Maybe they didn’t like the golf carts. #lions #onepride

I’m making a bit of a joke, but it’s worth discussing some broader issues, here. The first is that “we” in this sense, points to an ideology. I’ve taken a lot of ridicule from what would be considered leaders in the fields of behavioral genetics and my own field of psychiatry for questioning…. 1/

🧬 Let’s do a GWAS on zip code. Say, the first two digits are 70 (my choice). You will likely get some correlations if the sample is large enough. What percentage of the variance explained will you get for the SNPs for “70” zip code? Say it’s 10% even with your PCA’s. Is “70” zip code genetic? Now…

Give Morton another chance. #DetroitLions

I mean, is someone showing him fake clips of Portland and Chicago and he actually believes it? Not sure if that idea is more or less disturbing than if he is just lying.

Nicest Lions regular season win I’ve seen in the 55 years I’ve watched them. #DetroitLions

They can say anything, no matter how stupid, and it becomes a 50-50.

Game starts at 10:05 PM? C’mon #NFL.

“If this isn't a front page story in every US newspaper tomorrow, our press is massively failing us.” - Somebody talking about another insane thing that won’t be a front page story in every U.S. newspaper tomorrow.

It’s amazing how many articles I’ve read like this in the past quarter century. It’s malpractice to base clinical psychiatric decisions on genetic studies at this point. There is just nothing there. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...

Let’s all say goodbye to the magic gene era: open.substack.com/pub/unwashed...

Asked if any actors were in both Escspe from Alcatraz and Shawshank redemption:

One of the reasons I abhor the largely null field of behavioral genetics is this kind of reckless stupidity from someone well known in the field. BG is bad science with an inevitable and harmful endpoint. They haven’t found a thing in 65 years. Let it die.

The bottom of the barrel for Trump sycophants are the ones who help help him cheat at golf.

Folks, The NYT’s is not your friend. Whatever mystique they hold is from decades ago. You don’t need to point out that they are writing misleading headlines and doing bad reporting like they just need it pointed out and will return to the fold. Whatever it was, it’s now a center-right newspaper.

NCAA, no one will die on the West Coast if you start games an hour earlier.

Is Plomin closing in on astrology, next? HTTPS://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/rev0000551

All aboard the next SEC hype train. Baseball? Lacrosse? Frisbee golf?

Chuck Schumer is quite the coward.

I originally wrote this as a preprint for a poster presentation at the ASHG conference last year. It was apparently removed from the server. It’s an easy read, I think, critiquing the field of behavioral genetics. open.substack.com/pub/unwashed...

My review of “Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate,” by Eric Turkheimer. Where do we go from behavioral genetics now that it has apparently reached a dead-end? Tried to make it an easy read for those not as familiar with this important topic. open.substack.com/pub/unwashed...

“The European-only analysis identified 622 SNPs in 570 regions with a net change in the full meta-analysis of 65 (142 regions gained, 77 regions became non-significant).” This depression GWAS is a failed result and suggests that the correlations are spurious. 🧬🖥️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

This speculative push for gene editing, which has all the validity of astrology, is made by a leader in the largely null field of behavioral genetics. Astrology is mostly harmless, though. This is dangerous and invalid on many levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carmel-by-the-Sea

Just saw Matt Yglesias on here and blocked him, quick. Recommended.

The goal should not be to make the Democratic Party desirable. The goal should be to find a desirable candidate or group of candidates and shape the party around them.

@illinimbb.bsky.social www.thechampaignroom.com/2024/11/28/2...

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How does Alabama get away with playing Mercer, especially this late in the season?

To new followers, my not-so-hidden agenda is to tear down the premise of “behavioral genetics;” The idea that differences in personality, intelligence and the risk for mental disorders have a significant genetic basis. I contend in this preprint that this is not the case: 1/ osf.io/preprints/ps...

There is something freeing about the idea that the country is simply anti-progressive and unlikely to change, releasing me from the impulse of political investment. Maybe that’s nihilism, but it beats banging my head against the wall.

Getting a lot of followers, suddenly. Thanks to whomever gave me a shout out, or is this just Twitter refugee action? To those I rub the wrong way: apologies in advance. I’m working on it (within limits).

My challenge of the entire premise of behavioral genetics in this “preprint,” below. On an unrelated note, will they find the treasure during the 12th season of The Curse of Oak Island? 🧬 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wherein I challenge the entire premise of Behavioral Genetics: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Within family GWAS and pgs takes a hit. Behavioral genetics is the null field that no one can quit. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Longitudinal sequencing reveals polygenic andepistatic nature of genomic response to selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.22.604612v1

Interesting article about racial perceptions in athletics which I think has relevance to genetic assumptions. 🧬 arxiv.org/abs/2403.02358

🧬🖥️ Using that big Biobank for your sparkly new GWAS? Hey it’s the same one everyone else uses for their GWAS and the same one you used for your last GWAS. That comforting, familiar dataset is available to all, allowing us to design a study with foreknowledge of the data. Interesting.

Chargers are not trying.

How does Alabama get away with playing Tennessee Chattanooga this late in the year? They should be dinged in the rankings for that maneuver.

I posted a preprint for the poster I’m presenting at #ASHG2023 this week. It is entitled, “The Question That Must Be Asked: Is Behavioral Genetics a Null Field?” I like to call it my “Oak Island” piece. Happy to discuss it in DC or here in the blue skies. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Red card and not looking good for All Blacks. Bummer. #RWC2023

Looking forward to #ASHG2023 (sort of), where I will have a poster entitled: “The Question That Must Be Asked: Is Behavioral Genetics a Null Field?

An offense based largely around the tush push might work.

Not into the Pat McCafeezation of ESPN.

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Any Americans wondering why you got Peacock, you now have access to the Rugby World Cup, with the quarterfinals coming up soon. This is not your drunken biker’s rugby. Very high level. Catch Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand (with Haka as a bonus), or any of the games. Fun and fast. #RWC23

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Ah, a refreshing glass of Honolulu Blue Kool-Aid for this Lions fan!