Weight the Night

This release contains only the music track from Base by Base Episode 316. Song title: Weight the NightOriginal Base by Base episode: 316: Inclusion bias in UCLA ATLAS: enrollment models, weighting, and effects on GWAS and PGSOriginal episode link: https://basebybase.com/episodes/inclusion-bias-ucla-atlas Article metadata:Article title: Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobankJournal: The American Journal of Human GeneticsDOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.02.011Reference: Pimplaskar A, Qiu J, Lapinska S, Tozzo V, Chiang JN, Pasaniuc B, Olde Loohuis LM. Inclusion bias affects common variant discovery and replication in a health-system linked biobank. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2026;113:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2026.02.011 Lyrics:Verse 1I watched the numbers drift to the ones who showed upOpt-in shadows leaning on the lightA clean little dataset, but it tells a crooked storySo I trace the missing people in the night Pre-ChorusBuild a forest out of visits and codesLet it whisper who’s likely to enrollThen I flip the lens with a careful handSo the truth fits the whole ChorusWeight the night, bring the bias to the scaleMake the old signals ring out clear againWe lose some size, but we gain a truer trailFinding what holds up when it meets the world outside our penWeight the night—let it tell the tale Verse 2A curve that climbs—yeah, the classifier sees usProbabilities blooming on the screenKnown variants come back louder when we listen differentBut the edges get strange in the tails between BridgeAnd every score that promised “this is who you are”Can change its map when the crowd shifts shapeSome arrows turn, some patterns fall apartWhen we stop mistaking a sample for fate Final ChorusWeight the night, bring the bias to the scaleMake the old signals ring out clear againWe lose some size, but we gain a truer trailNo more borrowed certainty—no more convenient friendsWeight the night, till the echoes don’t failWeight the night—let it tell the tale