LEAVING ACADEMIA Although I did not manage to secure the funding needed to establish my own research group, I am grateful for what I’ve learned in academia. *I am now beginning a new chapter*, joining a very early startup in France working on detecting cancer from DNA circulating in the blood.

I probably won't have time to make a video out of this. But the materials are available online, and should be pretty self-explanatory. Hope this is useful to some people. privefl.github.io/statgen-cour...

Next week, I'm teaching a **Statistical Human Genetics course using R**; would be of interest if I try to record it to make it available as a Youtube video?

We have 2-3 group leader positions opening @fimm-uh.bsky.social !! We are looking for outstanding candidates in human genetics and precision medicine. This time we have a focus on population health data science. E.g. AI for EHR/health data        Generous starting package 💰 shorturl.at/FAk6n

We are looking for a post-doc/research fellow working on non-bullshit, reality-centered AI. Meaning: unique nationwide EHR and -omics with the possibility to recontact people and prospectively test multimodal AI approaches. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... @FIMM_UH @FinnGen_FI

This is VERY big genetics & health news, Regeneron (Pharmaceutical company with v strong genetics in medicine arm) is going to buy 23andme. investor.regeneron.com/news-release...

I am recruiting a quantitative/computational postdoc to my group at UCLA. This is a great opportunity to work on foundational theory, methods, and software in statistical genetics. Link to apply: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10275. Please repost!

👀 I still see many papers using the 1000G data to infer ancestry proportions of individuals in their respective studies. ❌ But I argue that the 1000G is not doing a very good job at covering well the worldwide populations.

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Join us for the ISPG Members' Meetup on March 26th! Dr. Oliver Pain will present his groundbreaking research on polygenic scores and the innovative GenoPred pipeline. Don't miss out: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #ISPG #Genetics #PolygenicScores #Bioinformatics

I'll be there! This is a very affordable conference on Statistical Genetics methodologies 🤩

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You’ve been murdered who do you want on the case?

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Abstract submissions for the European Mathematical Genetics Meeting are open! emgm2025.sciencesconf.org Deadline February 2nd, looking forward to seeing your proposals. Meeting is in Brest, France, 8-9 April

My standing « desk », by the fireplace 😊

Very interesting work by Tade Souaiaia et al on the non-polygenic architecture of the extremes of complex traits. For many traits, polygenic scores show "regression to the mean" around the tails, as extreme traits are mostly due to rare alleles. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello there; anyone else is here? 😃