The one thing that strikes me about AI use in school, especially in college, is how little students consider school a place to learn, just a place to survive to get a thing.

People need to realize that the key to making walkable urban spaces great is SMALL RETAIL BUSINESS. The reason America doesn't have spaces like this is because we don't make it easy to start small retail businesses in places like this (or anywhere).

House Republicans are on a 5-week vacation during multiple catastrophic hurricanes. That should be the top story but it isn't.

Harris on “Call Her Daddy” talking about the importance of housing supply. I continue to be skeptical of this down payment credit, but the supply focus is key and I think good solutions will flow once you anchor on the correct diagnosis.

"The good old days" is mostly wrong as an economic narrative - almost all food has gotten dramatically cheaper relative to wages.

Genome-wide association testing beyond SNPs go.nature.com/3ZVoP5Y #Review by Laura Harris, Ellen McDonagh, Xiaolei Zhang 张小蕾, Katherine Fawcett, Amy Foreman, Petr Daneck, Panagiotis Sergouniotis, Helen Parkinson, Francesco Mazzarotto, Mike Inouye, Ed Hollox, Ewan Birney & Tomas Fitzgerald EMBL-EBI

My new PNAS paper with Daniel Romero ! 😎 With open data everywhere, how can we creatively unlock its potential for impactful innovation? We show that unusual combinations of datasets lead to more impactful discoveries, yet even simple combos remain rare. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Interested in pursuing a PhD in paleobiology and want to think more about extinction? Check out the below PhD project! Please get in contact if interested! earth.ox.ac.uk/disentangling-… Illustration by Victor O. Leshyk

New from Andy Bass & me: Exploiting pleiotropy to enhance variant discovery with functional false discovery rates medrxiv.org/content/10.110… sffdr is extends functional FDR to increase GWAS power. Can exploit information from multiple related GWAS. How much power you ask? /1

I mean, according to polls, Republicans aren't really gaining with minority women, they're gaining with minority MEN. This shift is about machismo and how masculinity has become subconsciously conflated with bigotry, and nobody, especially male pundits, wants to discuss it.

In 2010, the first DNA profile of an ancient human was published--using a 4,000 year old tuft of hair found in Greenland's permafrost. Today, the number of ancient genomes decoded is up to 10,000 and rising steadily.

I'm looking to change my career path and am quite excited about exploring jobs in biotechs in the Bay Area (or remote). I'm very keen to start a career that offers stability so my partner and I can finally live in the same state. Does anyone know of organizations that are hiring?

My DMs are open, and my email is my Twitter handle at Google's mail service. I would be happy to provide a CV. You can see some of the cool stuff I've built on my GitHub! github.com/vsbuffalo/

Vince is an exceptional computational biologist and a great colleague. Please reach out if you know any job openings!

🚨 Tenure-track jobs at NYU Biology!! We're going to hire two new assistant professors working in ecological and evolutionary genetics and genomics. Live and work in Greenwich Village, with friendly colleagues invested in your success. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/155792

The later approach is clearly the correct approach for housing and fashion. If we regulated housing like fashion, there would be an enormous shortage of pants, every guy would be required to wear a fedora from 1924 while guys like Leigh debated the legalization of baseball caps.

The national right-wing shift among Latino voters even in California (prop 36 makes retail theft into felonies) is fascinating. Even wilder since hispanics are the youngest ethnic group.

Trump has explicitly said he sees a trade deficit as a P&L (profit and loss), and that's just bananas---a country is not a company where exports are a loss and imports are a profit

Vince literally wrote the book on bioinformatics, and he'd offer a ton of value to any group in biotech lucky enough to hire him