@dr_srishtin And Canadians just spell everything wrong because we grew up Canadian English (essentially British English) but some people here use American English 😂
🎶 Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a low genetic predisposition for "musicality".
We discuss challenges of polygenic score predictions at the individual level, and for someone who lived over 200 years ago: https://t.co/wbGnLvQnkN
#WCPG2023 Poster T16:
Come chat with me about speech rhythm perception at today's poster session, (or about our musical rhythm + language work referenced in @CrunchyNeuroSci's talk yesterday).
Btw @THenechowicz will be talking about musicality genetics work right at T17.
I’m super psyched (no pun intended) about ICMPC in Tokyo coming up! Looking forward to seeing my grad student student and trainee pals! And making new friends :D!
In 1922, a group of scientists went to the Toronto General Hospital where diabetic children were kept in wards. Most of them were comatose & dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Others were being placed on extremely strict diets, which inevitably led to starvation.
@VanessaPorter Atrocious! Quite soon there will be new PhD students enrolled at Canadian Universities who will be paid the same minimum stipend as PhD students were the year they were born. #SupportOurScience