky.social
Low-cost genome sequencing approach is powering genetics research on mental illness and many other studies
The Blended Genome Exome approach delivers high-quality, unbiased genetic data at a quarter of the cost of the leading sequencing method.
broad.io
July 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
So excited to see this published! This method was a long time in the making and is now being widely used to balance scale with depth, especially for participants where unbiased sequencing approaches are so much more useful than arrays
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Broad scientists developed the Blended Genome Exome (BGE) sequencing method, which delivers high-quality, unbiased data at a lower cost than existing gold-standard methods and makes large-scale genetic studies more feasible. @genetisaur.bsky.social
Low-cost genome sequencing approach is powering genetics research on mental illness and many other studies
The Blended Genome Exome approach delivers high-quality, unbiased genetic data at a quarter of the cost of the leading sequencing method.
broad.io
July 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Broad scientists developed the Blended Genome Exome (BGE) sequencing method, which delivers high-quality, unbiased data at a lower cost than existing gold-standard methods and makes large-scale genetic studies more feasible. @genetisaur.bsky.social
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Are you one of the >150,000 people in Geneva who have signed a general consent to allow researchers to securely reuse your data for medical research ? See below to find out how your data and samples could be helping us understand disease www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#biohug #personalisedmedicine #translationalresearch | Faculty of Medicine - UNIGE
BioHUG Biobank: 10,000 DNA samples and counting!
Launched in February 2025, BioHUG (UNIGE Faculty of Medicine & HUG) aims to collect 20,000 DNA samples by 2027 — a milestone that will place it among ...
www.linkedin.com
June 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Are you one of the >150,000 people in Geneva who have signed a general consent to allow researchers to securely reuse your data for medical research ? See below to find out how your data and samples could be helping us understand disease www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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After 4 years, it's rather nice to finally present our work on genetic's model trait, height, in >1.4M WES/WGS samples (826k discovery; led by Adam Locke & Goncalo Abecasis where we found (amongst many other things) 207 genes (P<1.75e-9).
A thread of findings below⬇️
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
A thread of findings below⬇️
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
June 25, 2026 at 5:22 AM
After 4 years, it's rather nice to finally present our work on genetic's model trait, height, in >1.4M WES/WGS samples (826k discovery; led by Adam Locke & Goncalo Abecasis where we found (amongst many other things) 207 genes (P<1.75e-9).
A thread of findings below⬇️
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
A thread of findings below⬇️
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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La Dra. Núria López-Bigas (@nlbigas.bsky.social), investigadora a l'#IRBBarcelona, a la llista de @forbes.com Espanya com una de "Les 50 dones més influents de Catalunya 2026".
Lidera el @bbglab.bsky.social, centrat en l'estudi de mutacions del càncer.
Enhorabona!
➡️ https://shorturl.at/H9cgs
Lidera el @bbglab.bsky.social, centrat en l'estudi de mutacions del càncer.
Enhorabona!
➡️ https://shorturl.at/H9cgs
June 19, 2026 at 9:03 AM
La Dra. Núria López-Bigas (@nlbigas.bsky.social), investigadora a l'#IRBBarcelona, a la llista de @forbes.com Espanya com una de "Les 50 dones més influents de Catalunya 2026".
Lidera el @bbglab.bsky.social, centrat en l'estudi de mutacions del càncer.
Enhorabona!
➡️ https://shorturl.at/H9cgs
Lidera el @bbglab.bsky.social, centrat en l'estudi de mutacions del càncer.
Enhorabona!
➡️ https://shorturl.at/H9cgs
Thank you to all the collaborators, analysts and multiple cohorts and other senior authors Xueling Sim, Jennifer Below, Alisa Manning, Marie Loh, Tian Ge and Maggie Ng, who contributed to this study. We are grateful to NIH for supporting the PRIMED Consortium (D-PRISM) which made this work possible.
June 17, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I am very excited to see this paper out, which has been an Herculean effort, led by @aliciahuerta.bsky.social and Joohyum Kim and co-supervised by Maggie Ng and myself, now published in the The Lancet Group (Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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June 17, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I am very excited to see this paper out, which has been an Herculean effort, led by @aliciahuerta.bsky.social and Joohyum Kim and co-supervised by Maggie Ng and myself, now published in the The Lancet Group (Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images
There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience
@stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience
@stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
blog.stephenturner.us
June 13, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images
There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience
@stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience
@stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
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This just out in Diabetes Care. The need to highlight the destructive plans of the administration continues. Everyone needs to post comments to the OMB website. Relevant links in the article. Don’t delay!! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Please Tell Me It Is Only a Nightmare—The Proposed Dismantling of the United States Federal Research Infrastructure
Steven E. Kahn, Cheryl A.M. Anderson, John B. Buse, Elizabeth Selvin, Vanita R. Aroda, Seth A. Berkowitz, Matthew J. Crowley, Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, Meg
diabetesjournals.org
June 8, 2026 at 9:35 PM
This just out in Diabetes Care. The need to highlight the destructive plans of the administration continues. Everyone needs to post comments to the OMB website. Relevant links in the article. Don’t delay!! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the USA to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026
June 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
I grew up in apartheid S Africa, where muzzling of speech and encroachment on academic freedom were the norm. I came to the USA to pursue a career in science. I never thought that at this stage of my career, I would ever experience my youth again. #StandUpForScience #ADA #ADA2026
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We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting.
They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial.
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial.
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!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
diabetesjournals.org
June 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting.
They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial.
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial.
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Reported by @medpagetoday.com Here: www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
www.medpagetoday.com
June 5, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Reported by @medpagetoday.com Here: www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Extremely dark days for science, for freedom of speech, and for America. If the US ADA is not safe for its flagship journal editor in chief, then imagine how un-safe it is for others. One of many reasons I’m not at the #ada2026 . Missing my friends/colleagues but not the pervasive fascism.
Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Care, @sekahn.bsky.social, and colleagues have been removed from the #ADA2026 SciSessions for doing journal outreach.
#resist #freedomofspeech #diabetes #NIH
#resist #freedomofspeech #diabetes #NIH
June 5, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Extremely dark days for science, for freedom of speech, and for America. If the US ADA is not safe for its flagship journal editor in chief, then imagine how un-safe it is for others. One of many reasons I’m not at the #ada2026 . Missing my friends/colleagues but not the pervasive fascism.
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@omicspred.bsky.social centralises imputation models from multiple resources (PredictDB, Zenodo, INTERVAL/UKB-trained scores) and multiple omics layers (transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics) to make analyses easier and more comprehensive, e.x. this multi-ancestry multi-omics MVP PheWAS!
May 20, 2026 at 10:50 AM
@omicspred.bsky.social centralises imputation models from multiple resources (PredictDB, Zenodo, INTERVAL/UKB-trained scores) and multiple omics layers (transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics) to make analyses easier and more comprehensive, e.x. this multi-ancestry multi-omics MVP PheWAS!