Misconceptions about human genetic differences fuel genetic essentialism—but educational intervention can change that. Join @robbeewedow.bsky.social during the upcoming April 8 Journal Club Webinar as he shares how & breaks down his @hggadvances.bsky.social paper: https://bit.ly/4rF8FrE #ASHG

Congratulations @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social - Just amazing work! I know how much went into this, and I'm so proud of and excited for you!!!

How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? Despite advancements in genomics, misconceptions about the extent to which genetics contributes to observable differences across racial groups persist…

Very proud of this one: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... This has been some of the most important and impactful work I've had the pleasure to be a part of!

Wedow Lab Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of genetics, environment, and health using statistical modeling and machine learning methods.

At long last, we have a lab website!- Come see what we're up to:
www.wedowlab.com ( with @ktnthompson.bsky.social and everyone else in the group that isn't on here)

Exploring educational field sorting using genetics - Nature Genetics Creative use of informed statistical genetics methods combined with large-scale genomic data has delivered insights about sorting into educational fields. This study has wide-ranging implications for ...

Exploring educational sorting using genetics

Great big picture commentary by @robbeewedow.bsky.social on our recent paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stellar work from @robbeewedow.bsky.social, Brian Donovan, & company continuing the work on how changing genetics can reduce genetic essentialism in students.

This is the kind of work under attack by the current administration. Several grants on humane genetics literacy were targeted this year

📣New from @robbeewedow.bsky.social & co!
📄How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism?
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👉 bit.ly/4pk3axv

Both candidates will be cross-trained across humans, animals, and plants using various types of genetics and "other omics" data, with the goal of methodological translation across phyla. Our emails are in the job ad, so reach out with any questions!

The other candidate should have expertise in animal/plant genomics and data and will be housed in the Purdue College of Agriculture and mentored by Luiz Brito and Mitch Tuinstra

One candidate should have expertise in human genomics and data and will be housed in the Purdue College of Liberal Arts/Purdue College of Science and mentored by Matt Tegtmeyer and myself

🚨Attention Statistical, computational, quantitative trait, population geneticists/genomicists: From the
@LifeAtPurdue
Life Sciences Summit last fall, we are hiring two 3-year postdocs to work on using across-phyla methods to increase genomic prediction

careers.purdue.edu/job-invite/2...

I just finished a semester of teaching 250 upper-level undergraduate students how to push back against genetic essentialism using real genetic science on human variation to take down these dangerous and incorrect misuses/misinterpretations... I've never been prouder or more inspired as a teacher ❤️