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Human Geneticist. Sex differences. Women's Health. Computational Genomics. Professor at University of Colorado. Data, Analysis, Travel, Dogs, Live music. she/her

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Also, recall that I examined grant title changes for evidence of β€œremediation” and found 777 grants with titles changed from 2024 to 2025.

Here is a word cloud of the removed words.

16.12.2025 02:22 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Group Leader Research Fellowship Sponsorship Scheme The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group.

➑️For further details see the link below www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/group-l...

08.12.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This symposium at JHU today looks fantastic! Great line up of speakers, and I love the idea of brainstorming solutions during a 'pitch a problem' session.

08.12.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
I Want You to Understand Chicago

People have have asked me what is going on in Chicago right now. The ICE situation is worse than you imagine. People are being violently detained, bystanders gassed, protesters assaulted. On the flip side, concerned citizens are mobilizing. Read this summary to learn more: aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

10.11.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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One of the highlights of #ASHG25 was reading the "I Advocate for Science Because..." wall

18.10.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago

18.10.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 43807    πŸ” 11462    πŸ’¬ 918    πŸ“Œ 837

Wow! Chicago definitely turned out.

18.10.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

15.10.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 210    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

@sarahtishkoff.bsky.social: "This community is stronger when we stand together."

Amen! Love that ASHG opened with a talk about the importance of diversity. Way to set the tone of the conference πŸ‘ #ASHG25

14.10.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fingers crossed! 🐸

11.10.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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11.10.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

10.10.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 19165    πŸ” 7642    πŸ’¬ 300    πŸ“Œ 240
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a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket . ALT: a man with his eyes closed is wearing a plaid shirt and a blue jacket .

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

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09.09.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 14
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. 1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub. For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know your rights, Illinois.

Stay safe and stay informed.

06.09.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 28624    πŸ” 11989    πŸ’¬ 852    πŸ“Œ 477

Absolutely thrilled to see @audreyhendricks.com receive the ASHG Education award! We in @cubiomedinfo.bsky.social at @cuanschutz.bsky.social are lucky to have her as a colleague, mentor, and advocate for genetics and genomics education for all.

Congratulations Audrey!

29.07.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Max Planck Transatlantic Program With its new Transatlantic Program, the Max Planck Society aims to strengthen collaboration and partnerships between its Institutes and leading U.S. institutions. At the same time, it seeks to counter...

The Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de today launched its Transatlantic Program, aimed at strengthening scientific collaboration with US partners, while at same time creating new opportunities for talented researchers at multiple career stages, from PhD through to group-heads & directors. More info πŸ‘‡πŸ§ͺ

08.07.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a β€œscience fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

08.07.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 40326    πŸ” 11283    πŸ’¬ 1080    πŸ“Œ 854

It was used to indicate different effect sizes (not statistical 'bias'). So population-biased eQTLs, sex-biased eQTLs = inclusive of poss 'pop-/sex-'specific. There was lots of discussion about how to refer to these. 'specific' was a hard "no" for many of the reasons mentioned above in this thread.

08.07.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree!

08.07.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

URGENT: Please share widely with your networks!! Very tight turnaround (12 pm today 6/27) πŸ§ͺ

27.06.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you an early-career researcher working on the computational analysis of population-level human genetics data? We want to hear from you about if, how, and why you use population descriptors in your research! Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/SCiNUq71wgi5... πŸ§¬πŸ’»πŸ§ͺ

02.06.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yes! That would be fantastic for our trainees.

20.06.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Love this: In referring to studying sex differences: "It's not woke science, it's just SCIENCE." ❀️

02.06.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited for @liisagalea.bsky.social keynote at Annual meeting of @ossdcomm.bsky.social

02.06.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

22.05.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) will hold a full committee hearing on the Fiscal Year 2026 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget on May 14, 2025, at 1:30 pm ET. ☎️ CALL YOUR SENATORS and tell them how vital #NIH research is to America’s health πŸ‘©πŸ½β€βš•οΈπŸ₯🧠

14.05.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'We Are Moving Backwards': 4 Leaders In Women’s Health Care On Why Research Funding Is Essential There's so much at stakeβ€”for everyone.

In an interview with Women’s Health Magazine I discuss my opinion of how Women’s Health Care will be affected by the changes in funding to research on women or examining sex differences

@smidtheart.bsky.social @womensheart.bsky.social

πŸ“Ž www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a6461...

05.05.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

06.05.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5323    πŸ” 1737    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 74

β€œHow might the narrative about senior women be challenged or changed in order to respect these women who have achieved enough success to earn promotion? How do we stop this generational cycle so that women's wings aren't clipped as soon as they approach the power to soar.”

03.05.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8
Post-doc position - Gymrek Lab

A postdoctoral position is available at University of California San Diego to study the genome-wide contribution of tandem repeat and structural variants to tobacco use disorder and related traits. Candidates should have statistical genetics ad GWAS experience. Details:
gymreklab.com/postdoc-trdr...

30.04.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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