Pre-Persian Iran: from the invention of agriculture to the Aryan onslaught Razib 🥥 Khan 🧬 📘✍️📱 razibkhan.com/p/pre-persian-… Strung between Anatolia, the Levant, the Arabian peninsula, South Asia and Central Asia, the Iranian plateau exists at an essential nexus. Before 50,000 years ago it was…

I hope more people read this preprint.
GestaltMatcher Database - A global reference for the facial phenotypic variability of rare human diseases medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’m delighted to share that I’ll be teaching at UATX in the fall—Can’t wait to build this university with my future colleagues and students!

📢Our first blog for the HAAM-community website:
Missing data and PCA: How little is too little?
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We all have a “feeling” of how much we trust the position of our low-coverage samples in PCA space, but does the data agree with our gut? 🤔
#HAAMcommunity

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mob- ruled America 😂

I was invited to guest lecture at UT Austin for a class called “Fraud & Folly in Financial Markets” in the McCombs School of Business! I warned the professor I am SEVERELY underqualified for this & HATE public speaking, but he still wanted me come, so I am in Austin! HELLO👋

There has never been a more exciting time to be a programmer. Don’t stop learning.

The model minority “myth” is not a myth; it’s reality. Asian Americans really do have the best educational outcomes; they also lead in incomes, lowest rates of crime, drug use, and divorce rates. If Americans followed Asian American patterns, we would simply be better off.

A peer-reviewer who chastised me, quite roughly, for not citing a single scholar of color when I had cited myself in the article.

Our group’s deep mutational scan of the transcription factor CRX is up on bioRxiv. Go see how the data stacks up against the predictions of Alpha Missense!

Excellent work by MD/PhD student James Shepherdson from Barak Cohen’s lab.

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Hindu-Americans will spend literal decades impressing upon their children that all that matters in life is admission to elite institutions, and then act shocked, shocked when their kids adopt the regnant values of those institutions.

Whole genome embryo screening will be the default way to have healthy babies faster than you’d think

New preprint with Renee Geck in collaboration with Nick Powell! AllofUsResearch continues to be a rich resource to probe genetic variation. 'Functional Analysis of G6PD Variants Associated With Low G6PD Activity in the All of Us Research Program' medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

This video is such a great explainer on why 100x the data on your embryos makes a huge difference

who/whom

We will be starting soon!

many women peg their height to male height

Both books will be officially published at 12:01 am on 16 April...and it feels like history is repeating itself. It's hard to celebrate with everything going on in the world right now...Say hello to a stranger and engage in random acts of kindness if you have the chance, ok?

There's nothing wrong with or uncommon about children sharing a room.

Why is this going viral?