Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026x.com/AlexTISYoung...x.comAlex Strudwick Young (@AlexTISYoung) on XIn March 2024, at the age of 35, I was diagnosed with stage IV rectal cancer with a metastasis in my liver. This was a shock: I had no family history, and none of the doctors suspected it. After two y... 030
Reposted by Razib KhanScott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Botanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plant: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...cell.comBotanical parasitism of an insect by a parasitic plantEgan et al. report the discovery of a new trophic interaction in nature whereby a parasitic plant attacks multiple species of insects that manipulate plant tissue when the two co-occur on a shared pri... 811257
Reposted by Razib KhanIosif Lazaridis @iosiflazaridis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduLandmark studies track source of Indo-European languages— Harvard GazetteResearchers place Caucasus Lower Volga people, speakers of ancestor tongue, in today’s Russia about 6,500 years ago 1101
Reposted by Razib KhanAndrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 15/04/2026The adoption of agriculture kicked off a very active period in human evolution, geneticists argue in a new @nature.com study. “Everything has changed about the way we live," says @harvard.edu geneticist Ali Akbari, "and that’s reflected in our genome and how it’s trying to catch up.” @science.orgscience.orgTen thousand years ago, human evolution went into overdriveAncient DNA reveals “massive” genetic shifts tied to rise of farming, wheels, and metal tools 04819
Reposted by Razib KhanDr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026New paper alert. My new article just published in Quaternary Science Reviews, "Revolution, modernity, and the dispersal of Homo sapiens beyond Africa". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comRevolution, modernity, and the dispersal of Homo sapiens beyond AfricaIn the recent past, evolutionarily speaking, every other kind of hominin, from the Neanderthals of western Eurasia to the ‘hobbits’ of Flores, became … 2198
Reposted by Razib KhanStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 25/03/2026A harmonized benchmarking framework for implementation-aware evaluation of 46 polygenic risk score tools across binary and continuous phenotypes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/MuhammadMune... 021
Reposted by Razib KhanSaccharomyces Genome Database @yeastgenome.bsky.social · 02/03/2026We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of David Botstein, a towering figure in modern #genetics and a foundational force behind SGD. www.yeastgenome.org/blog/in-memo... #yeast #modelOrganism 05229
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Facing Facts, even fraught ones: the quest for proto-Indo-Europeans in 2023 open.substack.com/pub/razib/p/...open.substack.comFacing Facts, even fraught ones: the quest for proto-Indo-Europeans in 2023How genetics illuminates the rise of Eurasian steppe pastoralism 000
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 25/02/2026More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins www.razibkhan.com/p/more-than-...razibkhan.comMore than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousinsThe cold facts recorded in Jewish and Palestinian genetics today and historically 000
Reposted by Razib Khankoenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 18/02/2026The emergence of the domestic dog lineage occurred soon after the human expansion out of Africa 50,000 years ago. Now we have genetics to trace the evolution of man’s best friend. @razibkhan.bsky.social digs into its past: buff.ly/aF3GBfG 023
Reposted by Razib KhanRazib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Lost Green Saharans: ancient DNA unearths a new race from a verdant North African interlude www.razibkhan.com/p/lost-green...razibkhan.comLost Green Saharans: ancient DNA unearths a new race from a verdant North African interludeThese 7000-year-old humans are neither Eurasian nor sub-Saharan African 081
Reposted by Razib KhanMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Vance is a guy who’s decided to use his perceptiveness about the nature of the Trump movement exclusively for own power and gain and so far it’s worked www.richardhanania.com/p/jd-vance-i... 1310112
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my! www.razibkhan.com/p/john-hawks...razibkhan.comJohn Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!Two paleoanthropologists talk about the state of the field 011
Reposted by Razib KhanMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025To the memory of the good Jim. From the RAF bar of the Eagle which is where they used to drink. 3403
Reposted by Razib KhanJohn Greally @greally.bsky.social · 07/11/2025He made a massive impact. Respect. 161
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 10/10/2025A Nile shadow 4,500 years old www.razibkhan.com/p/a-nile-sha...razibkhan.comA Nile shadow 4,500 years old2500 BC DNA closes old case, poses new questions about prehistory 020
Reposted by Razib KhanRobin Hofmeister @rjhfmstr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025🚨 New preprint out! We reconstructed parental haplotypes in >440k individuals (UK & Estonian biobanks) to estimate assortative mating directly in the parental generation. This reveals intensified assortment in recent generations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 13018
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Fortune favors the fearless: millennia of Austronesian maritime feats www.razibkhan.com/p/fortune-fa...razibkhan.comFortune favors the fearless: millennia of Austronesian maritime featsEpic Explorers of the Stone Age: the full scope of Austronesian audacity, part 1/2 151
Reposted by Razib Khani/o @avidseries.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Intermarriage rates by race/ethnicity. 073
Reposted by Razib KhanMatthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025News in the history of molecular biology. The Science History Institute in Philadelphia has acquired a huge archive of correspondence and other scientific material from the pioneers of molecular biology (Franklin, Klug, Perutz, Delbrück etc, with items from Crick and Watson, too). 1/nsciencehistory.orgHistory of Molecular Biology CollectionThis unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA. 619893
Reposted by Razib KhanGurdur @gurdur.bsky.social · 31/08/2025This from @razibkhan.bsky.social is very interesting indeed: "When civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long reboot: Reflecting on Europe’s lost 5,000-year-old first draft" www.razibkhan.com/p/when-civil...razibkhan.comWhen civilization control-alt-deletes: prehistoric Europe’s false dawn and long rebootReflecting on Europe’s lost 5,000-year-old first draft 011
Reposted by Razib KhanCarl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 08/08/2025Trump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointees www.statnews.com/2025/08/08/t...statnews.comTrump executive order seeks to centralize control of grantmaking under political appointeesA sweeping new executive order seeks to transform how the federal government awards billions of dollars in research grants 21811
Reposted by Razib KhanAdria LeBoeuf @adriatica.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Pretty amazing. Potatoes are the outcome of an ~9 million year ago hybridization that led to an explosive radiation. The evolution of storage. 0244
Reposted by Razib KhanNicolas Bierne @couplingdmi.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Still no good evidence that inversions dominate evolution.media.tenor.coma man sitting in a field of yellow flowersALT: a man sitting in a field of yellow flowers 011
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025big names are now putting the stamp of approval on polygenic embryo selection 050
Reposted by Razib KhanDr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Hammond et al 2025. 'The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion' 👌 www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...frontiersin.orgFrontiers | The behavioural ecology of hominin locomotion: what can we learn from landscapes of fear and primate terrestriality?A defining feature of the hominin clade is bipedality, often parcelled together with terrestriality. However, there is increasing evidence of locomotor diver... 083
Reposted by Razib KhanGraham Dellaire @docdellaire.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Evolutionary molecular biology paying dividends again - this time in finding new modulators of innate immunity - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgA human homolog of SIR2 antiphage proteins mediates immunity via the Toll-like receptor pathwayKey actors of mammalian immunity originated from bacterial antiphage systems. The full extent of immune system conservation between bacteria and eukaryotes is unknown. Here, we show that the silent in... 23613
Reposted by Razib KhanVincent J Lynch 🐘🦣🦥 🦇🐋🐢🐍 @devoevomed.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I ways forget the 🦠 🐘 🧪 082
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025observer.co.uk/news/science...observer.co.uk‘People can change their minds’: the evolutionary biologi...Ella Al-Shamahi is the erudite presenter of a breathtaking new series about our 300,000-year history. But her own evolution story isn’t short of drama ei... 250
Reposted by Razib Khanalex ioannidis @alexgioannidis.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I'm disturbed by tenured faculty on here behaving like high school bullies. I ask them to look up ad hominem and recognize that what Mamdani did was atrocious and newsworthy. Why are we defending an uber-privileged applicant whose father was faculty at the Ivy League university he was applying to? 321
Reposted by Razib KhanChris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Here are replicas of crania: Kabwe, La Ferrassie Neanderthal, Harbin and a recent human.. 0296
Reposted by Razib KhanHugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Impressive and risky research testing ancient seafaring in Japan (love the map): Paleolithic seafaring in East Asia: An experimental test of the dugout canoe hypothesis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 0154
Reposted by Razib KhanJD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Congratulations to the new leader of the Democratic Party @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 739819124
Reposted by Razib KhanRob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This is amazing! SSHash is already one of the fastest existing indexes for kmer queries (esp streaming ones). These performance improvements are surprisingly big! We (@noorpratap.bsky.social & I) suggested streaming improvements & Giulio adopts those & more (w/onhurting the negative lookup case).1/2 141
Reposted by Razib KhanEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 02/06/2025I make my first post in a week and the replies include this stuff from someone with 26,000+ followers (yes, blocking and removing them, but who needs to put up with this on every post?) They aren't even reactions to the post, just folks hunting for people to insult and attack. 18882
Razib Khan @razibkhan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Khanversation #43: Jane Smith on cargo cults and Curtis Yarvin in the New Yorker www.khanversationpod.com/p/khanversat...khanversationpod.comKhanversation #43: Jane Smith on cargo cults and Curtis Yarvin in the New YorkerKhanversation episode number forty-three 000
Reposted by Razib KhanMelissa Wilson @sexchrlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025So excited to talk (remotely) at UC Riverside tonight as the student-nominates speaker. It means so much to be selected by the students. 1506
