Kaustubh Adhikari
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Kaustubh Adhikari
@kaustubhad
Senior Lecturer of Statistics at the Open University. Formerly statistical geneticist at University College London. @kaustubhad.bsky.social
London, England Katılım Temmuz 2012
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The only bad thing about getting tenure in 2026 is that the video game industry hasn't had a good new idea in more than a decade :P
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The GRACE project has been working hard tackling underrepresentation in genetics research. We are happy to share an endorsement by our MP for Milton Keynes Central, Emily Darlington.
@OpenUniversity @emily4MK
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I'm attending the Cambridge Rare Summit #RAREsummit25 tomorrow on behalf of @GRACE_projectUK, with our partners @BarriersDown @AS_UK. Please stop by our desk if you are there!
Breaking Down Barriers@BarriersDown
On the 6th November, we will be attending and exhibiting at the @camraredisease #RareSummit25 Working together to build more inclusive, accessible, and equitable genetics healthcare and research for all. Come along to our exhibition stand and find our Tree of Traits where you can explore your family features! Find our more about RARESummit 2025 camraredisease.org/raresummit25-l…
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@asgari_samira @abhijith_biji It is indeed a moment of pride to see mentees succeed. Congratulations to you too!
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I am beaming with pride 🤩 Well deserved @abhijith_biji!
If you are going to #ashg25 make sure to attend Abhi’s talk and hear about our new findings on human genetic risk factors of infectious diseases.
Abhijith Biji@abhijith_biji
More #ASHG25 news! Just found out that I've been selected as a predoctoral finalist for the 2025 ASHG Trainee Research Excellence Award!! 🎉 Thankful for my PI @asgari_samira! @SinaiGenHealth @IcahnMountSinai
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We'll be at @FoGenomics today! Please come find our stall if you are there!
festivalofgenomics.com/london/en/page…
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I signed up for @ukfuturehealth! If I'm doing public engagement with @GRACE_projectUK to increase diversity in genetics and healthcare research participation, have to practice what I preach!
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Our new @bbcideas video! How to win at online dating - using data science.
@OUMathsStats @OU_STEM co-production.
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Thanks to all the lab members whose work made this possible!
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UT Austin Research@UTexasResearch
We are thrilled to announce that three @UTAustin scholars have been selected as the 2024 recipients of the University Research Excellence Awards: • Research Excellence Career Award – Sumit Guha, professor, @UT_HistDept, @LiberalArtsUT • Creative Endeavor Award – @DrLisaBThompson, professor, @BlackStudiesUT, @LiberalArtsUT • Research Paper Excellence Award – @vagheesh, assistant professor, @texas_IB, @TexasScience Learn more about the 2024 recipients and their commitment to push the boundaries of knowledge and enrich communities in Texas and beyond: bit.ly/4gQ00O7.
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New paper!
Studying genetics of tooth dimensions isn't so common as measurement is cumbersome. But in our modest-sized study we report many new genes, with one which seems to have been inherited from Neanderthals in (some) Europeans.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…
@UGI_at_UCL @OU_STEM
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Now that I run a diversity and inclusion initiative about underprivileged groups myself, I try to do as much as I can to counter these pernicious views and their misrepresentation of scientific research.
open.ac.uk/grace/
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Never again have I responded to their emails. They then started pestering other lab members including the professors. But after our coordinated silence it died down after a while.
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The report reminded me that nearly a decade ago I had a weird run-in with these top ‘race scientists’ over my research.
At that point I was new to the UK and also unfamiliar with Twitter, so had no idea who these people were. It started with an innocuous email…
Dr Adam Rutherford@AdamRutherford
Bigotry dressed up as biology. Summary thread of the Guardian and @hopenothate's remarkable investigation into the scientific racist and eugenics cosplayers, promoting pseudoscience to disguise their ideology.
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@peterjukes I think you're not getting the philosophical point (saying everything in science is shaky) I am disagreeing with. Although our general position about moral absolutism is similar. So maybe there's not much point in continuing this back-n-forth.
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@kaustubhad There we go. We don’t ‘believe’ in lactose intolerance
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Biology isn’t a matter of faith or belief (let’s not forget the beliefs around Eugenics a century ago) but of scepticism and curiousity.
Never based your moral values an our imperfect and evolving knowledge of science
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@peterjukes In my research we see there are observable differences between people. These are facts and concurrently I do outreach explaining that having differences doesn't mean a person or a group of people are inferior in some way. E.g. lactose tolerate and white supremacists milk parties.
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@kaustubhad Yes, more importantly - do we succumb to ‘natural law’ or do we try to defy it?
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@peterjukes I was disagreeing to the earlier blanket assertion of calling all scientific knowledge imperfect: "Never based your moral values an our imperfect and evolving knowledge of science"; as you concur, topics like evolution are established with proof. Am not asking to be absolutist!
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