If you’re serious about ideas it’s pretty safe to just never say yes to a “debate.” Serious people use different words to describe what they’re allegedly aiming for.

There was a vogue for climate debates along these same lines a decade or so back. And for evolution/creationism before that. With very few exceptions, these formats are stacked against the mainstream position. I recommend not doing them (and yes, I speak from experience).

The Bank of America sponsorship is the pièce de résistance here. I was born before women could have bank accounts in their own names

I called my local hospital today and I’m working on a letter. I found out when the hospital district board meets and I’ll be there. Parents of trans kids and trans adults can’t fight this alone. The rest of us have to fight for trans kids.

“Being sick all the time” is the cost of having kids for most people, but when “sick” includes measles and shit, that cost is a lot higher. And then there’s the cost for kids.

I have no idea where this is originally from or if my friend made it but they sent it to me once; and I love it

“Transgender for” is such a wild formation as used by gender denialists. What do they *think* it means?!!

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

So bleak to have all the dumbest garbage get all the computer and person it can gobble and important shit gets less and less.

“Bet you’re stressed and your funding is gone! The insatiable maw still wants to know stuff, and you want tenure/a job/jobs for your trainees/a hope of fundng when “things come back”/to imagine you’re living in 2015. How about some cut-rate slime instead of data? Would that help?”

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Google not only supplies the fake citations via Gemini, their awful products in the form of knowledge infrastructure are so shoddily kept that they can't be fucked to remove fake venues.

I’m not sure I see Covid as the dividing line I did, but it’s sure been a wake up call for me personally. Sad how much we still need this. ✊

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I'm genuinely shocked people think social media posts from middle-aged flame-outs could ever persuade Nazis, Nazi-friends, or Nazi-normalizers to finally see that cruelty is wrong.

Their new edition is good, too.

I expect all the natural childbirth ladies in the streets

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

Poke holes in the darkness and let the light shine through. Happy Chanukah. May it be a holiday that ushers in more light, more peace, and more justice.

CBS pressing Sen Cassidy about the “slow walking“ of the administration’s promise to establish the false claim that the drug is “unsafe.” Finding someone willing to do that level of lying is probably hard.

Would be cool if “basic competency in artificial intelligence” meant a gloss of relevant statistical theory, cs/math, and cognitive science so that students could at least sort of understand wtf these “tools” are.

As a Purdue alum, this is a shameful move. What I valued about my Purdue CS education was the intentionality given to thinking about process, how to treat programming as a set of idioms to be thoroughly understood and implemented, no matter the programming language. >>

"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

How long till they find an individual right to drive fast in the constitution?

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Cindy-Lou Who is a mermaid in the movie and a human in the book. Per my kid.

Wow. For when you genuinely don’t want to be a university anymore.

If liberation was only ever about yourself it's totally not hypocritical to stop caring about stuff once it isn't relevant to you anymore (menopause).

Happy to share insights on low fertility as part of @popassocamerica.bsky.social’s Congressional Briefing yesterday. To learn more, check out the recording and slides.

I'm so old that in my adulthood we've gone from "Dick Cheney skis in jeans" being a sick burn to a Boulder company making these:

So often: YOU FERTILITY PEOPLE NEED TO STUDY MEN! Me: We do. What exactly do you want to know about men? Them: (Describe their deal) Me: (Shows them the literature that investigates their deal) Them: BUT YOU SHOULD STUDY MEN AND YOU DON'T

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

If somebody you loved was just starting down the mommy radicalization path how would you intervene? Asking for most cis-het women, I imagine. But also me.

Is there any clearer message than banning "pregnant people" and "women" alike?

Protects but does not bind!

Everything new I've ever seen made or made myself was totally dependent on the correct ratio of hubris to insecurity.

It was fun to be all homebirth-warm-kombucha-plan-your-year-astrologically-live-in-a-magical-woods, but it wasn’t worth the grifters now drafting off our William-Blake-ass-denialism to con people into hurting kids. I’m so sorry and so sad.

It's *mean* to moralize about how other people feed their babies.

Break something indeed. It's only tricky to elevate care work and caregiving while trying to lighten caregiver's burdens if you assume families in general and women in particular are preordained to do all or nearly all care.

I was annoyed by this headline (the other "side" of the pronatalism debate is "fuck pronatalism," and we are right!!) but the piece itself, by the always-thoughtful @philipncohen.com, is great newrepublic.com/article/2040...

Flu shot acquired! I go by two rules: the best time to get a flu shot is around Halloween (flu before boo) The second-best time is right now

Seems like we’re kind of hard up for leadership. What if we disqualified everyone who thought things were okiedokie 2000-2007 and 2011-2016?

One cool thing about social media is that you see stupid stuff and then can sometimes change. I know a guy who stopped thinking about the Roman Empire so much, for example because wtf.

Does this misogyny make me look like a girl?

This thread is very worth reading. I would add - the OP's argument that eugenics to produce "desired genetic characteristics" is broadly fine really relies on nobody pausing to ask what a 'desired genetic characteristic' is and why we desire them

I know this is a dirty word for some people but this is My Job: my friend @hzeavin.bsky.social described fascism to me once as 'the annihilation of difference' What is eugenics except the desire to annihilate difference?

When I’m doing formal stuff in demography I still sometimes cite papers from Eugenics Quarterly because some of what was called eugenics was *good* science. The position that “eugenics is bad” is not about science - it’s about morality.

Saying “females” when they mean women is a red flag because it’s a ((project)).

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵