
Joe Varga
329 posts






@janecoaston One of my best friends from college is far from a world-class sprinter— NAIA All-American. Substantially better than average, sure, but nothing crazy. Would mention she was a sprinter at bars and routinely got challenged by drunk guys to race. We won a lot of free drinks.








“In 2024, 13.4% of faculty job ads required a dedicated DEI statement. By 2025, that figure had fallen to just 2.5%.” I told you it all came down to civil rights law. One year difference, like night and day.



Reich's team is now framing their publication as a paradigm shift, nobody had published such results before (wrong). Reich also appropriated my idea that these results challenge the standard view of no selection over 100K years, which I criticized here: davidepiffer.com/p/there-was-ne…

A new analysis in Science of individual brain cells across several human brain regions reveals subtle but widespread differences in gene activity between male and female brains. This may help explain why some psychiatric and neurological disorders appear to affect the biological sexes differently, researchers report. scim.ag/48KStOJ









As someone that has been summarizing studies related to human evolution for others over the last 6 years, I find the discourse that's been dominating human evolution twitter over the last 24 hours bizarre and completely at odds with what's actually been happening. The idea that we were pretending natural selection based on local environments stopped over the last 10,000 years is just a lie. Lightening of skin tones, ability to digest lactose, the spleens of the Bajau people, groups evolving to survive at high altitudes... ...and to be clear, I'm no expert... just a science teacher... but I've made many videos discussing evidence of natural selection that occurred over the last 10,000 years in humans...




New from David's Reich's lab: "In the past ten millennia [in Europe], we find that many hundreds of alleles have been affected by strong directional selection," including those influencing human intelligence. nature.com/articles/s4158…


Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades. trib.al/TCMQADx








This is a sitting US congressman. He thinks Britain "narrowly avoided getting its ass kicked" in the Falklands by sailing 8000 miles, capturing 11,000 prisoners and winning the war in 25 days. American education, ladies and gentlemen.



Eric Turkheimer (former president of the Behavior Genetics Association) says race is skin deep because there's an "ethical principle" that says it must be so. Ppl sometimes accuse me of quoting him out of context. But no one has explained how the "context" makes it any better.




I truly believe music taste is somewhat a reflection of intelligence





To be clear, I don’t think Gladwell made anything up. He was very diligent about sourcing everything from 00s social scientists who made everything up




To be clear, I don’t think Gladwell made anything up. He was very diligent about sourcing everything from 00s social scientists who made everything up

