#Genetic

King Paimon

williamzabka42

Gonna get personal on here one more time asking for your help, so thanks in advance for your time. My recently departed dad was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2011

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Times of Israel reports (as do Haaretz & NatGeo) on a new genetic study of dozens of individuals from the Bronze Age Levant.Some initial observations . . .https://www.timesofisrael.com/study-shows-canaanites-israelites-biblical-frenemie

carly

SNRRKK

tired of people saying bisexuality is 50/50 attraction to men/women when its normally if you go one on one with another wrestler, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. but

Abbas Abbasov

abbasabbasov

THREAD 1/13: To better understand the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, I turn to the works of a Georgian molecular anthropologist, Dr. Ivane (Vano) Nasidze (1964-2012) at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, who studied the fascinating ethnolinguistic

Randy Nesse

RandyNesse

A recent news article in @ScienceMagazine, “Rethinking #anorexia: Biology may be more important than culture,” illustrates the human tendency to stay committed to a simple theory despite contrary evidence, even

Emily Yates-Doerr

eyatesd

Anthros, are you citing Clifford Geertz for coining the phrase “Deep Hanging Out?” Well, that’s wrong. "Deep Hanging Out" comes from Chicano poet-anthropologist Renato Rosaldo. (Thread) 1/ I just saw

Mary Beth "wear a damn mask" Williams

wampumpeag

I'm seeing some serious misrepresentations in my feed, so let's clear things up. Jamaica, under England rule after 1655, engaged in chattel slavery, first w/ indigenous Taino, and then captured

Gigi Sims

1GigiSims

If this emerges as a consistent finding, it will be time to look deeper for answers. "The coronavirus seems to disproportionately kill African Americans, according to the few states providing

Altea Lorenzo

Altea_Lorenzo

Now to one talk I think everyone should watch: "The Legacy of Scientific Racism" by Angela Saini. Plenty of food for thought ahead I'm sure! A discussion that needs to

Daniel MacArthur

dgmacarthur

It's live! After years of work and more than 16 months in peer review, the gnomAD package is now up at Nature. We have seven papers in total, exploring different

Dr. Mansa Keita

rasmansa

I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the scientific racism community.I have reached the regrettable conclusion that their greatest stumbling block is

Claire Elizabeth

clairedrown

The narrator has spastic CP with very little mobility and no speech. However, she doesn’t have any apparent learning disabilities, so she is “locked” in her body. Hence the title.

Tim Morris

bristimtom

In need of some lockdown reading? @nm_davies @explodecomputer @mendel_random and I have a new paper exploring how population level mechanisms may inflate genetic associations and bias conclusions: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/16/eaay0328

Sarah Snelling

Sarah_JB_S

For today's teaching, I asked our 1st year undergrads to read 3 primary literature papers & we critiqued together. I was blown away by how much their understanding, depth of

Jacqui Taylor ✝️💫

ajacquitaylor

1) FDA document admits “Covid” PCR test was developed without isolated samples for test calibration, effectively admitting it’s testing something else. 2) A document just released by the U.S. Food

Venk Murthy

venkmurthy

I was reminded today that with all of the discussion about cardiac MRI, many folks may get the wrong idea about the test and when it is useful.Let's do a