Working on this project was so fun! ❤️ It's really awesome to work with so many passionate scientists who are all committed to improving our field (despite a climate that might not always be so friendly to that) We'd love any feedback, especially from other trainees and early career researchers!

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

So excited to see this out! It was an absolute joy and honor to work so closely w @jayatirsharma.bsky.social and @christacaggiano.bsky.social on this - both are terrific examples of the kind of interdisciplinary human genetics researchers that we need more of (and will be on the job market soon 👀)

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...

Recommendations for the ethical and accurate use of population descriptors: a trainee-led survey of early-career researchers https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.01.735829v1

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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NIH All of Us has just released a massive multi-omics dataset, including: • 535K WGS (120K+ added; now larger than UKB) • ~10K proteomics + RNAseq + long-read • ML-curated clinical notes • 68K with Fitbit data Kudos to this great initiative and to the participants for advancing science

"The biases do not disappear; they get encoded into the model and then laundered into outputs that feel objective because they are numerical. Replacing one prestige filter with another that is harder to see or challenge is not progress toward equity in science; it’s the opposite.” 💯🧪

Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last mo.

I wanted to like QED's new 1% preprint ranking. I really did. But the more I looked at the data, the more uncomfortable it made me. Here is my full peer review. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

Mamdani’s New York is having the kind of run that you normally only see in a montage at the end of a Disney Channel movie

did u know that out of the 12,000 data centers in the world over 4,000 are in the US of A? 😀

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

Hey Europe: AC saves lives Hey USA: Gun control saves lives Chart by @hannahritchie.bsky.social (see below)

I miss Twitter, mostly because the conversation there for a brief period was so wide-ranging, could be non-hierarchical and forced me to consider view points different than mine. now all of that is splintered between Twitter, Bluesky and threads (😭😭), which feels like a real loss.

"This is why LLM AI will not solve cancer or climate change. Those problems require long time horizons, willingness to fail publicly, cooperations across competitors, and subordination of short-term returns to outcomes that may take decades to materialize." www.tomorrowsmess.com/p/the-fox-an...

The Fox and the Hedgehog

Americans are catching on to Silicon Valley's 'One Weird Trick'

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someday far in the future we will tell children of the mystical Google dot com of decades past: a place where we could ask a question and be directed to at least several dozen factual and valuable* answers written by other real people with actual experience

A Substack post on the Nature Human Genetics article. The piece itself is very short, so it is sort of a summary of a summary.

Polygenic Scores Are Not Genetic Predispositions

Language matters

ericturkheimer.substack.com

Trans people are being forced to flee red states and for the most part, the press has ignored this story.

Chron.com@chron.com · 3mo ago

Seattle is one of the many places that transgender Texans are resettling after fleeing their home state.

did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

I just repeated the analysis for grants in fiscal year 2026. I found 98 grants with title changes upon administrative (non-competitive) renewal. Here is the removed word cloud for fiscal year 2026. 4/5

May Day wasn’t just a day of protest, boycott or celebration. It was a reminder that workers make the world run—and that we’re all on the same team. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social reports. inthesetimes.com/article/may-...

Wow shocker, the eugenics company doesn't care much about actually seeing if their snakeoil worked

Are ‘Designer Babies’ a Scam?

Anxious parents are buying $50,000 genetic tests that might not be worth much of anything.

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🎉New preprint: Phenome-derived polygenic scores and social determinants jointly shape context-dependent disease risk. We evaluate disease risk along 2 complementary axes: • how genetic liability is represented • the social context in which it is expressed

medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Phenome-derived polygenic scores and social determinants jointly shape context-dependent disease risk https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.16.26351039v1

Excited to share our recent paper in #npjBreastCancer! We investigated what drives the AI-generated mammogram risk score (MRS)—a texture feature that predicts breast cancer risk beyond breast density. A thread 👇 @peter-kraft.bsky.social

gave my first official guest lecture today & have renewed hope in the future. the difference an engaged and curious classroom can make! 🙂‍↕️ even when the lecture is on molecular epidemiology 🔬

@statnews.com conducted a national survey of NIH-funded researchers and found that, a year after Trump's return, many scientists are reeling, with some closing labs entirely. ‘This is like the Titanic,' one respondent told me. For full details, see our special report www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/n...

National survey of NIH-funded researchers shows precarious state of U.S. science — ‘This is like the Titanic’

A nationwide STAT survey of NIH-funded researchers reveals that, a year after Donald Trump's return to the White House, many scientists are reeling

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Finger on the pulse: “Embedding communication and policy fluency into STEM training is not about adding polish. It is about responsibility. Students should graduate knowing not only how to generate knowledge, but how to explain it, contextualize it, and respond when it is misunderstood or misused.”👏

jp flores (he/him)@jpflores.rbind.io · 5mo ago

Check out my new piece in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social ! “We’re Training Scientists for a World That No Longer Exists” sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/18/w...

Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience!

eLife@elife.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1/ Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGIS To mark the occasion, Lisa Thomann and Julie Batut highlight four pioneering biologists whose work shaped developmental biology, electrophysiology, and genetics. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

Despite *gestures broadly*, one bright light for me has been reading and editing so many wonderful pieces from our team at GeneBites on our corner of the internet, like this great one from @jpflores.rbind.io 🐭👇🏼

GeneBites@genebites.org · 6mo ago

Who says mice 🐁 can’t menstruate? Senior Editor @jpflores.rbind.io discusses a preprint study where scientists genetically engineered mice for menstrual-like bleeding to study the uterus’s rebuilding. That’s innovative, period. #genetics #scicomm Check it out here: genebites.org/2026/01/29/r...

🚨 Requesting help: I am looking for an agent who can facilitate more speaking gigs, podcast appearances, and interviews with journalists I want to more widely share my story and expertise as a trans geneticist who understands the reality and complexity of "biological sex" 🏳️‍⚧️🧬 Please signal boost?

Who says mice 🐁 can’t menstruate? Senior Editor @jpflores.rbind.io discusses a preprint study where scientists genetically engineered mice for menstrual-like bleeding to study the uterus’s rebuilding. That’s innovative, period. #genetics #scicomm Check it out here: genebites.org/2026/01/29/r...

Rewriting the Cycle: How a New Model Could Transform Women’s Health

For more than a century, scientists said one thing with certainty: mice do not menstruate. A new study has now rewritten that rule, and with it, how we study one of the most common biological proce…

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One of my neighbors was murdered in the streets today by ICE agents motivated by this sort of race science propaganda.

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

Incredibly important story that everyone should read. These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats. They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

#Measles cases continues to climb. The 2025 tally has now hit 2242 & there've already been more confirmed cases in 2026 — 171 — than were logged in most years from the late 1990s to 2023! Interesting to see the age distribution of cases. Lots of susceptible adults, seems. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...