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Geneticist by day. Also history, evolution, books, etc. Tweets only represent me. Pay me for my emotional labor: Wer/H!

Austin, TX
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    Oct 9

    Consumer genomics will change your life, whether you get tested or not

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  2. 17 hours ago

    The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World Economy and the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia and India ancient ppl really liked incense. REALLY

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  3. Oct 12

    when my wife asked my 4-year-old son (this kid: ) what i did for a living, he said one word: "logic." not too bad a guess.

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  4. Oct 12

    i remember the ex-goldman sachs banker whose amusement at some of what was happening elicited a barking rebuke from the radio host on whose program he was a guest. i remember the "free market" think-tanker defending banker's bonuses as rewarding hard work AFTER the bailout.

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  5. Oct 12

    i'm not bringing answers or making a grand claim. just foregrounding a tacit background assumption that many of us who were adults in 2008 can't shake. the democratic socialists, for example, strike me as crazily chiliastic. but i acknowledge where the crazy comes from

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  6. Oct 12

    some people suggest that i exhibit a tendency toward political nihilism. well yeah, i do. i lived through 2008. i like to think my eyes are. were. open. we saw. what we saw cannot be unseen.

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  7. Oct 12

    after 2008 financial crisis, i assume anyone who isn't suspicious/skeptical of self-dealing, shameless and unaccountable elites has been bought/is owned. isn't to suggest that populism of the left or the right have any answers. but there are no answers from above, just interests

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  8. Oct 12

    this is like overpopulation. problem or not? both. the republicans have serious demographic headwinds. but democrats can't quite write their own ticket (and by democrats i believe white progressives who presumably see themselves as leadership/elite group at the head of PoC party)

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  9. Oct 12

    i'm always confused that my liberal friends think 1) all nonwhite groups will vote at the same clip indefinitely 2) that the white republican % WON'T increase...

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  10. Oct 12

    Democrats have been counting on Hispanic voters to save them. It’s not happening. brazil has been the country of the future for over 100 years. latinos will be democrats' demographic of future for 50 years

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  11. Oct 12

    Jamal Khashoggi's death is a Tragedy; 100,000 Yemeni Deaths is a Statistic

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  12. Oct 12

    i'm a patron. you hear stuff you can't hear anywhere else. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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    Oct 12

    I'm getting really excited for ! Always awesome to see great colleagues. I'll be talking about improving polygenic risk score accuracy in diverse populations on Saturday (10/20) at 9:15. More details on this and other cool talks here!

    ASHG18 preview: four speakers on what you can expect from their sessions
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    Oct 12

    If you come for a Bengali's fish you are gonna end up sleeping with the fishes.

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  15. Oct 12

    An evolutionary projection of global fertility and population: My new paper (with Lionel Page) in Evolution & Human Behavior

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  16. Oct 12

    Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Using Correlated Quantitative Characters

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  17. Oct 12

    The fate of deleterious variants in a barley genomic prediction population

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  18. Oct 12

    Balancing selection at a premature stop mutation in the myostatin gene underlies a recessive leg weakness syndrome in pigs

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    Oct 12

    To NYC area PhDs and Postdocs who are interested in the startup world and its ups and downs - I'll be speaking at a panel at about the beginnings of . Link to register:

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    Oct 12

    Nice figure from this review

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    Oct 12

    Please retweet: New genomics/epigenetics open rank faculty position in Dept of Plant & Microbial Sciences at Cal! “Plant Response & Adaptation to Climate Change” Assistant Professor: & Associate/Full Professor: .

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