Timothy Raben

Postdoc, educator, dog owner, tango dancer. Genetics & Physics. Genetic prediction, machine learning, QCD, conformal FT, non-perturbative. he/him.

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Personal key issues:
*All 5 US territories & DC offered statehood (if they want it)
*ind redistricting
*ranked choice voting
*meaningful contribution limits
*end of dark $(all donors disclosed back to their origin)
*court reform

Everything else relies on fair representation

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@TheAnfieldWrap Huh? Trent played well in defense but lost a lot of balls. Nunez never got much of a chance but kept running hard and delivered in the end. Ditto Salah.

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@DamienMorris @richbrucebaxter @AlexTISYoung Without more data my intuition/edu. guess is the traits where the sign of the correlation is flipping are more likely to end up being consistent with 0(i.e. no correlation) as we collect more data. Would be very interesting if a decently strong signal flips sign in the end.

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@SashaGusevPosts As the authors mention in the first paper you linked, why the big discrepancy between them and the work by Young et al. https://t.co/3dS4cxYySm

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@SashaGusevPosts I've been working on PGS applied to siblings/families for 5+ years now and I feel like there are still a lot of really interesting open questions.

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@mattmfm It's still her pinned tweet!

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@pulvinator Sometimes it has worked out well for the physicists but often not... Not happy to see the judiciary usurping this unearned authority.

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@pulvinator It's funny because physicists have a historical reputation of switching fields and thinking they know better than their new colleagues.

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@vsbuffalo I'm with you a 100% but I don't think it would be that hard to increase funding without imcentivizing the publish or perish mindset. Longer (and smaller) grants, more stability, more small grants for risky research, more permanent non TT research positions, etc.

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@peteronyisi1 On the flip side the CFT book by Di Francesco et. al. was one of those yellow cover Springer books and it was great!

Also reminds me of Tony Zee's QFT in a nutshell: an amazing "vibes" based QFT book. A few of the follow up books in that series are just normal adv. grad books

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@notstevenwhite I think this problem can be circumvented if polling was reported with more serious uncertainty estimates.

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@ddiamond already makes me fear for 2028. That vacuum is gonna be *hard* to fill.

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2028 gonna be *rough* without Lebron, Curry, and likely KD.

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@TheAnfieldWrap Seems to be really improving. If Jota, Diaz, and Gakpo are around and healthy then I'd like to see Carvalho go out on loan.

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@OrinKerr @beau_baumann I think it's totally fair to argue (though we probably disagree!) that there was some shifts or drifts of these court members. I was mostly taking umbrage with the claim that it was the "commentariat" and the "criticisms" of them that *caused* the claimed changes.

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@steve_vladeck Very interesting stuff! I really enjoy your writing on these topics and have thought you always do great when you are a guest on other people's podcasts: have you ever thought about having your own podcast? If you talked about NatSec law, con law, or even parenting--I'd listen!

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@baym In this case my "first mind" is winning out. I think the much broader and maybe more important issue is that funding overall is getting tighter and tighter, and we too heavily focused on rewarding safer and more conservative research. (I think this is a trend in that direction)

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I'm of two minds:

(1) I generally agree wholeheartedly that the time/money pressures of early career academia prevent people from being ambitious in their career or from having a meaningful family life.

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This is a great plan if the NIH wants to discourage people who are changing fields, taking on ambitious projects, or have any chance of family life disrupting their postdoc

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@baym I generally agree! I don't think the issue can necessarily be solved by just focusing on changes for postdocs. What I meant by "pipeline" was that to fix this there would have to be changes in the "flow" at multiple steps along the academic journey.