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Jedidiah Carlson
@JedMSP
Population genetics, doom metal, anti-racism, metaresearch, & eye-rolling. He/Him.
Nov 12, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Signed up for one of the science Mastodon fiefdoms and there is nothing in the world you could pay me that would convince me to hitch my wagon to this freak train Image Gonna send them Isadore Nabi's Google scholar page and see what happens 🤞
Nov 7, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A mass exodus of scientists from Twitter to Mastodon would basically amount to the community giving up on social media as a vehicle for combating mis/disinformation and weaponized science This plot from my 2020 @PLOSBiology paper showing how extremists can dominate online discussions about research papers? Only gonna get worse if we decide Mastodon is the promised land of self-segregated digital academia Image
May 18, 2022 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
Six years ago, I began investigating how genetics research gets appropriated and integrated into white supremacist ideologies. (1/n) As many of you know, the Buffalo shooter’s screed explicitly invoked genetics research papers, and the scientific community has loudly been grappling with the implications…What do we do about it? Who's to blame? What qualifies as “censorship?”
Sep 24, 2021 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
Excited to share my latest preprint with @Kelley__Harris, where we take a deep dive into the bibliometrics and altmetrics of Richard Lewontin's "The Apportionment of Human Diversity" biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We aim to tell the story of how, why, and when TAoHD became iconic, and discuss the implications for how human population genetics research is carried out and communicated in the current scientific and sociocultural ecosystem.
Sep 22, 2020 • 23 tweets • 9 min read
Out now in @PLOSBiology, @Kelley__Harris and I try to unravel what altmetrics and the fire hose of social media data really tell us about the potential impacts of research papers. 1/n

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar… First, some background. Academics are *obsessed* with impact. Our entire ecosystem—grants, tenure, publications, etc.—is built around generating new & striking knowledge, with an implicit goal of producing immediate economic, environmental, or cultural impacts. 2/n
Sep 22, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I am going to scream [crying, laughing]: nice
Jun 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A while ago, I tweeted about a belt company that appeared on @ABCSharkTank and for several years used a Nazi Luftwaffe symbol for their logo. They sent me a DM blaming it on a freelance designer, and said they settled on a "new design," assuring me they are not Nazi sympathizers (it's unclear if the redesign was prompted by someone noticing the Nazi logo, or they just wanted something fresh) Image
Jun 17, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Since everyone seems to have lost their damn minds over the "more tweets = more citations" paper, and I'm moderately qualified to talk about it, I thought I'd share a few thoughts (1/n).

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32504611/

To refresh your memory, the study randomized 112 papers into 2 groups, 1 group which gets tweeted about by the Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network (TSSMN), and a control group that gets no tweets :( (2/n)
Jun 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This you bro? Image "the life of a 29-year-old black man was ended in an officer-involved shooting" is a whole lotta words to say "our campus cops killed a Black man"
Jun 9, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Here's a searchable database of Seattle Police Department salaries from 2018 #DefundThePolice #DefundSPD

thenewstribune.com/news/databases… Image at the top of the heap is Lt Kebba, who in 2008 "initially decided to dismiss witnesses' claims [that another officer kicked a suspect in the head for no reason] because an officer knows better whether he is in danger than even two civilian witnesses." seattlepi.com/news/article/V… Image
Jun 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I want to urge my fellow @uwgenome community to take the lead in "making the department a welcoming and diverse environment" by first addressing the culture of violence and abuse that infects police forces, including at UW Don't forget that our former campus police chief "fostered an atmosphere of hostility, retaliation and unethical behavior.”

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a…
May 29, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
just leaving these here for anyone who thinks Minneapolis/St. Paul small businesses give a shit about rioting. #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd ImageImageImageImage Even the charter school that got hit was like "eh, property damage kinda sucks but let's crush systemic racism and class inequality" Image
May 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Just thinking about my favorite molecule, DNA, and how important it is for understanding human behavior ImageImageImageImage Love too follow in the intellectual footsteps of *checks reference manager* the former director of the Pioneer Fund Image
May 14, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
lmao what sort of forced Simpson's Paradox bullshit is this? Soon these clowns are gonna discover you get an even BETTER fit to the data if you loess-smooth with an alpha of 1e-10
Apr 13, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Excited to share the initial version of the #COVID19 Preprint Dashboard, an interactive index of the 1500+ (and counting!) COVID-19 manuscripts on @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint.

covid19preprints.app Our hope is to make it easier for researchers to navigate the daily onslaught of new results and sift through the noise to find the most immediately relevant research.
Feb 2, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wow, check out the Twitter activity of bioRxiv preprints on Rxivist...coronovirus papers occupy 4 of the 7 most highly-tweeted papers of all time Image we know that Twitter data is a remarkably accurate tool for epidemic surveillance (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…)...I'm very curious to see which audiences are hyping the 2019-nCoV preprints, and if this also tracks the spread of infection
Dec 18, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I study precisely this, and had the pleasure of talking with @AngelaDSaini about it recently. The data show that far-right appropriation of the field and left-wing "pearl-clutching" are NOT simply two sides of the same coin, neither quantitatively or qualitatively. The far-right regularly appropriate and misinterpret these results to legitimize scientific racism, full stop. Perjoratively painting anyone who reacts in opposition to this outcome as a "pearl-clutching leftist" is counterproductive.
Oct 22, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It's not a question of *if* these results will be miscronstrued, but *how much* and *by whom.* Among the 450 or so tweets about the preprint of this work that came out last October, ~22% were from accounts connected with white nationalist networks.
Aug 26, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Worth mentioning that those studying non-human organisms do not get an exemption from having to defend their work against racist bullshit. This crowd will use papers about dogs, cats, mice, flies, songbirds, and CAVEFISH to tell their just-so stories.

It's #InternationalDogDay, so let's start with a paper about dogs! Just skim those tweets on the Altmetric page and let me know what you think.

biorxiv.altmetric.com/details/533511…
Jun 25, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Join me on a magical foray into my google image search history for "muscly DNA" Image CHOOSE YOUR FIGHTER ImageImage
Apr 29, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: Prince as common population genetics visualizations.

1. site frequency spectra 2. STRUCTURE plot