Théotime Grohens
Studying 🐭 🦷 development in silico in the Cigogne team at LBMC / ENS Lyon 🦁
Ex-CRG ☀️
Ex-INRIA Beagle 🐶 (now BioTiC)
Parisien professionnel ☔
he/him
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensFebuary is #BlackHistoryMonth. The SMBE IDEA Task Force would like to join in celebrating black scientists across the world, shaping and advancing molecular biology and evolution. If you have suggestions on how SMBE can strive for further racial equity, let us know here smbe.org/idea-initiatives/
- Reposted by Théotime Grohens"… I realized that an environment where people would feel free to share their thoughts with me and think creatively, regardless of the power hierarchy, was exactly what I wanted in my lab." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/4adQwdQ
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensEvolutionary biologist Robert Trivers "had a relationship with disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein that included 'major funding' and at least one 'wonderful lunch' that featured a 'bevy of beauties'" (is a sentence that makes me feel gross just for typing it)
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensThe work done at federal agencies went unacknowledged b/c we were used to qualified experts making decisions. You don't create experts out of thin air. "The beauty of academic research is that people could stick w/ hard problems for a long time to make progress." 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensRegistration is open! Join us for Undone Computer Science 2026, March 23-25 in Luxembourg: Registration and travel information: www.undonecs.org/2026/registr... Early-bird registration until February 16th (closes mid-March). Programme: www.undonecs.org/2026/program...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensIs academia just a job? We assigned this paper in our professional development seminar last week and it was quite popular. My view: I grew up in a working class family and no one I knew considered their job "a calling". I also had a bunch of jobs that felt, well, like jobs.
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensSituation gravissime dans les Universités : lettre de la Présidente de @univpaulvalery.bsky.social au Président Macron. www.lemonde.fr/campus/artic... @yannbisiou.bsky.social
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensQuel cauchemar: des données génétiques et scans cérébraux de >20 000 enfants détournées par des pseudo-chercheurs de la "race science". Le NIH a failli à protéger ces données sécurisées. Les familles n'ont jamais été informées de ce détournement. Trump va rendre ces détournements + faciles.
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensThis is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensIf the @royalsociety.org won’t stand up for scientific values like truth, evidence & the importance of not spreading misinformation on an industrial scale, then who will? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWe've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensAfter 4 years of joint effort of my Lab and Dr. Llorente Team we took for first time SCRaMbLE to a bacterial system! This allowed us to massively reordered the main chromosome of Vibrio natriegens! biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Here's a 🧵
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- Reposted by Théotime Grohens"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?" The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensA lot of Christmas spirit this year in the lab. We wish you an happy holiday season.
- Go have a look at this great paper by @julietteluiselli.bsky.social and Paul Banse!!
- @julietteluiselli.bsky.social et al. introduce a mathematical model of genome size evolution, showing that the noncoding fraction of the genome is shaped by biases in mutational neutrality, and robustness selection arising from structural mutations 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf315 #evobio #molbio
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensIn my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensFrances Elizabeth Allen: The Woman Who Made Code Run Fast - And Was Forgotten Because It Worked voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/13/f... #WomenInSTEM #STEM #CompilerOptimisation #ProgramAnalysis #ParallelComputing
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- Reposted by Théotime Grohens"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensMy colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensI know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWith this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Here’s a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/
- Reposted by Théotime Grohens⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWe are looking for a postdoc to join our team! If you're interested in translating a cutting edge genomics technology (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) to real-life applications in hematology, this is for you. We offer a unique working environment ON THE BEACH: recruitment.crg.eu/content/jobs...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensStill looking for our perfect doctoral candidate as part of @evomg-dn.bsky.social - come and join us to work on the evolutionary pressures that shape gene expression and disease in the uterus! Please RT (or is it RB? not sure how our lingo has changed!)
- 🚨 15 days left to apply! Be part of EvoMG-DN and advance your PhD career in evolutionary genomics. 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu #PhD #DoctoralTraining #ResearchCareers #LifeSciences #BiomedicalResearch #Genomics #EvolutionaryBiology #MSCA #HorizonEurope #EUResearch #ResearchOpportunities #PhDPositions
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensNew blog post. This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn. You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post. www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
- Reposted by Théotime Grohens🔥 At conferences, who asks the questions shapes who gets seen. Across 24 ID&CM meetings, women were 55% of delegates but asked 36% of questions. 💬 When women moderate or speak first, others follow. Let’s change the pattern bit.ly/47VL0eH 🙏 @maudsalmona.bsky.social & MicroID EmpowHERment consortium
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- Reposted by Théotime Grohensdisappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought @richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science
- IT'S HAPPENING! 💥 I'm psyched to launch the collaboration between @qedscience.bsky.social & @openrxiv.bsky.social @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social! Preprint + q.e.d = your science is out there, and anyone can appreciate it. Let's care about making discoveries, and not on “getting published” (1/3) 👇
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- Reposted by Théotime GrohensBetween grants getting politically targeted and my lab’s building getting literally fucking bombed, 2025 is going great thanks
- A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWe have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/ Please share widely! #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensScientists themselves determine what is valued within science. Yet we act as if beholden to external managers, bean-counters who confuse the production of papers with scientific progress. We don't have to find better ways to navigate the prison of metrics-driven scientific assessment.
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensALIA lance une alerte sur les risques que fait peser sur la liberté académique et la production scientifique la multiplication des laboratoires soumis au statut de Zone à Régime Restrictif (ZRR). Elle prend la forme d’une lettre ouverte sur les ZRR. liberte-academique.fr/zones-a-regi...
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- I highly recommend Jon & Mafalda's super cool lab!
- Applications are open for the @crg_eu PhD Programme! 20 fully funded positions — including one in our group through the Evolutionary Medical Genomics ITN. Join us to develop deep generative models of cross-species data to tackle open questions in disease genetics. www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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- Just tried this on a paper I co-wrote. I think I prefer the old-school method of reading tea leaves though.
- Here's the link to the system, try it! qedscience.com @qedscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWe are hiring a ✨ bioinformatics PhD student ✨ for fall 2026 as part of the @evomg-dn.bsky.social MSCA doctoral network! Our project in a nutshell: can the evolution of gene expression in the uterus point us towards which genes are important for human uterine diseases? To apply 👉 www.evomg-dn.eu
- The #EvoMG Doctoral Network brings together leading research institutions from Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal and Sweden to train 15 #PhD researchers in #evolutionarymedicine. To find out more about the secondments for each position, visit👉 www.evomg-dn.eu
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensMassive PhD cuts at Harvard. OEB (Organismal and Evolutionary Biology) is dropping from 12 students in the new class to 3, for example. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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- Reposted by Théotime GrohensWow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Reposted by Théotime Grohens🚨🚨🚨 Two super well-funded PhD grants from our MSCA Doctoral Network @evomg-dn.bsky.social at our lab at @melisupf.bsky.social, @crg.eu and the @evomg-bcn.bsky.social Program. If you're excited about evolution, genomics and biomedical research, this is your DN! 😃 Further info: www.evomg-dn.eu and 👇
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensOMFG….this is crazy! He works at NIH & he was going for his green card hearing & he was kidnapped by ICE 😱
- Toute ressemblance avec un certain labo de l'ENS Lyon...
- Reposted by Théotime GrohensI have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events. Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/14
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- It's finally out 🥳🥳!! Check out the last bits of my PhD work at @plos.org Computational Biology: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... #transcription #supercoiling #evolution #genome
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