Joe Baker
@bakerjtoronto.bsky.social
Tanenbaum Chair in Sport Science, Data Modelling, and Sport Analytics at the University of Toronto. Author of The Tyranny of Talent (2022) - https://www.amazon.ca/stores/Joseph-Baker/author/B09DZ32N3K
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Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine
motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently
estimated to be 25%. After decad...
www.cell.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
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Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond. Check out this review by @ocklenburg.bsky.social published in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social http://dlvr.it/TNjZCR #ASHG25
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond. Check out this review by @ocklenburg.bsky.social published in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social http://dlvr.it/TNjZCR #ASHG25
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The love of reading is an endangered species.
Just 16% of Americans do regular leisure reading—down from 28% in 2003. Only 41% of UK parents read daily to their toddlers—down from 64% in 2012.
Books aren't merely a source of flow. They're a gateway to empathy and lifelong learning.
Just 16% of Americans do regular leisure reading—down from 28% in 2003. Only 41% of UK parents read daily to their toddlers—down from 64% in 2012.
Books aren't merely a source of flow. They're a gateway to empathy and lifelong learning.
August 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The love of reading is an endangered species.
Just 16% of Americans do regular leisure reading—down from 28% in 2003. Only 41% of UK parents read daily to their toddlers—down from 64% in 2012.
Books aren't merely a source of flow. They're a gateway to empathy and lifelong learning.
Just 16% of Americans do regular leisure reading—down from 28% in 2003. Only 41% of UK parents read daily to their toddlers—down from 64% in 2012.
Books aren't merely a source of flow. They're a gateway to empathy and lifelong learning.
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May 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Looking forward to this coming out soon. In the paper, we propose a hierarchy for how different psychological constructs affect behaviour in athlete development contexts.
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Looking forward to this coming out soon. In the paper, we propose a hierarchy for how different psychological constructs affect behaviour in athlete development contexts.
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The genetic basis of human height www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/egGQf) 🧬🖥️🧪
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The genetic basis of human height www.nature.com/articles/s41... (read free: rdcu.be/egGQf) 🧬🖥️🧪
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You’re welcome…
March 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
You’re welcome…
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Psychological insights for judging expertise and implications for adversarial legal contexts
Review by Kristy A. Martire, Tess M. S. Neal, Fernand Gobet, Jason M. Chin, Jonathan F. Berengut & Gary Edmond
Web: go.nature.com/4ig3zhE
PDF: rdcu.be/edUS3
#psychology #psychscisky
Review by Kristy A. Martire, Tess M. S. Neal, Fernand Gobet, Jason M. Chin, Jonathan F. Berengut & Gary Edmond
Web: go.nature.com/4ig3zhE
PDF: rdcu.be/edUS3
#psychology #psychscisky
March 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Psychological insights for judging expertise and implications for adversarial legal contexts
Review by Kristy A. Martire, Tess M. S. Neal, Fernand Gobet, Jason M. Chin, Jonathan F. Berengut & Gary Edmond
Web: go.nature.com/4ig3zhE
PDF: rdcu.be/edUS3
#psychology #psychscisky
Review by Kristy A. Martire, Tess M. S. Neal, Fernand Gobet, Jason M. Chin, Jonathan F. Berengut & Gary Edmond
Web: go.nature.com/4ig3zhE
PDF: rdcu.be/edUS3
#psychology #psychscisky
Nice work, Ben!
With the USport Women's Hockey National Championship coming this week, I'm excited to share version 1 of our expected goals model, WHIMS (Women's Hockey Insight Model for Scoring), built using and for Women's Collegiate hockey (in Canada).
sites.google.com/view/bencsie...
sites.google.com/view/bencsie...
Ben Csiernik - WHIMS xG
WHIMS: THe Women's hockey insight model for scoring (usport version 1)
sites.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Nice work, Ben!
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I think that this paper is not cited enough.
If you use p-values in your research, and you can't do otherwise, it would be desirable to at least quantify what is the false discovery rate for your sample size and chosen thresholds. It'd be surprising. 🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
If you use p-values in your research, and you can't do otherwise, it would be desirable to at least quantify what is the false discovery rate for your sample size and chosen thresholds. It'd be surprising. 🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The reproducibility of research and the misinterpretation of p-values | Royal Society Open Science
We wish to answer this question: If you observe a ‘significant’ p-value after doing a single unbiased experiment, what is the probability that your
result is a false positive? The weak evidence provid...
royalsocietypublishing.org
March 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I think that this paper is not cited enough.
If you use p-values in your research, and you can't do otherwise, it would be desirable to at least quantify what is the false discovery rate for your sample size and chosen thresholds. It'd be surprising. 🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
If you use p-values in your research, and you can't do otherwise, it would be desirable to at least quantify what is the false discovery rate for your sample size and chosen thresholds. It'd be surprising. 🧪
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Great day at the MIT Sports Summit connecting with sports industry leaders and tech professionals.
March 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Great day at the MIT Sports Summit connecting with sports industry leaders and tech professionals.
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Just published!
"The problems with genetic essentialism, determinism, and reductionism."
karger.com/hde/article-...
"The problems with genetic essentialism, determinism, and reductionism."
karger.com/hde/article-...
March 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just published!
"The problems with genetic essentialism, determinism, and reductionism."
karger.com/hde/article-...
"The problems with genetic essentialism, determinism, and reductionism."
karger.com/hde/article-...
Reminder that LOIs are due at the end of the month.
March 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reminder that LOIs are due at the end of the month.
I feel like I'm getting predictable... In my defense, there is no better way to spend a week in February. #SpringTraining
March 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I feel like I'm getting predictable... In my defense, there is no better way to spend a week in February. #SpringTraining
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Full-on eugenics, in its most rabid, racist form is oozing its way back into mainstream discourse.
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse.
It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.
It’s disgusting & terrifying. And America has been here before.
The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Full-on eugenics, in its most rabid, racist form is oozing its way back into mainstream discourse.
Excited for this one to get out. Led by the amazing Jesse Korf. Coming soon!!
February 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Excited for this one to get out. Led by the amazing Jesse Korf. Coming soon!!
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James Gibson was born OTD in 1904.
His concept of the “affordance” dissolved the dichotomy between the organism and their environment. Each organism experiences its own environment: as things it can do or use, or barriers to its action or use.
🌱🐋 🦫🦋🧪🌎#philsci #psychsky #histSTM
His concept of the “affordance” dissolved the dichotomy between the organism and their environment. Each organism experiences its own environment: as things it can do or use, or barriers to its action or use.
🌱🐋 🦫🦋🧪🌎#philsci #psychsky #histSTM
January 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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How population stratification makes environments look like genes. A short 🧵:
January 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
How population stratification makes environments look like genes. A short 🧵:
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The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908 (revised version, following peer review)
January 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The Genomic Code: The genome instantiates a generative model of the organism arxiv.org/abs/2407.15908 (revised version, following peer review)
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What happened to the pursuit of truth? rupress.org/jgp/article/... - Eve Marder, on point...
What happened to the pursuit of truth? | Journal of General Physiology | Rockefeller University Press
The knowledge in our brains, not in our phones, is necessary for creative thinking and the pursuit of truth.
rupress.org
January 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What happened to the pursuit of truth? rupress.org/jgp/article/... - Eve Marder, on point...
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New blog post: “Heritability: Five battles”. It’s a (very) long and opinionated but hopefully beginner-friendly discussion, structured around five contexts in which people study and argue about heritability. (1/7) www.lesswrong.com/posts/xXtDCe...
Heritability: Five Battles — LessWrong
This is an opinionated but hopefully beginner-friendly discussion of heritability: what is it, what do we know about it, and how we should think about it? I structure my discussion around five context...
www.lesswrong.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
New blog post: “Heritability: Five battles”. It’s a (very) long and opinionated but hopefully beginner-friendly discussion, structured around five contexts in which people study and argue about heritability. (1/7) www.lesswrong.com/posts/xXtDCe...
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Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Does effort make life more meaningful? Was Sisyphus living the dream? In our new paper (now accepted in Cognition!), across 6 studies with nearly 3,000 participants, we found that more effortful tasks feel more meaningful 🧵
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"“Let’s edit your baby’s genome and hope for the best” is not exactly a compelling marketing slogan. It’s certainly not a responsible medical attitude."
This is a typically first-class analysis from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social.
www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...
This is a typically first-class analysis from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social.
www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...
Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics
A new paper just out in Nature , by Peter Visscher and colleagues (including bio-ethicist Julian Salvulescu) explores the idea of polygenic...
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January 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"“Let’s edit your baby’s genome and hope for the best” is not exactly a compelling marketing slogan. It’s certainly not a responsible medical attitude."
This is a typically first-class analysis from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social.
www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...
This is a typically first-class analysis from @wiringthebrain.bsky.social.
www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...
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OTD in 1831, HMS Beagle set sail from Falmouth on a cartographic mission in the service of British imperial and commercial interests.
On board as a supernumerary companion to the captain was a recent Cambridge graduate named Charles Darwin. He worked in the poop cabin.
#HistSTM #HPBio 🧪 #EvoBio
On board as a supernumerary companion to the captain was a recent Cambridge graduate named Charles Darwin. He worked in the poop cabin.
#HistSTM #HPBio 🧪 #EvoBio
December 27, 2024 at 3:20 PM