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I woke up and the first skeet I see is a person advertising opening of their lab, filling in the position I have never heard back from. I am not v sad (it’s a cool lab, so a massive net positive for science for years to come) but I think we don’t talk about this awkwardness enough, perhaps

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🚀Publication alert! How have our conversations about #AIethics in healthcare changed? Where are they headed? Excited to share my paper in BMC #MedicalEthics: “Ethical and social considerations of applying artificial intelligence in healthcare- a two-pronged scoping review” doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Spending Memorial Day as one would expect a person from my age bracket: ordering things to organise my papers and looking at wooden furniture tagged with "MCM vtg" on eBay with a mix of "oh cute" and "I don't think this is giving mid-century modern, suspicious"

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Renewal of access to data for my two ongoing projects got denied under a new Trump order, and a project I was excited to pursue will probably not go for the analyses that I wanted to do, and all of this happened within the same half hour? Steely Dan's Glamour Profession playing in the background

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Nice! Add a special relatedness matrix for cross-chromosome correlations to estimate the extra heritability due to assortative mating. Much larger contribution for educational attainment than for fluid IQ. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Another exciting work by @tabeasch.bsky.social revealing the genetic basis of cognitive and physical decline and it upstream epidemiological drivers.

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Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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Please support! Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza lithub.com/authors-are-... Donate: chuffed.org/project/crip...

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The Problems with Genetic Essentialism, Determinism, and Reductionism: "Elucidating the meaning of these concepts without providing arguments for rejecting them is problematic. Developmental science offers the required arguments." karger.com/hde/article/...

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I am tired and I really don’t want to do the stuff that I need to do for the rest of the evening but at least someone at the train station is playing the Addams Family theme song

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Every once in a while you see something so clever you wish you wrote it. Well the important part is, someone did.

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Today marks the 77th anniversary of Nakba Day, commemorating the displacement of 700,000+ Palestinians in the events surrounding the establishment of Israel in 1948. This anniversary is taking place amid ongoing widespread Israeli atrocities and mass displacement of Palestinians.

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In the past 9 months of having unsuccessfully been on the junior faculty job market (an amazing time to be on the job market, I know), I got a wide range of rejection emails. The one that I got today for the one position where I truly left like I stood a chance was maybe the iciest? Oop

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🧵5 Top Free Alternatives to BioRender for Scientific Illustrations! These five websites offer free scientific illustrations for biologists. Great for presentations, research papers and other research communication needs. Save and share the post!

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🚨 I just released the alpha-version of my AI in Genomics textbook! It covers (so far!) sequence language models & deep learning for DNA/RNA/proteins. Check it out: biobook.michel.science

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Credit where credit is due, "squalid chapter" and "island of strangers" would both make decent band names

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Thanks to everybody who chimed in! I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist. So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>

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Special issue of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies on social biological research: "Social-to-biological transition research offers a way of answering questions about how the social becomes biological with a view to understanding – and addressing – health inequities"

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In my attempts at recovering from burnout by trying to do nice things, I made it half an hour early for a hairdressing appointment where the hairdresser isn’t here, the salon is closed, and all I can contact is an AI system which you can guess how this went. No trimmed bangs in science

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Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff A post discussing @randynesse.bsky.social ‘s hypothesis of cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/schizophre...

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Wonderful cover, and amazing research by Zhang et al. - they used classic Chinese poetry that mentions the Yangtze finless porpoise (724 poems in total!) to estimate the range contraction of the species over the last 1400 years. Such a creative approach to generate truly novel data!

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Workshopping a joke about new pope, "New Pope" the show, and the fact that I, too, love a cherry coke like the new pope from the show

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I am reading a book on developing R packages and roughly following, and maybe that should be my ultimate reminder to self that I have made progress in terms of development of my skills

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🧵 The 51st is a part of a Pulitzer-winning project! We contributed to this collaborative series that covered the opioid epidemic's devastating impacts on a generation of older Black men across America. tinyurl.com/4jpsnpjj

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New opportunity for Bay Area undergrads to gain computational neuroscience exposure and training! I’m teaming up with @neuronush.bsky.social to offer this to students in our communities 💕🧠🧪 Please share with any students who might be interested! Tiny.cc/ucsfcompneuro

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On Karl Marx’s birthday, here’s Roland Barthes wondering about seeing Marx and Engels as Bouvard and Pécuchet:

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We just updated our preprint describing our 'ESDist' R package for calculating field-specific effect size distributions, which are useful for both interpretation & study planning. In this version we added options that can account for publication bias and effect size precision doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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I like this paper: not only does it review of all the reasons standardized coefficients are bad, actually, It also then goes on to show how test statistics can be used as measures of unique contribution/ effect size! - something that just sounds so so wrong! #stats doi.org/10.1080/0003...

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For those with despair about today's extreme proposed funding cuts for NIH, NSF, NASA, NOAA, etc... remember: CONGRESS 👏 SETS 👏 BUDGET 👏 LEVELS Today's news is simply just the President's request. Tell your elected representatives to REJECT this assault on science and scientific training.

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More from LIFE alumna @dingdingpeng.the100.ci!

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Just saw gtexr, related package for GTEx data docs.ropensci.org/gtexr/articl... H/t @jeremymsimon.bsky.social

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Hey, if you are a mutual who is a person of postdoctoral (ideally former) experience, could I please talk to you? I am Agonising with a capital A

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I like to think that I am an interesting, somewhat unique person, but then I remember that I’m an academic, my personality is “just v detail-oriented”, my main hobby is reading, and today’s highlight was an arrival of a new pen due to my messing up my old Kaweco extra fine. A bit on the nose, this

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Massive multi-ancestry GWAS resource for 1,167 clinical traits & diseases in 6 global biobanks (n=1,789,365) 👉29,139 locus-trait pairs 👉2,624 non-overlapping loci across the genome 👉associated with 6 traits each (median) 👉colocalization across traits for 72% of loci [1/3]

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Are you a health equity researcher who has lost federal funding for a project? RWJF’s Evidence for Action is offering Rapid Response grants to support community-centered, social science research disrupted by cuts. ☀️ More details: www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

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That means masking for protection hopefully will remain not a crime!

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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

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Apparently it’s time of night where I can’t sleep due to stress and I’m borderline teary over a chippie in West Village (I haven’t had fish and chips in like three years? what a life)

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Need to read, but this looks cool. Using random deviations from expected relatedness to estimate heritability (for silly organisms like humans where you can't just clone genotypes and experimentally control for the environment) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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