[tune of "Ghostbusters"] 🎶 skeetin' makes me feel good 🎶

A new paper is what I use when the old roll runs out.

“yeah I have to go to the phrenologists office later this week to get a micro loan for my groceries.”

bro are you fucking kidding me

If you've ever rolled your eyes about research claiming that complex traits (from chocolate preference to socioeconomic status) have simple genetic explanations, check out this great paper from @jbenning.bsky.social @jedidiahcarlson.com @oliviarxiv.bsky.social Ruth Shaw @arbelharpak.bsky.social 🧪🧬

Capitalism is now illegal

Its so funny to me that OpenAI's 2023 deal with Microsoft included a termination clause for when the OpenAI board announces the AGI nerd rapture

Mid century? It sure was

“They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you.”

When did they call him up from the minors?

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

CHOTINER: You decided to do this meme format, before it goes stale? ME: Yeah. CHOTINER: You've never read any of my work. ME: I can fake it from similar posts. CHOTINER: How similar? Is there anything new in your version of the joke? ME: I just wanted to do one of these, okay? CHOTINER: Sure.

If the hardcore band's bassist looks like this, you're gonna die in that pit

Oh fuck lol

Big old honnnk from the Frog Holler Farm truck 🥹

Just Minnesota things

No kings except for (1) the Kingman coalescent and (2) Kinship-based INference for Gwas

Remake FIGHT CLUB, but instead of Ed Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter it’s Tim Robinson, Conor O’Malley and Patti Harrison

Only tangentially related, but a certain Russian-American geneticist once received a passport randomly assigning him the middle initial J (he had no middle name). On a trip to Brazil, an official wouldn't let him in with just J on the paperwork, so he became Theodosius Juan Dobzhansky

eugenics looks like this

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

Opening a popgen themed barber shop named "Mullet's Rachet"

The ultimate grift is to pivot to doing single cell sperm screening. You could even start selling an annual subscription model, given the paternal age effect on mutation rates

NYT pantsed by the Crimson A+

It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ

A fourth employee of Heliospect is an active quantitative racism researcher, publishing with the usual race science crew on bogus Jewish polygenic score comparisons (work that was immediately and summarily rebutted: trejo.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...).

A third employee (and senior author on the research whitepaper) somehow accidentally ended up posting anti-immigrant slogans in a private chat with an Austrian far-right activist (aka neo-Nazi) Martin Sellner:

A second employee (and the first author of the Herasight research whitepaper) was a member of a Telegram group for the pro-eugenics online publication Aporia. Aporia also frequently publishes on the topic of white racial solidarity:

In 2023, one of their geneticists got busted buying Nazi books and posters online and was eventually let go.

A final point about trust. Herasight has apparently partnered with Heliospect Genomics, founded by self-described eugenicist Jonathan Anomaly (a member of both companies). Anomaly and Heliospect were profiled last year by Hope Not Hate: investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/superbaby-fa...

A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵

Heard we’re discussing re-drawing districts so I wanted to drop an idea

I wrote about how we must stand and fight against the threat of eugenics. Fueled by white nationalism and scientific racism, these beliefs are factually wrong and ethically abhorrent. This fight includes supporting efforts to diversify our workforce & science. To stop now would be a deep betrayal.

Want to make a misleading figure with regression? Instead of orienting results around the identity line, just orient results around ur regression line, and things look great!

which way, Western Man?

Trump administration reverses course, lifts pause on NIH grant awards www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t... via my @statnews.com colleagues @angusrohan.bsky.social, @mmolteni.bsky.social, and @aniloza.bsky.social

In #GENETICS, Williams et al. present a novel statistics—haplotype score—for summarizing identity-by-descent (IBD) sharing that can distinguish half-sibling pairs from avuncular or grandparent-grandchildren pairs and assign individuals to ancestor vs descendant generation. buff.ly/SaZP3CA

In this new article on scientific racism (coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman), we present five impediments to countering racist pseudoscience and suggest strategies for containing its spread. #ehbea #philsci #histsci #ishpssb2025 🧪 tinyurl.com/4ptyt6w2

Bill Ackman’s post about Tucker Carlson and Jeffrey Epstein has an interesting explanation for why he believes he became a billionaire: “I inherited good genes from wonderful parents who instilled good values in me.” x.com/billackman/s...

This is similar to the unauthorized data access that got his coauthor Brian Pesta fired from Cleveland State University, but involved an additional dataset from a different NIH repository. @jedidiahcarlson.com and I discussed it in this paper on racist misuses of genomic data/studies:

In a long, whiny post about a recent Atlantic article about him, white supremacist Jordan Lasker posts an incompetent analysis using the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study dataset that appears to have been illegitimately accessed and then stolen by one of his coauthors.

[chef at a 3 star Michelin restaurant who served dogshit to its guests]: the fact that the guests experienced the flavor of dogshit in their mouths is all the evidence you need that this was a legit preparation of dogshit

For this guy and the fifty other people who have made this exact comment www.genome.gov/genetics-glo...

worth noting the pipeline here: * Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data * Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data * NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign * Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story

Cremieux’s real name is Jordan Lasker. I put his name in the newspaper. He’s a scientific racist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...