Charles C Roseman
@evoroseman.bsky.social
Evolution and genetics of complex traits. Genes, evolution, and society.
Masculine pronouns and noun classes in whichever language.
Masculine pronouns and noun classes in whichever language.
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I would support a system in which reviewers get credits to offset/waive APCs so as to align an interest in valuing the labor and valuing access
I think we need to pay reviewers.
25 no response out of 30 requests to review!
Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media
Drives me mad this selfish behaviour, which I also see as a journal editor. And it's almost always established folk with secure jobs, not least those endlessly brandishing their right-on-ness on social media
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I would support a system in which reviewers get credits to offset/waive APCs so as to align an interest in valuing the labor and valuing access
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Another great post from Sasha demonstrating what will ring true to many of us-- our environments include our siblings, making it unlikely that siblings have identical environments.
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Another great post from Sasha demonstrating what will ring true to many of us-- our environments include our siblings, making it unlikely that siblings have identical environments.
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Interactions with polygenic background impact quantitative traits in the UK Biobank https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.25340263v1
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Interactions with polygenic background impact quantitative traits in the UK Biobank https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.14.25340263v1
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Some history of science grad student is going to have one hell of a dissertation about how Arthur Jensen wrecked two disciplines for half a century.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Some history of science grad student is going to have one hell of a dissertation about how Arthur Jensen wrecked two disciplines for half a century.
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is pretty damn good at this.
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social is pretty damn good at this.
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What a disastrous move on the side of the
@uniofleicester.bsky.social . In a world affected by the global change which needs a multitude of perspective, they are planning to narrow-down all Earth sciences to few unoriginal generics. Please sign the petition 👇
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio
@uniofleicester.bsky.social . In a world affected by the global change which needs a multitude of perspective, they are planning to narrow-down all Earth sciences to few unoriginal generics. Please sign the petition 👇
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio
Geology and palaeobiology at the University of Leicester are under threat, with at least 14 staff expected to be made redundant. Support them, their postdocs, and their students by signing this petition: c.org/SK8Xm8dhqK
Sign the Petition
Save Geology at the University of Leicester
c.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
What a disastrous move on the side of the
@uniofleicester.bsky.social . In a world affected by the global change which needs a multitude of perspective, they are planning to narrow-down all Earth sciences to few unoriginal generics. Please sign the petition 👇
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio
@uniofleicester.bsky.social . In a world affected by the global change which needs a multitude of perspective, they are planning to narrow-down all Earth sciences to few unoriginal generics. Please sign the petition 👇
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #EvoBio #Paleobio
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AI is "approaching human reasoning" through the steady degradation of human reasoning (especially about AI... 🙄)
"We thought AI would only approach human reasoning around 2050. Now we expect this to happen already next year." — Ursula von der Leyen
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
AI is "approaching human reasoning" through the steady degradation of human reasoning (especially about AI... 🙄)
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I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
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The link between the gut microbiome and autism not backed by science, experts say www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
Link between gut microbiome and autism not backed by science, study
The role of the gut in autism continues to attract widespread attention, but experts now say there is no scientific evidence that the gut microbiome causes autism.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The link between the gut microbiome and autism not backed by science, experts say www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
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"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
What James Watson got wrong about DNA - The Boston Globe
The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"What James Watson got wrong about DNA"
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com).
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...
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Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/
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Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
My dad came in second in an ugly man contest. My mom’s genes only helped out so much…
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My dad came in second in an ugly man contest. My mom’s genes only helped out so much…
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Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know.
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
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I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective
The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective
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Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies - Communications Biology
A detailed Review across animal and human societies provides insight on the causes and consequences of adult sex ratio skew.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.
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Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics
Brings back memories of Marc Feldman saying "John Maynard Smith" in his spectacular Australian accent.
John Maynard Smith and Richard Lewontin at the University of Sussex, 9 March 1972.
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Brings back memories of Marc Feldman saying "John Maynard Smith" in his spectacular Australian accent.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
www.latimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
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👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise
The War on Science, ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary "war on science" from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...