Jennifer Raff
@jenniferraff.bsky.social
Anthropological geneticist, NYT bestselling author, martial artist, professor, Ox mother. Rock chalk.
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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 10:34 PM
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
Oh no I saw the thing. 🤢
November 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Oh no I saw the thing. 🤢
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A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.
The Met 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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in many ways trump and zohran are the glinda and elphaba of our timeline
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
in many ways trump and zohran are the glinda and elphaba of our timeline
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We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We hereby retire the “record scratch-Freeze frame-You may be wondering how I got here” meme.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
It’s over. It will never be topped by this image.
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The arc of the moral universe was like
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The arc of the moral universe was like
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LOL, inside the White House today. Dude REALLY got red pilled this time!
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
LOL, inside the White House today. Dude REALLY got red pilled this time!
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The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup!
Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉.
Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.
Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉.
Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The 2026 EMBL symposium 'Reconstructing the human past using ancient and modern genomics' is live with a fantastic invited speaker lineup!
Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉.
Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.
Abstract deadline 9 June. If work is ongoing, plan for Heidelberg in September😉.
Organised by Maanasa Raghavan, @matejahajdi.bsky.social, Choongwon Jeong & me.
So well-deserved, congratulations David!
November 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
So well-deserved, congratulations David!
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You can bully companies into dropping DEI programs, and you can force the public library to pull books with queer characters. But you can’t, in the end, force other people to approve of your bigotry, which is what they really want.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
You can bully companies into dropping DEI programs, and you can force the public library to pull books with queer characters. But you can’t, in the end, force other people to approve of your bigotry, which is what they really want.
RT'ing to remind myself to listen to this later. Can't do it now because I'm at an ACTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY conference which would have been nice for certain authors to attend and learn about ACTUAL RESEARCH. (I assume that's the gist of the podcast episode as well!).
This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
RT'ing to remind myself to listen to this later. Can't do it now because I'm at an ACTUAL ANTHROPOLOGY conference which would have been nice for certain authors to attend and learn about ACTUAL RESEARCH. (I assume that's the gist of the podcast episode as well!).
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Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
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For those covering #autism news today, I offer this guide to avoiding ableist and stigmatizing language, complete with suggested alternatives.
🎉 Lab paper alert: “Autism ableism seen through research abstract contents: A mixed-methods analysis of language in NIH-funded genetic and genomic autism research.” We found ableist/stigmatizing language ubiquitous throughout grant abstracts from 1980-2022.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
journals.sagepub.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
For those covering #autism news today, I offer this guide to avoiding ableist and stigmatizing language, complete with suggested alternatives.
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The claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is the very definition of an evidence-based claim. Over a million children have been studied in every valid, ethical experimental design scientists can think of. More evidence-based claims: infections can kill people & we have vaccines that keep people alive.
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is the very definition of an evidence-based claim. Over a million children have been studied in every valid, ethical experimental design scientists can think of. More evidence-based claims: infections can kill people & we have vaccines that keep people alive.
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It's hard out there for a lickspittle.
November 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's hard out there for a lickspittle.
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With the vote to release the Epstein files underway, let's revisit @annamerlan.bsky.social's piece breaking down just how the Trump administration ensured that the conspiracy theories surrounding the president's relationship with the convicted sex offender won't really end.
Now it’s Epstein forever
The Trump administration's ham-handed moves have ensured that Epstein conspiracy theories will never really end.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
With the vote to release the Epstein files underway, let's revisit @annamerlan.bsky.social's piece breaking down just how the Trump administration ensured that the conspiracy theories surrounding the president's relationship with the convicted sex offender won't really end.
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.
In Kansas and elsewhere, some state lawmakers are skeptical of the redistricting rush
Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Kansas Republican leaders couldn't rally enough support this fall for a special session on redistricting. It's just one example of lawmakers pushing back on a new round of partisan gerrymandering.
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NEW: After pressure from a US Senator, Indiana University removed a professor mid-semester. “We have reached a dangerous cliff for academic freedom in Indiana,” says PEN America’s Amy Reid. Read more here.
pen.org/press-releas...
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U.S Senator’s Pressure Pushes Academic Freedom to Dangerous Cliff in Indiana
(NEW YORK) – PEN America today strongly condemned Indiana University for its decision to remove a faculty member from a graduate-level class mid-semester, following the intervention of a U.S. Senator,...
pen.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
NEW: After pressure from a US Senator, Indiana University removed a professor mid-semester. “We have reached a dangerous cliff for academic freedom in Indiana,” says PEN America’s Amy Reid. Read more here.
pen.org/press-releas...
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WTF?! This makes me so ashamed to be an alumna
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
WTF?! This makes me so ashamed to be an alumna
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love to every woman reading about how the rich and powerful talk about, think about, and treat us. tough week.
November 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
love to every woman reading about how the rich and powerful talk about, think about, and treat us. tough week.
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A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds
Dog Skull Analysis Rewrites Evolution of Humanity's Best Friend
A surprising diversity of dog shapes and sizes evolved long before the Victorians began making modern breeds
www.scientificamerican.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I want to uplift the women who were girls who were raped by Epstein & Maxwell & Trump & ex-Prince Andrew & abandoned by everyone who's been scrambling lately to say that they didn't know of course they didn't know but they did know & some of them knew because they'd done it too.
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I do not care what you THINK will happen.
'Impeach. Remove. Prosecute.'
You repeat it every day.
'Impeach. Remove. Prosecute.'
You repeat it every day.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I do not care what you THINK will happen.
'Impeach. Remove. Prosecute.'
You repeat it every day.
'Impeach. Remove. Prosecute.'
You repeat it every day.
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BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year.
Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.