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http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6426/448

Changes in gene activity may one day reveal…time of death
https://www.ScienceMag.org/news/2018/02/changes-gene-activity-may-one-day-reveal-time-death-crime-victims Discusses paper by @RodericGuigo (“Effects of death & post-mortem cold ischemia on….#transcriptomes,”
https://www.Nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02772-x). Obvious forensic interest but maybe a #privacy angle as well

Changes in gene activity may one day reveal the time of death for crime victims

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6417/898.full

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/04/27/ancestry-genealogy-dna-test-privacy-golden-state-killer/557263002/

Dynamic…Environmental #Exposome Revealed by
Longitudinal…Monitoring, by @SnyderShot lab
https://www.Cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(18)31121-8 QT: “Developed…method to monitor personal airborne biological & chem. exposures & followed…15 individuals for up to 890 days & >66… locations.”

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(18)31121-8.pdf

Don’t quote me: reverse identification of research participants in social media studies

John W. Ayers,
Theodore L. Caputi,
Camille Nebeker &
Mark Dredze

npj Digital Medicine
volume 1, Article number: 30 (2018)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0036-2

original announcement here:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/tca-ldv050316.php Rumors that they will make his DNA public very soon.

https://www.forensicmag.com/article/2015/10/dna-numbers)
work related to DNA leakage in daily life

To monitor the health of cities’ residents, look no further than their
sewers https://CEN.ACS.org/environment/water/monitor-health-citiesresidents-look-further/96/i18 Urban metabolism metrology & wastewater-based epidemiology. Big application is measuring illicit drugs. Interesting #privacy issues.

Thoughts on @R_Thaler & @CassSunstein’s Nudge
http://BLOG.gerstein.info/2018/05/thoughts-on-thaler-sunsteins-nudge.html General points about human decision making, with practical
implications for one’s day-to-day life HT @Rozowsky