We're hiring TWO postdocs in the Lea Lab at Vanderbilt! 🧬🐒 Both positions are part of a new NIH U19 studying life course experiences, gene regulation, and aging in the Cayo rhesus macaques. More details here: www.vanderbilt.edu/postdoc/pros... Please share widely and reach out with any questions!

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Prison One count of failing as a father One count of thinking this is funny

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This preprint rocks. Check out new info about one of the coolest regions of the human genome, plus join me in being so gratified that data I generated in grad school is being used by smart people to investigate fascinating topics! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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The supposedly rational scientific community is a sucker for branding and displayable symbols of prestige. The designer fashion, expensive watch, handbag industries look at scientific publishers in awe. Imagine teenagers picking their friends based on the kind of sneakers they're wearing...

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As an example of this, a pet hypothesis of mine is that GxG is nonsensical for cis-regulatory variation. Cross gamete interactions dont make sense wrt local chromatin state (to me at least), and thus any interactions should be within the same gamete/haplotype, or HxH.

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