Nicholas Mancuso
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Nicholas Mancuso
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Associate Professor at USC. Genetics/Stats/ML. Husband and father. GA➡️CA. He/him. Views are mine.

www.mancusolab.com
The names crass, not clash
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Huge congratulations to @tszfung.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD! (Co-advised with @charleston.bsky.social )

Plenty of cool insights and methods detailed in his dissertation, "Inferring genetic architecture of complex traits in admixed populations"
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It can be hard to compete against ipads, but these books have provided my 9yo with some fun puzzles
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I had to
November 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
That's that
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I know, I know. But c'mon. It's too easy a costume.
October 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
October 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's been real, Boston. #ashg2025 #ashg25
October 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
MancusoLab and Alum at #ashg2025 #ashg25!
October 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Peppers incoming 🌶️
October 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Holy moly this is the vermouth to get y'all. Kings won, letting that vibe continue
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is wild. Hotelling's 1930 unpublished work (later provided by Ore) detailing differential geometric approach to describe statistical distributions used population genetics as its first example application.

Perhaps not that surprising given his communications with Fisher, but still neat!
September 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Geriatric Millennial Party w/ LCD fuckin Soundsytem, y'all
September 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Fig 2 in the same report. Its fun to just make false claims that aren't backed up at all by data.
September 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is the supplemental poverty measure (SPM), which is different from the official poverty measure (OPM). The statistics for OPM suggest decreased poverty under Biden. Its in the same report fer goodness sake.
September 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
evergreen
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I really really want to try out Typer for argument parsing in Python, but the design decision for adding 'help' strings is insane.

This is a ton of boilerplate that mixes semantics between command line information with basic type semantics.

I'm thinking Click might be the sweet spot.
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Unfortunately this is all I could muster, photo-wise. We did hit up Ted's, Bocce Pizza, and Ilio Di Paolos. It was a short trip and some constraints limited where we could eat/venture. Made sure to hit up Watson's chocolates to grab sponge candy and some other goodies :D
August 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Omg I managed to log in...
August 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
August 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I want to believe
August 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Fantastically clear post, which elevates this comment to art:
August 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
PGS "validation" in families comes with its own biases and effect estimates (ie R/R2) don't necessarily reflect causal signals. Emphasis on internal validity breaking down when there exist GxE within families.

Now WHICH set of phenotypes are historically known for complex GxE for families. 🤔
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Spent a few days camping up at Grays Meadows. One of my favorite sites in CA for folks with young kids.

There is a creek from snowmelt higher up that runs right through the site, which provides lots of entertainment, and a place to cool off!
August 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Herb garden is all popped out! Plus the mantis is all grown up!
August 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM