Jared Decker
@popgenjed.bsky.social
Quantitative, population & evolutionary genomics. Wurdack Chair in Animal Genomics at University of Missouri.
Thoughts are my own.
Thoughts are my own.
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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
May 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n
Reposted by Jared Decker
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May 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Take a look and consider contributing. Let's make this as powerful as possible!
@nclark.bsky.social great talk!
Would love to talk more and would like to introduce you to one of my PhD students, John Miraszek.
Would love to talk more and would like to introduce you to one of my PhD students, John Miraszek.
May 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@nclark.bsky.social great talk!
Would love to talk more and would like to introduce you to one of my PhD students, John Miraszek.
Would love to talk more and would like to introduce you to one of my PhD students, John Miraszek.
@david-gokhman.bsky.social
great talk! Super interesting. Is CSGALNACT1 the correct gene name for CGAT1?
If so, I found the GWAS hits interesting.
www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/genes/C...
Sexual dimorphism, height, educational attainment, dyslexia, math ability, and lipid measurements including cholesterol
great talk! Super interesting. Is CSGALNACT1 the correct gene name for CGAT1?
If so, I found the GWAS hits interesting.
www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/genes/C...
Sexual dimorphism, height, educational attainment, dyslexia, math ability, and lipid measurements including cholesterol
GWAS Catalog
The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: a curated collection of all published genome-wide association studies, produced by a collaboration between EMBL-EBI and NHGRI
www.ebi.ac.uk
May 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@david-gokhman.bsky.social
great talk! Super interesting. Is CSGALNACT1 the correct gene name for CGAT1?
If so, I found the GWAS hits interesting.
www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/genes/C...
Sexual dimorphism, height, educational attainment, dyslexia, math ability, and lipid measurements including cholesterol
great talk! Super interesting. Is CSGALNACT1 the correct gene name for CGAT1?
If so, I found the GWAS hits interesting.
www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/genes/C...
Sexual dimorphism, height, educational attainment, dyslexia, math ability, and lipid measurements including cholesterol
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If you know any students interested in grad school in population/evolutionary genetics, I’ve got the funding for an MSc or PhD student in my new lab at UBC in Vancouver. Please pass it on.
Flexible on topic, but some potential projects are listed here:
tbooker.github.io/vacancies
Get in touch!
Flexible on topic, but some potential projects are listed here:
tbooker.github.io/vacancies
Get in touch!
February 28, 2024 at 11:06 PM
If you know any students interested in grad school in population/evolutionary genetics, I’ve got the funding for an MSc or PhD student in my new lab at UBC in Vancouver. Please pass it on.
Flexible on topic, but some potential projects are listed here:
tbooker.github.io/vacancies
Get in touch!
Flexible on topic, but some potential projects are listed here:
tbooker.github.io/vacancies
Get in touch!
. @laskyjr.bsky.social Diana showed higher diversity west of the Rocky Mountains compared to east of the Rockies.
But, the invasive cheatgrass in the east has one ancestry, while there are more ancestries/invasions west of the Rockies.
But, the invasive cheatgrass in the east has one ancestry, while there are more ancestries/invasions west of the Rockies.
January 14, 2024 at 1:15 AM
. @laskyjr.bsky.social Diana showed higher diversity west of the Rocky Mountains compared to east of the Rockies.
But, the invasive cheatgrass in the east has one ancestry, while there are more ancestries/invasions west of the Rockies.
But, the invasive cheatgrass in the east has one ancestry, while there are more ancestries/invasions west of the Rockies.
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January 13, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Come join us! We have an exciting new opening for an assistant professor in the area of soil science and nutrient management at Colorado State University ! #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #Agriculture #Soil #Agronomy #Colorado
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/137...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/137...
December 22, 2023 at 5:11 PM
Come join us! We have an exciting new opening for an assistant professor in the area of soil science and nutrient management at Colorado State University ! #ScienceJobs #AcademicSky #Agriculture #Soil #Agronomy #Colorado
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/137...
jobs.colostate.edu/postings/137...
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I'm looking to recruit a PhD student beginning in Fall 2024 to develop theory and methods for studying genotype-by-environment interactions. We're specifically interested in how GxE is affected by phenomena such as habitat choice. Please share and get in touch ASAP if interested!
October 18, 2023 at 4:37 PM
I'm looking to recruit a PhD student beginning in Fall 2024 to develop theory and methods for studying genotype-by-environment interactions. We're specifically interested in how GxE is affected by phenomena such as habitat choice. Please share and get in touch ASAP if interested!
I know letters of recommendation can be biased. I also know machine learning models can be biased.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a letter I wrote for a female as if it was for a male. Surprisingly, it was quite unhelpful, only making minor changes.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a letter I wrote for a female as if it was for a male. Surprisingly, it was quite unhelpful, only making minor changes.
October 20, 2023 at 6:42 PM
I know letters of recommendation can be biased. I also know machine learning models can be biased.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a letter I wrote for a female as if it was for a male. Surprisingly, it was quite unhelpful, only making minor changes.
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a letter I wrote for a female as if it was for a male. Surprisingly, it was quite unhelpful, only making minor changes.
I re-ran LDSC implemented in the LDER R package, artificially decreasing the sample size. Adjusting the sample size changed the h2 estimate (as expected), but the intercept stayed identical.
.@michelnivard.bsky.social you posted on the LDSC Google Group about some simulations you did testing LDSC on output from mixed model GWA.
groups.google.com/g/ldsc_users...
The MLM affected the h2 estimate. Do you remember how the MLM affected the intercept?
#GWAS #popgen
groups.google.com/g/ldsc_users...
The MLM affected the h2 estimate. Do you remember how the MLM affected the intercept?
#GWAS #popgen
Mixed model GWA and LDscore regression
groups.google.com
October 18, 2023 at 4:04 PM
I re-ran LDSC implemented in the LDER R package, artificially decreasing the sample size. Adjusting the sample size changed the h2 estimate (as expected), but the intercept stayed identical.
For me, my most creative acts come when I give my brain new information for it to make new connections.
So regardless of the mode (conference, documentary, audio book, journal article, lunch with colleague), feed your brain new info.
So regardless of the mode (conference, documentary, audio book, journal article, lunch with colleague), feed your brain new info.
October 12, 2023 at 2:01 PM
For me, my most creative acts come when I give my brain new information for it to make new connections.
So regardless of the mode (conference, documentary, audio book, journal article, lunch with colleague), feed your brain new info.
So regardless of the mode (conference, documentary, audio book, journal article, lunch with colleague), feed your brain new info.
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Clarity of writing very often reflects clarity of thought. When you see inscrutable text, particularly in your own field, there’s a good chance the authors didn’t truly understand it either
October 12, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Clarity of writing very often reflects clarity of thought. When you see inscrutable text, particularly in your own field, there’s a good chance the authors didn’t truly understand it either
Reposted by Jared Decker
Latest from Xilin Jiang, Alkes Price, Gil McVean and co 👉 Age-dependent topic modeling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 9, 2023 at 4:45 PM
Latest from Xilin Jiang, Alkes Price, Gil McVean and co 👉 Age-dependent topic modeling of comorbidities in UK Biobank identifies disease subtypes with differential genetic risk www.nature.com/articles/s41...
.@michelnivard.bsky.social you posted on the LDSC Google Group about some simulations you did testing LDSC on output from mixed model GWA.
groups.google.com/g/ldsc_users...
The MLM affected the h2 estimate. Do you remember how the MLM affected the intercept?
#GWAS #popgen
groups.google.com/g/ldsc_users...
The MLM affected the h2 estimate. Do you remember how the MLM affected the intercept?
#GWAS #popgen
Mixed model GWA and LDscore regression
groups.google.com
October 9, 2023 at 11:48 PM
.@michelnivard.bsky.social you posted on the LDSC Google Group about some simulations you did testing LDSC on output from mixed model GWA.
groups.google.com/g/ldsc_users...
The MLM affected the h2 estimate. Do you remember how the MLM affected the intercept?
#GWAS #popgen
groups.google.com/g/ldsc_users...
The MLM affected the h2 estimate. Do you remember how the MLM affected the intercept?
#GWAS #popgen
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Spent 18 of my last 36 hours on the road to get these precious embryos from Florida back to Tennessee. These are the “Brahman half” of our project studying the molecular basis of heterosis in beef cattle.
October 6, 2023 at 12:26 PM
Spent 18 of my last 36 hours on the road to get these precious embryos from Florida back to Tennessee. These are the “Brahman half” of our project studying the molecular basis of heterosis in beef cattle.
Your favorite nonfiction books on Audible? Especially #science and #evolution books....
October 5, 2023 at 11:57 PM
Your favorite nonfiction books on Audible? Especially #science and #evolution books....
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Abstract submission for #TAGC24 is open now through Nov 9! Topics include Neurogenetics, Genomes & Genomics, Ecological Genetics, plus model organism meetings, amazing keynotes, industry sessions, career/networking events & much more.
genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ab...
genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ab...
September 29, 2023 at 4:23 PM
Abstract submission for #TAGC24 is open now through Nov 9! Topics include Neurogenetics, Genomes & Genomics, Ecological Genetics, plus model organism meetings, amazing keynotes, industry sessions, career/networking events & much more.
genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ab...
genetics-gsa.org/tagc-2024/ab...
Me and my Neanderthal cousin at the Field Museum in Chicago. 😀 According to 23andMe, I have more Neanderthal variants than 99% of their customers.
September 30, 2023 at 1:12 AM
Me and my Neanderthal cousin at the Field Museum in Chicago. 😀 According to 23andMe, I have more Neanderthal variants than 99% of their customers.