#Geneticists

daniel falush

DanielFalush

Thread, on my twitter COVID campaign experience. My first campaign on twitter really got going on 1st March and was aimed at trying to alert the West to the notion

EpigeneticWhisperer or Tramscendental Love Child

EpigeneticWhisp

Biotech advocates often give U the impression that trans-species bioengineering is merely a matter of taking a gene from 1 organism & popping it into the DNA of another, where

Roxana Daneshjou MD/PhD

RoxanaDaneshjou

I would like to lay out why this work is scientifically unsound and problematic. Note that my PhD was in a genetics/informatics lab, and I spent time working with population

Dr Adam Rutherford

AdamRutherford

Here is an academic (preprint) paper describing the methods in the DNA sequencing tech for one of the two companies that the Gov have procured to test for COVID-19. 1/xhttps://twitter.com/nanopore/status/1293220551637577729

Monica H Green

monicaMedHist

New thread of quick reading on the current state of Black Death studies (for new followers). I'm listing only #OpenAccess work, but remember that good scholarship costs $$, just like

Ulgen

ulgenCLST6

#CLST6 #ArchMethodsFor today's #CYO2, I listened to episode 26 of The Arch&Ant podcast titled "How do geneticists study complex traits in humans? How do ancestry tests work?". The guest of

Julia P G Jones

juliapgjones

What are the socio-economic impacts of the invasion of the marbled crayfish in Madagascar? This new paper in @PLOSONE (about THE most interesting invasive species) is special to me for

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

With the news that Elizabeth Warren is the last white woman on the short list of VP options for Biden, I figured it was a good time to go to

Gabriel Lazarin

lazgabe

I attended the '10 ACMG mtg, my 1st as Counsyl employee. We were few months into having launched expanded carrier screening, then called the Universal Genetic Test. It was also

Audra J. Wolfe, PhD

ColdWarScience

A thread on today’s Never Just Science, on Lysenko, Lysenkoism, what it means to call something “Lysenkoist.”https://neverjustscience.substack.com/p/lysenkos-ghosts I felt I owed you all this post, if nothing else to explain

Lalo Dagach

LaloDagach

~ THREAD ON PLAGUES & PANDEMICS FROM CHINA The recent outbreak of #coronavirus (or SARS-CoV-2) originating in China is nothing new. Many of the great plagues and pandemics that

Uriah

crimkadid

Going to try the answer the old question “Why are the Japanese so…..Japanese?” in the sense of patient, nonviolent, guileless. And I think the answer is related to another stereotype:

David Orlovich

davidorlovich

We have been collecting and studying these beautiful purple pouch fungi over the last few years, and our paper just out describing a whole lot of new species is available

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james__glen

In order to help raise awareness of the COVID long-termers - mild-to-moderate cases that have people struggling for months - this is a curated list of English-language press coverage of

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

Jedidiah Carlson

JedMSP

Out now in @plosbiology, @kelley__harris and I try to unravel what altmetrics and the fire hose of social media data really tell us about the potential impacts of research papers.