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CJ Battey

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are thrilled to share that our GPN-Star manuscript is now published and freely available: doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/n)
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Predicting genome-wide functional constraints with GPN-Star - Nature
GPN-Star, a genomic language model with a phylogeny-aware architecture for whole-genome alignment data, is shown to be a scalable and flexible tool for genetic variant effect prediction across species...
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Ryan Gutenkunst @ryangutenkunst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Increasingly powerful methods are enabling increasing complex models of ancient human history to be inferred from population genomic data. In a recent review, I highlight two blind spots in these inferences: limitations of the methods and choices of models to fit. arxiv.org/abs/2608.27591
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Two blind spots in the demographic inference of human origins from genomic data
Ancient DNA and new inference methods have transformed the study of human origins, but consensus has not followed. Evidence increasingly indicates that hominin populations were pervasively structured ...
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Biotech scientists hired before 2022 are the 2003 asst profs of industry. It’s a new world and our advice is ~useless to new grads 😭.
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...
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A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications
Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A very ojai news day
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
SORA, ALHU, ANHU, COYE, YRWA, CATH, CATO, WCSP, AMCO, WEBU, MAWR, RWBB, TUVU, RTHA, CASJ, PUFI, BLPH, RCKI Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbirds both doing display flights (ALHU over water, ANHU by the eucalyptus). First Sora sighting since last spring - glad they stuck around. Good bird morning
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Feds are on it
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
2025 first bird: Allen’s hummingbird Pretty good
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If this is 2016 sci twitter redux can we get popgengoogling back plz?
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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Are you a comp bio graduate student close to finishing your PhD? The Mahan Fellowship is a fully-funded ~2 year postdoc to work with any Fred Hutch comp bio faculty members! Pre-proposals are due Dec 20! Check out full details here: apply.interfolio.com/157470 #ScienceJobs 🧪 #AcademicSky
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Gestalt id’d rustling tule as a sora and then it flew in to the open to confirm. 2yo unimpressed.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Members of @asn-amnat.bsky.social ($25 per year last I checked) who lack other funds can apply for a waiver of publication fees. Publish in AmNat, folks. (and in Evolution too)
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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
$1545 for society members to publish open access in Evolution. Publish in Evolution folks.
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
Family-based GWAS have become the gold standard for assessing causal genetic effects. They’re often said to offer an unbiased estimate of the average causal effect (ATE) of an allele or PGS. Here, we (Carl Veller & @mollyprz.bsky.social ) evaluate such statements. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n
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Causal interpretations of family GWAS in the presence of heterogeneous effects
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
On my way to #ASHG2023! Come by the cancer genetics poster session on Thursday 3-5 to see some of our work at Myriad Genetics on a new test to detect cancer recurrence with cell-free DNA.
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Potty training is a big step away from the QOL local max in my house
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
I had forgotten how a real following tab is 80% replies from the same four compulsive posters
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CJ Battey @cjbattey.bsky.social · 23/08/2023
Anyone else going to ASHG this year? Just registered. Got a tumor cfDNA poster to present but I’m going to sneak off to the evolution talks when I can.
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