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Roshni Patel

@roshnipatel.bsky.social

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assistant prof at University of Oregon. interested in pop gen, stat gen, human complex traits. also ELSI, metascience, ethics education, etc... she/they. 🌈 roshnipatel.github.io

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 6

Bittersweet to be leaving @docedge.bsky.social after a wonderful postdoc, but excited to share that I'm joining @uoregon.bsky.social next month as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Science.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · 2d

Just an absolutely horrific self own, depleting the US of amazing students from all over the world who contributed to what used to make America great: its diversity, its openness, and its leadership in education.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19% this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

nyti.ms

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 6d

That's not most people, obviously, but it's also not that rare.

To put that in perspective: people who are neither XX nor XY are more common than people with Multiple Sclerosis. Roughly as common as people with Down syndrome, or people with Parkinson's disease.

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 7d

Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵

#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience

Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010

Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...

direct.mit.edu

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 15d

Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW

I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech

Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 15d

It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org

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Jazlyn Mooney @jazlynmooney.bsky.social · 16d

Super excited to see our reference bias work out in Cell! Reviewers gave us some excellent ideas, and Maria added on some new analyses that broke down how SNPs from heterospecific references mapped or did not map in a conspecific reference.

Maria Akopyan, PhD @akopyan.bsky.social · 16d

Now published in Cell! We found that ~15% of SNPs from divergent refs did not liftover as SNPs in the gray fox ref—half mapped to monomorphic sites, half failed to map. Co-authored with Matthew Genchev, @elliecat.bsky.social, and @jazlynmooney.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 16d

There is a strange pain that comes from the scientific field you work in being weaponized to hurt people.

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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Save the date! #PEQG26 June 9-12 2026 in Asilomar, CA. Happens only every 2yrs, but is my favorite conference. Full website coming soon, and registration and abstract submission opens November 14, but I'm allowed to tease that keynotes will be @jnovembre.bsky.social @jennytung.bsky.social and me!

Homepage - Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference

Visit our website to learn more.

genetics-gsa.org

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Chris Marcum 📖 @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 26d

The ethical, legal, and social implications program successfully protected society from many risks of harm in genomics. Alondra Nelson argues we need such a framework - post haste - for AI in this thoughtful letter to Science Magazine :

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeb0393

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · Aug 21

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is stepping up to fund some of the health equity grants that were fed to the wood-chipper. If your racial/indigenous health equity grant was funded, then that funding was rescinded, consider applying! 🧪

www.rwjf.org/en/grants/ac...

Rapid Response: Reinvesting in Racial and Indigenous Health Equity Research

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.

www.rwjf.org

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Aug 21

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote with Justice Barrett as the deciding vote, allows the Trump administration to cancel NIH grants as part of the administration’s attack on “DEI” while litigation proceeds. Five justices write. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A103
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, ET AL. U.
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH
ASSOCIATION, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
August 21, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON and by her referred to the Court is granted in part and denied in part.
The application is granted as to the District Court's judgments vacating the Government's termination of various research-related grants. See Department of Ed. v.
California, 604 U.S.
_ (2025) (per curiam).
The
Administrative Procedure Act's "limited waiver of [sovereign] immunity" does not provide the District Court with jurisdiction to adjudicate claims "based on" the research-related grants or to order relief designed to enforce any "obligation to pay money pursuant to those grants. Id., at _ (slip op., at 2). And while the loss of money is not typically considered irreparable harm, that changes if the funds "cannot be recouped" and are thus
"irrevocably expended." Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Scott,
561 U. S. 1301, 1304 (2010) (Scalia, J., in chambers). The Government faces such harm here. The plaintiffs do not state that they will repay grant money if the Government ultimately prevails. Moreover, the plaintiffs' contention that they lack the resources to continue their research projects without federal funding is inconsistent with the proposition that they have the resources to make the Government whole for money already spent.
The application is otherwise denied.

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 18

happy to say my new department is hiring an associate/full professor: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328

please apply!

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WIRED @wired.com · Aug 19

A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.

Senate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody

Led by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

www.wired.com

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Human Genetics and Genomics Advances @hggadvances.bsky.social · Jun 30

We're seeking our next EiC!
Are you passionate about human genetics & open science?
Apply at apply.ashg.org/a/page/hgga-...

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Tuuli Lappalainen @tuuliel.bsky.social · Aug 19

A postdoc position in genomics available at our infrastructure in Uppsala, Sweden! An interesting R&D role a bit outside the traditional academic environment, great colleagues, work at the forefront of (long-read) sequencing.

www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Postdoctoral position - Uppsala University

Postdoctoral position, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University

www.uu.se

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · Aug 18

Shannon was a PhD student at UC Davis, you can read their story here:
www.instagram.com/p/DNgLXeBJF5x/

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 18

happy to say my new department is hiring an associate/full professor: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30328

please apply!

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Nic Bennett (they/them) @nicbennett.bsky.social · Aug 13

@jeremymberg.bsky.social on last night's @standupforscience.bsky.social action hour:

"You can always get another job. You can't get another soul."

I am proud to know scientists who are digging deep into their values and linking hands. We will not leave anyone behind in this fight.

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · Aug 13

Incredibly proud of this work where we developed a method for understanding the information contained in millions of genomes. Another example of NIH funded research.

The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · Aug 13

📣Online NOW!
📄Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @jgschraiber.bsky.social @jeffspence.github.io @docedge.bsky.social

Estimation of demography and mutation rates from one million haploid genomes

Samples of millions of genomes provide substantial information about recent demography and mutation, but standard population-genetic methods make assumptions not met in these data. We introduce DR EVI...

www.cell.com

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 Science is under attack 🚨
Trump wants to slash NIH by 38% + NSF by 55% & has already withheld $8B.
Join us Aug 14 @ 6 PM ET to call South Asian voters in swing districts & fight back. RSVP: zurl.co/qMFOc

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Carrie Wessinger @carriewessi.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please repost and amplify !

We are hiring a faculty position in Evolutionary Genetics in the Biology Department at U of South Carolina!

Check us out and come be our colleague!
sc.edu/study/colleg...

Deadline for applications is Oct 1

#AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Assistant Professor position in Evolutionary Genetics - Department of Biological Sciences | University of South Carolina

sc.edu

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Women letter writers use less doubt language, fewer personal pronouns, more other pronouns, and a more positive tone than men."

Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Saw this interesting/ concerning paper on LinkedIn about P&T letters: "we find that - controlling for school, discipline, scholarly productivity, and demographics - candidates with a higher proportion of women letter writers (i.e., lower proportion of men) have more positive P&T outcomes."

Women advocates and men critics: How referees' gender influences candidates' likelihood of receiving a promotion

External review letters (ERLs) play a critical role in the promotion and tenure (P&T) process. However, recently, scholars have questioned their valid…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

Notes from Beethoven’s genome

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

www.cell.com

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Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 7

thanks Rachel ❤️

Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you, Shoumita! and yes, likewise. :)

Roshni Patel @roshnipatel.bsky.social · Aug 6

thank you Jonathan!!