Simon Fisher

profsimonfisher.bsky.social

05 July 2026 19:23

25 years ago, we implicated rare variants of the FOXP2 gene in a severe speech disorder. I’ve spent much time stressing that FOXP2, while interesting, is not the mythical “gene for language”. Weirdly, on occasion I also need to explain why it’s not “proof of aliens”. Full disclosure in this 🧵. 1/n 🧪

Robin G Nelson

robingnelson.blacksky.app

05 July 2026 19:23

We're hiring an associate/full professor in paleoanthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University - As Katie Hinde says - come join our science party in the desert!!

Sooz Kempner

soozuk.bsky.social

05 July 2026 19:23

A week ago my ancient cat went missing for 24 hours. This might sound like nothing but Freddie Mercury is a) a month shy of 20 and b) NEVER goes missing. He's ALWAYS around. We put notes out for all the neighbours and I accepted that maybe his time had come. Nah, he was just visiting pals.

Adam Rutherford

adamrutherford.bsky.social

03 July 2026 07:40

I'm writing about charlatans, and frauds, and there are none bigger than the fraudulent charlatan Andrew Wakefield. But goddamn look at Anderson Cooper go here. What a legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kO...

schlebuschgroup.bsky.social

03 July 2026 07:39

Our colleague Francesco Giannelli presented this great poster at #SMBE2026: Reconstructing the Bantu Expansion Through an Individual-Based Simulation His work uses SLiM forward-time simulations to jointly model genetic and linguistic evolution among Bantu-speaking populations. 🧬 🗣️ 💻