"Trump’s National Security Strategy made one thing brutally clear and that is that the United States is no longer fully shaping its own foreign policy. The document reads like parts of it were written in Moscow and stamped in Washington." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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

#popgen #evbio

#popgen #evolgen

How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

The Art of the Deal.

He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.

Fuck it, they killed him live.

This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.

My old lady neighbor who texts me memes all day is my new favorite person

He wasn’t even adjusting anything he was walking calmly when they opened fire on him

I've received some information from a local about the individual accused of being the SLC shooter (who did not fire, was shot by 'official' security who also hit and killed an unrelated person He'd done armed protesting before. Dressed more radically. Was a little awkward. no more than that

The Salt Lake City, Utah protest was interrupted by gunshots. One person is in critical condition and police have detained a person of interest. #Utah #NoKings www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?

According to Gallup, evolutionists are winning hearts and minds. The change in slope starts before my 2011 book, so I can't claim all the credit.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better.

Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/17/o...

@pkrugman.bsky.social makes it simple: "Why do people work? Not to be able to boast that they ran trade surpluses with their employers — `Hey, they paid me a lot, and I hardly bought anything from them.' No, people sell their labor so that they can afford to buy stuff."

US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

#hand-off Salt Lake

Why did 77m voters choose Trump? We now have data comparing the attitudes and values of American voters with people around the world. And it turns out that Republicans align their values very closely with Russia and Turkey, and to a slightly lesser degree China. www.thebulwark.com/p/new-data-r...

This is indeed brilliant

The community note 🤌😘

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵

Apologies for this long post I put together to explain to non-scientists the impact of NIH cuts: Last night, an “atomic bomb” was dropped on the biomedical science community. We were informed that effective immediately, indirect costs on NIH grants (both current and future) would be fixed at 15%.

"When the New York Stock Exchange opens on Monday at 9:30 a.m. we will see just how seriously the world takes the assault Elon Musk and Donald Trump launched on the American system of government." www.thebulwark.com/p/follow-the...

The mockingbird hopped out of the sunlight and into the shade, then onto the rim of a tortoise-shell cup.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

Fun fact: the second biggest buyer of wind turbines (after power companies) is the petroleum industry because it's cheaper to power their oil extraction equipment with wind power than with the product they extract from the ground. Think about that for a minute.

$10.89 for this carton of eggs.

This ⬇️💙 We can't let this happen again! #Thisiswhywefight #Bluecrew #Resistance #Resist #TruthWarriors

Eggs up 37%. You can thank Bird flu in the streets and Bird brain in the White House. www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Genes that gave humans our unique social and linguistic abilities may also be responsible for forms of dementia that destroy those same abilities. Delighted to share my first story for Alzforum.org www.alzforum.org/news/researc...

Birds use snakeskin as predator repellent. My first story for Audubon! www.audubon.org/news/some-bi...

My latest for Alzforum. This study might finally explain why the ApoE gene has such a big effect on Alzheimer's disease. The high-risk E4 variant clogs up cells’ garbage disposal systems with toxic waste. E2 doesn’t do that because it is trapped outside cells. www.alzforum.org/news/researc...

Mapping Interactions of H. neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens from the Fossil and Genetic Records (2022) doi.org/10.48738/202...

“.. School leaders fear one of his first actions could be an executive order limiting entrance to the U.S.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2024/12/15/t...

This paper is magical.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Smart study to test whether lower prediction accuracy in non-Europeans is due to between-population differences in population structure, genetic nurture, or assortative mating.

"It's easy to pretend that all of this is a reaction, one caused by an inadequate economic platform, solvable with a better one. But it isn’t. Our country has been captured by a force that has its own ideas about our future. One that is ancient, compelling, and evil."

👏👏 @arevsumer.bsky.social ! Contains our IBD analysis led by Yilei Huang: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the two record 45ky-old sequenced modern human sites Zlatý kůň (Czechia) and Ranis (Germany). Showing they are closely related - within few generations! 😮😮 (1/3) #PopGen #aDNA

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-f... I wanted to send a link to this out in the last-faculty-meeting-of-the-semester announcement but my colleague talked me out of it.

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...