Kaustubh Adhikari

Senior Lecturer of Statistics at the Open University. Formerly statistical geneticist at University College London.
@kaustubhad.bsky.social

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

@vagheesh Congratulations!

[GRACE Project @GRACE_projectUK]

The GRACE project has been working hard tackling underrepresentation in genetics research. We are happy to share an endorsement by our MP for Milton Keynes Central, Emily Darlington.

@OpenUniversity @emily4MK

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

I'm attending the Cambridge Rare Summit #RAREsummit25 tomorrow on behalf of @GRACE_projectUK, with our partners @BarriersDown @AS_UK. Please stop by our desk if you are there!

[Breaking Down Barriers @BarriersDown]

On the 6th November, we will be attending and exhibiting at the @camraredisease #RareSummit25

Working together to build more inclusive, accessible, and equitable genetics healthcare and research for all.

Come along to our exhibition stand and find our Tree of Traits where you can explore your family features!

Find our more about RARESummit 2025
https://t.co/SXWHKtFMby

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

@asgari_samira @abhijith_biji It is indeed a moment of pride to see mentees succeed. Congratulations to you too!

[GRACE Project @GRACE_projectUK]

We'll be at @FoGenomics today! Please come find our stall if you are there!

https://t.co/0m5cLL31r8

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

I signed up for @ukfuturehealth! If I'm doing public engagement with @GRACE_projectUK to increase diversity in genetics and healthcare research participation, have to practice what I preach!

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

https://t.co/n3muAJnoCK

Our new @bbcideas video! How to win at online dating - using data science.

@OUMathsStats @OU_STEM co-production.

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

@vagheesh Congratulations!

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

New paper!
Studying genetics of tooth dimensions isn't so common as measurement is cumbersome. But in our modest-sized study we report many new genes, with one which seems to have been inherited from Neanderthals in (some) Europeans.
https://t.co/yZcmALt3gO
@UGI_at_UCL @OU_STEM

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

Now that I run a diversity and inclusion initiative about underprivileged groups myself, I try to do as much as I can to counter these pernicious views and their misrepresentation of scientific research.
https://t.co/9vFC1sdazP

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

The report reminded me that nearly a decade ago I had a weird run-in with these top ‘race scientists’ over my research.
At that point I was new to the UK and also unfamiliar with Twitter, so had no idea who these people were. It started with an innocuous email…

[Dr Adam Rutherford @AdamRutherford]

Bigotry dressed up as biology. Summary thread of the Guardian and
@hopenothate's remarkable investigation into the scientific racist and eugenics cosplayers, promoting pseudoscience to disguise their ideology.

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

Never again have I responded to their emails. They then started pestering other lab members including the professors. But after our coordinated silence it died down after a while.

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

@peterjukes I think you're not getting the philosophical point (saying everything in science is shaky) I am disagreeing with. Although our general position about moral absolutism is similar. So maybe there's not much point in continuing this back-n-forth.

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

@peterjukes In my research we see there are observable differences between people. These are facts and concurrently I do outreach explaining that having differences doesn't mean a person or a group of people are inferior in some way. E.g. lactose tolerate and white supremacists milk parties.

[Kaustubh Adhikari @kaustubhad]

@peterjukes I was disagreeing to the earlier blanket assertion of calling all scientific knowledge imperfect: "Never based your moral values an our imperfect and evolving knowledge of science"; as you concur, topics like evolution are established with proof. Am not asking to be absolutist!