Jessica Chong

@jxchong

Assistant Professor. UW Center for Mendelian Genomics Analysis Group lead (). creator. Human Geneticist. & complex traits

Seattle, WA
uwcmg.org
Joined August 2010
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    Oct 8

    So, advice: 1. PREVENTION Don't use jargon. Introduce the relevant idea in functional terms, no OS code names. Don't say 'can we pre-register this?' Don't say 'OSF'. Say 'can I publish my hypotheses about this study before we do it?' Say 'Can we share this dataset publicly?'

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    Oct 2

    I keep thinking about something Donna Strickland, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, said this morning on . When asked why she was still an "Assistant" Professor and not a full professor, she said, "I just never applied."

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    Sep 30

    On Friday I spoke at a CERN workshop on gender and high energy physics. I shared the work of ’ Juno Award, the and other evidence-based institutional programs. The head of theory gave a 30 minute Damore-esque manifesto against .

    There was a workshop at recently: "1st Workshop on High Energy Theory and Gender". Apparently Strumia gave a talk and manages to hit every horrible idea on gender issues in STEM while demeaning his female colleagues (at CERN and everywhere else). 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
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    Sep 28

    I made a stub here to get started if people are really serious about this:

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    Sep 28

    I'd love someone to model a scientific career on how these all build on each other. Let's use lower bound, 10% bias. If a successful person should lead ~2 papers by end of PhD, women have 0.9x0.9 chance, so now only 0.81 chance they clear this bar when applying to postdoc.

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    Sep 28

    I was struck by "manuscripts submitted to eLife with female lead authors were published at 88.3 percent the rate of those with male lead authors". Like, it's ALWAYS 10-15% bias across all kinds of metrics in all kinds of arenas (wages, papers, grants).

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    Sep 28

    This is roughly the difference between now and the last ice age

    Deep in a 500-page analysis, the Trump administration made a startling assumption: The planet will warm a disastrous 7 degrees F by 2100. So rolling back climate U.S. regulations would hardly make a difference. w/⁦⁩ ⁦⁩
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    Sep 27

    This is amazing. "Do boring speakers really talk for longer?" Nature (2018) 561:464.

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    Sep 26

    The latest paper from the Deciphering Developmental Disorders project is published today! Led by , it shows that common genetic variants contribute to risk of rare, severe, neurodevelopmental disorders, traditionally thought to be monogenic.

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  10. Sep 26

    We just updated to share rare variants linked to broad phenotypic information from almost 10K individuals with Mendelian phenotypes and/or their relatives!

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    Sep 13

    A useful analogy I used this week: Sequencing, analysing and interpreting genomes is ‘routine’ in the same way the US Navy ‘routinely’ lands planes on aircraft carriers. It might happen regularly by well trained crew with the right equipment but it is *not* an easy thing to do.

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    Aug 20

    Our paper on modified penetrance of coding variants by cis-regulatory variation is out in ! Huge thanks and congrats to who led the analysis . 1/7

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    Jul 23

    I have always known the dates, but it just it me: The Great Pyramids at Giza were already 1000 years old when the mammoths went extinct. Think about that.

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    Aug 14

    Ladies and Gentlemen, 's Director of Scholarly Communications.

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    Jul 26

    "Defendants [] admit that they published the papers without doing any peer review." The motion for summary judgment against OMICS is fascinating reading. via

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  16. Jul 25

    This article has this great gem in it: "Since the kinase has more responsibilities than Jared Kushner […]"

    A gene that can cause Parkinson’s when it is mutated can also do so in its supposedly healthy, normal form, offering hope that treatments targeting inherited Parkinson’s might be effective across the board.
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  17. Jun 15

    This is amazing! Someone made a webtool that attempts to reverse Excel’s corruption of gene names into dates!

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    May 16

    We have some spots left in our annual WES/WGS Mendelian Data Workshop with guest lecturer ! cc

    We are again accepting applications for our 6th annual Mendelian Analysis Workshop. Share with anyone you think might be interested! If you want to learn how to analyze exome and whole genome sequence data to diagnose and study rare genetic...
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    May 20

    "The Coming Wave of Murders Solved by Genealogy" by

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    May 17

    remarkable: biologists are most prone to share unpublished data even prior to preprint stage - Comp apparently Science shares least.

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