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@DocEdge85

Postdoc at UC Davis. Incoming assistant prof. in quantitative and computational biology (starting 2020). Population genetics, statistics, music.

Joined November 2015

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Mar 2019

    (1) My book, Statistical Thinking from Scratch, has a webpage and is available for pre-order, shipping in July (thread explaining the premise below):

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    An updated version of our ( and ) work on the factors affecting the performance of polygenic scores--beyond genetic ancestry—is accepted and now up [thread]

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    "Measures of IQ...are...contaminated by environmental effects before birth and during infancy. Polygenic scores for IQ are free of that contamination." Yeah, definitely never seen a polygenic score contaminated by environmental effects before. I foresee no problems whatsoever.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 20

    Are you graduating soon and interested in the evolution and genetics of complex traits? We looking to hire a post-doc! Drop me a line!

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  5. Jan 20

    There is only one iron law of academic publishing: If you are in the US and publish in a UK-based journal, the page proofs will arrive for immediate review on the closest US holiday that is not observed in the UK

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  6. Jan 18

    4yo asked for cheez-its from the store, and now I can't get out of my head (in my best Depeche Mode voice): Your own personal cheez-its

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  7. Jan 11

    An album I recorded with my college a cappella group is on the front page! (2nd in "Did you know..."). I realize how uncool it is that I'm as excited about this as I am---you don't have to tell me

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 7

    Hey -- I'm recruiting a postdoc to work w/ me on TEs and quant trait variation in maize. Happy to chat with anyone interested at the meeting!!

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  9. Jan 7

    Thanks to ---it's been a blast working together on this. Thanks also to and to our editor there, , and to reviewers , , and anonymous reviewer 3. It was a really constructive review process. (6/6)

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  10. Jan 7

    Here is another new paper by and colleagues focusing on related concerns; they also found major privacy concerns with GEDmatch in particular (5/n)

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  11. Jan 7

    And here is another thread by explaining the biggest update since the first preprint, showing a proof-of-principle demonstration of one of the attacks we proposed in GEDmatch. This worked as of ~3 weeks ago. (4/n)

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  12. Jan 7

    Here is a thread I wrote on the paper when it came out as a preprint (3/n)

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  13. Jan 7

    There is also a nice commentary by (2/n)

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  14. Jan 7

    My work with on genetic privacy in genetic genealogy databases that allow uploads is now a paper in (1/n)

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 6

    As we resume working in 2020, a reminder that we are looking to hire a postdoc! We are arranging a number of candidates to visit and interview in late Jan through Feb, so if you’re interested to work with us please be in touch soon! More information in the thread.

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  16. 29 Dec 2019

    sorry cutoff pic, here is the whole thing

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  17. 29 Dec 2019

    My parents just rolled up for a holiday visit, and my dad brought this unbelievable guitar that he *made for me with his bare hands*

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  18. 22 Dec 2019
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  20. Retweeted
    19 Dec 2019
    Replying to and

    I'm pretty skeptical that any SNP-level visualizations are secure against these types of information leakage attacks. They just reveal too much information about the target kit. You may not even have to use artificial kits, although that would make things more complicated.

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  21. Retweeted
    18 Dec 2019

    Updated version of ’s preprint on the potential for upload attacks on genetic genealogy databases, detailing various hacks. Big addition, we did a proof-of-concept demo of a simple method for obtaining peoples’ genotypes from GEDmatch 1/n

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