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"It's not about how old we are, it's about how old are our ideas."

A great response to yet *another* attempt to use genomic data to justify racist, antisemitic, and ethnist ideas. As geneticists we need to be incredibly careful about how we conduct and publish our work to avoid providing more ammunition to bigots and racists.

Hey ACMG! Sitting here in the #ACMGMtg24 Adult Genetics SIG forum, but without an adult genetics pin 🥺Peds, Lab, Cyto, Biochemical are all here — where’s the love for the 60% of the global population over the age of 18?

🏳️‍🌈Hey #ACMGMtg24 attendees! 🧬🌈Let’s coordinate an #LGBTQ+ (and allies!) meet up! A safe space to connect, share, and uplift. Come hang out at Woody's (467 Church St) tomorrow (Friday) at 8pm. Spread the word and retweet, please! ACMG #QueerInSTEM #PrideInScience #Genetics

#LGBTQ happy hour at ACMG 🌈 🧬 #prideinmedicine #gaydoctor #queer Theodore G. Drivas 🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍🌈ACMG #ACMGMtg24 #LGBTQ+ meet up was a success! Here are the intrepid few who braved the Canadian cold to walk back to our hotels! So great to see everyone show up to show our #pride in #genetics 🌈

Heading back after a fantastic week at AMIA. It was also first conference presentation from my lab. Pankhuri Singhal gave an amazing talk on how we're leveraging LLMs to intuitively structure clinical notes for phenotyping tasks. #IS24

🧬 So exciting to see our preprint of #exome sequencing in critically ill adults in the Penn Medicine #BioBank picked up by the New Scientist! 🧬 Jess Gold Penn @PennMedBenchmarks

Do bakers daydream about leaving their job to do a PhD in molecular biology?

One of my graduate students dropped by my office, exasperated, and said, "I don't know how to innovate. So, how can I do a PhD?". I erased my whiteboard and began listing strategies for generating new research ideas. They left reassured and excited! As #professors, we mentor

Today, RGC has published an important paper in nature today, describing an analysis of close to a million human exomes (n=983,578) as a single variant call set (!). This is the largest and most diverse rare variant database created so far. This impressive feat is accomplished by

21 yo with no PMH develops acute heart failure, progresses to transplant. Post-transplant has new skeletal myopathy, now wheelchair-bound. We recommend exome+mito. Denied. Peer-to-peer: "this isn't an unusual presentation." Just another day in the US healthcare system.