Graham Coop

@Graham_Coop

Evolutionary & population genetics . Tweets, grammar, & spelling reflect my views only. He/him. popgen book

Joined July 2012

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    19 Dec 2017

    Your ancestors lived all over the world, but relatively few of them were your genetic ancestors (does that matter?)

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  2. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    The down feathers on this Barn Owl nestling were nothin short of superb... ☁️.

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  3. Feb 1

    Surprising no one, Family Tree DNA seems to be more worried about business relationships and press coverage than they are about the privacy of the many accounts they opted-in

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  4. Jan 31

    plus the baby just learnt to laugh. She's been doing laughing in her sleep for a while, but now we get to share in the joke. So it's hard to be mad at today despite all the crap happening in the world.

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  5. Jan 31

    Me: I'm sad because it's Brexit day. 4 y.o: What's breakfast day? Me: ...A day about breakfast. 4 y.o: Oh. 4 y.o. [later, shouting happily]: It's boxing day!

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    Very proud of 's role (with Mike Whitlock's energy behind it) getting accepted as a standard and requirement. I want to re-emphasize, AmNat took a leading role and took a hit in reduced submission at the time. Proud to be affiliated with such a journal

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    There are many raw data files to sort through, and this is an added burden to a group of stressed co-authors. If anyone here is willing to volunteer a few hours to delve into data files to confirm there are no sources of concern (hopefully), or identify concerns, please reply

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  8. 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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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    "Fundamentally I believe that if we stigmatize retractions, we will see fewer of them and the scientific record will retain its errors longer than we'd like."... nice stuff Dan!

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    . provides more context and important considerations re: . Everyone involved with this mess is human (including Jonathan) so I'll just reiterate the need for patience and as much understanding as possible.

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  11. Jan 30

    Aso similarly: unless your work relies directly on their replication, I'd allow a little time for coauthors to do the detective work on the various papers. If you want to help them, offer to help.

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  12. Jan 30

    While many of them are quite funny, I'd perhaps stop and think about junior coauthors before posting jokes about retractions. It's quite a stressful situation for them.

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  13. Retweeted
    Jan 29
    Replying to

    This for me is the key point. It's basic to why genetic differences have such appeal for them. Even leaving aside environmental effects, they think the genetic differences we observe between groups are a sort of ur-description of humanity.

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    Today I learned something very interesting about mouse oocytes. 🤯

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 24

    We ( and I) are excited to share that we're looking for Two PhD Research Assistantships (using experiment and theory) on endosymbiont population dynamics, host sex-ratio distortion, and cytoplasmic incompatibility. Please contact for more info!

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  16. Jan 29

    Thankful today for my wonderful colleague . Excited for her and her new lab here

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    Having been involved in this process since Dec 17, I can confirm that (and some others I am not yet open to naming) have done a phenomenal amount of sorting through raw data. The odd patterns are not blatant at first.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    FREE CHILDCARE sends such a positive signal that parents and children are welcome in academic societies. I am genuinely surprised (in the most positive way) how quickly things have changed since I had my first kid 12 years ago, and conference childcare was unheard of!

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  19. Jan 29

    One revealing thing about arguments that polygenic scores will offer easy answers to group differences in traits is that proponents also slip into arguing that such differences would be immutable. That is simply not the case.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 29
    Replying to

    is by no means alone in this experience. A statement by and colleagues this morning:

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  21. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    I am not excited to say that there were similar problems in the raw data of another of my papers - this paper is now retracted too. I know there might be some interest in what's going on so here is the full account of how and why I came to this decision:

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