Meaghan Jones

TBF, that Phil Collins course doesn't sound so bad

Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project: a conversation with Marcus W. Feldman, Henry T. Greely, and Mary-Claire King Abstract. The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) began in 1991 as an initiative to study genetic variation from human populations worldwide. In 2002, th

If you research or are simply interested in human genetic variation, ancient and modern, read my and Noah Rosenberg's latest in GENETICS academic.oup.com/genetics/art... 1/2

Thank you to all the friends, collaborators, lab members and mentors who made this happen!

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CIHR submitted! 🤞🤞🤞

I quickly read through this post and have some thoughts (as I am sure everyone expected).

We are so grateful to all CHILD families for showing up again & taking part in the 13-year round of data collection. The final visit was on 19 December 2025. The data collected will start fuelling research by late 2026.

childcohort.ca/13-year-visi...

The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”

There were so many of us, exactly when these emails were being written, expressly working to undo the harms of sexual harassment and sexual discrimination in science. And so many people refused to believe us that any of it was real. It was all real.

19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Putting my money where my mouth is: the Useful Genetics project Two years ago, I jumped on the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) bandwagon. I had just published a rant about the need to replace Mendelian genetic analysis with topics that were more useful to our st...

I did it, with Mendelian genetics as a special case of normal polygenic and pleiotropic inheritance - it works great. See 'Why do we have to learn this stuff"? (journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...) and 'Putting my money where my mouth is' (www.cell.com/trends/genet...

The Developmental Origins of Health & Disease (DOHaD) Canada's @dohadcanada.bsky.social meeting will take place June 2–3, 2026 in Western University in London!

The theme is: "From Womb to Well-Being: Biological and Psychosocial Pathways in DOHaD" - Join us! 👇🏽

www.dohad.ca/annual-meeti...

Liberals accept Conservative budget amendments on ‘regulatory sandboxes’ The federal Liberals accepted a Conservative proposal Monday to put guardrails around proposed new cabinet powers as they debated the government’s omnibus budget bill.

So glad the Conservatives and Liberals were able to come to an agreement about when they're allowed to straight up ignore the law in order to help out their business buddies.

I really can't believe how few Canadians care that the Liberals are now firmly right wing and are destroying democratic guardrails for the sake of business interests. And they're not even hiding it. They're doing it out in the open, because they can see that no one cares.

AI is going to trash every single way that we had modernised university teaching and send us back to handwritten exams and vivas for every assessment. Which will bring back every problem with those assessment models (and make us seem even more out-of-touch even as we just try to do meaningful work).

I use some of his examples in my lecture on data visualization! They are so beautiful!

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame.

Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm.

Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically.

There are many interesting and challenging questions about AI and education, but what to do about a student who makes use of this sort of service is really not one of them.

Ottawa seeks to attract grad students from abroad Immigration Department advertises option for families to come to Canada as figures show steep decline in international students

"Look, we know we told you all loudly and repeatedly to fuck off for two years, and talked down Canadian institutions as being low-quality for the same space of time, but that's all behind us, please won't you come?"

- A government that can't think more than one news cycle ahead

Enabling or disabling the AI Companion Panel in Zoom Workplace Account owners and admins can enable or disable the AI Companion panel in Zoom Workplace, which provides

Just got an email from Zoom plugging their "AI Companion," so I immediately looked up how to disable it and disabled it. In case you're interested...

support.zoom.com/hc/en/articl...

Gene body methylation buffers noise in gene expression in plants Abstract. Non-genetic variability in gene expression is an inevitable consequence of the stochastic nature of processes driving transcription and translati

Hot off the press, our latest publication on the functional role of gene body methylation (gBM).

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Work spearheaded by Jakub Zastapilo with help from @robynemm.bsky.social and Liudmila Mikheeva and co-led by Marco Catoni and @ubechtold.bsky.social 1/3

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor.
The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

A vibrant, wide-angle photo of a colorful outdoor mural promoting the "Super Bowl LX Apple Music Halftime Show." The mural is painted on a long blue wall in a sunlit, tropical setting with real palm trees and bright pink bougainvillea flowers cascading over the top. The artwork features a playful, surreal collage of cultural and football-themed elements: Central Text: The Apple Music logo in bold yellow and red 3D lettering is flanked by "SUPER BOWL LX" above and "HALFTIME SHOW" below. Iconic Imagery: Large illustrations of a golden trumpet, pink sunglasses, maracas, dominoes, and a cup of coffee with a musical note in the foam. Football Elements: Brown footballs are depicted growing on palm trees like coconuts and resting on the ground. Foreground: A young girl in a yellow dress walks along the sidewalk in front of the mural, passing a small goalpost illustration where a green parrot is perched. The overall aesthetic is warm, festive, and celebrates a fusion of Latin-inspired culture and American football.

I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage.

The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts.

Follow along!

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:

In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Grant reviewers in Canada: Please see below and remember that you are NOT allowed to use AI for any aspect of grant review. It breaches applicant and data confidentiality, among other security risks.

This of course assumes the reviewer is dedicated to doing a good job, which is... not always true.

The strengths and weakness sections are useful for specific ideas, but the summary is where I figure out if the rationale, logic, and arguments behind the experiments come across the way I intended them.

As a reviewer, I agree with this. As an applicant, I do find the reviewer summary helpful... sometimes. If it's a well done review, the things the reviewer highlights in the summary and how they phrase them help me to figure out whether my points are getting across the way I want them.

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?

These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.

So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

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Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.