Gen Wojcik
@genandgenes.bsky.social
💻 Assoc Prof of Epidemiology at JH Public Health
🛠️ RAGE Lab: Research on Ancestry in Genetic Epi
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Gen Wojcik
@genandgenes.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
www.nature.com
I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics.
Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.
This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent.
This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.
Alright folks, it's that time of year.
Drop your spotify wrapped (so we can judge and be judged).
Drop your spotify wrapped (so we can judge and be judged).
December 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Alright folks, it's that time of year.
Drop your spotify wrapped (so we can judge and be judged).
Drop your spotify wrapped (so we can judge and be judged).
Beyond the obvious*, an important and insidious aspect is how it's marketed to women.
Pregnancy and motherhood can be hard. The uncertainty. The expectations.
This marketing directly exploits this to suggest that eugenics is the right choice. To give you control and prove you are a good mother.
Pregnancy and motherhood can be hard. The uncertainty. The expectations.
This marketing directly exploits this to suggest that eugenics is the right choice. To give you control and prove you are a good mother.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Beyond the obvious*, an important and insidious aspect is how it's marketed to women.
Pregnancy and motherhood can be hard. The uncertainty. The expectations.
This marketing directly exploits this to suggest that eugenics is the right choice. To give you control and prove you are a good mother.
Pregnancy and motherhood can be hard. The uncertainty. The expectations.
This marketing directly exploits this to suggest that eugenics is the right choice. To give you control and prove you are a good mother.
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
Someone get me (genetic epidemiologist) & my husband (school psychologist) on a podcast bc our rants on these people are...fiery. We spent 5y in the bay around these folks and oh boy.
I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.
I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Someone get me (genetic epidemiologist) & my husband (school psychologist) on a podcast bc our rants on these people are...fiery. We spent 5y in the bay around these folks and oh boy.
I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.
I'm also so sick of these puff pieces that avoid saying plainly what this actually is. Shoddy science for eugenics.
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Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th!
Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏
Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu
🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology
Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏
Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu
🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology
STATGEN 2026: Conference on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
STATGEN 2026: Conference on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics, May 18-20, 2026. ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics.
statgen26.emory.edu
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Consider submitting an abstract for an invited talk or poster at STATGEN 2026 by December 15th!
Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏
Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu
🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology
Amazing keynote speakers and statistical leaders in #genetics and #genomics! 👏
Hope to see you there! statgen26.emory.edu
🧪 🧬 🖥️ 🧠 #statssky #imaging #SingleCell #spatial #omics #DigitalPathology
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December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Finally?
Are you telling not everyone had a copy of Big Bird in China on VHS with the Monkey King helping them find the phoenix?!
Are you telling not everyone had a copy of Big Bird in China on VHS with the Monkey King helping them find the phoenix?!
November 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Finally?
Are you telling not everyone had a copy of Big Bird in China on VHS with the Monkey King helping them find the phoenix?!
Are you telling not everyone had a copy of Big Bird in China on VHS with the Monkey King helping them find the phoenix?!
Last month I wrote about two new papers presenting the new Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), a resource with genetic and EHR data from about half a million participants.
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Taiwan invests in genetic resource for health
A large biobanking effort captures genetic and health data from half a million people in Taiwan, widening the diversity of genomes used to predict disease risk.
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Last month I wrote about two new papers presenting the new Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), a resource with genetic and EHR data from about half a million participants.
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This was special as my mom went to NTU & worked in some of these medical centers. 🇹🇼
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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📣New today!
📄Training competencies and recommendations for the next generation of public health genetics: Reflections from current leaders in the field
🧑🤝🧑 @dianexue.bsky.social @genandgenes.bsky.social & co
📄Training competencies and recommendations for the next generation of public health genetics: Reflections from current leaders in the field
🧑🤝🧑 @dianexue.bsky.social @genandgenes.bsky.social & co
Training competencies and recommendations for the next generation of public health genetics: Reflections from current leaders in the field
As genomics becomes increasingly embedded in research, healthcare, and society, training
programs must adapt. Through focus groups with leaders across public health genetics
subfields, we developed up...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📣New today!
📄Training competencies and recommendations for the next generation of public health genetics: Reflections from current leaders in the field
🧑🤝🧑 @dianexue.bsky.social @genandgenes.bsky.social & co
📄Training competencies and recommendations for the next generation of public health genetics: Reflections from current leaders in the field
🧑🤝🧑 @dianexue.bsky.social @genandgenes.bsky.social & co
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Ask any woman in STEM if they, along with Sen Warren, knew Larry Summers was a misogynistic prick 20 years ago when he was president of Harvard, and let’s be clear, this institution enables and empowers these gross men and always has….from 2005:
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ask any woman in STEM if they, along with Sen Warren, knew Larry Summers was a misogynistic prick 20 years ago when he was president of Harvard, and let’s be clear, this institution enables and empowers these gross men and always has….from 2005:
Last week our pup twisted his ankle. He limped for a few days and was fine.
Yesterday, the kids were busy and he started limping again. We fawned over the poor baby.
This morning he was fine.
But then he got in trouble and all of a sudden he started limping & moping. Minutes later he’s fine.
🧐
Yesterday, the kids were busy and he started limping again. We fawned over the poor baby.
This morning he was fine.
But then he got in trouble and all of a sudden he started limping & moping. Minutes later he’s fine.
🧐
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Last week our pup twisted his ankle. He limped for a few days and was fine.
Yesterday, the kids were busy and he started limping again. We fawned over the poor baby.
This morning he was fine.
But then he got in trouble and all of a sudden he started limping & moping. Minutes later he’s fine.
🧐
Yesterday, the kids were busy and he started limping again. We fawned over the poor baby.
This morning he was fine.
But then he got in trouble and all of a sudden he started limping & moping. Minutes later he’s fine.
🧐
Please share widely!
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Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Please share widely!
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
November 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Are you located in the DC-Baltimore-Philadelphia-New York corridor?
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
Have you always wanted to have your very own 11 foot long papier-mâché hammerhead shark?
Now available for free!
Perfect for museums, community centers, or your living room!
Save this lovely creature from imminent destruction!
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SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
SAVE THE DATE: the yearly NY Population Genetics meeting will be back on March 9 2026, generously hosted by the
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
@simonsfoundation.org. Details to follow. Please RT.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
The First Amendment Won’t Go Quietly
Welcome to the third Red Scare.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.
If anyone is wondering how things are going, I just bought my second pair of loop earplugs.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If anyone is wondering how things are going, I just bought my second pair of loop earplugs.
Last time I saw him, he told me that eugenics had gotten a bad rap. That it was, in fact, a great thing. To be celebrated. As well as the usual racist & misogynistic rants.
But honestly the worst part was seeing the light die in fellow lab members eyes when they met their hero and got...that.
But honestly the worst part was seeing the light die in fellow lab members eyes when they met their hero and got...that.
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Last time I saw him, he told me that eugenics had gotten a bad rap. That it was, in fact, a great thing. To be celebrated. As well as the usual racist & misogynistic rants.
But honestly the worst part was seeing the light die in fellow lab members eyes when they met their hero and got...that.
But honestly the worst part was seeing the light die in fellow lab members eyes when they met their hero and got...that.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Once again the discourse reveals that some writers have no idea what feminism is. It’s aggravating. You still don’t know? In 2025?
"The fact that tenured professors are still predominantly male because these people got their Ph.D.s back in the 1980s, doesn’t really tell you a whole lot if you’re in a field where 75 percent of Ph.D.s today currently go to women."
They just make things up. The 1980s?! Folks our age have tenure!
They just make things up. The 1980s?! Folks our age have tenure!
the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"The fact that tenured professors are still predominantly male because these people got their Ph.D.s back in the 1980s, doesn’t really tell you a whole lot if you’re in a field where 75 percent of Ph.D.s today currently go to women."
They just make things up. The 1980s?! Folks our age have tenure!
They just make things up. The 1980s?! Folks our age have tenure!
My 8yo is losing her love of math because of a mean teacher, so we’re trying to think of ways to make it fun at home.
Anyone have any math games they recommend? Not primarily for teaching per se, but using math while having fun.
Anyone have any math games they recommend? Not primarily for teaching per se, but using math while having fun.
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My 8yo is losing her love of math because of a mean teacher, so we’re trying to think of ways to make it fun at home.
Anyone have any math games they recommend? Not primarily for teaching per se, but using math while having fun.
Anyone have any math games they recommend? Not primarily for teaching per se, but using math while having fun.
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