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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23h

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22h

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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jp flores (he/him) @jpflores.rbind.io · 02/10/2026

Who comes to mind when you picture a scientist? This #HispanicHeritageMonth, meet hundreds of Hispanic/Latinx & Latin American scientists changing how we understand our world! Explore the Atlases, find a scientist, and share their story 🥳🔬🌎 www.inspiringlatamscientists.org

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone said to me that there are frats everywhere, so why do I seem to have more ire for spaces like Cornell? Money & power. About 1/10 Cornell students have families in the top 1% of income. The institutions are by them, for them. This takes every other dynamic and amplifies it times over.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You cannot hack your way out of a lack of representation.

Figure from https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/09/30/how-well-synthetic-samples-replicate-public-opinion/

Showing higher error rates in groups usually underrepresented in surveys, including HS or less education.

From the article:

"The synthetic sample performed especially poorly when it came to replicating the responses of groups including:
Republicans and Republican leaners
The synthetic sample performed especially poorly when it came to replicating the responses of groups including:
- Republicans and Republican leaners
Black adults
- Those who have not attended college
- Those who use the internet infrequently or not at all Black adults
- Those who have not attended college
- Those who use the internet infrequently or not at all”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It took all of two minutes for the rants to start after showing him the new article. "goddamn mississippi miracle" "let me tell you the dirty truth about the science of reading" "oh fuck you" "yes! thank you!"

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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts (Gift Article)

Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?

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Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · 28/09/2026

More news highlighting the importance of gathering systematic menopause and reproductive health data in electronic health records to improve research and women's healthcare! doi.org/10.64628/AAI... @theconversation.com🧪

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Menopause is a major health milestone, yet health records barely track it - new research

Capturing data about the timing and symptoms of menopause could help address many unanswered questions about this common yet ignored experience.

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Audrey Hendricks @audreyhendricks.com · 28/09/2026

Cool to see our findings amplified out! Thanks to Newsweek for highlighting the need to collect menopause information (www.newsweek.com/most-womens-...). From our new paper on how menopause is captured in the All of Us Research Program (doi.org/10.1097/GME....). 🧪

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Most Women's Health Records Are Missing This Key Detail, Study Finds

A surprising gap in medical records could be hiding crucial clues about women's health—and researchers say the fix may be simple.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The longer I spend in higher education at Ivy+ institutions, the more I worry about keeping my kids away from those worlds.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is neither here nor there about the latest cultural bubble argument, but the most upsetting thing about that song is that the “other woman” in the music video is played by the grown daughter of Reese Witherspoon. Anyway, I’m ancient.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

knit my ideal sweater and am now drunk with power

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Again speaking in the academic case: bad reading is downstream of an audience that does not require good reading. Things that I'd guess contribute to that include: increased specialization (fractures the audience), metrics based evaluation (diminishes importance of audience feedback)

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The fact that Bluey isn’t anywhere on this list throws the entire thing into question. I’m 100% serious. In this go go go attention economy, Bluey brings heart and life lessons to kids and adults alike while making them slow down (and giggle a bit as a treat).

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last year, universities had to attest that they wouldn’t do any of the “no-no” work with their federal funding. If they are caught, the money goes away. Now what is “no-no” work? Every institution has their own definition. This has had real consequences, from funding to support to publication.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

honestly, if this is what it takes? i'll allow it. if it takes a machine sticking up for a kid by telling someone to be better bc they are too defensive and/or culturally entrenched to hear it from a human? fine. I for one accept our new ai overlords as the tiger parent's final boss.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Important piece from the international perspective. Eugenics (w/ or w/o genetic tools) harms regardless of scientific validity. To add, this described shift is already happening (or in our domestic case, we never left this hellscape). It’s just a matter of degrees and it can always get worse.

“This shift aligns with the selective pronatalism that promotes not simply having children, but particular kinds of children. The result would be a move towards a society in which reproductive choices are judged by the anticipated characteristics of future offspring, and away from reproductive support based on equality and autonomy.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month to all! My son (6yo) thought it was "Espanish" Heritage Month, which...fair. And when I asked them which "espanish" country their family came from, they said "Miami". Also, fair.

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Adam Auton @adamauton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The team then traced the variant origins. An IBD analysis against 3.45M participants with grandparent birth coordinates put the peak relatedness to carriers in northern Alabama/southern Tennessee. Carrier frequency: 1 in 2,078 in AL/MS/TN vs 1 in 12,821 US-wide; a 6X enrichment.

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wayne was my MA thesis and PhD dissertation adviser at Mizzou. He is kind, and good, and represents the best of what Mizzou is and has to offer. The Missouri state law that seeks to criminalize even the discussion of DEI is shameful, and so are those who support it. abc17news.com/news/educati...

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University of Missouri investigating professor after video alleges DEI sympathies

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is investigating allegations of staff violating federal and state laws against diversity, equity and inclusion practices after a video reportedly showin...

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It is genuinely bonkers how early kids specialize these days. Went to a dance store for my daughter and they were a bit shocked that we were starting at her ripe old age of 8. Heaven forbid we let a kid dilly dally through their extracurriculars and determine their own interests!

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Come join us in Montreal at ASHG this year! And stick around to the end to hear the Distinguished Speakers Symposium "Globalizing Human Genetics: From Discovery Through Implementation" with Eimear Kenny, Gonçalo Abecasis, Pradeep Natarajan, and yours truly!

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you are freshly postpartum, this is not for you. Read fifth season right after my second kid was born during Covid and it did not go well for me. Absolutely incredible and devastating book.

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Linda Koch @linkonrg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

💡 Out now in Nature Reviews Genetics! Genomic insights into natural selection in recent human history go.nature.com/3T3JKT5 #Review by @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social & @iainmathieson.bsky.social Free to read here: rdcu.be/MgjB7Jgsy2Fa

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The kids have added Filipino food to their “S-tier cuisines”, joining Indian and Korean.

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It has been fascinating (derogatory) to watch these privileged kids navigate being mixed race while embracing every single lie their parents ever told them re: being a new kind of special. Like they’re a new product drop. My mom complained yesterday about me having a White nose so I cannot relate.

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American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) @geneticssociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

TOMORROW: September Journal Club webinar! Join this discussion on responsible biomedical data sharing—balancing discovery with ethical, legal, & social considerations. Register now to hear from Maya Sabatello and Ellen Wright Clayton: bit.ly/45nniah @ajhgnews.bsky.social #ASHG

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Ana Viñuela @anavinuela.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Please share! Fully funded PhD position (UK home fees) at U. of Dundee for someone interested in combining wet-lab (Dr Murdoch) and computational approaches (🙋‍♀️ 2nd supervisor), with plenty of scope for learning new skills across both areas. 🧪🧬 Deadline 21 September

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Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Redox Control of RNA Splicing in Cardiovascular Disease at University of Dundee, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I see everyone’s good being an armchair epidemiologist until you realize that public health is all about meeting people where they are.

Nathan fielder saying "Okay. All right. Okay. Good chat.” While looking haggard af.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Finally went through our back to school photos and this has me cracking up. The kids immediately started shouting “no bro, that’s AI”. It is not. Just our ridiculous dog.

Picture of a giant reddish coyote dog sitting down smiling at the camera.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

they were really trying to make a whole new generation of colonizers and I was so down for it.

Cover to SimAnt cd-rom with a giant ant in the middle.

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Based on our GWAS of personality I have an academic/data driven reflection on new challenges to the environmental path from parental personality toe child personality. I could put it on my substack (bleg) or add to my near non existend blog, but I have no reach, anyone willing to let me guest blog?

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Same. I’ve been out of New England for over 20 years and yet still maintain the dialect of South South Vermont (also known as Western Massachusetts).

Dialect map showing a high affinity with northern New England and low affinity with the south. Highest match with Vermont.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

my kingdom for a bouquet without white flowers. "hey mom, happy birthday. hope you like these death blooms I got you."

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Children's clothing, specifically girls clothing, is an excellent way to see what society thinks about gender roles. I swear that a couple of years ago it wasn't nearly this bad, but I am going mad searching for cheap tees that aren't exclusively baby animals, hearts, and about being sweet.

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Sam Lambert @iamslambert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Now OmicsPred.org is released to the wild via @natgenet.nature.com, read the updated version (more metadata descriptions, cross-platform PheWAS comparison)! 🔗: rdcu.be/YRma6QaXW7ea

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The thing is, these creators are not young. They're fully grown adults, often years into their careers, intending to reach other adults. So not knowing them is not a reflection of being "out of touch" w/the youth, but more that there is no "chronically online" monoculture. Anyway, 20/25 for me.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’m not going to festivals these days (but I am le tired), but the FOMO I had for this one…oof.

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Aaron Quinlan (he/him) @aaronquinlan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am delighted to announce that The Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah is continuing a multi-year recruiting initiative for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please share and consider applying! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why, or even how, would we expect the universe to reflect the kind of society we desire or ought to live in? Human genetics in itself cannot validate our political or ethical views, or invalidate those of our opponents. We have to argue for those based on how they will affect our fellow humans.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“But of the millions of questions that remain about the biological nature of humans, race is not one that is particularly outstanding. Yet because of the social implications of politics, people, history, and power, it remains a defining topic of our age.”

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Locus-specific gene-context interactions improve polygenic prediction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A necessary listen from @socialistdogmom.bsky.social, esp for those unfamiliar w/these racists’ strategies and interacting w/them as if it’s earnest academic discourse. It is not. There are weaponizing academic ideals for more power & legitimacy to further their white supremacy world view.

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