Mark James Adams
@mja
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zoological psychologist ・ fond of small data ・ statistical geneticist ・ Senior Research Fellow @EdinUniBrainSci @EdinUniMentalH・ routinely curious
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined February 2007
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. Eating some snacks and reading a book. Oh, this was a different day. We shouldn't be defined by our worst moment.
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I'm still reading, replying, and liking here but posting over on genomic-dot-social as markjamesadams 🐘 (despite the erasure of this policy document, links to Mastodon servers are still blocked, and the technical implementation underlies the intent)
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Traveling through Twitter as through a galaxy in which thought-fragments & snatches of poetry reverberate with a startling intimacy....
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....we are astonished to discover in the thoughts of others our own thoughts & in the passions & playfulness of others, our own...
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Twitter makes of loneliness something rich & unexpected. But you must choose your travel-companions with care.
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You can find me on Pownce… I mean Posterous… I mean … OK, you can actually still find me on Tumblr…if you dare.
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Might as well retweet my first tweet before the lights go out. 'txd' was the @TextDriveStatus webhost where I had my website, which was running from the same infrastructure that served the original Twitter (run by @joyent)
wondering if it's on txd, it must be good.
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Out today in @ScienceMagazine, our paper on cross-trait assortative mating and why estimates of genetic correlations (i.e. shared genetic effects on phenotypes) are likely inflated. See this thread from the preprint for an overview of the idea and results
New from Richard Border @andywdahl @flint Noah Zaitlen myself & others. Estimated genetic correlations between traits may be inflated by cross-trait assortative mating (xAM): https://t.co/K6NCuVIiQt. So are apparent genetic relationships between traits a statistical artefact? 🧵
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The work I'll present is online:
latent.differentialist.info
Explorations of “Depictions of Mental Illness” using text-to-image generators.
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I'll be speaking about the work I've been doing on the representation of mental health in AI art generators. Nov 14th 4pm, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Edinburgh
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Okay everyone, before you all go tooting at Mastodon, please consider subscribing to my new substack newsletter: GWAS stories. If not via Twitter, let's keep in touch at least via occasional emails. https://t.co/bXc6gB2vIk
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Sure, Mastodon is a bit clunky, but have you seen the IT systems academics use on the regular?
mastodon.online
25 Posts, 34 Following, 1 Follower · Psychological and psychiatric complex trait genetics. Researcher in Edinburgh, Scotland
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I'm looking forward to GWAS finding all the "associations" and petering out so we can move past this peculiar "hypothesis free" spell of genetics.
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I like the title of the video on the project: How to use Photography in Academia
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