{"id":12520,"date":"2023-09-21T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T11:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T10:18:11","slug":"blogs-im-reading-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2023\/09\/blogs-im-reading-september-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs I&#8217;m reading: September 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have occasionally posted compilations of blogs on IQ or HBD in general. However, it&#8217;s been a while since the 2019 compilation. More have come, some are gone. Here&#8217;s an updated list of blogs and magazines I read. These are in no particular order of importance, rather in the order I was able to find them in Feedly and Substack:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reasonwithoutrestraint.com\/\">Reason without restraint<\/a>, great compilation of HBD materials. A typical post is a 20k word compilation of results on, say, <a href=\"https:\/\/reasonwithoutrestraint.com\/the-predictive-validity-of-cognitive-ability-2\/\">predictive validity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/author\/steve-sailer\/\">Steve Sailer<\/a>. He needs little introduction.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.razibkhan.com\/\">Razib Khan<\/a>. The best summarizer of population genetics and history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theupheaval.substack.com\/\">The Upheaval<\/a>. Not even sure how to describe this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/betonit.substack.com\/\">Bet on it, by Bryan Caplan<\/a>. Libertarian perspectives on everything. Very prolific.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu\/\">Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, Andrew Gelman<\/a> comments on various social science. Sometimes good but not as good as it used to be.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwest.co.uk\/\">Wrong Side of History, Ed West<\/a> enlightens us on history and British matters.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/\">Astral Codex Ten \/ Slate Star Codex, Scott Alexander<\/a> is a masterful writer on just about any topic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/shape-of-code.com\/\">The Shape of Code by Derek Jones<\/a>, hard data on software engineering.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/datacolada.org\/\">Data Colada<\/a>, a team of scientists uncover fraud and problems in research, sometimes do direct replications. Very good stuff.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardhanania.com\/\">Richard Hanania<\/a>, mostly writes on wokeness issues, but usually good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cspicenter.com\/\">CSPI, Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology<\/a>, Hanania&#8217;s think tank, of sorts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstack.com\/\">Karlstack<\/a>, another blog uncovered fraud and misconduct in science. Broke several important stories.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/justthesocialfacts.blogspot.com\/2023\/09\/fraud-cried-maddened-thousands.html\">Just the social facts, ma&#8217;am, David Weakliem<\/a> investigates various public opinion research, a lot of original content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/russellwarne.com\/2023\/09\/14\/the-search-for-albert-einsteins-iq\/\">Russell Warne<\/a>, IQ blogging and gifted education from a top researcher.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nintil.com\/\">Nintil by Jos\u00e9 Luis Ric\u00f3n Fern\u00e1ndez de la Puente<\/a>, various very detailed investigations into meta-science, longevity and so on from LW perspective, also link compilations.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peterturchin.com\/cliodynamica\/\">Cliodynamica, Peter Turchin<\/a> tries to make history more scientific.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aporiamagazine.com\/\">Aporia Magazine, Matt Archer, Bo Winegard, Noah Carl<\/a> and others started a new magazine.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/infoproc.blogspot.com\/\">Information Processing by Steve Hsu<\/a>, mainly about genomics, IQ, and physics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/humanvarieties.org\/\">Human Varieties<\/a>, one of the longest running, most detailed HBD blogs, by John Fuerst, Meng Hu, Dalliard and others.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sebjenseb.net\/\">Seb Jensen<\/a>, &#8220;mad social scientist&#8221;, HBD blog<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/peterfrost.substack.com\/\">Peter Frost&#8217;s anthropology blog<\/a>, one of the very few HBD anthropology blogs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ideasanddata.wordpress.com\/\">Sean Last&#8217;s Ideas and Data<\/a> blog. Very good HBD blog.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/inductivist.blogspot.com\/\">Inductivist<\/a>, a lot of original GSS analyses.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ljzigerell.com\/\">L.J Zigerell<\/a>, professor of political science with sometimes spicy findings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thompsonj.substack.com\/\">Psychological Comments, James Thompson<\/a> commentary, mainly on intelligence.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thosewhocansee.blogspot.com\/\">Those who can see<\/a>, excellent compilations of immigration problems in Europe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vectorsofmind.com\/\">Vectors of Mind, by Andrew Cutler<\/a>, &#8220;Machine Learning Psychometrics&#8221; also snakes and psychedelics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aella.substack.com\/\">Knowingless, by Aella<\/a>, survey research by sex worker<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/axisofordinary.substack.com\/\">Axis of Ordinary by Alexander Kruel<\/a>, compiles a lot of interesting links almost every day<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/daviddfriedman.substack.com\/\">David Friedman\u2019s Substack<\/a>, libertarian perspectives on policy and science<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.josephbronski.com\/\">Joseph Bronski<\/a>, contrarian perspectives on political science and HBD<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wyclif.substack.com\/\">Wyclif&#8217;s Dust, by David Hugh-Jones<\/a>, mostly genomics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I forgot you or someone else, post it in the comments!<\/p>\n<p>Some embarrassing oversights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"navbar-title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cremieux.xyz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cremieux Recueil<\/a>, top tier HBD blog<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/werkat.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Werkat<\/a>, another good HBD blog<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurogenes.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Eurogenes Blog<\/a>, population genomics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inquisitivebird.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Inquisitive Bird<\/a>, another good Danish HBD blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have occasionally posted compilations of blogs on IQ or HBD in general. However, it&#8217;s been a while since the 2019 compilation. More have come, some are gone. Here&#8217;s an updated list of blogs and magazines I read. These are in no particular order of importance, rather in the order I was able to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3195,1107],"tags":[3403,2936,1809,2912],"class_list":["post-12520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilations","category-science","tag-blogs","tag-compilation","tag-reading","tag-substack","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}