Many US research institutions have no clear policies on parental leave for graduate students or postdocs. And that is mainly because there are no federal policies to follow, nor federal laws that enforce such policies for these worker categories. go.nature.com/2PHkvkz

1/6 Our new GWAS paper of birth weight out today in Nature Genetics nature.com/articles/s4158… with Nicole Warrington Rachel Freathy @rnbeaumont1 Mark McCarthy John Perry Some BIG ideas put into practice in this paper!

.Dorothy Bishop urges researchers to rein in the four horsemen of the reproducibility apocalypse: publication bias, low statistical power, P-value hacking and HARKing. go.nature.com/2L0zWpr

CIS! TRANS! RE! TAD! CRD! EQTL! GET ENOUGH FEATURE! FOR MANY SAMPLE! STAT GIVE PRETTY CORRELATION! LIKE CRD AND TAD! SPOILER: CRD IS IN TAD! AND TRANSREGULATION: IT SHARED TF ACTIVITY! NO MAGIC 3D! BIG DATA! LITTLE BIOLOGY!

Our paper on the Maternal and Offspring Genetic Effects Power Calculator is finally in this months issue of Behavior Genetics Association link.springer.com/article/10.100… Link to power calculator: evansgroup.di.uq.edu.au/MGPC/ Nicole Warrington david_mf_evans gibran hemani

Why are women of color more likely to die than white women when pregnant? Access to care is a big part of the problem. nyti.ms/2H1PyDI

We out here 🇸🇪 #dnamethylab #stockholm #bga2019

Great to see other DNA methylation research presented at #bga2019 !

Even better when it’s a #creepybaby photo 👶🏼

Congratulations Dr. Lapato on a successful dissertation defense! 🥳#danascience #dnamethylab

Curious about the Open Science Framework? VCULibraries and the VCU Data Science Lab are offering a half-day workshop to provide hands-on instruction in reproducibility techniques using the Center for Open Science. TOMORROW, Aug 1st. Register here 👇 vcu.libcal.com/event/5533288

New TiCS paper: Preregistration is Hard, and Worthwhile. Authors: Dr. Emorie Beck Lorne Campbell JK Flake 📈📏 @Tom_Hardwicke @EvoMellor Anna van 't Veer simine vazire and me Preprint: psyarxiv.com/wu3vs Will appear at: doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

The first Epigenetic Journal Club meeting of the semester will be held today @ 2:30 pm in the VIPBG Conference Room. Schedule, announcements, and post-discussion write-ups will be posted to our OSF Page osf.io/fzu8p/ via Center for Open Science

Can we have class outside today? 🌤️🦜🌳 Join us for #EpigeneticJournalClub today, we'll be out on the quad behind the new Health Professions Building. (And since we're not above bribing people with food, light snacks and tea will be provided ☕️🍪).

#webinarsains2019 The sketchnote of Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) ‘s session by @dasaptaerwin

Join us Thursday for this 1-hour workshop! Course details and registration here: bit.ly/2lkJsHF

#dnamethlab argusleader.com/videos/news/20…

10/10 sass 👏