Vince Buffalo Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@ed_hagen @minisciencegirl @NicoleBarbaro I don't have any book recommendations in this area specially, but a favorite intro philsci book is Peter Godfrey-Smith's Theory and Reality. I took a lot of amazing ethics and philosophy courses as an undergrad at UCD.

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The little Kimura and Ohta book "Theoretical Aspects of Population Genetics" punches far above its weight. Insightful, elegant theory, and by far the best introduction to diffusion theory I've come across.

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I'm reading "The Argument Culture" (1998) by linguist Deborah Tannen. I fundamentally agree with the central premise: we live with an unquestioned de facto adversarial communication style that inhibits the flow of information between parties, and alters who participates. https://t.co/BVhWK43p7o

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@IsinAltinkaya Popgen/quantgen: I’d say Durrett’s Prob Models for DNA Sequence Evolution, Population Genetics by Ewens (thin one), Caballero’s quantgen book, Hein et al coalescent, Wakeley, Graham’s book. General stats: Wasserman’s books and Statistical Rethinking, Efron’s Computer Age book

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@tristanzajonc You might enjoy Cosma Schalizi's Advanced Data Analysis From an Elementry Point of View (https://t.co/4DiXeLzQYN) and Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath (https://t.co/dpEZgu25Yx) too!

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Richard Royall on the law of likelihood: "evidence has a different mathematical form than uncertainty. It is likelihood ratios, not probabilities, that represent and measure statistical evidence". https://t.co/cIIup6vsFa

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*taps the sign* "we need to stop confusing model systems with role models" (from Marlene Zuk's book Sexual Selections) https://t.co/5aLIz3inXu

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I’ve just finished “Hidden Valley Road” by Robert Kolker. I’d say it ranks in the top five best nonfiction books I’ve read — part history of mental illnesses and treatment, medical genetics detective story, and the carefully told story of a family of 12 kids, 6 with schizophrenia https://t.co/cb88xPHvmq

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@greg_m_priest Not a downer at all, I appreciate the context! Indeed, Langston Hughes replied to Whitman, "I, too, sing America." Beautiful stuff: https://t.co/ohO5WLbxc1

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I think I need to buy one of those wooden Bible stands for my copy of Walsh and Lynch's massive "Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits" textbook.