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Alan Rogers

@alanrogers.bsky.social
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Population geneticist at U of Utah studying history and adaptative evolution in humans. Author of "The Evidence for Evolution". I also dabble in evolutionary ecology.

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Aarhus University's Religion, Cognition, and Culture Unit @rcc-au.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Report on the state of scholarship in anthropology by Joe Henrich. The relevance of the report goes far beyond anthropology. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...
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The Task This document represents a supporting chapter in our Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences. Our interdisciplinary panel was charged with asse...
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Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Logarithmic history just published an essay about the 80:20 hybridization event that formed the ancestral population of modern humans: logarithmichistory.wordpress.com
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Logarithmic History
The history of the universe -- from the Big Bang to the end of the year -- day by day
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Does anyone know who coined the term "incomplete lineage sorting"? It wasn't Pamilo and Nei 1988.
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"the genetic foundation for extended adrenarche is shared between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, and may have deeper hominin roots" www.biorxiv.org/content/bior...
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
PSMC estimates of Ne now reach back not merely 2 My but more like 8. Estimates from humans, chimps, and bonobos share a peak between 3 and 6 Mya, which may reflect a complex speciation event separating hominins and panins. mcb.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
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Genetic Estimates of Population History Reach Even Farther into ...
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Bryce Anderson @475nm.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
They keep saying that renewable energy "locks in" fossil fuels. This looks like a lockout to me.
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Will the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology (@isbarchaeology.bsky.social) be meeting in 2027? Their website still lists the "upcoming" meeting in 2025.
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The genome of the Pacific acorn barnacle provides insights into the evolution of extremely large populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/04/2026
Retaliatory gerrymandering should be just the beginning:
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It Is Time for Ruthless Aggression
The national battle over gerrymandering should be just the first step. Next up: expanding SCOTUS.
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Nels Elde @elearlybird.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today — theonion.com/biologists-c...
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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today
STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Morez Jacobs et al used 45k genomes to localize Neandertal haplotypes w/i the British; used these to infer the SFS of the introgressing Neandertals; and then inferred population history parameters of the introgressing pop. Also lots about selection. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Population replacement in Neolithic France at the end of the megalith period. scholar.google.com/scholar_url?...
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is the most delightful thing I’ve ever read
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Katerina Douka @katerinad.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
A few years ago, using palaeoproteomics, we identified a tiny hominin bone from Denisova Cave and named it Denisova 17 (D17). A rather unremarkable sliver. At the time, I wondered, could it be Denny’s sibling (the Neanderthal/Denisovan hybrid we had just reported)? Well, turns out: no. 🧵1/4
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
“Human ancestors interbred with two distinct populations of distant relatives” nice new preprint by @alanrogers.bsky.social @colinmbrand.bsky.social @timwebster.bsky.social showing that “archaics” & “moderns” interbred with two distinct “superarchaic” populations 🧪🧬💀
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Can anyone tell me what software makes graphs like this (from Cousins, Scally, and Durbin 2025)?
Graph showing history of human population size, separation, and gene flow over past 1.5 Ma.
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 09/01/2026
Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"Trump’s National Security Strategy made one thing brutally clear and that is that the United States is no longer fully shaping its own foreign policy. The document reads like parts of it were written in Moscow and stamped in Washington." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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BOMBSHELL: Russia Was Planning a Massive Terrorist Attack on Europe and the U.S. in 2024
Shocking new story out of The Financial Times (paywalled) that supports a BBC report from last year: Russia has been conducting a terror war against the rest of Europe for years. Assassinations, acts ...
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
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GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics
A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#popgen #evbio
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#popgen #evolgen
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
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Measuring the Phylogenetic Information in Proteins
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 03/08/2025
The Art of the Deal.
A post from Donald Trump reads: “Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer is demanding over One Billion Dollars in order to approve a small number of our highly qualified nominees, who should right now be helping to run our Country. This demand is egregious and unprecedented, and would be embarrassing to the Republican Party if it were accepted. It is political extortion, by any other name. Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL! Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
He doesn’t remember nominating Jerome Powell.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Fuck it, they killed him live.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.
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seananigans.bsky.social @seananigans.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
He wasn’t even adjusting anything he was walking calmly when they opened fire on him
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I've received some information from a local about the individual accused of being the SLC shooter (who did not fire, was shot by 'official' security who also hit and killed an unrelated person He'd done armed protesting before. Dressed more radically. Was a little awkward. no more than that
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Liz Ahern 🌈🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️☮️ @austinmermaid.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Salt Lake City, Utah protest was interrupted by gunshots. One person is in critical condition and police have detained a person of interest. #Utah #NoKings www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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One person ‘critically injured,’ one arrested after shooting as 10,000 march in Salt Lake City during No Kings protest
Near the end of a march from Pioneer Park to the Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building, shots were fired. Salt Lake City police said they transported one person to a hospital and arrested another.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
According to Gallup, evolutionists are winning hearts and minds. The change in slope starts before my 2011 book, so I can't claim all the credit.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
100 days into this presidency, Americans are paying the price - higher prices, crashing retirement accounts, and broken promises. But the American people are turning, thanks to your voices. Keep it up. It's up to us to demand something better.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/17/o...
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Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M • Ohio Capital Journal
The Ohio Department of Medicaid department in 2022 gave powerful prescription drug middlemen the boot and created a new system. The result: Fees paid to pharmacies were boosted more than 1,200% while ...
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
@pkrugman.bsky.social makes it simple: "Why do people work? Not to be able to boast that they ran trade surpluses with their employers — `Hey, they paid me a lot, and I hardly bought anything from them.' No, people sell their labor so that they can afford to buy stuff."
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/04/2025
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.
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Alan Rogers @alanrogers.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#hand-off Salt Lake
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Why did 77m voters choose Trump? We now have data comparing the attitudes and values of American voters with people around the world. And it turns out that Republicans align their values very closely with Russia and Turkey, and to a slightly lesser degree China. www.thebulwark.com/p/new-data-r...
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New Data: Republican Voters Want Authoritarianism
Inside the World Values Survey.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is indeed brilliant
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The community note 🤌😘
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…
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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
#medsky#pedsky#idsky#immunosky 🧪 In the midst of all of the scary headlines recently, I thought I could take a moment to share a bit of good news: for the first time in history, a malaria vaccine with >90% efficacy seems to be within reach! Here’s why that’s a really big deal for EVERYONE 🧵
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A Single-Dose Breakthrough: PfSPZ-LARC Vaccines Offer Transformative Protection Against Malaria – Sanaria
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Sarah Tishkoff, PhD @sarahtishkoff.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Apologies for this long post I put together to explain to non-scientists the impact of NIH cuts: Last night, an “atomic bomb” was dropped on the biomedical science community. We were informed that effective immediately, indirect costs on NIH grants (both current and future) would be fixed at 15%.
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