Cancer is incredibly common in the u. S. and most cancer isn’t due to an inherited cause. “Approximately 38.9 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer of any site at some point during their lifetime, based on 2018–2021 data, excluding 2020 due to COVID.” (From NCI)
Big fan of @skypeascientist.bsky.social
I always recommend them as a good place to start if you want to get more public engagement experience as a scientist.
And right now they're funding in-person science communication projects.
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To anyone who is on the job market in Statistics this academic year: the George Mason University (GMU) Department of Statistics is hiring for open-rank, tenure-track or tenured positions!
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How can we measure the value of #genomics in #healthcare? How can #HTA, #implementation & data management be adapted to suit the rapidly evolving nature of genomics? For insights, read the Review from Zornitza Stark, Ilias Goranitis & colleagues.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04061-3
University of Washington is hiring:
Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor, Medical Genetics (Assistant Program Director, Genetic Counseling Graduate Program)
🚨 🏫 Hiring a full-time Research Assistant in the @uoregon Psych Dept to work on school-based implementation science focused on bilingual provider training & Latinx newcomer youth. Please share with others! Will begin reviewing apps 11/15! forms.gle/fCwpDS6uJ5Ur....
I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.
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Wait, wut? They did?!
I'm excited to share that our manuscript, “Prevalence of clinician-ordered genetic testing in rural and urban United States counties,” has just been published in Preventive Medicine Reports doi.org/10.1016/j.pm... !
Thank you to my co-authors and to the UofU Center for Genomic Medicine.
An open letter highlighting the co-optation of open science language in the latest Executive Order to justify policies that are, in fact, antithetical to open science principles.
Read and consider signing with your support.
www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...
For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce"
www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...
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Although I guess that's not fair, as it's not an r problem.
We could just leave that comment at rstats stackoverflow trolls. Period.
Thank you so much for posting this! I had been looking for these data a month or so ago and could only find information on trans U.S. adults not non-binary U.S. adults. This is so helpful!!
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While CoI are a very real concern in health professions, it's hard to take seriously a source with articles like this:
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Look to the implementation science, joshy!
To encourage citing review articles? I wonder this too!
I definitely owe a big thank you to @j9austin.bsky.social for creating and advertising the GC starter pack that got me here!
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Hello GC social media world! I'm a GC who started a PhD program ~4 years ago at the University of Utah in Population Health Sciences. I was on Twitter (I think when I left it was still Twitter??), but left it and have since missed being in communion with fellow GCs! Happy to be here!