alexander feoktistov

Life scientist specializing in image analysis, neuroscience, and molecular biology. Views expressed here are trite and do not reflect those of my employer.

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@M04006106 @BriannaWu It's from the book "History and Geography of Human Handedness" by C. McManus. The popularly reproduced chart we all have seen is based on this one. You can see why they only show the trendline and cut it off at 1880.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

When you believe Israel has a right to exist and is a strategic geopolitical ally

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

Wild that anyone still believes that test optional is anything other than a misguided attempt at fixing something that was never broken in the first place.

[Neetu Arnold @neetu_arnold]

This is cool to see. A UC Regents member is changing his mind on the value of standardized tests:

“Last time around, I voted to get rid of the SAT, & I’m starting to believe I might have made a mistake”

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@avidseries Yahya Sinwar knew

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

Go Dores!

[Derek Duplessie @dnduplessie]

This, for me, is the single video that best captures the unthinkable violence and horror of it all

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@SwipeWright So many of my colleagues are bewildered about the lack of public outcry at what they characterize as assaults on academic science. I’m unsurprised. When the dean of Harvard Medical School doesn’t want to blame Hamas for Oct 7, I don’t expect Americans to want to pay his salary.

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@SwipeWright Such overt politicking is a threat to the research enterprise. If the public perceives biomedical research as a partisan endeavor, they are unlikely to care when that endeavor is threatened by funding cuts or bureaucratic instability.

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@SwipeWright This is how I knew this guy was worth ignoring when the whole Evergreen thing happened. He didn’t deserve what happened at Evergreen, but then I listened to has interview on Rogan and decided he was way too wacky to take seriously. Including him in that IDW piece was an error

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Mass celebrations break out in the West Bank and Gaza, and Palestinians cheer, dance, and distribute free sweets.

Palestine is the only known place on earth to see overwhelming popular celebration of yesterday’s attacks, although Yasser Arafat condemned the attacks and denied responsibility yesterday.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Palestinians celebrated 9/11 as if it were the best day of their lives.

I feel sick watching this.

Never forget.

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

25 years ago Al Qaeda globalized the Intifada

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@ZalinskyS @jemelehill @CynthZee Capitalism, by making industrialization possible, is what allowed human civilization to break its addiction to forced labor.

[alexander feoktistov @aif365]

@JoinYoungVoices @emmma_camp_ @maggiemoda Housing, health care, and education are the sectors most young people are struggling with when it comes to affordability and are also the sectors least exposed to the free market, most overburdened with government regulation and government subsidies. Anyone else see a pattern?

[Young Voices @JoinYoungVoices]

"Housing is one of the largest ways things are going wrong for young people. And people blame that on capitalism, because that's the status quo. But, in fact, housing is one of the sectors of our economy that is least exposed to the free market."

@emmma_camp_ joins @maggiemoda and @SamRaus1 for the pilot episode of Breaking Containment, Young Voices' new podcast about the stories that shape the timeline and front page.

Full episode out this Friday at 3 PM ET.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The degeneration of Nature, Science, NEJM, and Scientific American into woke propaganda dispensers (and their refusal to publish normie, centrist, common-sense responses) is a scientific scandal.

[i/o @avidseries]

Huge study involving over 7 million individuals contains data showing that the explicit ingroup bias (preference for one's own group) of black Americans is approximately 2.5 times stronger than the explicit ingroup bias of whites.

https://t.co/xe60NSmYPg

[i/o @avidseries]

In the most significant study of its kind to date, published in Nature, scientists have identified 1,260 genetic variants associated with human personality traits, including more than 800 that had not been linked to personality before.