woooo it's live! very excited to share this piece in Cell, where we lay out how transphobia is deeply intertwined with other forms of oppression, how it shapes the way we frame research, and what other scientists + institutions can do to support trans scientists:
there's a press release and everything as part of it, which is a very weird feeling??? anyways i'm quoted in it, along with several other authors:
<p>A group of 24 transgender (and/or family members of transgender) scientists describe what it’s like to be a transgender person in STEMM. In a commentary publishing on March 14 in the journal ...
The world has ~8 billion people. The mutation rate is ~10^-8 per base pair, so every base pair has mutated ~160 times in the past generation alone. Thus, every single (non-lethal) base pair mutation will be present in every large human grouping. 2/n
We are moving there, but not there yet. First starting with gene expression variation across the placenta. But you're right, we always have evolution on the back of our minds.
Sometimes our research is very personal. I will never get over how absolutely incredible microchimerism is. www.today.com/parents/preg...
Wonderful to see our work on genetics research dissemination and bioethics (with Rebecca Siford, Carla Handley, Sarah Mathew, @sexchrlab.bsky.social@npr.orgwww.npr.org/sections/goa...
Having a night owl (3yo) an early bird (2yo) who still doesn't sleep long stretches and a teenager who needs homework help after the littles go to bed is... exhausting. Thinking about the complicated associations between parity and disease risk, and poss mechanisms: sleep, immune function, etc.
"By calculating ancestry-specific polygenic risk scores, we show that height differences between Northern and Southern Europe are associated with differential Steppe ancestry, rather than selection ..." The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@sexchrlab.bsky.social#PAG31! Variant calling on the sex chromosomes across animals!!!
