Tau-Mu Yi

taumuyi.bsky.social

16 October 2026 19:24

Clever study using founder effect to identify novel genes associated with transdiagnostic serious mental illness #BioMed

Michel Nivard

michelnivard.bsky.social

05 October 2026 18:14

I had an early view of this as part of Greta Gerdes external thesis proposal advisory (don’t believe she is on here…), but no other involvement, it’s one of the most exciting findings on psychiatric genetics, due to both the genetics ANd The phenotyping. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Lior Pachter

lpachter.bsky.social

10 March 2026 18:38

kallisto sped up RNA-seq quantification by 50x. Now another 50x speedup... quantify hundreds of millions of reads in a few seconds. This seems too good to be true. But it's true! Incredible accomplishment by @pmelsted.bsky.social.

Sasha Gusev

sashagusevposts.bsky.social

10 March 2026 18:37

Here is the "effective payline" for each institute, estimated (by Claude) as the percentile where one can expect 80% probability of funding from a logistic regression fit. The effective payline has gone from a historic ~12% to 6% in 2025.

The American Journal of Human Genetics

ajhgnews.bsky.social

10 March 2026 18:35

🧬New today! 📄Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobank 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @loldeloo.bsky.social @apimplaskar.bsky.social @bpasaniuc.bsky.social & colleagues