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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · 3d

How does warhammer count as a pseudo religion?? I may have missed something

Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · 10d

So you’re saying this would be mostly driven by people moving for educational pursposes and meeting their spouse there. I guess it fits very well also with the inbreeding depression observation. Would be interesting to repeat in Italy where this is much more recent.

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · 12d

Very cool. I would have expected assortative mating to be stronger in past generations given society was more structured than today.

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · 13d

The Health Data Science Centre at
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If you are passionate about ML and real-world health data, this is the position for you!
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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Extremely cool paper from @rjhfmstr.bsky.social @zkutalik.bsky.social and team. I still need to get my head around how the same genetic variant has opposite effects depending if it’s maternally or paternally inherited and why.

Robin Hofmeister @rjhfmstr.bsky.social · Aug 6

🚨 Our parent-of-origin study is out in Nature! 🧬
Maternal and paternal alleles can have distinct — even opposite — effects on human traits, revealing a hidden layer of genetic architecture that standard GWAS miss.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Highlights below!

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Is there a paper anywhere or is this a preview?

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Also it gives an idea of the sample size needed for these model to start working. I am not sure we will ever reach such numbers for many applications (at least not very soon)

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · Aug 20

Good luck in this new adventure!

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Daniel Hwang @danielldhwang.bsky.social · Jun 12

📢🚨 Excited to share our latest paper, "Phenome-wide investigation of dietary and health outcomes associated with bitter taste receptor gene #TAS2R38", online today in European Journal of Nutrition:
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · May 27

A study out today has used our food liking GWAS to conclude that pizza liking is protective against T2D. I am now thorn between “oh look someone is using our results” and “oh no look what we have unleashed”

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · May 21

We are looking for a post-doc/research fellow working on non-bullshit, reality-centered AI.

Meaning: unique nationwide EHR and -omics with the possibility to recontact people and prospectively test multimodal AI approaches.

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@FIMM_UH @FinnGen_FI

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Nicola Pirastu @npirastu.bsky.social · Mar 26

We're looking for an experienced Scientific #ProjectManager to handle agreements, grant activities, ethical matters and other operational aspects of scientific projects and programs within the #genomics centre.
Join us in working on many exciting scientific projects!

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Human Technopole - Scientific Project Manager

APPPLICATION CLOSING DATE: April 23rd 2025Human Technopole (HT) is an interdisciplinary life science research institute, created and supported by the Italian Government, with the aim of developing inn

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Daniel E. Weeks @statgendan.bsky.social · Feb 26

"the random‐effect based test for multinomial logistic regression ... is not invariant to the choice of the reference level" This "can be problematic ... because researchers may draw potentially contradictory conclusions due to different choices of the reference level" DOI 10.1002/gepi.22427

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