Wayne was my MA thesis and PhD dissertation adviser at Mizzou. He is kind, and good, and represents the best of what Mizzou is and has to offer. The Missouri state law that seeks to criminalize even the discussion of DEI is shameful, and so are those who support it. abc17news.com/news/educati...

University of Missouri investigating professor after video alleges DEI sympathies

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is investigating allegations of staff violating federal and state laws against diversity, equity and inclusion practices after a video reportedly showin...

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It is genuinely bonkers how early kids specialize these days. Went to a dance store for my daughter and they were a bit shocked that we were starting at her ripe old age of 8. Heaven forbid we let a kid dilly dally through their extracurriculars and determine their own interests!

Come join us in Montreal at ASHG this year! And stick around to the end to hear the Distinguished Speakers Symposium "Globalizing Human Genetics: From Discovery Through Implementation" with Eimear Kenny, Gonçalo Abecasis, Pradeep Natarajan, and yours truly!

American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)@geneticssociety.bsky.social · 2d ago

The best rates for #ASHG26 close TODAY at 5 PM U.S. ET. Secure your spot before rates increase and join the researchers, clinicians, and industry professionals shaping the future of human genetics and genomics in Montréal: https://bit.ly/4o3wfxM #ASHG #HumanGenetics

If you are freshly postpartum, this is not for you. Read fifth season right after my second kid was born during Covid and it did not go well for me. Absolutely incredible and devastating book.

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trying to convince myself that finally getting around to reading N.K. Jemisin is a better late than never scenario. Rather than the massive screwup that it is. Don’t make my mistake. Read. Now.

💡 Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history go.nature.com/3T3JKT5 #Review by @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social & @iainmathieson.bsky.social Free to read here: rdcu.be/MgjB7Jgsy2Fa

The kids have added Filipino food to their “S-tier cuisines”, joining Indian and Korean.

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

No shit Sherlock.

It has been fascinating (derogatory) to watch these privileged kids navigate being mixed race while embracing every single lie their parents ever told them re: being a new kind of special. Like they’re a new product drop. My mom complained yesterday about me having a White nose so I cannot relate.

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · last wk.

do you think keanu reeves and henry golding are both ten. also, panda.

TOMORROW: September Journal Club webinar! Join this discussion on responsible biomedical data sharing—balancing discovery with ethical, legal, & social considerations. Register now to hear from Maya Sabatello and Ellen Wright Clayton: https://bit.ly/45nniah @ajhgnews.bsky.social #ASHG

Please share! Fully funded PhD position (UK home fees) at U. of Dundee for someone interested in combining wet-lab (Dr Murdoch) and computational approaches (🙋‍♀️ 2nd supervisor), with plenty of scope for learning new skills across both areas. 🧪🧬 Deadline 21 September

Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

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I see everyone’s good being an armchair epidemiologist until you realize that public health is all about meeting people where they are.

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Finally went through our back to school photos and this has me cracking up. The kids immediately started shouting “no bro, that’s AI”. It is not. Just our ridiculous dog.

they were really trying to make a whole new generation of colonizers and I was so down for it.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Name your fav game made before 2000.

Based on our GWAS of personality I have an academic/data driven reflection on new challenges to the environmental path from parental personality toe child personality. I could put it on my substack (bleg) or add to my near non existend blog, but I have no reach, anyone willing to let me guest blog?

Same. I’ve been out of New England for over 20 years and yet still maintain the dialect of South South Vermont (also known as Western Massachusetts).

Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 2w ago

near 20 years in texas and i still got my northeastern roots mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

my kingdom for a bouquet without white flowers. "hey mom, happy birthday. hope you like these death blooms I got you."

Children's clothing, specifically girls clothing, is an excellent way to see what society thinks about gender roles. I swear that a couple of years ago it wasn't nearly this bad, but I am going mad searching for cheap tees that aren't exclusively baby animals, hearts, and about being sweet.

Now OmicsPred.org is released to the wild via @natgenet.nature.com, read the updated version (more metadata descriptions, cross-platform PheWAS comparison)! 🔗: rdcu.be/YRma6QaXW7ea

Sam Lambert@iamslambert.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interested in applying multi-omics imputation or TWAS/PWAS approaches to your data? Frustrated by the models being spread across multiple resources? Enter OmicsPred: a centralised resource for genetic prediction of multi-omic traits! 🔗 : www.omicspred.org 📃 : www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

two pieces from me this morning: 1. the right is not giving up on its quest to overturn birthright citizenship. will trump v barbara be the next roe?

How the Right Could Actually End Birthright Citizenship

The conservative legal movement doesn’t consider the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to be the final word on the Fourteenth Amendment. And it already has a playbook for overturning it.

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The thing is, these creators are not young. They're fully grown adults, often years into their careers, intending to reach other adults. So not knowing them is not a reflection of being "out of touch" w/the youth, but more that there is no "chronically online" monoculture. Anyway, 20/25 for me.

dame@dame.is · 2w ago

it’s that time of year again, Rolling Stone released their list of the top 25 content creators, which is actually a test of how old and out of touch you are… the lower your score, the more out of touch i’ve heard of 11 out of 25

I’m not going to festivals these days (but I am le tired), but the FOMO I had for this one…oof.

Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 3w ago

from last night: Olivia Rodrigo and Stevie Nicks, "Landslide," from Rodrigo's inaugural Daisy Chain Fields Music Festival which raised $20M for groups including Planned Parenthood, National Network of Abortion Funds, Girls Inc., the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and Indigenous Women Rising.

UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!

Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...

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I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

Why, or even how, would we expect the universe to reflect the kind of society we desire or ought to live in? Human genetics in itself cannot validate our political or ethical views, or invalidate those of our opponents. We have to argue for those based on how they will affect our fellow humans.

“But of the millions of questions that remain about the biological nature of humans, race is not one that is particularly outstanding. Yet because of the social implications of politics, people, history, and power, it remains a defining topic of our age.”

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

Locus-specific gene-context interactions improve polygenic prediction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.26.746823v1

A necessary listen from @socialistdogmom.bsky.social, esp for those unfamiliar w/these racists’ strategies and interacting w/them as if it’s earnest academic discourse. It is not. There are weaponizing academic ideals for more power & legitimacy to further their white supremacy world view.

Cool Zone Media@coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Weird Little Guys: Race Scientists and the Human Zoo 🧬 @socialistdogmom.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/weirdlittleg...