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Lisa Gannett

@lisagannett.bsky.social

history and philosophy of science, group categories in genetics and genomics, genealogical constructions of identity -- lisagannett.ca

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Lisa Gannett @lisagannett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I enjoyed reading and reviewing cup.columbia.edu/book/the-use..., a thoughtful new book by Northeastern Law and Biology Professor Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social -- rdcu.be/ftABc

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Race, biology, and society: what diversity does

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Lisa Gannett @lisagannett.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Delete your 23andMe account! As geneticist Adam Rutherford writes, "You were never customers; you were always the product": www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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As a geneticist, I will not mourn 23andMe and its jumble of useless health information | Adam Rutherford

Millions paid to give away their most personal data. At least in return they found out more about their earwax, says academic and author Adam Rutherford

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Lisa Gannett @lisagannett.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I am planning a series of posts about an interesting divorce case from Ridgefield, CT in 1738-41. The first post about the divorce case itself is accompanied by a second post about a neighbour's divorce the previous decade: lisagannett.ca/ye-child-sai...

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“Ye Child Said to be born of ye body of Sarah Wallis alias Burt”: Race and relations in 18th-century Ridgefield, CT

A fascinating divorce case was heard by the Fairfield County Superior Court and General Court of the Colony of Connecticut between 1738 and 1741. The petitioner was John Wallis and the respondent w…

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Lisa Gannett @lisagannett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thanks to @celsoneto.bsky.social and @yashaddad.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of the symposium "Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry: The Uses and Misuses of Population Descriptors in Genomics" at #PSA2024 in New Orleans. And thanks to organizers for a great meeting!

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