Eric Turkheimer
@ent3c.bsky.social
Behavior genetics, clinical psychology, Mets. Occasional politics.
Substack (free): https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/
Book Is Out! Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate
https://shorturl.at/Ce2hf
Electronic Version: https://shorturl.at/Fq2jv
Substack (free): https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/
Book Is Out! Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate
https://shorturl.at/Ce2hf
Electronic Version: https://shorturl.at/Fq2jv
An offer I may not follow up on...
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
An offer I may not follow up on...
UVA says no to the compact. A little more polite than I might have preferred, but I'll take it. Whew.
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
UVA says no to the compact. A little more polite than I might have preferred, but I'll take it. Whew.
On the other site: A rare compliment, or at least I think so.
October 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
On the other site: A rare compliment, or at least I think so.
Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Haven't posted much lately-- busy. One of my Substack projects is republishing my chapters from the Kendler and Parnas series on the philosophy of psychiatry. The books are expensive and hard to find. This is, "The Hard Question in Psychiatric Nosology." /1 @awaisaftab.bsky.social
The Y axis in Figure 2C is unsquared beta coefficients. Perhaps all this will prove useful for basic science, but the practical takeaway is that once non-causal confounds are cleared, we can't really predict human intelligence at anything approaching useful levels.
September 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The Y axis in Figure 2C is unsquared beta coefficients. Perhaps all this will prove useful for basic science, but the practical takeaway is that once non-causal confounds are cleared, we can't really predict human intelligence at anything approaching useful levels.
Just got around to reading the nytimes story about that racist community in Arkansas. As always, their ideology turns out be be based on perversions of genetics.
August 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Just got around to reading the nytimes story about that racist community in Arkansas. As always, their ideology turns out be be based on perversions of genetics.
SSGAC just posted this on the other site. I understand why they need to respond as an organization, but my point was not that individual people should be reprimanded or shunned. It's more that I want to hear how individual SSGAC researchers think about the problems presented by the new companies.
August 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
SSGAC just posted this on the other site. I understand why they need to respond as an organization, but my point was not that individual people should be reprimanded or shunned. It's more that I want to hear how individual SSGAC researchers think about the problems presented by the new companies.
The thing is, in the early days of eugenics, it was more about vague, MAHA-type appeals to being "healthy" than it was about forced sterilization.
August 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The thing is, in the early days of eugenics, it was more about vague, MAHA-type appeals to being "healthy" than it was about forced sterilization.
Back when the family was doing something useful:
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Back when the family was doing something useful:
New paper with first author @sophiebell.bsky.social. We show that epigenetic clocks predict decline in IQ between adolescence and midlife, between and within twin pairs, and that the effect is stronger among people from low SES backgrounds. A Scarr-Rowe-adjacent effect. www.aging-us.com/advance
July 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
New paper with first author @sophiebell.bsky.social. We show that epigenetic clocks predict decline in IQ between adolescence and midlife, between and within twin pairs, and that the effect is stronger among people from low SES backgrounds. A Scarr-Rowe-adjacent effect. www.aging-us.com/advance
In other news from the BGA meeting @sophiebell.bsky.social won the award for best student oral presentation. I think my lab is firmly in the lead for student awards, BGA-wide. Gifted students have always been my secret sauce.
July 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
In other news from the BGA meeting @sophiebell.bsky.social won the award for best student oral presentation. I think my lab is firmly in the lead for student awards, BGA-wide. Gifted students have always been my secret sauce.
Same problems everywhere, I guess.
June 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Same problems everywhere, I guess.
Any other contenders?
April 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Any other contenders?
David Brooks never fails to drive me nuts. Today he is taking the "elites" to task for caring that the claims about 160 year old social security recipients are lies. How dare we correct the "normal" people who want to believe truthy bullshit?
March 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
David Brooks never fails to drive me nuts. Today he is taking the "elites" to task for caring that the claims about 160 year old social security recipients are lies. How dare we correct the "normal" people who want to believe truthy bullshit?
So the Cremieux account on X, which among other things has spent considerable energy attacking me, turns out to be run by Jordan Lasker. An interesting note is that in 2019 Lasker contacted me about applying to my lab for grad school. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
March 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
So the Cremieux account on X, which among other things has spent considerable energy attacking me, turns out to be run by Jordan Lasker. An interesting note is that in 2019 Lasker contacted me about applying to my lab for grad school. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I followed the links and this is real. A state department official who is an open advocate of the worst kind of of eugenics. "Low quality humans." The network around Trumpism, "race science," alt.right Nazism, and eugenics is truly frightening.
February 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I followed the links and this is real. A state department official who is an open advocate of the worst kind of of eugenics. "Low quality humans." The network around Trumpism, "race science," alt.right Nazism, and eugenics is truly frightening.
"Conceptual links between notes"
November 26, 2024 at 3:11 PM
"Conceptual links between notes"
Two upsides to my low-news diet. Music instead of NPR in the car (it's not their fault, but still), novels instead of doom scrolling in the evening. This one is highly recommended. feminist anti-hero spy novel set in contemporary rural France.
November 23, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Two upsides to my low-news diet. Music instead of NPR in the car (it's not their fault, but still), novels instead of doom scrolling in the evening. This one is highly recommended. feminist anti-hero spy novel set in contemporary rural France.
Finally! Twenty bucks, cheap!
November 18, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Finally! Twenty bucks, cheap!
George Davey Smith over on the old site. Sasha was reviewing my book and had no reason to trace back the gloomy prospect. For the record I am always clear that the original idea came from RP. In any case looking forward to George's take. Come on over... x.com/mendel_rando...
November 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM
George Davey Smith over on the old site. Sasha was reviewing my book and had no reason to trace back the gloomy prospect. For the record I am always clear that the original idea came from RP. In any case looking forward to George's take. Come on over... x.com/mendel_rando...
Just looking at what is available on the publisher's website for the book. All the front matter, the index, and most of the first chapter are free there. Also the endorsements on the back, which I am so grateful for and proud of. shorturl.at/x4YtZ
November 9, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Just looking at what is available on the publisher's website for the book. All the front matter, the index, and most of the first chapter are free there. Also the endorsements on the back, which I am so grateful for and proud of. shorturl.at/x4YtZ
Haha move over Richard Dawkins. Look who is the #1 new release in Genetics on Amazon.
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November 7, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Haha move over Richard Dawkins. Look who is the #1 new release in Genetics on Amazon.
www.amazon.com/gp/new-relea...
www.amazon.com/gp/new-relea...
Trump on immigrants with Hugh Hewitt: "A murderer, it's in their genes, and we've got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."
October 7, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Trump on immigrants with Hugh Hewitt: "A murderer, it's in their genes, and we've got a lot of bad genes in our country right now."