Jedidiah Carlson
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Population genetics, doom metal, anti-racism, metaresearch, & eye-rolling. Stats prof at Macalester College. He/Him. https://jedidiahcarlson.com
They found the wife guy gene (prairie vole edition) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Single-library chromosome-scale diploid assemblies of vole genomes resolve a species-specific duplication implicated in pair bonding
Comparing prairie voles ( Microtus ochrogaster ), a species that forms lasting pair bonds and exhibits biparental care, with meadow voles ( Microtus pennsylvanicus ), a non-monogamous species showing ...
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Imagine how cooked your brain has to be to be out here wearing Chromosome Athleisure. Imagine what a loser you have to be. Onitsuka Tiger exists. Puma exists. You are in the gym with clothes that say XX-XY absolutely desperate to be asked about it.
Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · 7d agoThe supposed fans who were confronted at the Indiana Fever v. Seattle Storm game for their transphobic shirts were representing XX-XY Athletics, an anti-trans sport fashion brand who works with Riley Gaines. XX-XY Athletics is *also* a common Turning Point USA sponsor and featured at their events.
Really remarkable plant sex allocation study here: hermaphroditic avocado plants alternate sex roles twice daily and hence generate balanced sex allocation- controlled by ancient trans-species polymorphism. Heard a bit about this jaw-dropping work at UC Davis last year - great to see it out!
Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · last wk.Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Great joke it’s a shame you made it on the website from Footloose where jokes are illegal
perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)
when the cdc didn't care and the federal government attacked them, remember that taco bell stood with the people
George Pearkes@peark.es · 3w ago*LETTUCE GROWER TAYLOR FARMS TO RECALL PRODUCTS TIED TO OUTBREAK
Once again the eugenics president espouses eugenic ideas as his eugenics administration implements eugenic policies
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump on Lindsey Graham: "His father died just about at the same age. I'm a believer in the race horse theory. If you have problems, you have problems. And he had some problems."
i'm so fucking tired of everyone talking about pepsi grand all the time like we get it. pepsi grand is great it tastes good, the chunks are pleasing, and that gravy is addictive but enough posting about pepsi grand it's like damn everyone and their mama is posting about pepsi grand
This paper is not an attack on preprints. I highlight how fringe scientists have *weaponized* preprinting, just as they have weaponized other foundational tools of mainstream science including journals (see my PoPS paper), software, and public data (e.g., ABCD). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 3mo agoI hope everyone who agrees that "preprint servers... have revolutionized the scientific process" -- but also thinks very racist papers should not be on them -- is planning to join the selfless volunteers who actually make these nonprofit platforms work, to improve their policies and help moderate.
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CNN@cnn.com · 3mo agoIncreasing your daily consumption of ultraprocessed foods by 10% — basically the equivalent of a small bag of potato chips — may raise your risk of dementia even if you normally eat a healthy plant-rich diet, according to a new study. https://cnn.it/4n0zNR6
If anyone would like to know why heritability and free will have next to nothing nothing to do with one another, feel free to check out this paper I wrote with Jonathan Kaplan. doi.org/10.1007/s137...
Reliability is No Vice: Environmental Variance and Human Agency - Biological Theory
The environmental elbow room model of free will posits the unshared proportion of environmental variance in twins is a measure of the degree to which free will may be exercised with respect to one’s life outcomes for a trait. This model attempts to unify the behavioral genetic study of socially important psychological characteristics such as intelligence and academic achievement with Dennett’s broadly compatibilist elbow room notion of free will. We demonstrate that the philosophy and genetics underlying the environmental elbow room model are both fundamentally flawed. Philosophically the degree to which an outcome might be predicted in a given situation does not give any sense of whether the course of action to achieve an outcome was free or unfree. With respect to genetics, quantities such as heritability and its environmental complement, even when they do reflect the actions of independently identifiable causes are not indicative of the chain of decisions one would have to evaluate to judge if an action was freely chosen. We show the contemporary human behavioral genetics focus on heritability is wholly misplaced for purposes of making decisions about policy and free will alike. Variance components sample a single instance of the distribution of variation arising from different sources and do not constrain outcomes in other contexts. The claim that the high heritability of a trait, life outcomes included, makes us less free to change it is similar in key ways to Jensenism’s contention that high heritability makes social change impossible.
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Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · 3mo agoOh my god if I ever had a book of mine get a review like this, I would walk out onto an ice floe to die alone with my shame
I'm not saying these incidents are connected, but I do think someone owes a groveling apology to @jasonaw.bsky.social and colleagues who were called "irresponsible" for reporting on credible intel about a potential UK Biobank data breach less than 2 years ago. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...
T-Pain's War Pigs cover may be better than all other covers of War Pigs and every other cover of any other song combined. And yo, his live, non-auto-tuned performance IS ALSO AMAZING
T Pain War Pigs
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DANCE like no one is watching. LOVE like you've never been hurt. WRITE like you're a French anti-fascist academic in 1934 planting the seeds for a widespread resistance campaign over the next 10 years.
Huxley (1936): “The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
“We’ve lost out on the ability to continue to improve this work to make it more effective, and to explore how to apply it to other areas…There are a lot of different ways that genetics has been used to justify prejudice and…that human-made social categories interface with biological categories“🧪
A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.
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never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm
I thought this graph was one of those Strait of Hormuz maps for a second, and got REALLY confused by the giant insect
Professor John R. Hutchinson@johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 4mo agoSeems like a pretty important result; title says it all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...