Rachel Ungar and I are thrilled to share our paper on the trainee-led course on genetics, ethics, and society that was developed at Stanford: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/9)

Excited to share this preprint with Doc Edge! We wanted to ask what you can learn how genetics explains between-group differences if you know how much genetics explains within-group differences. Turns out the answer is almost nothing! 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Huang et al: more on heritability in heterogenous populations (i.e. all populations) with ancestry covariates and admixture heritability. Very clear derivations and simulations of these parameters, even if you think you know them. x.com/a_a_zaidi/stat…

To quote Sasha Gusev , "This is the way".

This has been a special project, and one of my absolute favorite papers to write, with audrey lin 👻, Laurent Frantz, melissa hawkins, Chris Stantis, PhD and many more. The history of Coast Salish “woolly dogs” revealed by ancient genomics and Indigenous Knowledge science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Shyam Prabhakar Lab I realize one might think it is semantics, but GxE is not human biology working differently, but genetic and environmental effects interacting. The underlying model is that any human experiencing that G and E would on average have that GxE effect.

Are there other ECs/trainees on here who are barely keeping it together in silence hoping senior faculty who are normally very vocal about everything but remain silent about this dystopian nightmare will say something?

Thanks for this summary, Charleston Chiang! #TAGC24

This Friday at the #AABA2024 symposium on Undermining the Production of Race Science, I'll be sharing a collaborative project with Arslan Zaidi on race scientists' continued use of a flawed method, correlating genetic ancestry to IQ, to claim genetic superiority of Europeans.

25 scholarships under the Ireland-Palestine Scholarship Programme (IPSP) for the 2024-2025 academic year from applicants living in the occupied Palestinian territory are currently available. Further details in the link below! dfa.ie/prep/ramallah/…

Eid Mubarak to my Muslim friends all over and solidarity with those finding ways to celebrate in these difficult times.

First paper from the lab! Work with Xinjun Zhang and led by super talented former USC QBIO - The 21st Century Biology Education student Tessa Ferrari. Stay tuned for a thread summarizing results.

Ever wondered when you "scaled down" parameters in SLiM, what is being simulated is actually comparable to what is intended by the model? We got an answer for you!

Read our new nature paper on 'Complete sequencing & comparative analysis of ape sex chromosomes'. Bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and siamang #Xchr & #Ychr are now telomere-to-telomere (#T2T)! A collaboration of the #T2T_Primates_Consortium. 🦧🦍nature.com/articles/s4158…

Check out this fantastic blog post written by our Director of the VA Million Veteran Program, covering our latest study!

We’re not empathy starved. The whole world empathizes with us. Our people are literally starving. We don’t need Kamala’s nice tone. We need her to open borders to allow food, we need her to stop sending weapons, we need her to end military aid. Also don’t speak for us.

NEWS I’m joining the editorial board at #GENETICS Genetics Society of America I'm excited to work with a strong society journal that has and is shaping our field academic.oup.com/genetics/pages… I'm in "Experimental Population & Evolutionary Genetics" but will likely handle some theory too!

It makes me immensely happy to see my first PhD student Jinguo Huang (co-advised with Mark Shriver) successfully defend her thesis with flying colors. No one warns you for that acknowledgement slide until it happens. Jinguo, I'm so proud of you.

This is wrong, but there is a lot of confusion about why (thread)

Extremely excited that the Zhang lab will be MIRA-funded for the next 5 years!! Very grateful for the continuing support from NIGMS