I'm shocked both by this announcement and by the fact that I learned about it *on Twitter*

Want more context on Columbia University events?
Check out Chartbook Newsletter 279 for political economy
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-27…
And thank you Financial Times for running this thoughtful piece by Mark Mazower and do stay for the video of Chris Brown's oratory!
ft.com/content/f0e3e8…

The following is a statement by faculty at the department of sociology at Columbia University. (1/16)

Keith Gessen Here's a link to the petition from AAUP Columbia University Chapter for members of the Columbia/Barnard community to add their names to this statement: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Dave Pozen with a characteristically thoughtful and incisive reflection on the administration’s actions at Columbia University from an institutional perspective

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online:
- Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation
- Population structure: II. More about admixture
web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

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Exec committee of Columbia Univ Senate—the body that the President should consult pursuant to Section 444—did “not approve the presence of NYPD on our campus at this time,” Shafik 'consulted' but did not gain agreement & then invited in NYPD riot squad.
columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/1…

Thanks to Alexander Strudwick Young for this useful commentary on our paper. As Alex’s piece highlights, family studies are a great way forward. But as he also notes, one issue is that confounding (e.g. AM or env) can be baked into the polygenic scores that are subsequently used within-fam

Congratulations to Carl Veller on the publication of his article on confounding in population and family GWAS PLOS Biology

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

I've written about race, genetic ancestry, analyses of large biobanks, and human history

gusevlab.org/projects/hsq/#…

I'll summarize the key points here 🧵:

Excited to see this preprint out 'A geographic history of human genetic ancestry' by Michael Grundler, Jonathan Terhorst & Gideon Bradburd biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In this preprint, Aylwyn Scally, Richard Durbin and I present evidence for deep population structure shared by all modern humans biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Aylwyn Scally Richard Durbin

Pleased to announce that Susan Johnston and I will be hosting a symposium at Evolution Meetings #evol2024 : 'Recombination Rate Variation: Causes, Consequences, and Evolution'. All are free to apply, see evolutionmeetings.org for details! Please share/RT.

We are delighted to share our work on a robust, accurate method for sampling genome-wide genealogies (aka ARGs) from the full posterior distribution. This is a product of years of hard work by Yun Deng 邓赟, who is jointly advised by Rasmus Nielsen and me. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…
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Great interview w Carla Hoge in the Dept of Biological Sciences on her Science Magazine paper with Molly Przeworski and Marc de Manuel on the surprising mechanism of #genetic #recombination in corn #snakes . Columbia University Columbia College Columbia University_Bio news.columbia.edu/news/gathering…