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human geneticist, queerdo, mystery solver, gentle giant, big ol’ nerd, ADHD-brained.
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Double-grabbing the future with Frame-Perfect Policy
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If ‘cilia’ is allowed then ‘ciliate’ MUST be allowed too and yes I will die on this hill
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great background section in this one too
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I am a Northwestern faculty impacted just how you describe. My research - including an active trial
of cancer / cardiac disease prevention, part of a large national network - has been frozen, despite a notice of award for our renewal. Year 6 of a 6 year study. We are completely in the dark.
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That’s true about its origins - and we absolutely should work to reduce sugar consumption too - but fluoridation *works,* and is not associated with any risks to health, as this study comparing fluoridated and non-fluoridated regions in the UK clearly shows
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Ah yes, the r-squared must be around negative eleventy-q
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Every day is 100 days now
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“select colleges”
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This is why he’s gutting the National Human Genome Research Institute, which for years has worked to disrupt this awful pseudoscience of genetic determinism and to build the evidence and infrastructure for equitable genome-informed public health
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Brutalist Spite Library is my new indie band name
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They’re dismantling NHGRI
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www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Titled “Return to Innocence” natch
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To them, professors are the enemy. Vance said it out loud years ago. They want to traumatize early career scientists like me into leaving academia altogether. They want to starve universities so that they must downsize and get rid of us.
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They messed with the global search feature. On nih.gov search for ‘genetics’ or ‘cancer’
…now try searching for ‘diversity’ or ‘gender’
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They’re just gonna feed this all into their own dumb LLM anyway so the more nonsense we flood this with, the dumber their bot’s answers will be
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Yup. And it’s not just probationary staff.
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It’s also clearly written by absolute morons, it takes 5 minutes on PubMed to figure out the prevalence of Rx for these meds
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She was a Quid. He was a Pro Quo. Coming this Valentine’s Day, experience their timeless New York love story
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The Canyons is a ‘masterpiece’ of Pure Camp, in the Sontag sense…
e.g. to show text messages to the audience they invented an app (?) that ostensibly everyone in-film uses called ‘TexTV’ that displays all your texts on the TV for some reason
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How do we know he didn’t just take boatloads of data home on external drives to mess with for Musk in an ‘unofficial’ capacity?
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NHGRI has also removed much of their content on diversity - including fact sheets and recordings of workshops, e.g.
www.genome.gov/about-genomi...
www.genome.gov/27568220/feb...
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The NHGRI has also started removing content from their site, such as: www.genome.gov/about-genomi...
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It has aged incredibly well and feels remarkably ahead of its time. I hope more folks read this, it deserves more attention!!
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Joan Roughgarden, “Evolution’s Rainbow”
Equal parts naturalism, cultural history, and manifesto, written by a trans evolutionary biologist. An exploration of the inherent queerness of nature and a powerful argument that transphobia is truly a rejection of the beautiful diversity of nature
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I don’t want to quarrel either, but you should do some reading on the underlying tech and regulatory decisions here. Genotyping uses fluorescent oligo probes to detect specific predetermined alleles. not the same as sequencing. different sens/spec. not saying it’s inaccurate, but it’s less accurate.
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This is like saying ‘I acknowledge astrology is silly, but all I’m saying is that telescopes show the real sky’ (Genotyping does not require a sequencing step, btw)
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1. 23andMe is not a sequencing test. It is a genotyping test.
2. 23andMe didn’t change the test. They (successfully) lobbied to change the rules.
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On top of that, the range of color values we label with Orange is a *socially constructed slice of a continuous spectrum* - just like the ‘ancestry’ categories these tests report