Leonid Kruglyak

@leonidkruglyak

Geneticist. Professor . addict. Occasional mountaineer. Analyzing large datasets since long before became cool. My tweets are my own.

Santa Monica Mtns, probably
labs.genetics.ucla.edu/kruglyak/
Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    2 Nov 2016

    The writers for this simulation we’re living in are terrible.

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    5 hours ago

    I do not have an opinion about the thing.

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  3. 6 hours ago

    To lighten things up, here's a photo from yesterday's ride in the Santa Monica mountains.

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    7 hours ago

    Let's all set a goal of "try not to sound like the Theranos of whatever your deal is" as a goal and then no one gets their back up.

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    10 hours ago

    Oh good, a self-taught electrical engineer discovered the concept of the cortical column and solved the brain again. I guess we can cancel

    The New York Times just published a long article on Jeff Hawkins and the work we've been doing on modeling the neocortex! You can check out our web site at for our latest paper, and details on the theory.
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    9 hours ago

    Was Naomi appropriately skeptical of the ‘omnigenic’ claim because ‘omni’ means all and pretty clear that *all* common variants don’t contribute to the traits we have studied (MI, LDL, HDL, TRL).

    Outstanding session on omnigenic and polygenic models of complex traits featuring ⁦⁩ and Naomi Wray. A real highlight of
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    Feb 6

    It is important for every college classroom in the United States to have a computer and projection system that does not work so that students may learn the futility of all technocratic dreams.

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    Oct 13

    Nope

    Research conducted on mice has shown that they can pass traumas and phobias onto their young, and it's thought that the same may be possible in humans.
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    Sep 20

    Plan U: just mandate preprint deposition and let a downstream ecosystem of overlays/journals with various business models evolve in response to community needs. Side benefit: speeding up science massively...

    Plan T: Scrap APCs and Fund Open Access with Submission Fees
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    Oct 12

    When a trail says "Dogs on Leash," it's time we respect that—and speak up to people who don't.

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    Oct 12

    Facebook Doesn't Deserve Your Information via

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    Oct 11

    Let me save your money: Write me a check for only half the tuition they’re charging, and then don’t invest a penny in technology that solves problems no-one has.

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    Oct 11

    Genetic matching could potentially identify millions of Americans from DNA hosted in public ancestry databases—even if they never submitted a sample:

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    Oct 11

    We have heard from readers and have had internal discussions about the publication of “Harassment charges: Injustice done?” See my new Editor’s note () about modifications to our Letters editorial practices.

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    Oct 11

    Someone at Harvard says Keto is really bad - Harvard Health

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    Oct 9

    No matter how many times you read the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page of the former Chair of my Dept., it never gets any less remarkable.

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    Oct 9

    Riemann Hypothesis Consulting: When your job is on the line and everything is critical

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    Oct 9

    Veteran cancer scientist Xiaoqi Xie says she was fired from the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey for challenging the authorship of a paper submitted to Nature:

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    Oct 8

    Alarming, The things that biostatisticians are asked to do. cc

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    Oct 8

    New : AE: Reviewers: and Anon Preprint:

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    Oct 8

    Horror Movies

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