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Scientist + Humanist + Pugilist. 70% Smoke. 30% Stack. "Tip your hat; pop the chain; short Joe Louis; then wipe his nose with the hook. It's that simple." (c) Brother Naazim Richardson https://linktr.ee/chike98
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Neat study and consistent with prior observational analyses showing that early cognitive function measures are not predictive of cognitive decline beyond the baseline. Here, cognitive decline also had essentially zero heritability.

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When should adaptation arise from a polygenic response versus few large effect changes? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.15.654234v1

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Elegant new theory on polygenic adaptation by Will Milligan, Laura Heyward, and Guy Sella.

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Cain’s introduction is a strong defence of adaptationism (partly driven by a pent up frustration with Lewontin’s dismissal of ecological genetics as a ”British upper middle class activity”). Gould later called the published version ”tame” in comparison with the oral one.

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What in holy hell LOL

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This. Is. Bananas. thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...

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www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...

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2024 award winner @cbo.bsky.social is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution. 🧬 🌱 His #scicomm work examines the intersection of science, society, and culture. Watch here: youtu.be/p2QfWDx5I8w #genetics #biology

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Good but…Lol

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“Apocalypse forces us to radically change. But by facing the future with optimism instead of doom, we can transform ourselves into the kinds of people-the kinds of communities—who can survive.” slate.com/technology/2...

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Looking for a scientifically rigorous, well-written book on COVID-19? Take a look at @joshuasweitz.bsky.social's "Asymptomatic." Such a tonic to the agit-prop and bad science of In COVID's Wake by Macedo and Lee (or as I call it, Dancing with COVID Contrarians). 1/ www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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While it is a dark time for US science, I'm grateful to be able to celebrate some recent lab successes! A brief thread... 🧵 First, the final version of our article on the katherine johnson (kj) gene came out in GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social in March! academic.oup.com/genetics/art...

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25 Years ago, one of the greatest artists to ever live went to the essence. Rest in Power, Christopher Lee Rios (1971 - 2000) "Dead-in-the middle-of-little-Italy-little-did-we-know-that-we-riddled-two-middlemen-who didn't-do-diddly"

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Come and join us! We’re hiring a new Group Leader in Generative Biology at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social Building AI models or the data to train them? Core funding of >$130M a year for a faculty of ~30. www.nature.com/naturecareer... acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... pls RT!

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Oh snap! This looks dope

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Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Interesting....Celtics fans friends not answering their phones #KNICKSTAPE

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Proud to have contributed reporting to one of the stories in this now Pulitzer-Prize-winning series on the opioid overdose crisis and its disproportionate impact on older Black men, and particularly that I did so with my team at @51st.news when our newsroom was just shy of 4 months old.

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The European Commission unveiled a $565 million package to retain and attract scientists, as other countries try to leverage the dismantling of research programs in the U.S.

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A fun coincidence between Gould and Cain was that neither was supposed to give the talks. Maynard Smith had invited Lewontin, but he didn’t want to fly all the way to London and sent Gould in his place. Cain was only invited to close the meeting after Peter Medawar cancelled last minute.

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If someone says something is ‘likely’ to happen, what probability springs to mind? How about ‘probable’? Or ‘possible’?

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Network of the day: Disney "organizational synergy diagram" 1967. Source: www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/walt-...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

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Via crabs, taught millions of people about convergent evolution. Described species, developed methods to analyze their fossils and relationships, and something exciting forthcoming. Results may be useful for fisheries and bioeconomy resilience 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Happening this afternoon at 1PM ET: #IDEpi Seminar presented by Amy Wesolowski, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Register for Zoom at hsph.me/IDEPI25

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"The reality looks much more like a variation on Jenga, whereby perturbations in one part of the structure can send ripple effects through everything all at once." New for @undark.org: "The Ripple Effects of Shrinking U.S. Science" undark.org/2025/05/01/o...

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Very interesting oral history -- interviews with some top NLP folks on the effects of GenAI on their field: www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...

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John Maynard Smith meets Alan Turing. In Husbands, Holland and Wheeler, eds (2008). The Mechanical Mind in History. The MIT Press.

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The rest of Mendel's alleles characterized! So, out of 7 traits, 3 caused by TE insertions!!! (though apparently there are two different green alleles, one cause by a TE insertion, but another a promoter deletion allele) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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There’s two groups of educators Those who admit stuff like this, and those who think that teaching is (magically) going to be business as usual + a few little tweaks. (It won’t)

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much has been said about the NYT's framing of the growth of the government-university research complex as a story of higher ed "dependency" on government it's a silly and ahistorical way to characterize a carefully thought out national strategy, one imagined by 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

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AAU updates their excellent explainer about indirect costs to cover the current attacks... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqK... 1/2

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A new study forecasts more than 850,000 measles cases over the next 25 years if US vaccination rates stay the same. Millions of infections are possible if rates drop. www.wired.com/story/scient...

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Republicans are twice as likely (1 in 5) as Democrats (1 in 10) to believe the measles shot is worse than the disease. kffhealthnews.org/news/article... I'm surprised that the number is that high for both parties. Ace graphic on the risks from both by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

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People sometimes ask me what it’s like to cover climate, but I didn’t think anyone would make a whole video about it! Thank you @nationalacademies.org & @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org for the Schmidt award

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On this day in 2023, the Vermont Complex Systems Institute (vermontcomplexsystems.org), TGIR Center (www.med.uvm.edu/tgircobre/home) & @sfiscience.bsky.social joined for an event on interacting contagions Our work, "One pathogen does not an epidemic make," is now online: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15053

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‘Sinners’ (Coogler, 2025) ✅ Artistic as hell but not pretentious ✅ historical/political but not preachy ✅ Lots of action but folded in a gripping narrative ✅ “Horror” but not gratuitous or manipulative A tribute to the power of music. The power of history and diversity. What a goddamn movie. 5⭐️

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North and South: Naming practices and the hidden dimension of global disparities in knowledge production | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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ICYMI: Vincent Lynch summarizing the many cracks at Peto's paradox including the latest effort, which says "no evidence" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories arxiv.org/abs/2504.15053

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New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: An emerging conventional wisdom is that universities should abandon federal dollars since it gives Trump a means to strong-arm them. But breaking the federal-university research partnership would have high societal costs. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

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It turns out misinformation is effective: Survey: "One-third of Republicans (35%) and a quarter (26%) of independents say it is “definitely” or “probably true” that the MMR vaccines have been proven to cause autism." Reality: MMR vaccines DO NOT cause autism. www.kff.org/health-infor...

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