You can see when Collins stepped down as head of NIH in the drop for NHGRI even before 2025. And now down to 3…🫠
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You can see when Collins stepped down as head of NIH in the drop for NHGRI even before 2025. And now down to 3…🫠
12/“I spent five hours creating a justification for why the word the screening tool picked up was a false positive - I was told my judgment was wrong. When I asked to document that my decision was overruled I was told that the decision memo could not include “dissenting language.”
- anonymous NIH PO
I fret, therefore I am.
On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming process—which LLMs mostly eliminate, imo—is fundamental to doing *good* work.
Are you interested in understanding how social and structural determinants of health influence estimates of genetic risk? Looking for figures for teaching these concepts?
Check out our work on considerations for modeling them together, led by Sara Cromer and Dave Conti with @prsmethods.bsky.social
This is the cruelest and dumbest timeline. Absolute cowards cosplaying to hide their own vacuity and inhumanity.
While I should be surprised, I'm not. That the singularity will come not solely from technological advancement but because of humans abdicating their own intelligence is so consistent with this timeline.
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
"The documents are engrossing and infuriating in part because they point toward an undeniable conclusion: No one really needed to make friends with this man. They chose to."
Yes, exactly. Not a need, but a want.
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
GO DONATE.
tcpipeline.org
No way. Not even top five on that album for screaming in your car.
Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com
But I am le tired.
“I’m gonna produce as much as I can to make their jobs as difficult as possible.”
Writing for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, @jnoor.bsky.social on zine-making vs ICE, including our efforts to flood the city with free anti-ICE posters and know your rights resources.
baltimorebeat.com/a-teaching-t...
I just saw a JHMI student defend today taking about BDNF and now seeing this! It's everywhere!
#Introduction: Bioethicist. Adversarial Collaborator (the friendly kind). Writer. Mother to a tiny human and cat.
I study: the ethics of genomic technologies.
Book: WHAT WE INHERIT (2026) tinyurl.com/4m2uu7xu
Website: daphnemartschenko.com
Sam and I sat down with Nicoletta Lanese at @livescience.com to discuss our book, What We Inherit, and emerging genomic technologies
We also published an accompanying op-ed on PGT-P (polygenic embryo selection). You can check it out here! We are in the Wild West when it comes to these technologies.
The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
“He didn’t know” aka it was so much the expected norm that he didn’t think it noteworthy enough to think about. It was just the natural order of things to them.
"But he didn't know" okay, great, but did he speak out against an overtly sexist, racist power broker, or did he accept the invitations and the money? Because this culture doesn't just happen. It's created by the consent of the people who have access to those spaces.
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
I would not be where I am without having found a WISE (women in science and engineering) group in my training years.
The weekly meeting provided vital support where we basically just told each other "that's not normal. it's not you, it's them. keep going."
Ohhhhh I missed this. 🫠
:: adds it to teaching notes ::
Even more recently! GWAS and associated media coverage on work as recently as 2019 (that I know of).
it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity
Is there a venue that you think would be most effective in getting through to these people?
We do work within our field (genetics, epidemiology) to debunk this stuff but obv nobody outside of these circles is going to read our papers or attend our talks as they aren’t really geared towards them.
The title…👌🏼
TIL that a concert venue here was reopened as “Nevermore Hall” last year and honestly that’s one of the most Baltimore things I’ve heard in a while.
I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
(see public health)
And if nothing happens because of steps taken to prevent it, you’ll be seen as hysterical and discredited.
