Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The best thing about potentially changing the name of Lake Ontario is the pneumonic would change from HOMES to SHAME. 030
Reposted by Patrick TurleyJason Fletcher @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026How often do NBER Summer Institute organizers put their own papers on the program? open.substack.com/pub/jasonmfl...open.substack.comHow often do NBER Summer Institute organizers put their own papers on the program?Peter Hull asked, so... 043
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026My colleagues (Dan Benjamin, @michellemeyer.bsky.social, and David Laibson) and I wrote a short FAQ on Social Science Genomics. It's a general purpose primer similar to those we write with many SSGAC papers. We welcome people to draw on or reference this FAQ in their own writing. 222
Reposted by Patrick Turleyloic-yengo.bsky.social @loic-yengo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Come and join our dream team! We’re recruiting a PhD candidate with a strong background in statistics, machine learning and (human) genetics to work at the interface of biological sequence foundational models and scores polygenic score methods. 2108
Reposted by Patrick TurleymedRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Genomic-Relatedness Matching Expands Population Coverage, Improves Power, and Reduces Bias in Genetic Association Analyses www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Very excited about this preprint that we just posted. It introduces the Genomic-Relatedness Matched Association (GRMA) study. It’s an extension to family-based GWAS that uses extended relatives beyond only siblings in diverse-ancestry data with very little bias. (Link below.) 1319
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Was listening to the Wellness, Actually podcast by @profemilyoster.bsky.social and @fperrywilson.bsky.social (It's excellent, btw!), and they cited one of my papers! I feel so famous! 220
Reposted by Patrick TurleyDoc Edge @docedge.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Please repost: My department at USC is hiring for a teaching-track faculty position. We are looking for someone principally to teach statistics for biologists, but there will be opportunities for other courses in statistics & algorithms applied to biology usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...usccareers.usc.eduFull-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USCLearn more about applying for Full-Time, Teaching-Track Faculty Position in Quantitative and Computational Biology at USC 175134
Reposted by Patrick TurleyShai Carmi @shaicarmi.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Happy to share a new preprint, where we studied the expected outcomes of polygenic embryo screening in real-world IVF patients. Key conclusion: gains are very small for most infertility patients, with risk reductions under 5%. 🧵1/12 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...medrxiv.org 13312
Reposted by Patrick TurleyJason Fletcher @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Substack: "Owning All the Numbers." A key step in research training.open.substack.comOwning -All- the NumbersWhy every number in your output is your responsibility 041
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026One concern that I don't see people talking about much is how AI will affect the rhythm of grant applications for stat gen work. 141
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Over the course of 2025, UKB researchers were forced to move all of their data analysis to the cloud rather than working with local copies. What was the effect of this move on scientific output? Here is a simple first pass at answering that question. 1137
Reposted by Patrick TurleyCSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 19/11/2025CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated. 215367
Reposted by Patrick Turley Institute for Behavioral Genetics (IBG) @ibg.colorado.edu · 29/09/2025University of Colorado Boulder Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors. This is open to all department areas, including Behavioral, Psychiatric, and Statistical Genetics🧬 jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...jobs.colorado.eduAssistant Professor 167
Reposted by Patrick TurleyRobel Alemu @robel-alemu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Excited to share our preprint on PGI portability across ancestries—now on bioRxiv. With co-authors @aysuo.bsky.social, @paturley.bsky.social, @alextisyoung.bsky.social, and @Dan_J_Benjamin. Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Thread below for details.doi.orgDissecting the Predictive Accuracy of Polygenic Indexes for Behavioral Phenotypes Across Genetic AncestriesPolygenic indexes (PGIs) trained on samples of European genetic ancestries often lose substantial predictive power when applied to non-European ancestries. While this portability problem is well recog... 196
Reposted by Patrick TurleyJames Pirruccello 🎃🦇🧹 @jamespirruccello.com · 10/09/2025Settings -> Content and media -> uncheck 'autoplay videos and GIFs' 365
Reposted by Patrick TurleyShai Carmi @shaicarmi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Excited to present our new tool "PEStimate", an online app for predicting risk reductions after Polygenic Embryo Screening (PES). Find the app here: polygenicembryo.shinyapps.io/pestimate/ Preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...medrxiv.orgPEStimate: Predicting offspring disease risk after Polygenic Embryo ScreeningMotivation: Polygenic embryo screening (PES) is a new technology in reproductive medicine, whereby human in-vitro fertilization embryos are screened for their genetic risk of complex, polygenic diseas... 193
Reposted by Patrick TurleyTed Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!) 13029
Reposted by Patrick TurleyMargot van de Weijer @margotvdweijer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025New pre-print online: Imputing parental genotypes through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 2137
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 28/05/2025RD optimal bw question: The CCT approach in rdrobust minimizes the MSE assuming you use local polynomial trends. Then it does a bias correction, which reduces the bias but increases the SEs. But then doesn't that mean that the new estimate no longer minimizes the MSE? #econsky 100
Reposted by Patrick TurleyAysu Okbay @aysuo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025PGI Repository v2.0 preprint out! A 🧵 on the main results and updates @robel-alemu.bsky.social @paturley.bsky.social @alextisyoung.bsky.social 13615
Reposted by Patrick TurleyAlex Strudwick Young @alextisyoung.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I am recruiting a quantitative/computational postdoc to my group at UCLA. This is a great opportunity to work on foundational theory, methods, and software in statistical genetics. Link to apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10275. Please repost! 01217
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"Complete the USC Sustainability Survey, and you’ll have the chance to win a $50 USC Bookstore e-gift card. Keck Medicine of USC employees also have an opportunity to win one of two e-bikes!" Why do I feel like the monkey who got the cucumber...?media.tenor.coma panda bear is sitting in a cage looking out of the window .ALT: a panda bear is sitting in a cage looking out of the window . 020
Reposted by Patrick TurleyJenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Cool new work using changes in compulsory schooling laws & data from @ukbiobank.bsky.social by @paturley.bsky.social & colleagues: Additional time spent in education reduces Alzheimer's risk: www.nber.org/bh/20251/add... #econsky #episky 1134
Reposted by Patrick TurleyEric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Very nice piece about "race science" and its implications in @undark.org. Nice and clear on the consensus issues (so-called race science is scientifically invalid) and thoughtful on more difficult questions of what should be done about it in terms of academic freedom and open science.undark.orgIn Genetics, a Tense Coexistence of Mainstream and Fringe ViewsIn an era of open data, genome-wide association studies have become entangled with efforts to prove Black inferiority. 1176
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025My coauthors and I are featured on the NBER homepage for our work on education and dimentia risk! www.nber.orgnber.orgNational Bureau of Economic ResearchFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 180
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Had the chance to discuss this paper at the NBER Insurance meeting last year. It was excellent then and it's even better now. 050
Reposted by Patrick TurleyRichard Karlsson Linnér @richardlinner.bsky.social · 27/01/2025(1/4) Excited to announce our new method that can estimate the predictive performance of _future_ genetic tests for common diseases (polygenic indexes, PGIs). We showcase the method by evaluating the impact of this fast-improving technology on critical illness insurance. SSRN: tinyurl.com/37rtbujxtinyurl.comGenetic Prediction and Adverse SelectionThe predictive power of genetic data has been increasing rapidly and is reaching levels of clinical utility for many diseases. Meanwhile, many jurisdictions hav 252
Reposted by Patrick TurleyJason Fletcher @jasonmfletcher.bsky.social · 23/01/2025 **Call for Papers** The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...isg.wisc.eduThe Advances in Social Genomics ConferenceSocial genomics researchers from across the world convene at the University of Wisconsin–Madison each year to discuss advances in the field. 2118
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025"We are aware of other universities that might pay salaries to professors. Our university, however, never does. This is a deliberate decision, as we not want people to do research for any other reason than scientific interest.” 040
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Trying to apply for a Re-entry supplement for someone. To get it, he cannot be hired before the supplement is submitted and he must have a eRA commons ID through USC. USC cannot give him an ID until he is hired. I don't understand how this is supposed to work... 001
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I am at the "I guess this hoodie doesn't have TOO much vomit on it" stage of my parental leave. 0100
Reposted by Patrick TurleyShai Carmi @shaicarmi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024An impressive preprint reporting a major advance in preimplantation genetic testing: Sequencing the entire genomes of IVF embryos, non-invasively, by amplifying DNA from embryos' spent culture medium. 🧵 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1114
Reposted by Patrick TurleyMatt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I made a Google quiz using the poems listed on the paper’s OSF site if you want to try your luck at guessing which are human and which are LLM. forms.gle/nGCGawDb9c6f...forms.gleGoogle Forms: Sign-inAccess Google Forms with a personal Google account or Google Workspace account (for business use). 317233
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Is there anyone on here that has applied for a Re-entry Research Supplement from NIH? (grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...) I have someone who seems like an ideal candidate for this, but I have a few questions.grants.nih.govNOT-OD-23-170: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry, Re-integration into, and Re-training in Health-Related Research Careers (Admin Supp - Clinical Trial Not All...NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Research Supplements to Promote Re-Entry, Re-integration into, and Re-training in He... 010
Reposted by Patrick TurleyMaximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 23/09/2024Have you ever wondered: What is your position in the distribution of wealth? How would you be affected by a change in wealth taxes? How would others be affected? Find out at wealthometer.org! Just updated with the most recent wealth data for AT, DE, ES, IT & GR! 43520
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 08/11/2024This is today! Hope lots of you get to stop by and ask my student really hard questions! 020
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 06/11/2024I was just reminded of the time I thought I had run 1000 replications of a simulation spread across 200 processors, and as I was preparing the manuscript for submission, I realized I had actually run the same 5 replication 200 times. #youliveyoulearn 030
Reposted by Patrick TurleyEric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 06/11/2024Want to hear something funny? Yeah, me neither. But it's out of my control: My book, Understanding The Nature-Nurture Debate, was released today. Not today, but I hope everyone will forgive me if I write a little about it over the next few weeks. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...cambridge.orgUnderstanding the Nature‒Nurture Debate | Genetics 44213
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Not at #ASHG24 this year, but my excellent grad student, Dylan Steinecke, has a poster on our new sibling-based heritability estimator. Standard errors 10 times smaller than existing methods with no extra assumptions. See how on Fri, Nov 8, 2:30-4:40pm at Board 4147F! 2132
Reposted by Patrick TurleyAndrew Grotzinger @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2024🚨Writing to say that I am actively recruiting PhD students in the clinical -or- behavioral, psychiatric, and statistical genetics program (BPSG) at CU Boulder for a Fall 2025 start date. My lab focuses on genomic methods development and applications to psychiatric and aging outcomes (e.g., dementia) 11211
Reposted by Patrick TurleyMichel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 19/09/2024I made a starter pack full of statistical genetics (adjacent) scientists. it covers all flavours of behaviour, psychiatric, social science and population genetics people. One click follow all of em! let me know if I missed key people! 104725
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 06/08/2024We are seeking RAs for social-science genomics research beginning in summer 2025. We do good work and foster a supportive environment! Please send the application materials specified in the below link directly to ssgacrecruit@gmail.com. danieljbenjamin.com/_files/ugd/2... #econskydanieljbenjamin.com 011
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 09/05/2024Here's a pretty good summary of the state of the field for how genetic data can be applied in economics research. On top of tying much of the field together in a consistent framework, there are also a handful of novel theoretical results. Excited to see this out! t.co/d7g1SEEB6Ct.coSocial-Science Genomics: Progress, Challenges, and Future DirectionsFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 187
Patrick Turley @paturley.bsky.social · 22/02/2024I love the idea of the UMAP just doing the best he can with the data and assumptions he has available. Makes me want to root for him a bit more even though I know deep down he's really not up to the task. Heart of a champion! 051