Alexey Guzey

@alexeyguzey

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Joined March 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    15 Nov 2019

    For the last two months I've been sleeping for 4 hours a night, thinking about Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep". 130 hours of writing and research and 6000 words later:

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  2. Jan 31

    is anyone studying bodybuilders who have been injecting growth hormone for years? wiki says "risks of long-term HGH treatment are unknown" so that would be a perfect opportunity

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  3. Jan 30
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  4. Jan 30

    "The Nazis fought the Soviets in a proxy war in Spain in the late 1930s. A proxy war where the Nazis had sided with the under dogs, and won. Then WW2 happened and the Soviets struggled to fight Finland, while the Nazis conquered France. The USSR looked like an easy win."

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  5. Jan 29

    BBC interviewed both me and the author of Why We Sleep about my critique of the book:

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Surrogate metrics are excellent if you're a pharmaceutical company, meaningless if you're a patient, and can go either way for researchers depending on their goals (patient care v. careerism). For a good overview see or just follow

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  7. Jan 28

    FDA should be way more stringent about drug approval: "93 cancer drug indications granted accelerated approval by the FDA from December 11, 1992, through May 31, 2017, confirmatory trials reported that 20% (n = 19) had improvement in overall survival"

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  8. Jan 28

    "it seems that what people are convinced is moral to eat just happens to always coincide with what will make one live longer, and delicious things like bacon never get held up as the Fountain of Youth" brilliant anthropology by

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  9. Jan 27

    new Best of Twitter newsletter - Week of January 20, 2020 - meditation retreat vs real world” (via )

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 25

    This essay by is one of the best pieces of scientific research that I’ve ever read: Carefully reading, understanding, and presenting the scientific literature is a pretty underrated aspect of research.

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  11. Jan 27

    has anyone bothered to check if the Bret Weinstein story from Portal 19 is true? would be crazy if so

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  12. Jan 27

    this except for literally every social group. so much social disfunction because people are bad at kicking out/firing sociopaths (is it the same phenomenon that is behind difficulty of dumping an abusive partner/spouse?)

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  13. Jan 27

    so true. When I was young I spent more late evenings cuddling in far away corners of McDonald's than on park benches. McDonald's is the modern equivalent of a comfortable bench.

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  14. Jan 26

    Is McDonald's the single most trusted institution in the entire world? It is for me. The only place in any country where for a couple of bucks I can spend a few hours in a safe, clean space and also to get a bunch of tasty and healthy food (writing this tweet from a McDonald's)

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  15. Jan 26

    love this. more people should expose the details of their production function

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  16. Jan 24
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  17. Jan 24

    also, more than 50 new stations are scheduled to open in the next 5 years

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  18. Jan 24

    Moscow metro opened more than 80 new stations since 2011. Here's the current map:

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  19. Jan 20
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  20. Jan 20

    when I was in high school i played a lot of borderlands 2. one day i got stuck on a song and listened to it for an entire day on repeat. 6 years later, whenever i hear that song, i get images of borderlands 2 flashing in front of my eyes and my hands start sweating...............

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  21. Jan 20

    if you want to get 3 grants / year and success rate is 10%, you have to write 30 grants / year

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