Holger Jacobsen 江浩哲
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Holger Jacobsen 江浩哲
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Circumnavigator, Sinologist, 23 years in Taiwan, interested in behavioral genetics
This morning - completely by coincidence - I stumbled across an interview of Dr. René Mõttus about personality and the BIG 5. Very interesting!

edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/rene...

disi.org/the-big-five...

drive.google.com/file/d/1d_JB...
August 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Today we published a Correspondence and Author reply related to on an article we published last year, 'Self-reports are better measurement instruments than implicit measures'

Correspondence: go.nature.com/4brCRzX
Author reply: go.nature.com/3DilAN0
Self-reports are better measurement instruments than implicit measures - Nature Reviews Psychology
Implicit measures are widely used because they are assumed to be superior to self-reports. In this Perspective, Corneille and Gawronski challenge this view and argue that claims about disadvantages of...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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74% of Europeans say their country benefits from EU membership—the highest support recorded in 42 years.

With peace and security top of mind.

66% want a greater role for Europe in protecting them against global crisis & security risks.

We hear you. And we’re ready to deliver.

europa.eu/!3VByd4
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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I did the Many Minds podcast with Kensy Cooperrider, talking mostly about human intelligence. I can't bear to listen to myself, so give it a try and let me know what you think. @kensycoop.bsky.social @manymindspod.bsky.social disi.org/how-should-w...
How should we think about IQ? - Many Minds podcast
Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.
disi.org
October 18, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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Blog post: Why I Am Annoyed When Pinker and Plomin Don't Cite Me. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/why-i-am-a...
Why I am Annoyed When Pinker and Plomin Don't Cite Me
It's not really the citation
ericturkheimer.substack.com
September 9, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Peter Singer recently started a new project.  Bold Reasoning with Peter Singer: 

boldreasoningwithpetersinger.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
April 19, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness

Two major problems with a review in Nature

JON HAIDT APR 09, 2024

www.afterbabel.com/p/phone-base...
April 10, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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I was on @deneufville.bsky.social 's podcast 'Talking About The Future'!

We talked about why the first day of life is probably the most dangerous day of your entire lifespan; life expectancy; and more.

Listen here:
open.substack.com/pub/tellingt...
Saloni Dattani on Life Expectancy
open.substack.com
March 23, 2024 at 6:08 AM
@eckerleisabella.bsky.social @fischblog.bsky.social

Vielen Dank für Von Viren, Fledermäusen und Menschen! Fledermäuse sind toll! :)
 
The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals - Merlin Tuttle
 
www.amazon.com/dp/B00QPHUSJU
 
www.audible.com/pd/The-Secre...
March 7, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Some Unintuitive Properties Of Polygenic Disorders - Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten

www.astralcodexten.com/p/some-unint...

E. Fuller Torrey recently published a journal article trying to cast doubt on the commonly-accepted claim that schizophrenia is mostly genetic. Most of his points were ...
January 24, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Starting that next Nature (🤞) paper with @dr-appie.bsky.social
January 12, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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The first multi-national GWAS on income is available as a preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧬💰

Highlights:
- 162 loci (88 novel)
- significant heterogeneity between countries
- significant heterogeneity between men and women
- unique non-education income effects
January 12, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I think the first time Roy came onto my catamaran DHARMA BUM was 12 September 1989 in Kourou, French Guyana and he had devastating news for me.  We have been friends since those days and so far have met twice more.
 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_3...
January 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Sind wir alle bisexuell? - 42 - Die Antwort auf fast alles - Arte - Wissenschaft - Wissen kompakt

www.arte.tv/de/videos/10...

Genetiker Abdel Abdellaoui vom Amsterdam UMC fängt nach ungefähr 14:50 Minuten an zu sprechen.

arte-ard-mediathek.akamaized.net/am/mp4/10900...
December 30, 2023 at 9:54 AM
Most Delicious Poison - The Story of Nature's Toxins - From Spices to Vices - Noah Whiteman

www.audible.de/pd/Most-Deli...

The origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals. The mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them

www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0BV...
December 23, 2023 at 4:40 PM
@fischblog.bsky.social Hat irgendwer noch Vorschläge für gute Wissenschafts-Hörbücher, gerne auch auf Englisch? Bin am Suchen aber langsam läuft mir die Zeit weg. Das von Isabella Eckerle war Klasse! :)
December 23, 2023 at 3:47 PM
I stumbled across "Tamata and the Alliance" by Bernard Moitessier a few days ago while looking for something else. Goes to show that you might not always find what you are looking for, but that you often find something interesting if you only look hard enough.

archive.org/details/tama...
December 16, 2023 at 1:00 PM
And now for a short commercial break:

www.dantelabs.com/products/who...

I don't know whether you can still download all your raw data. If you can, make sure to start the download *immediately* and that you have loads of space on your HDD or SSD left.
November 22, 2023 at 4:10 PM
Robert Sapolsky vs Kevin Mitchell: The Biology of Free Will

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Y1...

Professor Robert Sapolsky is a Professor of Biology, Neurology, and Surgery at Stanford University. Professor Kevin Mitchell is a Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin.
November 19, 2023 at 12:49 PM
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Ich weiß ja, ihr seid alle Virenfans und freut euch schon total auf die nächste Pandemie. 😁 Deshalb hier schon mal ein passender - und sehr informativer - Buchtipp (von @eckerleisabella.bsky.social).
November 8, 2023 at 9:22 PM
Today I started listening to Kevin Mitchell's "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will". Pretty convincing so far (I am at 21%) and I am looking forward to Robert Sapolsky's arguments. www.audible.com/pd/Free-Agen...
November 8, 2023 at 4:17 PM
GENETICS - How Life Really Works - Just as I uncovered a new way to understand life, I got news about my own. - PHILIP BALL
nautil.us/how-life-rea...

The irony seemed a bit heavy-handed, frankly. Just as I was about to publish a book called How Life Works, my own life stopped working as it should.
November 7, 2023 at 8:33 AM
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social

I have been waiting to see a discussion after I saw your and Sapolsky's books come out. Exciting! nautil.us/yes-we-have-...
November 4, 2023 at 2:37 PM
Father:

Gordon Cook - Schooner to the Southern Oceans: The Captain James Cook Bicentenary Voyage, 1776-1976

www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/1848...
November 2, 2023 at 3:02 PM
Same voyage - two very different perspectives. Ten years of a childhood spent on a boat.

Daughter:

Suzanne Heywood - Wavewalker: Breaking Free

www.audible.com/pd/Wavewalke...

Hope Aurora Ulani doesn't feel the same way about us!
November 2, 2023 at 2:59 PM