Kristján Moore (Kris)🔸

@kristjanmoore.bsky.social

Research at Amgen/deCODE genetics: genomic ancestry, population data, ancient DNA, and whatever else needs doing. Trying to have true beliefs. Views expressed are my own. 🇬🇧🇮🇸

Pre-print on the impacts of the second plague pandemic and concurrent historical processes in 529 human genomes (mean 8.8x) from @ucph.bsky.social, Amgen/deCODE genetics, and many collaborators. We'd be grateful for any feedback before publication, so please share!

PCA of ancient individuals included in our study. We observe mostly northern European ancestry with three notable outliers.Selection scan in pre-Black Death versus post-Black Death samples showing no significant results.
bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · last mo.

Genomic impact of the second plague pandemic on three human populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.730585v1

Pre-print on the impacts of the second plague pandemic and concurrent historical processes in 529 human genomes (mean 8.8x) from @ucph.bsky.social, Amgen/deCODE genetics, and many collaborators. We'd be grateful for any feedback before publication, so please share!

PCA of ancient individuals included in our study. We observe mostly northern European ancestry with three notable outliers.Selection scan in pre-Black Death versus post-Black Death samples showing no significant results.
bioRxiv Genomics@biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · last mo.

Genomic impact of the second plague pandemic on three human populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.730585v1

The area of genomics of named historical individuals is developing rapidly but feels like the Wild West. We need standards and ethical frameworks: - Who are the stakeholders (descendants/victims/countries etc) - Who gives consent - Destructive sampling - TV show "publication" - Data access

Tom Booth@boothicus.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🏺Archaeogenetic study of ancient skeletons associated with the Piast dynasty who ruled the early Polish kingdom in 9th-11th centuries. Some individuals explicitly named but others not and attempts made to identify them through radiocarbon dating and genetic… www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I really wish that AI labs were not racing as fast as they can to train models that are much smarter than humans and unleash them on the world. I wish that they hadn't already released models which generate images and audio that are hard to distinguish from real footage or the work of artists.

It is very clear that we could stop AI development right now and it would still transform a substantial portion of white collar work, often unrecognizably, over the next 5-10 years as people figure out how to make the technology work in various industries, even given current models' limitations.

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This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street execs, top govt officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally flawed, and the scholarly community refuses to do anything about it. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/a...

This paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times. Wall Street executives, top government officials, and even a former U.S. Vice President have all referenced it. It’s fatally fl...

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

bbc.com

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

Mike Inouye@mikeinouye.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"Most top achievers (Nobel laureates and world-class musicians, athletes, chess players) demonstrated lower performance than many peers during their early years. Across the highest adult performance, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...