ASHG18 tweet summary day 4

6F 11:00 am

Other (morning)

Tissue cell type composition in Gtex changes with age, sometimes in a sex-specific manner #ASHG18

— Misha Vysotskiy (@Misha_Vysotskiy) October 19, 2018

Now: @julirsch does finemapping to find specific causal variants associated with blood cell traits. 230 genes contain fine-mapped coding variants #ASHG18

— Art Wuster (@artwuster) October 19, 2018

@princyparsana: "Addressing confounding artifacts in reconstruction of gene co-expression networks" https://t.co/9Tj85Furxd #ASHG18

— Damien C-C (@dccc_phd) October 19, 2018

M Snyder: Under GTEX consortium, the proteomics project mapped 32 normal human tissues, together have identified ~16k proteins from 14K genes. #ASHG18 #ASHG2018

— Dawei Lin (@iGenomics) October 19, 2018

Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt: failure to account for heritable variation that contributes to biomarker variance creates health disparities and pushes costs to less represented populations #ASHG18

— Sarah Garcia (@skerfoot) October 19, 2018

Afternoon

I like Cecelia Lundgren’s emphasis on #mutualcontract of mentoring. Altshuler - “don’t bring the problem, bring the solution. Nice contrast to the typical “solve important problem” advice (which is also true).#ASHG18

— Sharon Plon (@splon) October 19, 2018

Cecilia Lundgren - it’s not “work-life” balance it is “work-home” balance as work is part of our lives! Love that!! She doesn’t email students over week-ends. She takes vacation. #ashg18

— Sharon Plon (@splon) October 19, 2018

CL: Science should embrace everyone, regardless of color, sexual orientation, religion, culture, etc. Diversity matters. A key fundamental part of genetics. [this was the best award recipient talk ever] #ASHG18

— Michael Hoffman (@michaelhoffman) October 19, 2018

Really inspiring talk from Cecilia Lindgren accepting this year’s #ASHG18 Mentorship Award highlighting diversity, work-life balance, value of finding the best work environment for you. Science does not see sex, race, color #diversitymatters

— Claudia Gonzaga-J (@cgonzagaj) October 19, 2018

As a woman scientist it’s extremely inspiring to see women role models like this year’s #ASHG18 awardees @ceclindgren & Mary-Claire King and others like @splon @NancyGenetics share their stories, their wisdom, and their opinions #RepresentationMatters

— Claudia Gonzaga-J (@cgonzagaj) October 19, 2018

A moving acceptance speech by @ceclindgren on her #ASHG18 Mentorship award calling for inclusion, diversity, and assertiveness rather than aggression. Congrats! pic.twitter.com/3HQ5kle7Hu

— Chris Cole (@CColeStatGen) October 19, 2018

CL: Advice:
- Lean in/hang on step up
- Be positive, persistent, polite
- Assertiveness ≠ aggression
- Choose a work environment supportive of you
- Choose a mentor supportive of you
- Choose a mentor that you can buy into and respect #ASHG18

— Michael Hoffman (@michaelhoffman) October 19, 2018

Diversity

@GeneticsSociety Can anyone recommend a good site to obtain patient information for genetic conditions in Spanish? #ASHG18 #internationalcommunity #genetics

— Colleen Macmurdo (@ColleenMacmurdo) October 19, 2018

I prefer women/men or female/male - they’re not perfect since human gender and sex aren’t binary but they do a decent job as short hand. “Boys and girls” feels needlessly (verging in offensivey) infantilizing and perhaps extra gendered. #ASHG18

— Avery Davis Bell (@averydavisbell) October 19, 2018

Let’s not forget about sexual orientation too! Especially after 6pm today at #ASHG18 ...? https://t.co/Sb3mUEObLM

— Steve Reilly (@ReillyLikesIt) October 19, 2018

Re-posting an example how I try to talk about (or avoid unnecessarily talking about) sex and gender in my own work. Not always feasible depending on topic and data, but always, always worth considering carefully. #ASHG18 (CC @fellgernon since related to previous discussion) https://t.co/edqepya3PH

— Avery Davis Bell (@averydavisbell) October 19, 2018

Misc

Still some people seams to have difficulties understanding no pictures means no pictures. Lady beside me has taken already 2 pictures of the slides and we are not even at the middle of the talk #ASHG18 https://t.co/8J7eggY0Sn

— Alejandra Medina-Rivera (@AleMedinaRivera) October 19, 2018

Leaving mid-session from a center seat #ASHG18 pic.twitter.com/WTMMOQaJLo

— Robin F. Chan (@robinfchan) October 19, 2018

This got fixed super fast! Thanks for addressing the problem so quickly, @GeneticsSociety! #ASHG18 https://t.co/2sNJJypGje

— Jedidiah Carlson (@JedMSP) October 19, 2018

I can't attend the #ASHG18 Membership Forum. If you can, please propose that @GeneticsSociety appoint an awards nomination committee who will solicit or write nominations for worthy and overlooked members of our community. @nelsondl @NancyGenetics @splon

— Michael Hoffman (@michaelhoffman) October 19, 2018

.@GeneticsSociety enjoy good locally roasted #coffee and cute #cats as part of your #ashg18 experience. We're a five minute walk from @sdconventionctr (cross Harbor at 1st, right on Island, walk to 3rd). Your admission includes a food or drink item. pic.twitter.com/tQZR0k8SB1

— Cat Cafe San Diego (@CatCafeSanDiego) October 19, 2018

Everyone should stop by @dnanexus booth to see the virtual reality system @marianattestad and her group has implemented. It’s stunning. They had to wrestle the headset away from me. #ASHG18

— Mark T. W. Ebbert (@bioinfo_mark) October 19, 2018

This is my personal account, if you've wondered who is doing all these tweets. Thanks again, Mary-Claire. #ASHG18 https://t.co/szITSzqKlK

— 23andMe Research (@23andMeResearch) October 19, 2018

Acknowledgements

This blog post was made possible thanks to:

• BiocStyle (Oleś, Morgan, and Huber, 2018)
• blogdown (Xie, Hill, and Thomas, 2017)
• knitcitations (Boettiger, 2017)
• sessioninfo (Csárdi, core, Wickham, Chang, et al., 2018)

References

[1] C. Boettiger. knitcitations: Citations for ‘Knitr’ Markdown Files. R package version 1.0.8. 2017. URL: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=knitcitations.

[2] G. Csárdi, R. core, H. Wickham, W. Chang, et al. sessioninfo: R Session Information. R package version 1.1.0.9000. 2018. URL: https://github.com/r-lib/sessioninfo#readme.

[3] A. Oleś, M. Morgan and W. Huber. BiocStyle: Standard styles for vignettes and other Bioconductor documents. R package version 2.8.2. 2018. URL: https://github.com/Bioconductor/BiocStyle.

[4] Y. Xie, A. P. Hill and A. Thomas. blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown. ISBN 978-0815363729. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2017. URL: https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown.

Reproducibility

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