Tina Lasisi, PhD

She/her | Asst Professor of Biological Anthropology @UMich | hair, melanin, genetics

[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

1/8 🧵 Fresh off the press! 📰 Our paper “Human scalp hair as a thermoregulatory adaptation” just got published in PNAS. 🎉 Here’s the summary in a thread…

[Mashaal Sohail @mashaals]

Excited to share our pre-print "The multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation beyond continental groups" https://t.co/YiJk25oPq3
Global Genomic Network Communities browser: https://t.co/yWrEQSFh3k
Github: https://t.co/fN54Dsqzpz
See🧵thread by lead author @MaxolotlMad

[María J. Palma @MaxolotlMad]

I am proud to share our latest paper📜 “The multi-scale complexity of human genetic variation beyond continental groups”, just pre-printed on @biorxivpreprint!

Link Here ➡️https://t.co/eSZHTYyBD6

[Department of Anthropology, University of MN @UMNAnthropology]

Asst. Prof. Maria Nieves Colón talks about the early history of the Caribbean and colonial impacts in the PBS documentary episode "Echoes of Empires" in VOCES American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos. The episode is available online through Oct 25.
https://t.co/gMWz111I7T

[Roshni Patel @RoshniAPatel]

so fun to be interviewed by an organization I've admired for years! had the chance to brag about the incredible trainee-led work that went into the ethics class led by @raungar + @tgjorgjieva1 + @alvinahere + @daphmarts + me

[The Black in Biological Anthropology Collective @BlackinBioAnth]

Happy Fall! Our coworking writing rooms are back and we're ready to get some work done! We invite our members and interested members to join us this semester on Wednesdays! Sign up here: https://t.co/yhUd5t3fTg

[Prof. Katie Hinde @Mammals_Suck]

Announcing the 2024 March Mammal Madness Compendium! Volume 3 is 225+ pages!

Relive the drama, revisit the citations, & check out 20+ pages collage of educator, learner, & player art.

Download a FREE pdf from the ASU Library KEEP Collection: https://t.co/fbqJbrsKQc

[Andrew Kern @pastramimachine]

Our lab group is recruiting for a new Postdoc to join us. We are looking for someone to work on projects in Deep Learning and/or Spatial Population Genetics. Please share.

[PNASNews @PNASNews]

There are more captive tigers than wild tigers on Earth. A study of the genetic diversity of captive tigers finds that they are not more inbred than wild tigers but do not represent a reservoir of genetic diversity that has been lost in the wild. In PNAS: https://t.co/oa55OpQJTk

[Jazlyn Mooney, PhD @Jazlyn_Mooney]

Super excited this work with @_ellie_cat is finally out. Hopefully the first (publishing wise) of many collabs 😎

[Dr. Maria A Nieves-Colón @mitoPR]

Our study investigating the genetic ancestries of Afro-Puerto Ricans is now published in @AmJBioAnth! This work was led by @sankofadna & done in collaboration w/COPI 🇵🇷💃🏿: https://t.co/3VtCr0fWbj (1/n ) https://t.co/FZ6l7JrrqD

[Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber]

Excited to share this new preprint with @spence_jeffrey_ and @DocEdge85 in which we developed a method to infer demographic history and mutation rates from millions of genomes, and applied it to gnomAD v4 data. Read on for a brief thread!
https://t.co/gLVQ77Sa5M

[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

@asher_rosinger @NIEHS @HermanPontzer @endiema @Kenney13Larry @farquhar_wbf Congratulations!!! I’ll make sure to recommend this to some graduating PhD students looking for a postdoc!

[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

@A_A_Zaidi @Jinguo_Huang @alljustatoms Congratulations to both of you!!

[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

@Jinguo_Huang @A_A_Zaidi @alljustatoms @grg_perry @zszpiech Congratulations, Dr Huang!!! ♥️

[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

@udodiriokwandu Congratulations Dr. Okwandu!!

[Doc Edge @DocEdge85]

Sorry to miss everyone at #SMBE2024! A couple of talks from my group:

@feriel_ouerghi_ "How should we report genetic matches following an investigative genetic genealogy search?" in S35, Costa Alegre, 18:20 on Tuesday the 9th

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[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

@Jazlyn_Mooney All of this + tired of people who allegedly don't support it enabling it under the guise of an "intellectual exercise"

[Tina Lasisi, PhD @TinaLasisi]

@Jazlyn_Mooney oop

[Jazlyn Mooney, PhD @Jazlyn_Mooney]

GWAS on EA/IQ are today's version of Morton's craniometry studies, imo. Every time I see these terrible papers pop-up, I wonder how we stop people from pursuing such fundamentally flawed "research" that is often steeped in racial biases & completely lacking scientific rigor.