I read A LOT of books, not least as part of my job on Start the Week. Here are four that are truly extraordinary. One about fate, one about nature, one an explorer and one about a game. Get them all, bathe in their brilliance
Persepolis - Eye of the Tiger (2007)
Interested in the role of mu-opioid receptors on key mechanisms of pain, stress and reward?
Come join our team as a PhD student working on a newly discovered OPRM1 human knockout model! 🧬
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Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop!
New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.
📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics.
Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch.
You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...
Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo
We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun!
Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics)
Please share widely
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
We are hiring!
PhD student in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, investigating the neural mechanisms of auditory imagination:
jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
Project summary here:
lundbeckfonden.com/neuronal-mec...
Deadline: July 1st.
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Stunning photographs encompass different ways in which science is used to decipher our complex & beautiful world.
#ScientistAtWork images in @nature.com.
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“Tie says she only wants to use gene editing to alleviate human suffering. A little over a year ago she was biohacking pets; trying to create glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats & even dragons to be sold to consumers. ‘I’m personally really interested in the unicorn’ she said at the time.”
Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo
We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun!
Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics)
Please share widely
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.
The Canadian entrepreneur has always pushed the boundaries of gene editing, once attempting to turn horses into unicorns. Now she is set on modifying human embryos – something her controversial ex-hus...
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RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)
David R. Quiroga-Martinez 🧠👂🎵🎸🇨🇴🕺
Simon Fisher
Simon Fisher
Catsuka
Cecilia Vezzani
Andrea Ganna
Siri Leknes
Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026
