Total US wealth is $167 trillion, and of this the top 0.1% controls nearly 25%. What if those people controlled only 10%, as they did during the 50s, 60s, and 70s? This would free up a lot of money--so much, in fact, that we could give more than $7 million to every man, woman, and child in the US.

Logarithmic history just published an essay about the 80:20 hybridization event that formed the ancestral population of modern humans: logarithmichistory.wordpress.com

Does anyone know who coined the term "incomplete lineage sorting"? It wasn't Pamilo and Nei 1988.

"the genetic foundation for extended adrenarche is shared between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and may have deeper hominin roots" www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...

PSMC estimates of Ne now reach back not merely 2 My but more like 8. Estimates from humans, chimps, and bonobos share a peak between 3 and 6 Mya, which may reflect a complex speciation event separating hominins and panins. mcb.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...

They keep saying that renewable energy "locks in" fossil fuels. This looks like a lockout to me.

Will the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (@isbarchaeology.bsky.social) be meeting in 2027? Their website still lists the "upcoming" meeting in 2025.

The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.27.721231v1

Retaliatory gerrymandering should be just the beginning:

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today — theonion.com/biologists-c...

Morez Jacobs et al used 45k genomes to localize Neandertal haplotypes w/i the British; used these to infer the SFS of the introgressing Neandertals; and then inferred population history parameters of the introgressing pop. Also lots about selection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Population replacement in Neolithic France at the end of the megalith period. scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...

The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716297v1

This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read

A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17). A rather unremarkable sliver. At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)? Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

“Human ancestors interbred with two distinct populations of distant relatives” nice new preprint by @alanrogers.bsky.social @colinmbrand.bsky.social @timwebster.bsky.social showing that “archaics” & “moderns” interbred with two distinct “superarchaic” populations 🧪🧬💀

Can anyone tell me what software makes graphs like this (from Cousins, Scally, and Durbin 2025)?

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

"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.

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...