How does human genetics research live in the information ecosystem? Is it misused? Misrepresented? In my paper with @sramach.bsky.social, we tackle this question with 25 years of Wikipedia data, AI chatbot responses, and pages from Grokipedia www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

From Wikipedia to AI: Measuring 25 years of synthesis of human genetics research in the public-facing information ecosystem

Genetics research frequently intersects with ethnicity, nationality, and race, making it uniquely vulnerable to misrepresentation. Yet, 25 years after the initial sequencing of the human genome, there...

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It has been fascinating to see how my boomer dad has been radicalized by social media. Now tbf, he has always been a Democrat (the man put a "BUCK FUSH" sticker on my car 20 years ago). But he is *such* a huge fan of Mamdani and this is why.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 19h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

My hot take is there shouldn’t be science influencers. Science is too vast & complicated to have *one person* be an expert on everything. The trap of being The Smart One is a poison. The best science communicators understand the limits of their expertise and defer to others to fill in the gaps.

Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 5d ago

If you’re a science communicator and you use AI, read this. This is about what’s happening to Hank Green.

I am endlessly delighted by the microgenres that Spotify uses to curate your daylist. “irish indie blokecore” inspired by “madchester”? Straight into my veins. A while back I got “cottagecore whimsigothic” and I felt so seen.

Then they have all the transcripts (and the ai token bill) but no sensemaking. so they make another app — a layer that will make sense of all the useless transcripts. But of course sensemaking isnt just pattern spotting. It’s interpretation. AI cannot do either because AI cannot be curious

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

Make Studio is having a 50% off sale and there’s so much good art

Lots of sources for the original so who knows if there is the one citation. But: www.businessinsider.com/san-francisc...

Silicon Valley startups are obsessed with developing tech to replace their moms

Thank you, moms, for all of the wonderful tech companies you've clearly inspired.

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Petti LaBelle@petti-labelle.bsky.social · 4d ago

I wish I could properly attribute this, but I heard someone say in an interview something like, 'pay attention to the new technologies that techbros develop, and you'll see how they're just trying to create a mom they control' And we know how these dudes pick "partners" so...

ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight

Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody

A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...

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"Content creators" who are now "using AI for research" always had shitty and unreliable research methods, they're just faster now.

If you're a trainee, #ASHG26 is your opportunity to connect with the #humangenetics & #genomics community, learn from leaders in the field, meet mentors & collaborators, & gain visibility for your work. Join the conversations & connections that can help shape your career. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4o3wfxM

The issue in that piece isn’t how open science and science reform initiatives are funded worldwide, the issue is that *in United States* these topics have been co-opted by a donor class that has a vested interest in discrediting science. Reading comprehension is your friend

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...

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Good news! Our paper (with @aabiddanda.github.io @sarahaj34.bsky.social @codushlaine.bsky.social and Priya Moorjani) is now officially online! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recovering signatures of archaic hominin introgression using ancestral recombination graphs

Admixture between modern humans and extinct hominins has shaped the genomes of present-day individuals, but reconstructing this history has been constrained by the scarcity of archaic samples and unad...

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Yulin Zhang@yulinzhang.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Moral language should not be applied to biological features.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

defend liking books of differing reading complexity without using romance as the bad/guilty/cheap foil challenge.

In this collaboration with the Gokcumen lab, @alberaqil.bsky.social developed a method based on interchromosomal linkage disequilibrium to detect false positive trans-eQTLs, showcased on GTEx and MAGE. The approach could be used to filter other trans molecular QTLs, which may be similarly impacted.

Gokcumen Lab@gokcumenlab.bsky.social · last wk.

New paper with @rajivmccoy.bsky.social @ajhgnews.bsky.social. Bottom line: Polymorphic gene duplications absent in the reference genome can produce spurious trans-eQTLs, and we propose a method to identify these false positives. authors.elsevier.com/c/1nWChgeXHnOF

This Gladstone communications article does a great job explaining what's really happening. As we described in that piece (gladstone.org/news/heart-d...)

Heart Disease Genetic Risk: New Study Reveals Why Populations Differ

For decades, a DNA-based test for cardiovascular disease seemed to work for Europeans and others but not Africans. Gladstone scientists just discovered why, with implications for many other diseases.

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I'm pleased to share our recent paper on how population structure affects our ability to replicate genomic findings across populations, using the 9p21 locus as an example (www.cell.com/ajhg/abstrac....

Linkage disequilibrium and allelic heterogeneity explain variation in coronary artery disease risk at 9p21 across populations and reduced effect in Africans

Using cross-ancestry fine-mapping across global and local ancestry groups, this study dissects the 9p21.3 coronary artery disease locus and shows how ancestry-specific haplotype structure shapes assoc...

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She writes, basically, that Nolan has removed complexity from the women characters in contrast to the original plus made Odysseus himself less clever and less funny. Those seem like things that are either true or aren't, but a lot of people haven't read The Odyssey while Wilson ABSOLUTELY HAS lol

An academic’s eternal dilemma. This is how I write my reviews, taking my first draft and then removing some of the harshness. But not all can be excised or it becomes defanged to the point of obsolescence.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

11. Was I too mean? Or not mean enough? I went through my first draft and tried to take out the snark. To quote the great poet: "Though much is taken, much remains... That which we are, we are."

That you have any control over their sleep. Or really much at all.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

Vincent Cassel is in Charli xcx’s new music video and I have no one to talk to about it.

#DEAL ALERT! One clickers unite because SWORDHEART @tkingfisher.com is on #sale on #Kindle US for a limited time only! amzn.to/3RiBLAZ #Swordheart #ad #amazoncom

Swordheart

The delicious bodyguard romance of From Blood and Ash meets the delightful charm of The Princess Bride in this cozy fantasy romance from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher

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“Urgency is itself a technique of extraction, a way to exhaust the present for the future, while foreclosing deliberation about what we build, how we build it, and who pays the price.”

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

I have a new short essay out in LIMN's special issue This Is Not a Platform titled "Platform Obscurantism: The Hidden Substrates of Machine Learning." ChatGPT is a platform. That may be the least interesting thing about it. limn.press/article/plat... 🧵

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Neuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TV

YouTube video by Apple TV

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“Curiosity-driven research extends the frontier in all directions (…) The intersection of the moving frontier, in ways you cannot predict, is what defines our exponential growth in our science and technology that drives society.”

Karen S Wilcox, PhD (she/her)@karenswilcoxphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

This made me cry. It’s spot on. youtube.com/watch?v=dYiU...

my kids are descended from folks who left communism on three different continents. so every time I hear these people talk about secret communists I imagine a version of boss baby but communism and crack up.