Gen Wojcik
@genandgenes.bsky.social
💻 Assoc Prof of Epidemiology at JH Public Health
🛠️ RAGE Lab: Research on Ancestry in Genetic Epi
🔗 www.rage-lab.com
🛠️ RAGE Lab: Research on Ancestry in Genetic Epi
🔗 www.rage-lab.com
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.
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?!
Anyway, this is how we found out our overgrown dingo of a puppy is in fact smart and manipulative. 🫠
What a stinker.
What a stinker.
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Anyway, this is how we found out our overgrown dingo of a puppy is in fact smart and manipulative. 🫠
What a stinker.
What a stinker.
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!
I finally got the camera I ordered months ago, so of course Freddie has been dealing with the burden of me shoving a camera in his face for the past hour while I fidget with the settings.
Anyway. New glamour shot.
Anyway. New glamour shot.
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I finally got the camera I ordered months ago, so of course Freddie has been dealing with the burden of me shoving a camera in his face for the past hour while I fidget with the settings.
Anyway. New glamour shot.
Anyway. New glamour shot.
The ableism. The misogyny. The ignorance of basic facts. The absolute disregard for human life and suffering.
September 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The ableism. The misogyny. The ignorance of basic facts. The absolute disregard for human life and suffering.
Time to bring this back out.
:: screams quietly in the kitchen while cooking dinner ::
:: screams quietly in the kitchen while cooking dinner ::
September 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Time to bring this back out.
:: screams quietly in the kitchen while cooking dinner ::
:: screams quietly in the kitchen while cooking dinner ::
“Beyond individual scientists, the kinds of studies that get conducted are based on what questions are deemed relevant or not by dominant societal norms.”
I focus on this a lot in talks. What we accept as the default determines who is prioritized vs who has to wait for benefits to “trickle down”.
I focus on this a lot in talks. What we accept as the default determines who is prioritized vs who has to wait for benefits to “trickle down”.
September 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
“Beyond individual scientists, the kinds of studies that get conducted are based on what questions are deemed relevant or not by dominant societal norms.”
I focus on this a lot in talks. What we accept as the default determines who is prioritized vs who has to wait for benefits to “trickle down”.
I focus on this a lot in talks. What we accept as the default determines who is prioritized vs who has to wait for benefits to “trickle down”.
If you are at NIH today, go see my sister perform with the NSO in Building 10!
www.cc.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
www.cc.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
September 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you are at NIH today, go see my sister perform with the NSO in Building 10!
www.cc.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
www.cc.nih.gov/sites/defaul...
This whole birth rate obsession is partially driven by a subset of White people looking at their kids' friend groups and realizing that it's much harder to teach your kids an effed up fairy tale of white supremacy when the kids down the street who don't look like them are pretty awesome. Creepy.
September 2, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This whole birth rate obsession is partially driven by a subset of White people looking at their kids' friend groups and realizing that it's much harder to teach your kids an effed up fairy tale of white supremacy when the kids down the street who don't look like them are pretty awesome. Creepy.
It's fake, although the real one is still yikes.
August 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
It's fake, although the real one is still yikes.
These people confuse attention with dialogue.
The platforms are so different.
Take two comments I got on X (left) and Bluesky (right) in response to calling out eugenics. Both are critical of my positions. Only one tells me to kill myself.
The platforms are so different.
Take two comments I got on X (left) and Bluesky (right) in response to calling out eugenics. Both are critical of my positions. Only one tells me to kill myself.
August 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
These people confuse attention with dialogue.
The platforms are so different.
Take two comments I got on X (left) and Bluesky (right) in response to calling out eugenics. Both are critical of my positions. Only one tells me to kill myself.
The platforms are so different.
Take two comments I got on X (left) and Bluesky (right) in response to calling out eugenics. Both are critical of my positions. Only one tells me to kill myself.
On a serious note, the axes of subordination are a useful framework for understanding how racism and xenophobia are inherently related in the the states.
You can see these axes in the targeted attacks against minoritized groups. For example, the targeted sinophobia of this piece.
You can see these axes in the targeted attacks against minoritized groups. For example, the targeted sinophobia of this piece.
August 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
On a serious note, the axes of subordination are a useful framework for understanding how racism and xenophobia are inherently related in the the states.
You can see these axes in the targeted attacks against minoritized groups. For example, the targeted sinophobia of this piece.
You can see these axes in the targeted attacks against minoritized groups. For example, the targeted sinophobia of this piece.
What the actual fuck is wrong with people.
I would say it's brain rot but the rot isn't just in their heads.
I would say it's brain rot but the rot isn't just in their heads.
August 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
What the actual fuck is wrong with people.
I would say it's brain rot but the rot isn't just in their heads.
I would say it's brain rot but the rot isn't just in their heads.
I'm a little surprised that the numbers are as high as they are all around, especially by June this year. But the trends by respondent are interesting.
news.gallup.com/poll/693641/...
news.gallup.com/poll/693641/...
August 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm a little surprised that the numbers are as high as they are all around, especially by June this year. But the trends by respondent are interesting.
news.gallup.com/poll/693641/...
news.gallup.com/poll/693641/...
Two things can be true:
1. The OMB categories were changed in mid-2024 to combine race and ethnicity, with the more detailed form centering national origin.
2. This info is going to be used by the current regime, rewinding the definition of whiteness to further their racist and eugenicists goals.
1. The OMB categories were changed in mid-2024 to combine race and ethnicity, with the more detailed form centering national origin.
2. This info is going to be used by the current regime, rewinding the definition of whiteness to further their racist and eugenicists goals.
August 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Two things can be true:
1. The OMB categories were changed in mid-2024 to combine race and ethnicity, with the more detailed form centering national origin.
2. This info is going to be used by the current regime, rewinding the definition of whiteness to further their racist and eugenicists goals.
1. The OMB categories were changed in mid-2024 to combine race and ethnicity, with the more detailed form centering national origin.
2. This info is going to be used by the current regime, rewinding the definition of whiteness to further their racist and eugenicists goals.
I'm not a fan of the move to make race/ethnicity so tightly linked with national origin for many reasons. The conflation is so clear on the long/detailed form. It's weird, inaccurate, and a non-negligible amount of icky.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I'm not a fan of the move to make race/ethnicity so tightly linked with national origin for many reasons. The conflation is so clear on the long/detailed form. It's weird, inaccurate, and a non-negligible amount of icky.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I don't understand the point of this on many levels. She is not unique. We are a dime a dozen and most of us don't turn into hateful spite bots trying to burn the world down to feel the smallest sense of belonging from bad men.
August 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I don't understand the point of this on many levels. She is not unique. We are a dime a dozen and most of us don't turn into hateful spite bots trying to burn the world down to feel the smallest sense of belonging from bad men.
Today @jayatirsharma.bsky.social said that Freddie looked like Scooby/Scrappy Doo and yes. Yes, he does.
August 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Today @jayatirsharma.bsky.social said that Freddie looked like Scooby/Scrappy Doo and yes. Yes, he does.
