Alan Rogers
Population geneticist at U of Utah studying history and adaptative evolution in humans. Author of "The Evidence for Evolution". I also dabble in evolutionary ecology.
- Can anyone tell me what software makes graphs like this (from Cousins, Scally, and Durbin 2025)?
- Reposted by Alan RogersWelcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.
- "Trump’s National Security Strategy made one thing brutally clear and that is that the United States is no longer fully shaping its own foreign policy. The document reads like parts of it were written in Moscow and stamped in Washington." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
- I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio
- Here's a link to the website of this course as hosted by the University of Utah: content.csbs.utah.edu/~rogers/tch/...
- How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
- How much phylogenetic information is in a small sample of proteins? Pastramanis et al answer this question and also discover a puzzle: each protein added to an analysis of modern and archaic humans increases support for a single implausible hypothesis. evolbiol.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec...
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- Reposted by Alan RogersI want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Sound familiar?
- According to Gallup, evolutionists are winning hearts and minds. The change in slope starts before my 2011 book, so I can't claim all the credit.
- Reposted by Alan RogersI think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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- Reposted by Alan RogersOhio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/17/o...
- @pkrugman.bsky.social makes it simple: "Why do people work? Not to be able to boast that they ran trade surpluses with their employers — `Hey, they paid me a lot, and I hardly bought anything from them.' No, people sell their labor so that they can afford to buy stuff."
- Reposted by Alan RogersUS campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
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- #hand-off Salt Lake
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- Reposted by Alan RogersThis is indeed brilliant
- This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
- Reposted by Alan RogersThe community note 🤌😘
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- "When the New York Stock Exchange opens on Monday at 9:30 a.m. we will see just how seriously the world takes the assault Elon Musk and Donald Trump launched on the American system of government." www.thebulwark.com/p/follow-the...
- The mockingbird hopped out of the sunlight and into the shade, then onto the rim of a tortoise-shell cup.
- Reposted by Alan RogersThe entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...
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- $10.89 for this carton of eggs.
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- Reposted by Alan RogersResignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.
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- Reposted by Alan RogersThis paper is magical.
- Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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- "It's easy to pretend that all of this is a reaction, one caused by an inadequate economic platform, solvable with a better one. But it isn’t. Our country has been captured by a force that has its own ideas about our future. One that is ancient, compelling, and evil."
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- Reposted by Alan RogersWe identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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