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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3d

A response from MIT rejecting "The Compact"...

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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 9d

moonbow last night over our neighborhood

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 12d

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Seleccionados 12 proyectos de investigación acerca de cuestiones centrales en tres grandes áreas de conocimiento, en el marco del Programa Fundamentos Fundación BBVA - Fundación BBVA

FÍSICA, QUÍMICA Proyectos seleccionados: “Reticular enzyme-like catalysis” (RETICAT) Investigadores principales: Miquel Costas Salgueiro (Universitat de Girona) y Daniel Maspoch Comamala (Institut Cat...

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 12d

Thrilled to hear that our BBVA fundamentos grant was funded. Thanks to @bbvaenespana.bsky.social for their support of new causal methods in aging. With only 4 of these awarded each year in the life sciences, a special congrats to our post-doc Jeremy Vicencio for teaming up to make it happen!

Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · 12d

Congrats to @nstroustrup.bsky.social and Jeremy Vicencio for a new grant from Fundación BBVA's Fundamentos programme to support a pioneering project on the biology of ageing. The proposal seeks to build better biomarkers of ageing.

www.crg.eu/en/news/bbva...

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 13d

Not every day...and not today either as this is not a viable egg.

Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 19d

There's some super interesting nemography going on these days!

Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 19d

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21d

All my emails to Director Bhattacharya now available...

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Cover of "Fifty Shades of 'Jay'" with emails from Jeremy M. Berg to NIH Director Jayanta Bhattacharya.

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Hank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 24d

OH NO!
"The White House issued a proclamation today, Sept. 19, 2025, around 4:36 PM PDT imposing a $100,000 fee for each H-1B visa holder who enters the U.S. after Sept. 21, 2025, 12:01 AM EDT. In CA, this will take effect tomorrow, Sept. 20, 2025, at 9:01 PM PDT." Emergency notice at Stanford.

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · 28d

Do we know whether LLMs do a better job impersonating a statistician or a dean?

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ups!

American Aging Association @americanaging.bsky.social · Sep 9

A U.S. study found eating under 8 hrs/day was linked to **91% higher cardiovascular death risk** vs. 12–16 hrs/day. 👉Read:
newsroom.heart.org/news/8-hour-...

#AgingResearch #LongevityScience #HeartHealth

8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death

03/19/24 Editor’s note: The research authors have shared their full poster presentation for updated details about their research abstract. Please see the digital file attached, in the right hand colum...

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · Sep 7

Extraordinary paper. I LOVE this sentence:

“This translates to a net lateral gene transfer rate of ~250 genes L−1 seawater day−1 and involves both “flexible” and “core” genes. “

Must read in detail, but these numbers are amazing. academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryoplankton

Abstract. Lateral gene transfer is a major evolutionary process in Bacteria and Archaea. Despite its importance, lateral gene transfer quantification in na

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · Sep 7

Será posible vivir 150 años como dicen Putin y Xi Jinping?

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¿Será posible vivir 150 años como dicen Putin y Xi Jinping?

“Con los desarrollos de la biotecnología, se pueden trasplantar continuamente órganos humanos y las personas pueden vivir más y más jóvenes, e incluso alcanzar la

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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you think AI is cool, wait until you learn about regression analysis

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Aug 10

DOUBLE PELICAN DIVE AFTER SUNSET!!!! wooooo! What a way to end the week!

time to sleep and prepare for the horrors and joys of the next one

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · Aug 7

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

Notes from Beethoven’s genome

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · Aug 1

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Congress has your back’: US senators tell scientists they want to protect NIH budget

Senate budget bill includes small increase for the health-research agency — but faces a long road before being signed into law.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 1

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · Jul 24

New blog article on Statistical Thinking: confidence limits for bootstrap overfitting-corrected predictive performance measures for regression models, useful for strong internal validations including confidence bands for debiased calibration curves: fharrell.com/post/bootcal #statistics #StatsSky

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Manuel Irimia @mirimiam.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Please RT!

We're looking for a postdoc to join an exciting joint project between our lab @upf.edu & @crg.eu (Barcelona) and the Sander lab @mdc-berlin.bsky.social (Berlin) investigating how alternative splicing and microexons influences the maturation of pancreatic islets.

Deadline: 30/09/25👇

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · Jul 20

Lots packed into @adambonica.bsky.social's new On Data and Democracy post, but I haven't seen this chart getting the attention I think it deserves. US lawmakers are remarkably old, and the gap here between population age and lawmaker age is exceptional.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/on-data-an...

scatter plot comparing average age of lawmakers vs. median age of population across a bunch of contemporary democracies, showing that the United States is a real outlier, with lawmakers averaging almost 60 years old vs. a median age of the population of just 38. South Korea and Japan come closest with average lawmaker ages around 55, but their populations are older, and most countries on the chart cluster in the 40s.

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The EMBO Journal @embojournal.org · Jul 16

The proteostatic landscape of healthy human oocytes
Elvan Böke and colleagues @bokelab.bsky.social find that mature human oocytes show reduced activity of lysosomes, proteasomes and mitochondria, highlighting reproductive differences between humans and mouse
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

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Jake Wintermute @synbio1.bsky.social · Jul 13

People say “look we automated science” then show you a machine that does a 30-year-old method efficiently

That’s cool! But to me, the heart of science is the 0-to-1 moment. You automated the 100-to-1000 stage

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Nick Stroustrup @nstroustrup.bsky.social · Jul 8

My group's paper about lifespan variability is a long read,
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac..., but now you can learn about our work in a more accessible way, from a talk I gave at ARDD 2024 available on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lfw...

Nicholas Edward Stroustrup at ARDD2024: Systematic mapping of organism ... population asynchrony

YouTube video by ARDD

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business?

The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday.

The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times.

That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working.

You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step.

If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.

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