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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 3d

This is a lovely review of my (brief) history of alchemy by Kit Chapman. As Kit says, I wanted neither to duck the esoteric/spiritual aspects of the alchemical tradition & make it out to be *just* early chemistry, nor to over-emphasize those things as some books have.
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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 3d

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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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · 4d

All about why we get Mendel wrong and why it matters. Watch the video where I explain the issues, or read excepts from several book reviews.

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The Ramsey Lab @theramseylab.bsky.social · 13d

New Cambridge Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—fully #openaccess! @thomasreydon.bsky.social explores how evolutionary theory crosses over from biology into other fields, showing how these crossovers embody a broader style of reasoning: 'evolutionary thinking' bit.ly/48z3h36 #HPbio #evosky

Book cover of “The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking” by Thomas A. C. Reydon, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · 14d

Here is the Greek edition of my book Ancestry Reimagined. If you happen to be in Athens, Greece, on November 3, there will be a book discussion at the publisher's main bookstore. More info to come.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26d

“The big perspective change from ancient DNA study is that people living today are almost never the descendants of the people in the same place thousands of years before”

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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Sep 15

Why studies about reconstructing the past based on contemporary DNA makes me think of the streetlight effect

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interesting! (To say the least).

Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 8

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

History of Molecular Biology Collection

This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Sep 8

News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/n

History of Molecular Biology Collection

This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.

www.sciencehistory.org

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Sep 6

Check out my latest book Trusting Science, using the attached 30% discount code, and let me know what you think!

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited to participate in this very interesting conference: zasb.unibas.ch/de/veranstal...

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Some scientists also think that historians do not know enough about the science to write about its history, which of course is not the case for good historians. Same for philosophers.

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Aug 18

For an individual on average, or the average individual perhaps, but not for any two specific individuals. It is one thing to made a mathematical calculation and another to make sense of it.

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Kostas Kampourakis @kampourakisk.bsky.social · Aug 18

Indeed.

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