Blogs I'm reading: September 2023
Things you should maybe also be reading
I have occasionally posted compilations of blogs on IQ or HBD in general. However, it's been a while since the 2019 compilation. More have come, some are gone. Here's an updated list of blogs and magazines I read. These are in no particular order of importance, rather in the order I was able to find them in Feedly and Substack:
Reason without restraint, great compilation of HBD materials. A typical post is a 20k word compilation of results on, say, predictive validity.
Steve Sailer. He needs little introduction.
Razib Khan. The best summarizer of population genetics and history.
The Upheaval. Not even sure how to describe this.
Bet on it, by Bryan Caplan. Libertarian perspectives on everything. Very prolific.
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, Andrew Gelman comments on various social science. Sometimes good but not as good as it used to be.
Wrong Side of History, Ed West enlightens us on history and British matters.
Astral Codex Ten / Slate Star Codex, Scott Alexander is a masterful writer on just about any topic.
The Shape of Code by Derek Jones, hard data on software engineering.
Data Colada, a team of scientists uncover fraud and problems in research, sometimes do direct replications. Very good stuff.
Richard Hanania, mostly writes on wokeness issues, but usually good.
CSPI, Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Hanania's think tank, of sorts.
Karlstack, another blog uncovered fraud and misconduct in science. Broke several important stories.
Just the social facts, ma'am, David Weakliem investigates various public opinion research, a lot of original content.
Russell Warne, IQ blogging and gifted education from a top researcher.
Nintil by José Luis Ricón Fernández de la Puente, various very detailed investigations into meta-science, longevity and so on from LW perspective, also link compilations.
Cliodynamica, Peter Turchin tries to make history more scientific.
Aporia Magazine, Matt Archer, Bo Winegard, Noah Carl and others started a new magazine.
Information Processing by Steve Hsu, mainly about genomics, IQ, and physics.
Human Varieties, one of the longest running, most detailed HBD blogs, by John Fuerst, Meng Hu, Dalliard and others.
Seb Jensen, "mad social scientist", HBD blog
Peter Frost's anthropology blog, one of the very few HBD anthropology blogs.
Sean Last's Ideas and Data blog. Very good HBD blog.
Inductivist, a lot of original GSS analyses.
L.J Zigerell, professor of political science with sometimes spicy findings.
Psychological Comments, James Thompson commentary, mainly on intelligence.
Those who can see, excellent compilations of immigration problems in Europe.
Vectors of Mind, by Andrew Cutler, "Machine Learning Psychometrics" also snakes and psychedelics
Knowingless, by Aella, survey research by sex worker
Axis of Ordinary by Alexander Kruel, compiles a lot of interesting links almost every day
David Friedman’s Substack, libertarian perspectives on policy and science
Joseph Bronski, contrarian perspectives on political science and HBD
Wyclif's Dust, by David Hugh-Jones, mostly genomics
If I forgot you or someone else, post it in the comments!
Some embarrassing oversights:
Cremieux Recueil, top tier HBD blog
Werkat, another good HBD blog
Eurogenes Blog, population genomics
Inquisitive Bird, another good Danish HBD blog
Cremieux, Anechoic? Media, and someone I’m forgetting.
Eurogenes for population genetics: https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/
Jordan Lasker has a sort of scratchpad for quick analyses here: https://rpubs.com/JLLJ/
Inquisitive Bird: https://inquisitivebird.substack.com/
The golden age of the HBD blogosphere was, I think, in the aughts, before Emil's time. Social media barely existed then so blogs were where it was at. Sailer, Razib and Inductivist are pretty much the only ones from that era who are still blogging. Hanania was involved at the tail end of that period, of course. Hsu was writing then but I don't think he was into HBD in those days.