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