Happy to share our new preprint from @sashagusevposts.bsky.social and @nmancuso.bsky.social labs! We introduce Mr. PEG, a framework integrating perturbational screens, eQTL, and GWAS data to identify mediating genes for complex traits. (1/n) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here's my latest contribution to the @nytimes "Lost Science" series. Brenna Henn's sweeping study of African genetics has been frozen. Gift link: nyti.ms/3Ypmm1A

Jonathan Anomaly responds in a long comment to my post criticizing his writing on eugenics and that of his company Herasight. He argues against several specific points and I encourage reading it in full. open.substack.com/pub/theinfin...

I have a face for radio and a voice for silent cinema.

Today, for the first time in a very long time, I had to engage seriously with a Windows computer. I had not realized how Actively Hostile interacting with Windows has become.

🧪🦴🦷🧬🐭🐒 Reviewer 2, I don't know who you are, but thankyouthankyouthankyou for giving me the opportunity to put this reference into my paper.

I posted a long reply to Freddie deBoer's comment on my piece about intelligence with Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social. substack.com/profile/1707...

Fishify a song "Sole Man" by Sam and Dave

New on Pinkerite: Gutter racists Steven Pinker and Scott Siskind team up to promote neo-Nazi Emil Kirkegaard www.pinkerite.com/2025/12/gutt...

New Current Biology study from @minyaaa.bsky.social and colleagues shows how early CYC expression patterns establish dorsal identity in Mimulus parishii meristems. A clear step forward in understanding floral symmetry and developmental evolution. 🧪 🧪 🔗 buff.ly/3JOjkV1

Interesting essay on Julian Huxley: “A committed leftist, he argued fiercely that science had failed to prove any innate racial differences (although he personally suspected such differences existed). He was also an ardent and unrepentant eugenicist”

This week's Philosophy for the People essay is up:

Brain eating vending machine

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

I would support a system in which reviewers get credits to offset/waive APCs so as to align an interest in valuing the labor and valuing access

Another great post from Sasha demonstrating what will ring true to many of us-- our environments include our siblings, making it unlikely that siblings have identical environments.

Interactions with polygenic background impact quantitative traits in the UK Biobank https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.25340263v1

Some history of science grad student is going to have one hell of a dissertation about how Arthur Jensen wrecked two disciplines for half a century.

@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is pretty damn good at this.

What a disastrous move on the side of the @uniofleicester.bsky.social . In a world affected by the global change which needs a multitude of perspective, they are planning to narrow-down all Earth sciences to few unoriginal generics. Please sign the petition 👇 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio

AI is "approaching human reasoning" through the steady degradation of human reasoning (especially about AI... 🙄)

I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet

The link between the gut microbiome and autism not backed by science, experts say www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

"What James Watson got wrong about DNA" By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...

Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/

Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man. State schools, vaping: NAH.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

My dad came in second in an ugly man contest. My mom’s genes only helped out so much…

Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jowi...

I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective

Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.

Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics

Brings back memories of Marc Feldman saying "John Maynard Smith" in his spectacular Australian accent.

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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair! @annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept. As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

Aaaannnddd I messed up the link. Here it is. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Are you interested in tooth evolution and evodevo? Ben Auerbach and I would like to direct your attention to our new preprint “The inhibitory cascade model and evolution in segmentally organized tissues.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦴🐭🐒🧪🦷🧬 @nsvitek.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social

You know who learns real quick to identify racist tattoos, for the sake of their own safety? Black servicemembers.

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

And I'm about to start the ethics training...

This is real. Chicago today.

"The mice won't fuck."

When masked secret police are crashing into cars & violently pulling women out & beating them to a pulp with no warrant, answering to no one, this isn't democracy! We have 1 chance to retake power—Prop 50! If you care about our country, VOLUNTEER or DONATE. WE NEED YOU! (Anyone can volunteer)🧵

Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid. This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.