Ian Myles, MD/MPH
@lcdriammdmph.bsky.social
Researching the intersection of the microbiome, environment, and allergic disease. Views are my own.
https://irp.nih.gov/pi/ian-myles
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Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology
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he’d warned that fucker not to play wonderwall
October 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
he’d warned that fucker not to play wonderwall
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This sounds ominous. Medicaid, even for those who can keep it, will turn to shit.
October 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This sounds ominous. Medicaid, even for those who can keep it, will turn to shit.
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The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
“Following his lecture, Yarvin will debate the legendary British historian David Starkey on history and the future of conservatism.” Everything about this is so cursed. Masks off at the University of Oxford.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.
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In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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September 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Dear Editor,
Thank you for submitting your review request to Tomer Ullman.
As you may know, we decline a substantial proportion of reviews requests without sending them out for further evaluation. After careful consideration, we regret to say we cannot offer to take on this review.
Thank you for submitting your review request to Tomer Ullman.
As you may know, we decline a substantial proportion of reviews requests without sending them out for further evaluation. After careful consideration, we regret to say we cannot offer to take on this review.
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Re-upping for no particular reason...
I spend far too much time thinking about this chart and what is happening in US politics.
September 20, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Re-upping for no particular reason...
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I don't think it was a financial decision at all. It was all about having power over other human beings, especially their own workers and servants, and MeToo, BLM and 3% unemployment all were huge threats to that power.
Last week someone made this point, a lot of money people (including tech) made a very clear, very calculated decision that authoritarianism, even a corrupt kleptocracy, was better for them financially than risking Dems doing a wealth tax/tax fairness etc. It was an eyes-wide-open choice.
Cuban explains why companies like Intel are happy to give fascists a cut. The wealthiest people in the country see it as a smaller sacrifice than what progressives are proposing in higher taxes.
August 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I don't think it was a financial decision at all. It was all about having power over other human beings, especially their own workers and servants, and MeToo, BLM and 3% unemployment all were huge threats to that power.
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If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven
with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
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Two critical comments on our American Psychologist paper "Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics." (doi.org/10.1037/amp0...) were published recently along with our reply. 1/
July 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Two critical comments on our American Psychologist paper "Confronting scientific racism in psychology: Lessons from evolutionary biology and genetics." (doi.org/10.1037/amp0...) were published recently along with our reply. 1/
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they can only take what's pure from us if we let them
July 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
they can only take what's pure from us if we let them
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in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.
i think the big middle event between george floyd protests and covid that accelerated this hard right turn in elite circles was tech employees using slack to stage walk-outs and force concessions from management. tech bosses got a first whiff of organized labor's power and started reading mein kampf
Only in America could a white man with a current net worth of $2 billion see himself as part of a victimized group. 🤦♂️
July 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
in 2020, these guys who fancied themselves the world's true leaders bore witness to the power of a large-scale social movement so big that it could shift public policy and strip power from them within their own organizations. it undermined their entire sense of themselves and they lost their minds.
I went into #Superman prepared for disappointment. The trailers seemed silly and crowded with too many characters. And Krypto? I wasn't sure it would work. But man, @jamesgunn.bsky.social pulled it off. I really enjoyed it and my son (a dog loving, "Marvel supremacist") might be a Superman convert!
a man in a superman cape sits with a white dog
ALT: a man in a superman cape sits with a white dog
media.tenor.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I went into #Superman prepared for disappointment. The trailers seemed silly and crowded with too many characters. And Krypto? I wasn't sure it would work. But man, @jamesgunn.bsky.social pulled it off. I really enjoyed it and my son (a dog loving, "Marvel supremacist") might be a Superman convert!
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i posted this thread on the other app last yr but wanted to put it over here bc ive been thinking again about the iraq war and the "torture debate" which was really an eye opening event politically for me....
July 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
i posted this thread on the other app last yr but wanted to put it over here bc ive been thinking again about the iraq war and the "torture debate" which was really an eye opening event politically for me....
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Every bunny was kung fu fiiiiightiiiing 🎵🎶
July 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Every bunny was kung fu fiiiiightiiiing 🎵🎶
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Mr. Beast is literally what dystopian novels and movies depict what TV has mutated into in a world that values spectacle no matter the human/moral cost.
Not just because of his content but because pressing charges and sending his human-life-endangering ass to jail is somehow completely unthinkable
Not just because of his content but because pressing charges and sending his human-life-endangering ass to jail is somehow completely unthinkable
July 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Mr. Beast is literally what dystopian novels and movies depict what TV has mutated into in a world that values spectacle no matter the human/moral cost.
Not just because of his content but because pressing charges and sending his human-life-endangering ass to jail is somehow completely unthinkable
Not just because of his content but because pressing charges and sending his human-life-endangering ass to jail is somehow completely unthinkable
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This spot is always empty
July 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This spot is always empty
Not sure any decision I've made has aged better than when I canceled my NY Times subscription. A brief story…
My MPH thesis examined the accuracy of the written reports about the 2016 Ebola outbreak. To my surprise, Wikipedia was amazingly accurate while academia was a mixed bag.
My MPH thesis examined the accuracy of the written reports about the 2016 Ebola outbreak. To my surprise, Wikipedia was amazingly accurate while academia was a mixed bag.
July 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Not sure any decision I've made has aged better than when I canceled my NY Times subscription. A brief story…
My MPH thesis examined the accuracy of the written reports about the 2016 Ebola outbreak. To my surprise, Wikipedia was amazingly accurate while academia was a mixed bag.
My MPH thesis examined the accuracy of the written reports about the 2016 Ebola outbreak. To my surprise, Wikipedia was amazingly accurate while academia was a mixed bag.
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I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.
June 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.
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