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Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD

@daphmarts.bsky.social

🧬Assistant Professor of Biomedical Ethics @ Stanford 📕Author of WHAT WE INHERIT (2026) 🐈 Mom to Sassy & 🙋🏾‍♀️ Mom to Théa 🧘🏾‍♀️Yogi in training daphnemartschenko.com

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Roshni Patel@roshnipatel.bsky.social · 4w ago

I think this work really underscores that we are at a turning point in human genetics. There is a growing consensus that doing good research in human genetics requires an expanded skillset (including, e.g., one that can navigate the relationship between genetics, ancestry, and pop descriptors) (1/)

Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM@jayatirsharma.bsky.social · 4w ago

In what has been a labor of love & joyful collaboration, we are super excited to share our preprint on recommendations towards the ethical and accurate use of population descriptors generated from a survey by trainees, for trainees. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM@jayatirsharma.bsky.social · 4w ago

In what has been a labor of love & joyful collaboration, we are super excited to share our preprint on recommendations towards the ethical and accurate use of population descriptors generated from a survey by trainees, for trainees. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Recommendations for the ethical and accurate use of population descriptors: a trainee-led survey of early-career researchers

Despite the importance of population descriptors in human genomics research, many scientists struggle to translate evolving ethical guidelines into their computational workflows. To characterize this ...

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Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · last mo.

-Water used at power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be greater than the amount of water used in the data centers themselves. -" $170 billion of AI data-center capacity has been blocked, stalled or canceled since 2024" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report

Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.

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Behavior Genetics Association@behaviorgenetic.bsky.social · last mo.

@daphmarts.bsky.social on the roles and responsibilities of academic and journalistic publishing in social & behavioral genomics, also part of our special issue: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A Qualitative Study of the Roles and Responsibilities of Academic and Journalistic Publishing in Social and Behavioral Genomics - Behavior Genetics

The conduct and translation of scientific research is shaped by academic and journalistic publishing. Academic journals issue editorial guidelines and policies that inform how researchers shape and pr...

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Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Read an excerpt of What We Inherit: How New Technologies and Old Myths Are Shaping Our Genomic by Sam Trejo and @daphmarts.bsky.social in @livescience.com:

Emerging embryo-selection technologies are currently 'little more than snake oil.' But someday, they could widen social inequities.

In the book "What We Inherit," experts unpack long-standing myths about genes and how those myths could shape public opinion around emerging embryo-selection technologies.

livescience.com

Daphne O. Martschenko, PhD@daphmarts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"...readers who likely feel more attuned to one of the authors’ views at the start of the book will come to appreciate the other side as they learn more about polygenic scores, social genomics, and their influence on genetic myths." undark.org/2026/02/20/b...

Book Review: The Societal Impact of Genetic Research

In “What We Inherit,” Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko examine the link between genetic myths and social genomics.

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Holly Fernandez Lynch@hollylynchez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Lots to unpack about the 1 pivotal trial default. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... For now a few points: 1. FDA is not legally permitted to set policy by journal article. This must stop. 2. This is not likely to give industry much stability. FDA can decide any time that the default doesn't apply. 1/

One Pivotal Trial, the New Default Option for FDA Approval — Ending the Two-Trial Dogma | NEJM

This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.

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Gen Wojcik@genandgenes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Genetic determinism, white nationalism, eugenics, pronatalism, and tiger parenting souped up on bath salts.

a man says " this place has everything " while holding something in his hand

Alt: Stefan on SNL weekend update says "this place has everything".

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Gen Wojcik@genandgenes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I need to talk to someone about alysa liu’s dad because this is a lot. Hits both professionally and personally as a geneticist with a chinese parent. So many feelings. And thoughts. So many. (From an archived version of a now-deleted 2019 SI story.)

Both egg donors for Arthur's children are white women, because he felt his children would benefit from a diverse gene pool. He sees his life as a fusion of cultures, Chinese and American, and he wanted his kids to reflect that. When Alysa was around eight she began to notice that she looked different from her dad. Mary is also Chinese, so that was another clue. "That's how I figured out she wasn't my real mom," Alysa says, "because she was Asian and I did not look Asian."
Susan Gilbert@susangilb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The reproductive technologies that are being promoted by the tech-elite #pronatalists are new. The push to have as many babies as possible—and the best babies—is not. @daphmarts.bsky.social and @juliaehbrown.bsky.social explain in Hastings Bioethics Forum. www.thehastingscenter.org/more-and-bet...

More and “Better” Babies: The Dark Side of the Pronatalist Movement : The Hastings Center for Bioethics

There is growing concern that falling fertility rates will lead to economic and demographic catastrophe. The social and political movement known as

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