"a PRS is not an internal predisposition waiting to be realized; it is a risk estimate derived from a model constructed from population-level DNA associations without clearly defined biological mechanisms."

🚨 NIEHS/NIH is hiring Postdoctoral Fellows in Perinatal & Early Life Epidemiology (Durham, NC) with Dr. Kelly Ferguson. Research includes PFAS, micro/nanoplastics, metabolomics, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. 🔗 More information: https://members.iseepi.org/classifieds/moreinfo.php?cid=69348179

“Could ice cream sales be affecting murder rates?”

I need an academic bit. It seems like the most successful academics on social media just complain or police others' research. The nutritional epi and methods spaces are already saturated, but maybe I can find a niche in molecular epi. Like "did you even account for the age of that FFPE sample?!?"

Punditry is the dumbest thing in the world. It generates nothing more than hot air. How embarrassing for everyone involved.

Marginal tax rate at the end of a pitchfork is 100%

I despise the mail. There’s never anything important in it and if there was, I would miss it because 99.9% of the things I get are spam. Just straight from the mailbox to the recycling bin.

They found the guy ET was based on, the real guy who looked like that, and he's a Florida state senator now. He voted yes on a bathroom ban.

No one will ever get mad at you for ending your talk a few minutes early. You don't have to fill every second allotted to you. Just tell a fun and interesting story.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

We’re so cooked because now we cannot even agree on ai versus human reviewing. I ALWAYS start my reviews with a brief recap and overarching strengths and limitations of the study

My girls’ behavior and attitudes are destroying me and I’ve got no one to blame but myself, or perhaps, my wife.

The Florida AG says he hates families—in an election year! www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Rays trying out the “if not now, how about later?” negotiation tactic

Why do we call journals “predatory”? Calling them “parasitic” is way better

did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

Florida during the summer: lovebugs have entered my office.

First, if this is what you expect of parenthood, that you’ll have this level of control over the life of another human being, do not pass go. Parenthood isn’t for you. Second, it’s snake oil peddled by eugenicists who know it’s crap or are ignorantly fanatical about only some people having value.

“Before we get started, I would like to remind everyone on this institutional committee that I was told to be here, and my participation level and effort will reflect this.”

“That’s enough of that” he mumbled to himself as he left his office at 11am on a Monday.

Big fella keeps coming with the bulletproof answers

My president (not the one you’re thinking of) ran over some student protesters with a car!!!!

Looks like I gotta dispute that $70 round trip ticket I bought for later this month....

I can see all the armchair epidemiologists are back at it because of another trash CNN article about nutritional epi! Get a new bit!

I’m obviously against smoking for health reasons, but I can’t be the only one that still think it looks rebellious and cool as shit

This is so fucking funny. We were also showing the stanley cup playoffs & no one knew about the whcd, if this loser walked in and was like "uhh can you change it to trump babbling about his ballroom" I would have laughed in his face

Eating a mango salad

tampa/montreal by far the best series of this first round. nasty hockey, games are extremely competitive. what it's all about.

Trump with the “scoreboard” defense

We should start referring to gastrointestinal tracts as nutrient tubes.

"They think they can achieve happiness if they just leave the earth or leave society or find an immortality potion." Not to get all spiritual, but this is an excellent description of hell. They're in literal hell.

I hate going to Quest to get my blood drawn so much. From a health equity standpoint, it’s just another barrier for patients to overcome. It’s also gross and borderline predatory. The whole system sucks

Respecting you cost me nothing

Got my first book acknowledgment in Allen Wilcox’s updated book on reproductive epidemiology!

After JNCI desk rejects my solicited article (how offensive!!!), I am just reminded of this

Love a good tv show finale that just spoon feeds you all of its themes

*To the tune of Midnight Train to Georgia* Leavin on that 4:20 plane to Denver

OJ verdict

Who amongst us hasn’t come out of a blackout at a Waffle House?

Objectively, he remains hilarious

When the new Kim Gordon album comes on

Excited for the return of @mobute.bsky.social to Hell World with a striking and elegiac and wending piece about memory and education and mothers and war and Florida and California and the warring parts of both states and this entire warmongering country of ours.

Mechanism purist, timescale rebel. 🤘

hi all! i am conducting a dissertation survey on workplace leave use following a miscarriage in full-time workers in the USA. if you are eligible to take it, you can go to (go.uic.edu/leavestudy) and it would be much appreciated if you shared with your networks!

Remember folks, a fish rots from its head! And just to be clear, these are three separate incidents (none of which occurred in Hillsborough County!). www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.”

A high schooler emailed me (really @jkresovich.bsky.social) because he found our R21 on NIH Reporter and thought it sounded cool 🥺

*Honest mixture analysis salesman* “Excuse me sir or madam, do you like uninterpretable model coefficients?”

Eh, why should we research Alzheimer's, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease? It's not like these issues could ever possibly affect me, personally, because I, like every Republican, have no conception of time, probability, or cause and effect, I exist in a void filled solely by malicious urges.