WILLIAM DARAN(daranwilliam.bsky.social)

An Aspiring GENETICIST l PhD student ( 2023-2027) in Human genetics. Genetics (evolutionary,psychiatry, behavior,complex traits)+ MS (GWAS&GxE).NEFELIBATA I AM.

[Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social @jayjoseph22]

Two things about "IQ curves." (1) They don't look like that. Psychometricians create tests to get the curves they want. (2) The implicit assumption is that the curves have a strong genetic component. Otherwise, they provide evidence that environments should be greatly improved.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

And now we get to see the great whitewashing of Cofnas. As someone who strongly believes that Cofnas should keep his postdoc position, I agree that it's worth revisiting what he's actually argued. Let's take a look ... 1/

[Lachlan Phillips exo/acc 👾 @bitcloud]

The new Anthropic ad campaign is wild.

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Some thoughts on the ability to distinguish populations with genetic variation, why that means little for trait differences, and why there are other good reasons to collect diverse data. 🧵

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Data Centers already use HALF of the water from the Colorado River. HALF!!! We have to ban Data Centers now!!!!

Oh no wait. That’s alfalfa for cows.

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

Link to original article:
Allele frequencies at recessive disease genes are mainly determined by pleiotropic effects in heterozygotes
https://t.co/wGpg02rw15

[Richárd @krichard121212]

lel. stay in school kids

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

You are hiring a person not a subcontinent. A basic error in the interpretation of statistical information.

https://t.co/TzgLN9gLuv

[Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner]

Settled questions that academics don't need to research in 2026:

- Earth is round
- Evolution is real
- Eugenics is bullshit

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, the problem of statistics is that even if they worked (they don't), whatever is derived statistically ONLY applies to groups never to single individuals.
You are not hiring a subcontinent, but a single individual. Variance determines the max.

[serish @serish]

Poverty has many reasons. Here’s one of them I discovered while moving to another rented house😞

[Keith Frankish @keithfrankish]

Daniel Dennett: The man who saw reality's patterns | Keith Frankish https://t.co/7JT2hhKkhe

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

This is a good letter. Cofnas shouldn't be fired (and it appears he will not be). Cofnas is a deeply unoriginal thinker and a sloppy researcher; his recruitment is an embarrassment. But once hired, he has a right to academic freedom of expression.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

Everyone in biomedicine is laughing at the claims from the AI CEOs that they're going to cure all/most diseases in 10 years - and they should. But I do wonder if you aggregated all the claims from all NIH proposals would it be all that different?

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

So Anthropic is applying for an RO1?

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

I wrote a little bit about the data on recent DEI efforts in academic hiring (inspired by some recent articles). A few interesting charts and hot takes below. 🧵

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, I am examining the so touted paper by George et al. "Alcohol Intake & Health Study: No Protective Effect at Low Levels" & finding something odd (aside from the mismatch between claims & content), the Conf Int are not symmetric.
Cannot fit a distribution and they do not explain in supplementary material.

https://t.co/mr1x53es4e

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

No, we mean intentionally citing bogus evidence in support of your theories:

[Ulugbek S. Kamilov @prof_kamilov]

Remember, during a PhD:

Smarter than you = nerd
More papers than you = advisor’s favorite
Better ideas than you = got lucky
Graduated before you = weak thesis

Never stop the cope.