David Ashbrook
Baszucki Foundation Chancellor’s Fellow edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/david-ashbrook
Associate Prof in Genetics, Genomics, and Informatics @UTHSC
Genomes, environments, their interactions, behaviour, and disease.
PhD Manchester 🇬🇧 Postdoc Toronto 🇨🇦
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- Reposted by David Ashbrook📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open: shorturl.at/etXCN
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- Reposted by David AshbrookThis is not limited to #zebrafish but includes all organismal research. If you can spare 15 minutes, you may help safeguard the future of responsible animal research in the UK. 🙏
- As the political climate around animal research becomes less supportive in the UK, it is our interest to argue for & protect organismal biology. BBSRC opened a survey, which gives us a timely platform. Please fill & share link among colleagues. Deadline: 9/2 engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-bbsrc/la...
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- Reposted by David AshbrookA lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...
- Reposted by David AshbrookThe race is on to re-home 120 ex-commercial laying hens in Didcot before February 8th. The British Hen Welfare Trust is appealing for would-be kind hearted chicken keepers to come forward by 4pm Friday and give the hens a chance at a free range retirement.
- Reposted by David AshbrookDeadline in 3 days (Thursday 5th) to apply for a PhD with me and @ktsetsos.bsky.social at Trinity College Dublin in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience / neuro-AI. Please share!
- 🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!! Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI. 🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026 #neurojobs #neuroscience #compneuro
- Reposted by David AshbrookI have a 3-year postdoc position available at University of Manchester for a mass spec expert in proteomics. The person will be involved in exciting projects in single cell proteomics, drug discovery and innate immunity - on timsTOF Ultra AIP & HF & Astral Zoom. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ093/r...
- Reposted by David AshbrookWe're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- Reposted by David AshbrookForget pickles and ice cream. I published a fake paper on pregnancy cravings for prime numbers.
- Reposted by David AshbrookHow are energy #metabolism pathways distributed across the #cortex? @alaindagher.bsky.social &co map five pathways in the human #brain, linking metabolic organization with brain structural & functional properties, as well as developmental dynamics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c1JVp8
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- Reposted by David AshbrookAre you an undergraduate interested in neuroscience? Come and do a placement at BRIC! You will get a chance at experiencing a range of neuroscience research, from brain imaging to computational science! If you are interested, please apply using this link: mycareer.plymouth.ac.uk/user/app/job...
- Reposted by David Ashbrook📒 NEW STUDY “supports abolition of Daylight Saving Time and adoption of permanent Standard Time to minimize negative consequences including migraines.”
- Reposted by David AshbrookDownload our large database of postdoc fellowships in all fields of research. Database freely available to all; 281 fellowships. Download here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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- Reposted by David AshbrookCanadian job 👀 🇨🇦 ‼️ Second search this year! Our Dept of Psychology is hiring again, this time at the assoc/full level, for a prestigious, endowed position. Focus is social/affective neuroscience in any area (clinical, social, cog, or dev). Apply by Jan 30! Reposts, pls www.queensu.ca/psychology/n...
- I know that I am officially at Edinburgh now that I have an official profile page edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/davi...
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- Reposted by David AshbrookThanks to everyone who reached out via DM. I really appreciate your help 🙏 If you have any examples (even anecdotal) of articles published in eco/evo journals where supplementary materials are no longer available, please share them with me. We’re trying to gather preliminary data on this issue.
- 📣 Quick question for the community: I remember hearing about instances where journals updated their websites and accidentally lost or misplaced supplementary materials in the process. Does anyone recall specific cases or have references? Trying to track this down! 🙏 #OpenScience #Reproducibility
- Reposted by David AshbrookWe are opening a FACULTY POSITION (tenure track, permanent) in the University of Cambridge at the interface of control and biology, interpreted broadly. Theorists and wet lab quantitative biologists with backgrounds in control, EE, applied math, ... apply by Jan 28! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
- Reposted by David AshbrookHigh-quality mouse reference genomes [PacBio Long Read genomes of 17 strains] reveal the structural complexity of the murine protein-coding landscape, Cell Genomics. www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Genomes and annotations here: projects.ensembl.org/mouse_genomes/
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- Reposted by David AshbrookHaidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan! There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.
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- Reposted by David Ashbrooki can not be the only person wondering about the five percent gap between bigfoot and the yeti i mean is this where u draw the line
- New polling on aliens % of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist: Aliens 56% Bigfoot 28% The Yeti 23% The Loch Ness Monster 22% Chupacabra 16% today.yougov.com/health/artic...
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- Reposted by David AshbrookGoogle at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
- Reposted by David AshbrookWe (Nordborg & Weigel labs) need input on the next generation of genome browsers & data download modes for the #Arabidopsis #1001GenomesPlus project. We have now a curated collection of over 500 long read genomes. Please help us by filling out this questionnaire: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by David AshbrookWe are co-funding a new clinical trial to investigate if a one-off gene therapy to replace faulty genes in stem cells can bring hope to children with Hunter syndrome. Ollie is the first child to participate in this @manchester.ac.uk study: bit.ly/49BaCjt
- Reposted by David AshbrookWe are recruiting - deadline approaching!!! Postdoc position available in my lab to develop an exciting project with @alexfsantos2401.bsky.social to advance our understanding of food allergy and oral tolerance in early life. #ILC #organoids #intestine #FoodAllergy www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/128585-...
- Reposted by David AshbrookThis week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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- Reposted by David AshbrookTo study how animals understand the physical world (and the rules that govern its dynamics), @jinyao-y.bsky.social trains rats to play fetch with robots 🐀🤖🎾 To learn more, come to our poster Tuesday morning! [Board W11] Rats learn and use intuitive physics knowledge to solve fetch tasks. #SfN2025
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- Reposted by David Ashbrook@sfn.org #SfN2025 Interested in continuing your career in Germany? Come by the #NeuroscienceinGermany booth 3917 and meet scientists and funding agencies that can help you achieve your goals! 👇 🧠 🇩🇪
- Reposted by David AshbrookIf you are at #sfn25 and work with animals in your #neuroscience research: drop by booth 3600, the Global Consortium for Public Outreach on Animal Research
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- Reposted by David AshbrookThere's 2 amazing Fonken Lab postbacs presenting this afternoon too: C13: Em Anders - effects of early life hormonal manipulation on microglia in rats. C24: Cecily Gibson - impact of circadian rhythm disruption on maternal caregiving & microglia in mice. #SocietyForGlia #SfN25 #SfN2025
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- Reposted by David AshbrookUK Bioimaging @bioimaginguk.bsky.social launches User Access Fund for Researchers Researchers can apply for up to £5k for access to bioimaging facilities at @calm-stp.bsky.social, @esric-imaging.bsky.social, KCL, Liverpool, Oxford Brookes & York. First round deadline: 9 December 2025
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