Richard Wang

New from @suggestive_pval, @sialsaffar, Jeff Rogers, and me! 1/ Human generation times across the past 250,000 years science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New paper led by @suggestive_pval and @Yadirapga, from an awesome collaboration with @joannalkelley and others! "Hibernation shows no apparent effect on germline mutation rates in grizzly bears" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@apragsdale @3rdreviewer We could do well to be a little more careful wording the 78k value when talking about convergence though. The estimates "converge" by our last window, but there are so few variants out here that the last few windows we're smoothing over are real big.

@apragsdale @3rdreviewer Hey Aaron, thanks for the comments. Got curious and took a quick look at the gen. times estimated underneath our inset, and unlike the Ne estimates, they're definitely not the same by 20k gens ago (AFR and non-AFRs about 1 std err. apart). So there seems to be some signal here.

Our new paper estimating male and female generation times across the past 10,000 generations of human history is up! Project led by the amazing @suggestive_pval (with @sialsaffar and Jeff Rogers). A brief thread: 1/n biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@richmeisel @3rdreviewer It's actually a lookalike palette from ggsci. The difference is subtle though.

@3rdreviewer @suggestive_pval All that great work but still using the ggplot default colors tho

New preprint from @reject_resubmit and me! "The effects of introgression across thousands of quantitative traits revealed by gene expression in wild tomatoes"

A hush falls over the room as a computer scientist walks on stage and begins an elaborate proof of P ≠ NP.

The near future... A group of population geneticists has gathered to listen to the breakthrough of the century. Burning questions from decades past are about to be answered in one swift blow. Everything is about to be laid bare--will there be any work left in pop gen after this?

Kittens and evolutionary genomics? Yes, please! New paper led by @suggestive_pval shows that there's a parental-age effect (and male bias) on mutations in cats. Plus, a new model for comparing mutation spectra among species. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

5- The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

Published version of the paper led by @suggestive_pval! With @greggwcthomas, @pedjagogue, and many others not on Twitter. genome.cshlp.org/cgi/content/lo…

@gv_barroso they look like a Mondrian piece

@guerruhroh @wormsrock I gave duoHMM / shapeit a shot for this kind of phasing, but it's really aimed at human data. Ended up writing my own scripts using some heuristics from the literature.

Hey statgen twitter, I have Illumina data from this 3-generation pedigree. What's the best tool to phase the chromosomes in the 2nd generation? (from either raw data or vcfs).

What is ancestry? @aylwyn_scally and I discuss the difference between genealogical ancestry, genetic ancestry, and genetic similarity in a @PLOSGenetics opinion column: journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

@WenJuanMa84 It is satire. The author is a comedian.

🤦‍♀️ Please tell me this is a joke 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

@MicrobiomDigest @schneiderleonid @SmutClyde I'm a big fan of your work promoting scientific integrity. But the comic that goes along with this post is racist.

Then, @schneiderleonid and @SmutClyde wrote about our findings in this post here: forbetterscience.com/2020/01/24/the…

I am ringing the alarm. We have now found >400 papers that all share a very similar title layout, graph layout, and (most importantly) the same Western blot layout. This is a massive #PaperMill of (what we assume) fabricated data.

The false modesty of unexceptionalism. #ASHG2019

@kanderson @CT_Bergstrom @KjblackJohn It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair

Information use in foraging flocks of songbirds - no evidence for social transmission of patch quality dlvr.it/RF6680

@3rdreviewer They should've reconstructed a face.

Srsly? cell.com/cell/fulltext/…