Daniel E. Weeks
@statgendan.bsky.social
Statistical geneticist. Professor of Human Genetics and Biostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Assiduously meticulous.
Officially recruiting postdocs at GW. If you are interested in genetic novelty, structural variation, or evo genetics please get in touch! We have data sets on mulitple organisms with large population sizes (Drosophila, Megalonaias nervosa) and species in decline (fireflies, mussels, elephants).
“The 2026 honorees represent a commitment to the core values of science, choosing transparency over reputation ... Their actions remind us science is strongest when researchers are committed to following the evidence wherever it leads, even when that means correcting their own work.”
Alyssa Smith@cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm incredibly honored to be one of the inaugural winners of the Ctrl-Z award. The sequence of events preceding and following this retraction were harrowing (and are honestly still stressful), but I hope this will be an opportunity for more open dialogue about mistakes + self-retraction in science.
We are very excited to host an education workshop on AI for Genomic Research: From Genomic Language Models to Agentic Workflows at @mcgill.ca right after #IGES2026! Whether you are planning to attend our annual meeting or not, this is an essential workshop you won't want to miss.
I am looking for PhD students and postdocs to join my lab at the University of Pittsburgh in Fall 2027. Anyone excited about urban evolution, hummingbirds, & community engagement, please reach out! And/or find me at #AOS2026 this week! More info here: www.valentina-alaasam.com
Just dropped the most beautiful slice of absolutely perfect artisan bread (for you Germans out there, brot) and it landed butter-side up. For the record. gwern.net/doc/science/...
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
a thread of books I've been reading, partly for fun, partly for research, partly for mesearch as I try to figure out what makes me devour or not devour a book 1. AUDITION (Katie Kitamura). read this in two sittings. it was weird and confusing and nothing really happens, but it's riveting. loved it.
If you enjoyed our article about Taylor Swift's costume changes academic.oup.com/jrssig/searc... ...don't miss this Stats + Stories podcast episode which interviews its authors! statsandstories.net/entertainmen... All free 🎸 ⛓️💥
"My earliest mathematical memory is my father explaining to me the theorem that the three angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees. The idea that something could be proved to be always true was very appealing to me." – Frances Kirwan (1959–) #quote #mathematics #math #maths
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 agoHave 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...
One of the major pains of academia is having to click through labyrinths of webpages to submit papers. Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved! His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p... It's super easy to use! 1/🧵
GitHub - pachterlab/paperpush
Contribute to pachterlab/paperpush development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...
Ihaka Lecture Series 2026 #2 - When Creativity Meets Code
YouTube video by University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau
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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Jul 26, 2000 John W. Tukey died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 🇺🇸 It is hard to summarize Tukey's impacts on #dataviz, but also on statistical thinking. Looking at your data became COOL See my article: nightingaledvs.com/remembrances...
Remembrances of Things EDA, Nightingale
Published for Tukey Day, June 16, the 107th anniversary of John Tukey's birth This article recounts the origins and influences of the movement in...
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Patients at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center now have access to a promising new therapy that has generated national attention for its potential to improve outcomes for people with advanced pancreatic cancer. Read more: www.unmc.edu/newsroom/202...
Access offered to promising pancreatic cancer treatment
The new therapy is available to patients with advanced pancreatic cancer at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
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In praise of CRAN, well-crafted automation, and well-curated software: the screenshot shows emails for #Rstats submission RcppArmadillo yesterday. Four hours between submission, and publication. Nearly 1300 dependent packages tested aumagically. No issues, so automatic publication. So nice.
Always share a data dictionary along with your data so that people aren't guessing what a variable represents. There are many options for creating one (see thread for examples). Choose which one works best for you and share it alongside your data files. :)
After reading @blekhernia.bsky.social's great blog post on lab AI usage policy (blekhman.substack.com/p/you-need-t...), we made one in lab meeting. Feedback welcome! rilab.ucdavis.edu/ai_expectati...
Ross-Ibarra Lab Policy on AI Usage
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Jian Ma, et al. generated multiscale view connecting genome structure, gene expression, & tissue organization in #Alzheimers. They linked alterations in genome folding to disrupted gene regulation, providing a new layer of insight into biology of #Neurodegeneration. 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Single-cell multiomics connects 3D genome and transcriptome alterations in Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) disrupts brain function through cell type–specific transcriptomic and epigenomic alterations, yet the contribution of three-dimensional (3D) genome organization to AD remains ...
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What's the best way to lead a paper discussion so it doesn't die in silence? My answer, after years of getting it wrong: start with a summary, plan the discussion's life cycle, and make disagreement earn its place. New in BioScience. doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Three rules for leading a paper discussion
Silence is the sound of a seminar no one is steering, and for my first years as a professor, I was the one who should have been steering it. The course was
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While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
We built a a self-dividing synthetic cell ! Check out this #CDlab preprint on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Great work by 1st author Charu Sharma who encoded dynaminA in a genome and expressed that in liposomes that then divide into daughter cells! Collaboration with Koenderink lab!
Humans Can Learn to Echolocate Neuroscience has begun to look at capacity of sensory areas exhibiting a striking degree of plasticity Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of blind and sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based echolocation training🧪 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
Beyond the classical plasma secretome: genetic architecture and disease associations of the expanded human plasma proteome in 13,445 Europeans https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.23.26358667v1
If a monk tells his boss about what's been happening at the monastery is that an example of updating a prior?
Happy 🎂William Carter Jenkins b #OTD 1945 (d 17 Feb 2019) The Tuskegee whistle-blower epidemiologist, he was first to publicize the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (“the most unethical study in US history”) in the Drum (an anti-discrimination newsletter). 1/3 🧵
Has anybody written a good, punchy piece that essentially just says “Odds ratio is kinda odd” with some basic explanation? I’m looking for something to cite in reviews and know certain canonical resources, but I’m more thinking in terms of short and casual read.
Avoid ‘asking the AI for the answer to a problem you cannot solve yourself. His test: "if you would be unable to coherently present the output of the AI in a class presentation and be able to answer questions about it without further AI assistance, it should not be part of your workflow."’
José A. Alonso@jalonso.eurosky.social · 2w agoTerence Tao on AI in mathematics (and beyond). teorth.github.io/tao-web/ai-v... #AI4Math
We’re looking for a Statistical Geneticist to join our team at @humantechnopole.bsky.social. The role offers the opportunity to work across a wide range of projects, supporting research groups throughout Human Technopole while developing and implementing new statistical methods tinyurl.com/44uyt8u2
Statistical Geneticist
Statistical Geneticist
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