Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM
@jayatirsharma.bsky.social
📊 epidemiologist
🧬 genetics, envt, & public health in diverse pops
💻 Postdoc @ NCI
📚✅ PhD JHU Genetic Epi
📝 Editor @genebites.org | AAAS MMF alum
pronounced “JAY-uh-tea”
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🧬 genetics, envt, & public health in diverse pops
💻 Postdoc @ NCI
📚✅ PhD JHU Genetic Epi
📝 Editor @genebites.org | AAAS MMF alum
pronounced “JAY-uh-tea”
views my own
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"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY
If you can, please considering donating time, money, or non-perishables to your local food banks! As a former food bank volunteer and employee, I know a little can go a very long way, especially around this time of year.
As someone who has been on SNAP benefits in the past, what will happen Nov. 1 is that people will start diverting other funds towards groceries. They will choose to feed their families over making credit card payments, paying medical bills, car payments, etc. This is going to affect a lot of things.
October 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If you can, please considering donating time, money, or non-perishables to your local food banks! As a former food bank volunteer and employee, I know a little can go a very long way, especially around this time of year.
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In a time when diversity 🌍, equity ⚖️, inclusion 🤝, and accessibility ♿ (DEIA) are under attack, GeneBites writer @amandan-weiss.bsky.social discusses how DEIA affects how LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 students evaluate and experience genetic counseling programs.
Check it out here: genebites.org/2025/03/03/c...
Check it out here: genebites.org/2025/03/03/c...
Commitment to DEIA is critical for supporting LGBTQIA+ graduate students
Image by Maicon Fonseca Zanco from Pixabay During a time when diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives are under attack by the presidential administration in the United St…
genebites.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In a time when diversity 🌍, equity ⚖️, inclusion 🤝, and accessibility ♿ (DEIA) are under attack, GeneBites writer @amandan-weiss.bsky.social discusses how DEIA affects how LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈 students evaluate and experience genetic counseling programs.
Check it out here: genebites.org/2025/03/03/c...
Check it out here: genebites.org/2025/03/03/c...
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Whoops, wrong hashtag.
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
Are you going to #ASHG2025 next week in Boston? Interested in getting some mentorship from leading figures in the field (and me)?
Check out our speed mentoring event on Thursday! Sign-ups are online so reserve a spot ASAP.
site.pheedloop.com/event/ASHG25...
Check out our speed mentoring event on Thursday! Sign-ups are online so reserve a spot ASAP.
site.pheedloop.com/event/ASHG25...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Whoops, wrong hashtag.
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
If you are going to #ASHG25, check out the line-up!
This is perfect if you are a trainee who needs to network but has no idea how to do it. Instead of trying to corner someone at the posters (which is stressful!), schedule a slot and sit down for 15 minutes to chat!
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This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
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jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
jane goodall made me believe i could just go up and hug any wild animal
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📢 Join us this Friday at 2pm ET for our next Genomics Preprint Club meeting! Chia-Hsuan Chou and Sonali Gupta will discuss two exciting preprints about disease etiology and risk prediction 🧬📊🔬
September 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📢 Join us this Friday at 2pm ET for our next Genomics Preprint Club meeting! Chia-Hsuan Chou and Sonali Gupta will discuss two exciting preprints about disease etiology and risk prediction 🧬📊🔬
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Today is #WorldDenseBreastDay! Educate yourself and those you love about the higher risks of missed cancer on mammograms and of developing breast cancer. Great resources @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social. Thank you @bcrfcure.bsky.social for supporting our research!
📻 Healthcare providers! ICYMI: DBI’s Chief Scientific Advisor, @drwendieberg.bsky.social, joined Dr. Miriam Green on SiriusXM to cover #DenseBreasts, supplemental screening, and insurance coverage. Don’t miss these insights!
Catch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVG9...
#WorldDenseBreastDay
Catch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVG9...
#WorldDenseBreastDay
Dr. Berg Discusses Dense Breasts, Supplemental Screening, and Insurance Issues on Sirius XM
YouTube video by Densebreast-info.org
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Today is #WorldDenseBreastDay! Educate yourself and those you love about the higher risks of missed cancer on mammograms and of developing breast cancer. Great resources @densebreastinfo.bsky.social @densebreastscanada.bsky.social. Thank you @bcrfcure.bsky.social for supporting our research!
Excited to share that I’ll be starting a postdoc at NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics this month with Pete Kraft as an iCURE fellow! 🎉
September 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Excited to share that I’ll be starting a postdoc at NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics this month with Pete Kraft as an iCURE fellow! 🎉
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Why did American geneticists not speak out more frequently and forcefully against eugenics in the 1920s and 30s?
1. The legacy of the influential Galton
2. They were absorbed in their own science
3. They viewed eugenicists as a "lunatic fringe of no long-term consequence"
1. The legacy of the influential Galton
2. They were absorbed in their own science
3. They viewed eugenicists as a "lunatic fringe of no long-term consequence"
Geneticists Embattled: Their Stand against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America during the 1920s and 1930s on JSTOR
Bentley Glass, Geneticists Embattled: Their Stand against Rampant Eugenics and Racism in America during the 1920s and 1930s, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 130, No. 1 (Mar., 1...
www.jstor.org
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Why did American geneticists not speak out more frequently and forcefully against eugenics in the 1920s and 30s?
1. The legacy of the influential Galton
2. They were absorbed in their own science
3. They viewed eugenicists as a "lunatic fringe of no long-term consequence"
1. The legacy of the influential Galton
2. They were absorbed in their own science
3. They viewed eugenicists as a "lunatic fringe of no long-term consequence"
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What the article DIDN’T mention is the Slack has a name! I’m so lucky to be a part of a team of passionate science communicators and advocates in @snapcoalition.bsky.social
“Bridging science and society is a problem everywhere...As someone passionate about science and society, I want the scientific workforce to reflect the diversity of the country, and these executive orders are going to stop that.” @jpflores.rbind.io
www.aaas.org/membership/m...
www.aaas.org/membership/m...
JP Flores brings science home, connecting science to community with op-eds | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
www.aaas.org
August 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
What the article DIDN’T mention is the Slack has a name! I’m so lucky to be a part of a team of passionate science communicators and advocates in @snapcoalition.bsky.social
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A gaggle of STAT's science reporters wrote about what the new Trump EO on federal grants means for researchers and the NIH
The bottom line is that it "turns science into an instrument for partisan gain" as @scott-delaney.bsky.social put it
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
The bottom line is that it "turns science into an instrument for partisan gain" as @scott-delaney.bsky.social put it
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
Trump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointees
A sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants
www.statnews.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A gaggle of STAT's science reporters wrote about what the new Trump EO on federal grants means for researchers and the NIH
The bottom line is that it "turns science into an instrument for partisan gain" as @scott-delaney.bsky.social put it
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
The bottom line is that it "turns science into an instrument for partisan gain" as @scott-delaney.bsky.social put it
www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...
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Here’s what you’ll gain from @jayatirsharma.bsky.social & @genandgenes.bsky.social in the 8/13 Journal Club:
✅How genetic ancestry affects BMI PGS
✅Why pooled analyses can mask key gene–environment interactions
✅Why precision medicine needs diverse data for equitable care
Dive in: bit.ly/45mQC02
✅How genetic ancestry affects BMI PGS
✅Why pooled analyses can mask key gene–environment interactions
✅Why precision medicine needs diverse data for equitable care
Dive in: bit.ly/45mQC02
August 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here’s what you’ll gain from @jayatirsharma.bsky.social & @genandgenes.bsky.social in the 8/13 Journal Club:
✅How genetic ancestry affects BMI PGS
✅Why pooled analyses can mask key gene–environment interactions
✅Why precision medicine needs diverse data for equitable care
Dive in: bit.ly/45mQC02
✅How genetic ancestry affects BMI PGS
✅Why pooled analyses can mask key gene–environment interactions
✅Why precision medicine needs diverse data for equitable care
Dive in: bit.ly/45mQC02
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These embryo-selection startups are clearly feeding into an alt-right ecosystem that revels in techno-futurism much as such movements have in the past. GWAS participants & parents navigating IVF deserve better than being used as tools to attract the attention of edge lords.
August 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
These embryo-selection startups are clearly feeding into an alt-right ecosystem that revels in techno-futurism much as such movements have in the past. GWAS participants & parents navigating IVF deserve better than being used as tools to attract the attention of edge lords.
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🚨New webinar just announced = August Journal Club with @jayatirsharma.bsky.social & @genandgenes.bsky.social!
On August 13, they'll investigate the role of genetic ancestry & sociocultural factors in considering the genetic risk for BMI in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Register: bit.ly/44RvgsK #ASHG
On August 13, they'll investigate the role of genetic ancestry & sociocultural factors in considering the genetic risk for BMI in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Register: bit.ly/44RvgsK #ASHG
July 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
🚨New webinar just announced = August Journal Club with @jayatirsharma.bsky.social & @genandgenes.bsky.social!
On August 13, they'll investigate the role of genetic ancestry & sociocultural factors in considering the genetic risk for BMI in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Register: bit.ly/44RvgsK #ASHG
On August 13, they'll investigate the role of genetic ancestry & sociocultural factors in considering the genetic risk for BMI in a Hispanic/Latino cohort. Register: bit.ly/44RvgsK #ASHG
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🚨 New perspective piece in @ajhgnews.bsky.social! 🚨
We developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench, now published here:
We developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench, now published here:
📣Online now!
📄Implementing a training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench
🧑💻 @jasminebakerphd.bsky.social @egatkinson.bsky.social & co
📄Implementing a training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench
🧑💻 @jasminebakerphd.bsky.social @egatkinson.bsky.social & co
Implementing a training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench
Baker et al. present a cloud-based training program using the All of Us Researcher
Workbench to teach large-scale genomic data analysis. Early-career researchers gained
hands-on experience in GWASs, q...
www.cell.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🚨 New perspective piece in @ajhgnews.bsky.social! 🚨
We developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench, now published here:
We developed a hands-on training resource for large-scale genomic data analysis in the All of Us Researcher Workbench, now published here:
Reposted by Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM
🚨 For everyone who uses All of Us Workbench 🚨
Apparently, if the creator of a workspace no longer has access, *the entire workspace gets deleted*.
Ask me how I know this. 🫠
It doesn't matter who the owners are. Make sure to back up all your work in a workspace with a PI as a creator!
Apparently, if the creator of a workspace no longer has access, *the entire workspace gets deleted*.
Ask me how I know this. 🫠
It doesn't matter who the owners are. Make sure to back up all your work in a workspace with a PI as a creator!
a young boy is sitting in front of a shelf with toys and says `` let 's see where were we ? ''
Alt: A young boy is sitting in bed in front of a shelf with toys in the Princess Bride. Grandpa says "Let's see...where were we? Oh yes. In the Pit of Despair."
media.tenor.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🚨 For everyone who uses All of Us Workbench 🚨
Apparently, if the creator of a workspace no longer has access, *the entire workspace gets deleted*.
Ask me how I know this. 🫠
It doesn't matter who the owners are. Make sure to back up all your work in a workspace with a PI as a creator!
Apparently, if the creator of a workspace no longer has access, *the entire workspace gets deleted*.
Ask me how I know this. 🫠
It doesn't matter who the owners are. Make sure to back up all your work in a workspace with a PI as a creator!
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🎉 Our newest spotlight is out now in Trends in Genetics!
"Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social)
Read more here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social)
Read more here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences
Given the high comorbidity between psychiatric disorders, previous studies have focused on genetic factors shared across the disorders. In a recent pr…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎉 Our newest spotlight is out now in Trends in Genetics!
"Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social)
Read more here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Psychiatric disorders: teasing apart genetic similarities and differences" by Jiayi Xu (@xujiayi.bsky.social) & Laura Huckins (@laurahuckins.bsky.social)
Read more here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣 Hello Bluesky! We’re hosting our June Genomics Preprint Club meeting this Friday, June 27 from 3–4pm EST!
📩 Contact us to join!
🗣️ Presenters:
- Krzysiek Gogolewski: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Arnav Wadhawan: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
📩 Contact us to join!
🗣️ Presenters:
- Krzysiek Gogolewski: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Arnav Wadhawan: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
📣 Hello Bluesky! We’re hosting our June Genomics Preprint Club meeting this Friday, June 27 from 3–4pm EST!
📩 Contact us to join!
🗣️ Presenters:
- Krzysiek Gogolewski: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Arnav Wadhawan: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
📩 Contact us to join!
🗣️ Presenters:
- Krzysiek Gogolewski: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Arnav Wadhawan: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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👀 🧬 Curious how to respectfully, robustly, and flexibly use population descriptors in genomic research, and align with @nationalacademies.org recommendations?
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
📣New from the PRIMED Consortium!
📄A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
📄A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
We describe a data model that organizes and retains detailed population descriptor
data for future research use. The model supports a versatile, traceable, and reproducible
harmonization system that a...
www.cell.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
👀 🧬 Curious how to respectfully, robustly, and flexibly use population descriptors in genomic research, and align with @nationalacademies.org recommendations?
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
Check out this work from the NIH-funded PRIMED Consortium @prsdiversity.bsky.social, co-led by Alyna Khan and Stephanie Gogarten
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Are you an early-career researcher working on the computational analysis of population-level human genetics data? We want to hear from you about if, how, and why you use population descriptors in your research! Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/SCiNUq71wgi5...
June 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Are you an early-career researcher working on the computational analysis of population-level human genetics data? We want to hear from you about if, how, and why you use population descriptors in your research! Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/SCiNUq71wgi5...
Are you an early-career researcher working on the computational analysis of population-level human genetics data? We want to hear from you about if, how, and why you use population descriptors in your research! Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/SCiNUq71wgi5...
June 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Are you an early-career researcher working on the computational analysis of population-level human genetics data? We want to hear from you about if, how, and why you use population descriptors in your research! Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/SCiNUq71wgi5...
Thanks @johnshopkinsepi.bsky.social for this honor!!
Congratulations to @jayatirsharma.bsky.social, the 2025 recipient of the Mary B. Meyer Memorial Fund. This award identifies exceptional students who demonstrate academic excellence, and who hold the promise of future contribution to the field of epidemiology.
May 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thanks @johnshopkinsepi.bsky.social for this honor!!