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Thinking about genetics in a world where every variant is causal but only a tiny bit.

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What actually happened to faculty hiring under DEI?

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Thoughts on AI in academia

PhD-level thinking, LLM bias, alignment, AGI, data centers, and AI politics

Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics

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More missing heritability discourse

mutability, twins, and "hereditarianism" versus "nurturism"

The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered

Not with a bang but with a whimper

Beneath the surface of the sum

When genetic interactions matter and when they don't

What we talk about when we talk about risk

How embryo selection exploits our flawed intuitions about risk

We still do not understand family resemblance

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How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings

Stratification makes environments look like genes

A FAQ on federal research cuts

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