Newest releases from Nucleus and Herasight
Things are moving fast in the embryo selection sector. There was never really any technological barriers here the last 10+ years, just the usual social taboos and various incompetent people…
Herasight publishes their validation of IQ PGS; Nucleus open sources their models
There's two exciting news today in embryo selection. The technology is finally moving forward at an appreciable rate. Maybe we are not dysgenics doomed after all. First off, Herasight --…
How to norm a score
Suppose you have created a new scale of something ("Science Blog Rating Scale"). It can be psychology or some other soft science, but it doesn't have to be. Suppose you…
Sibling admixture regression in Mexico
A week ago, a landmark study dropped: Wang, S., Berumen, J., Vergara-Lope, A., Baca, P., Barrera, E., Rivas, F., ... & Visscher, P. M. (2025). Direct effect of genetic ancestry…
Genomic prediction of faces
I sometimes get asked when we are going to get face accurate prediction from genomes. I tell people that it will take a while because variation is mostly continuous (unlike…
Video: Davide Piffer and I talk about ancient genomics, polygenic scores and history
The first of many videos for paid subscribers (on Substack). Actually, this first one will be free, and some later ones may also be free (which I will also post…
Odd sibling RDR results: is the problem measurement error in IBD?
You've probably seen the recent Scott Alexander discussion about heritability, with comments from key players and commentators in the field, but if not: Scott Alexander: Missing Heritability: Much More Than…
The Undark race science summary
For months, some journalist called Ashley Smart has been emailing me for quotes for some upcoming hit piece. E.g., back form January: Hi Emil, I'm a journalist with Undark Magazine, and…
Hutus and Tutsis and genetics
My book review of Michael Ryan's book briefly covered this topic but due to popular interest, here is a full post. Famously, there was a genocide in Rwanda in the…
When did NW Europeans become WEIRD? Not from lack of inbreeding
Joseph Henrich published two books based on the Hajnal line or WEIRD (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) personality cluster idea (The Secret of Our Success 2016; The WEIRDest People in…
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