Ana Viñuela
@anavinuela.bsky.social
Computational Biologist interested in genomics of age related diseases, T2D and more. Digo (más) tonterías en español. Lecturer at University of Dundee, UK.
More than ever: trans women are women
🇪🇸->🇳🇱->🇬🇧->🇨🇭->🇬🇧->🏴
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-8537
More than ever: trans women are women
🇪🇸->🇳🇱->🇬🇧->🇨🇭->🇬🇧->🏴
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3771-8537
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Ana Viñuela
@anavinuela.bsky.social
· Nov 13
So my former PhD student David Davtian has produced his first paper from his PhD, and since we're so proud of it, I'm going to steal all the tweets he wrote about it and post them here:
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Very proud of David for pulling this off! Cool work too, but I'm clearly bias 😏
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Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)
RTs appreciated.
RTs appreciated.
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
You're told it'll sabotage your career if you're a vocally politically opinionated, queer, woman. But things sabotaging my career are systemic xenophobia, sexism, and horrible job market. Which are a direct consequences of people not being vocally opinionated in the first place.
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Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
www.un.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today is the International day for the elimination of violence against women. In 2024, an estimated 50,000 women and girls were killed by intimate partners or family members worldwide. That is 137 women and girls every day. One every ten minutes. www.un.org/en/observanc...
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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EU court says same-sex marriages should be recognised throughout bloc
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
EU court says same-sex marriages should be recognised throughout bloc
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In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
In the span of a hour, they stealth edited the article from trans woman to "biological male who identifies as a woman." The BBC isn't fit for purpose.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Applications closing soon for our internship programme aimed at Master's students at French universities 🇫🇷
Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out!
Deadline: 7 December 2025
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...
A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.
Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out!
Deadline: 7 December 2025
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...
A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Applications closing soon for our internship programme aimed at Master's students at French universities 🇫🇷
Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out!
Deadline: 7 December 2025
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...
A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.
Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out!
Deadline: 7 December 2025
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...
A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.
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Bias in genome-wide association test statistics due to omitted interactions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689603v1
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Bias in genome-wide association test statistics due to omitted interactions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.21.689603v1
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Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
Nine Undergraduate Biology Instructors Revealing their LGBTQ+ Identities in Class Resulted in Benefits for their LGBTQ+ Students and Students with Other Marginalized Identities | CBE—Life Sciences Edu...
Few LGBTQ+ biology instructors reveal their identities to undergraduates, often without considering the potential student benefits. Although instructors who have revealed their LGBTQ+ identity perceiv...
www.lifescied.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Want to know the cost/benefit balance of outing 🏳️🌈 oneself* to your students? Here’s the analysis from 9 instructors, 2045 student surveys, implying mostly positive &/or beneficial to the students.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
*I don’t think anyone should feel obliged to, not least bc the study features no trans/nb instructors.
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Reminder to schedule a colonoscopy
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reminder to schedule a colonoscopy
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Israel ha violado la tregua de Gaza casi 500 veces en 44 días y ha matado a cientos. Todo con la aquiescencia y apoyo de EEUU. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds
Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.
www.aljazeera.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Israel ha violado la tregua de Gaza casi 500 veces en 44 días y ha matado a cientos. Todo con la aquiescencia y apoyo de EEUU. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sharing this important article... for no reason whatsoever.
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
"We must also continue to deepen and refine our understanding of fundamental biological processes because these details frequently hold the keys to major advances in applied research."
elifesciences.org/articles/102...
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From @wormsense.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, & research groups | ❤️ Rule 1: A great short-term project is like a great short film | #Education #PLOSCBTSR 🧪🔓
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Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, and research groups
Whether hosted by colleges, universities, stand-alone research institutions, federal research labs, or private companies, immersive summer (6–12 weeks) research experiences build students’ confidence ...
journals.plos.org
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
From @wormsense.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, & research groups | ❤️ Rule 1: A great short-term project is like a great short film | #Education #PLOSCBTSR 🧪🔓
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![the-rain-monster on tumblr: "At any given moment there is a shark behind you. It might be a thousand miles away, but there is a shark behind you."
friedcherryblossomprincess provides a twist: "And that shark is totally behind you. It is supporting you in whatever you do and wants you to succeed."
[image of a supportive looking shark: blue line drawing.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreig5dduuvlbvnu5nt2qxktpikwwnmo3c7p6udzkz73hug3jal7xdfq@jpeg)
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Smurfs were created by Belgian cartoonist 'Peyo' in 1958 as "Les Schtroumpfs". He described them as "no more than three apples tall."
Fruit flies (Drosophila) are considerably smaller: typically 3-4 mm long. And these fruit flies have been SMURFED.
Let's talk about Smurf assay in fruit flies.🪰
Fruit flies (Drosophila) are considerably smaller: typically 3-4 mm long. And these fruit flies have been SMURFED.
Let's talk about Smurf assay in fruit flies.🪰
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Smurfs were created by Belgian cartoonist 'Peyo' in 1958 as "Les Schtroumpfs". He described them as "no more than three apples tall."
Fruit flies (Drosophila) are considerably smaller: typically 3-4 mm long. And these fruit flies have been SMURFED.
Let's talk about Smurf assay in fruit flies.🪰
Fruit flies (Drosophila) are considerably smaller: typically 3-4 mm long. And these fruit flies have been SMURFED.
Let's talk about Smurf assay in fruit flies.🪰
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Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths
A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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When the @royalsociety.org gets round to updating the Fellows’ code of conduct they refuse to apply to the X owner, Elon Musk FRS, I guess they should include spreading fear, hatred and division as part of their refreshed mission. It used to be science and truth that they valued.
My concern: X has become deeply inflammatory, with the platform’s model profiting from fear, hatred and division. That undermines our political discourse. www.politicshome.com/news/article... 2/10
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
When the @royalsociety.org gets round to updating the Fellows’ code of conduct they refuse to apply to the X owner, Elon Musk FRS, I guess they should include spreading fear, hatred and division as part of their refreshed mission. It used to be science and truth that they valued.
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This is a very exciting opportunity to connect researchers working on RNA data analysis issues. I can´t wait to see this community growing!!! @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @i2sysbio.es @hitseq.bsky.social @conesalab.bsky.social
📣 A new RNA Focus Group has been formed that brings together experts 🙌 from across ELIXIR to improve standards and benchmarking for #RNA_data.
Read the news: https://loom.ly/QD3C_Ac
Read the news: https://loom.ly/QD3C_Ac
November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is a very exciting opportunity to connect researchers working on RNA data analysis issues. I can´t wait to see this community growing!!! @bcbhubcsic.bsky.social @i2sysbio.es @hitseq.bsky.social @conesalab.bsky.social
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Reminder that men have no inherent right to the surname of the father, regardless of situation.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
A High Court judge has forced a six-year-old girl to keep the surname of the man who raped her mother. We think this is an outrage and are putting together a legal team so D's mother can take her case to the European Court of Human Rights.
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
But we need your help. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
The law has failed a woman and her child – fight back
No survivor should face harm from the very system that is meant to protect them. No child should have to carry an abuser’s name. It’s time to change the system.
goodlawproject.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reminder that men have no inherent right to the surname of the father, regardless of situation.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
You're not property, ladies, keep your last name and give it to your kid.
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Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
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Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Heard an established successful neuroscientist dismissing junior scientists as "people at the bottom" 🤦♀️
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
You folks with lots of research funds & power: young scientists more than ever need our respect and support even if you don't agree with their ideas and approaches
#sfn2025
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I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
Imagine the things we could do with our time if we didn’t have to do this bsky.app/profile/chan...
I did my job. And then I did a job that never should have been my responsibility afterwards, sending emails and having meetings about how this was allowed to happen in the first place. Other women scholars had to spend their time explaining to Aspen leadership why this was not ok.
November 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network,
etc
just to make a point
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AbbVie cuts ties with Google-backed longevity company, lays off scientists
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/a...
AbbVie cuts ties with Google-backed longevity company, lays off scientists
AbbVie is ending a decade-long partnership with Calico Life Sciences, an Alphabet-funded biotech company focused on aging research, and laying off scientists.
www.statnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
AbbVie cuts ties with Google-backed longevity company, lays off scientists
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/a...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/a...