🧵1/4: 'Such a trove of data may be put to good use... The firm “did an incredible thing in that they got people to pay to participate in research”, says Jonathan LoTempio, of @upenn.bsky.social . 100s of studies have drawn on 23andMe.' www.economist.com/business/202...

Funding for science should not be a partisan issue. wapo.st/41UWFHA

Califf nails it: “It’s despicable to treat fellow human beings this way and a sign of immaturity of the people doing it" F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/s...

OPM is planning to fire all employees on probation (less than one year of employment). Agencies have until noon on Wednesday to submit a list of probationary employees to the OPM and indicate whether they wish to retain them—though it has been stated that this will not make a difference.

What do you mean when you say that you've #shared your #data broadly? @jonathanmoreno.bsky.social and I published a new data sharing framework in @naturegenet.bsky.social along with #bioethics challenges for #genomics in the #ai era. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pennmedresearch.bsky.social

🚨 Excited to announce the Marker paper for the GREGoR Consortium! arxiv.org/abs/2412.14338 Accelerating #RareDisease diagnostics with cutting-edge #Genomics and global data sharing of omics and deep phenotyping from ~7500 individuals on NHGRI AnVIL and much more to come! 🧬