Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM

These embryo-selection startups are clearly feeding into an alt-right ecosystem that revels in techno-futurism much as such movements have in the past. GWAS participants & parents navigating IVF deserve better than being used as tools to attract the attention of edge lords.

Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM

Genevieve Wojcik, PhD, MHS

🚨New webinar just announced = August Journal Club with @jayatirsharma.bsky.social & @genandgenes.bsky.social!
On August 13, they'll investigate the role of genetic ancestry & sociocultural factors in considering the genetic risk for BMI in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Register: bit.ly/44RvgsK #ASHG

🚨 New perspective piece in @ajhgnews.bsky.social! 🚨
We developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench, now published here:

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🚨 For everyone who uses All of Us Workbench 🚨

Apparently, if the creator of a workspace no longer has access, *the entire workspace gets deleted*.

Ask me how I know this. 🫠

It doesn't matter who the owners are. Make sure to back up all your work in a workspace with a PI as a creator!

Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences Given the high comorbidity between psychiatric disorders, previous studies have focused on genetic factors shared across the disorders. In a recent pr…

🎉 Our newest spotlight is out now in Trends in Genetics!

"Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social)

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👀 🧬 Curious how to respectfully, robustly, and flexibly use population descriptors in genomic research, and align with @nationalacademies.org recommendations?

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Thanks @johnshopkinsepi.bsky.social for this honor!!

Congratulations to @jayatirsharma.bsky.social, the 2025 recipient of the Mary B. Meyer Memorial Fund. This award identifies exceptional students who demonstrate academic excellence, and who hold the promise of future contribution to the field of epidemiology.

Surviving Occupation in a Climate-Changed West Bank | Atmos Climate change is causing strange rainfall patterns in Palestine. That compounds the devastation of Israel’s weaponization of water.

my first deep dive from my trip to the west bank is for @atmosmag.bsky.social where I dig into the water crisis unfolding in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem

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There’s been some “advice” coming from some quarters for scientists not to focus on DEI-related funding cuts.

I wholly reject this concept.

Cutting programs designed to reduce science and healthcare disparities is as detrimental to science as anything else, both morally and functionally.

thank you Dr. Buyske!!

@hggadvances.bsky.social latest study examines the interaction of a polygenic score for BMI with sociocultural factors & genetic ancestry across groups in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos: www.cell.com/hgg-advances... #ASHG @jayatirsharma.bsky.social @genandgenes.bsky.social

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Jayati on stage during PhD defense seminar

Title page of Jayati’s dissertation: “Evaluation of Polygenic Risk Scores as a Valid Instrument to Conduct Mendelian Randomization in Diverse Ancestry Populations”

🎉 Yesterday, I successfully defended my dissertation in Genetic Epidemiology! 😊 Thanks as always to my advisors, @genandgenes.bsky.social, my mentors, family, and friends who helped make this happen! And now for some hashtags I’ve been waiting to use for a v long time :) — #PhinisheD #PhDone #Doctor

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Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like those of other current students in this article, has been changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”

Teachers have tried AI-proofing assignments, returning to Blue Books or switching to oral exams. Brian Patrick Green, a tech-ethics scholar at Santa Clara University, immediately stopped assigning essays after he tried ChatGPT for the first time. Less than three months later, teaching a course called Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, he figured a low-stakes reading reflection would be safe — surely no one would dare use ChatGPT to write something personal. But one of his students turned in a reflection with robotic language and awkward phrasing that Green knew was AI-generated. A philosophy professor across the country at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock caught students in her Ethics and Technology class using AI to respond to the prompt “Briefly introduce yourself and say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.”

Whenever Wendy uses AI to write an essay (which is to say, whenever she writes an essay), she follows three steps. Step one: “I say, ‘I’m a first-year college student. I’m taking this English class.’” Otherwise, Wendy said, “it will give you a very advanced, very complicated writing style, and you don’t want that.” Step two: Wendy provides some background on the class she’s taking before copy-and-pasting her professor’s instructions into the chatbot. Step three: “Then I ask, ‘According to the prompt, can you please provide me an outline or an organization to give me a structure so that I can follow and write my essay?’ It then gives me an outline, introduction, topic sentences, paragraph one, paragraph two, paragraph three.” Sometimes, Wendy asks for a bullet list of ideas to support or refute a given argument: “I have difficulty with organization, and this makes it really easy for me to follow.”

Once the chatbot had outlined Wendy’s essay, providing her with a list of topic sentences and bullet points of ideas, all she had to do was fill it in. Wendy delivered a tidy five-page paper at an acceptably tardy 10:17 a.m. When I asked her how she did on the assignment, she said she got a good grade. “I really like writing,” she said, sounding strangely nostalgic for her high-school English class — the last time she wrote an essay unassisted. “Honestly,” she continued, “I think there is beauty in trying to plan your essay. You learn a lot. You have to think, Oh, what can I write in this paragraph? Or What should my thesis be? ” But she’d rather get good grades. “An essay with ChatGPT, it’s like it just gives you straight up what you have to follow. You just don’t really have to think that much.”

Don't have anything new to say about AI here. One thing I will say is that higher ed has long been broken. If elites had spent more time thinking through the point of education and how well we really do it than stoking woke panic, maybe we wouldn't be staring at this abyss. nymag.com/intelligence...

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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.

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@genandgenes.bsky.social makes a powerful case for anti-racist genetics education in secondary school and university, and at the risk of climbing onto a well-worn pedestal, I'd argue this moment, more than any other, calls for a rethinking of how we approach doctoral education in genetics

“In the United States, a reactionary political movement has ridden a populist wave into power, using dog-whistle rhetoric about race.“

Inspired as always by my advisor @genandgenes.bsky.social ‘s commitment to telling it like it is

The women’s health initiative has followed tens of thousands of women for more than 30 years and provided invaluable information on topics like hormone replacement and cancer.

Jay Bhattacharya cutting this program will not only hurt women, it’s also just a colossal waste to lose such an investment.