'Some notes on assortative mating'

When partners match on a trait (also indirectly), there are consequences

Slide (1923) by László Moholy-Nagy

'Genomic prediction of IQ is modern snake oil'

The title says it all

Oracle (1962-65) by Robert Rauschenberg with Toby Fitch, Harold Hodges, and Billy Klüver

'Twin heritability models can tell you whatever you want to hear'

Given my PhD’s focus on twin models, this feels too close to home to comment 💀

Sleeping Twins (2019) by Odd Nerdrum

'Gene-environment interactions: ubiquitous yet undetectable'

Gene-environmental interaction effects seem to be present, but we can’t really see them.

SA MI DW SM 2 75 (Continuum Atmospheric Environment) (1975) by Doug Wheeler

'Where are the (less recent) selective sweeps?'

(I haven’t read this, so I am not gonna comment. I am here only for the point and the line.)

Inculded in Point and Line to Plane (1926) by Wassily Kandinsky

'How population stratification led to a decade of sensationally false genetic findings'

Population structure may fool us into believing environmental effects are genetic ones

Steps (1932) by Josef Albers

'We still do not understand family resemblance'

What we (don’t) understand about genotype-phenotype associations in families

Blood Strip (1973) by Edward Ruscha

'What we talk about when we talk about risk'

A post about embryo selection, dichotomania (you gotta love the term), and liability modelling

Black Curve (1972) by Ellsworth Kelly

🧵 on cool choices of image headers (and titles) all from @sashagusevposts.bsky.social's Substack
🔗 at the end

'Beneath the surface of the sum'

Genetic interactions may look like the thing they deviate from

Interaction (1964) by Julian Stanczak

Some August highlights from Trends on music, communication, and genetics.

First up: the review on music reward sensitivity as a model for understanding reward processing, by Mas-Herrero, Zatorre & Marco-Pallarés.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Mood atm

Yes, But

However, despite the high heritability, the difference between groups would be entirely environmental: the nutritional deficit is the sole cause of group differences.

That is, the heritability holds no information about average group differences.

5/5 🧵

First year PhD 🔼⏺️⏹️ Last year PhD

The project by Gökberk et al. is now out 🥁🧬📖🧠

We found partly shared genetic contributions to individual differences in language and musicality-related traits. In line with other human traits, Neanderthal alleles displayed reduced contribution to overall genetic associations.
More in the link.

🎵Notes from Beethoven's genome 🧬

A depiction of the challenges of individual-level genetic predictions using Beethoven's genome

From L. Wesseldijk, S. Fisher, me, @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social, and many more.

doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...