Doc Edge

Assistant professor in quantitative and computational biology @USC. Genetics, evolution, and a bit of statistics.

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

I'm seldom on here anymore, but feel free to email me with questions.

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

Please repost: My department (quantitative and computational biology at the University of Southern California) is hiring a teaching-track faculty member. The new hire will focus on teaching statistics courses to biology students. Apply by Dec 1 https://t.co/AxIvvQCGc4

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

@ras_nielsen I got one of these a few weeks ago! But they've upped their price from $80k

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@mbeisen Most Thursdays, the 405 doesn't go through downtown

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

@vsbuffalo Everywhere in the country has mission-style burritos (unfortunately)---they're at chipotle!

[Mark Chaisson @mjpchaisson]

Happy to announce our paper on a new genotyping algorithm, ctyper. https://t.co/D9WUK4mln5 . This is amazing work by Walfred Ma, someone you will want to keep on your radar for future contributions to science.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Murray and most of race twitter has apparently been fooled by this completely fabricated analysis purporting to show African ancestry is associated with IQ. People lie on twitter all the time, but this is both more revealing and more disturbing than usual. A 🧵

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

@the_mel_jar I've always thought of him as a young Val Kilmer. Smokeshow either way though

[Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 @DebbieKennett]

Another genetic genealogy case from the US where the FBI used the MyHeritage DNA database without the consent of their users. The prosecution are also refusing to provide discovery of the relevant information. https://t.co/bKxo2GQbr3

[Andrew Kern @pastramimachine]

Scientific tragedy

[AJHG @AJHGNews]

📣Online NOW!
📄Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes
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https://t.co/Z9HINb5mYT

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

@pschofie79 yeah but I'm not reading that Cronin excerpt unless Cronin has read Lucian of Samosata

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

This is a really good lay article on embryo selection but IMO is overly credulous of risk reductions that emerge as a consequence of statistical assumptions rather than actual disease etiology. The disease model *really* matters ...

[Ari Schulman @AriSchulman]

People still think "Gattaca" is just a fairy tale, because a eugenic dystopia must be something imposed on us rather than something we all voluntarily choose.

[Hakhamanesh Mostafavi @Hakha_Most]

I'm thrilled that my lab at NYU is now supported by an NIH MIRA grant! I'm looking to hire 1-2 senior lab members (outstanding postdoc candidates or experienced staff scientists) with expertise in computational and statistical methods in human genetics or genomics. Please share!

[Na Cai @caina89]

Very happy to share our new paper now on @medrxivpreprint: “Genetic risk effects act in sets”, a great effort led my PhD student @JolienRietkerk, and performed together with collaborators @andywdahl, @AndrewSchork, @jonathan_flint1 etc. Thread 1/n

[Luke O'Connor @Luke0connor]

New preprint with Guy Sella on the question: what is polygenicity?

https://t.co/eYiVfJS3tU

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

@gabriel_levine1 Incredible! I didn't know this one; thank you

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One of my favorite categories of thing is "guy decides to spend decades on an insane, idiosyncratic, solo art project of staggering scope". Other entries include the Watts Towers, Coral Castle, Forestiere Underground Gardens, Le Palais Ideal

[“paula” @paularambles]

this guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of nyc consisting of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he first announced it on tiktok like this:

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

@AlexTISYoung So sorry to hear it's back. Here's hoping that you're cured at the end of this next round