is this a bit? [it's not a bit] (CC: @retractionwatch.com)

Worth noting that what Walsh is citing here isn't just the idea of IQ—it's the much more egregious "national IQ" data from Richard Lynn, something several colleagues and I wrote about last year for STAT News

pinned post of someone who’s just been appointed to Mamdani’s Transition Committee on Technology 👍

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

Cigarette Shortage Forces Women to Roll Their Own (1945) 4347 Columbus Ave. S (DeRosia); 1400 Portland Ave. (Johnson) Source: Hennepin County Library L to R: Marion Brovold, Wanda DeRosia, and Blanche Johnson use a rolling machine to roll their own cigarettes for the first time, because of the ...

why does joven look like jd vance at a metal show

not good www.wired.com/story/senato...

Mamdani is going to bring him that snowglobe that plays "Memories" from CATS and we're going to get government grocery stores nationwide

People who claimed to have biomedical credentials (some of whom actually did!) were disproportionately influential in the anti-vaccine community through thr pandemic, but our institutions refused to do anything about it and now we're here. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.

People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

you get my papers out of your training corpus you stupid son of a bitch. you don't own the copyrights to those papers. those copyrights belong to springer and they serve NO benefit to society

Instant copypasta classic

Ka$h Bandicoot

Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.

(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men

New York and LA should offer an equivalent to Israeli birthright trips to every theatre kid in the lower 48

This is a fantastic article about James Watson but mostly it’s master class in dispatching of ghouls in science. Often the problem isn’t just that they’re amoral but that their being a(im)moral makes them dangerously wrong in ways that have cascading externalities on our understanding.

Historian Quinn Slobodian in the Financial Times today describing how eugenics is now firmly back on the political agenda www.ft.com/content/23e9...

Amazing to have a byline with @cbo.bsky.social - read our take on Watson’s ultimate legacy in the Boston Globe. Will be in Sunday’s print edition.

FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

Donkey Baseball (1949) Source: Hennepin County Library Local merchants played this raucous game against area youth as a benefit game to improve recreational facilities. Outfielder William Fierke on donkey Dagwood Bumstead attempting to scoop up a ball.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

The fuckin bears did it. They built the toilet paper MOAB

"What James Watson got wrong about DNA" By the great Sohini Ramachandran (@sramach.bsky.social) and your boy for The Boston Globe (@bostonglobe.com). www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/o...

The pilfering, however, is selective. On articles in Wikipedia's "controversial topics" bucket, the differences are far greater. And that's where Grokipedia disproportionately adds low-quality sources, including Stormfront and InfoWars.

1882 to 198! Solidarity, new comrades, and congrats to the Coalition of Graduate Employees.

The problem here is not necessarily that Vance is attempting to platform "controversial"/discredited scientific claims (obvs not great, but there is plenty of bad science out there already!), but that scientists are largely disincentivized from confronting bullshit head-on.

A whole lotta liberals who were willing to take Epstein’s money turning off their phones tonight.

We don't want people to think you can see evil in the genome, but we'll call our Channel 4 documentary "Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a dictator".

This is eugenics. And it's a shockingly common immigration policy globally, one I was proud the US didn't have. Let's remember this policy when we regain the numbers to fix it.

No one knows what the magnetosphere is

132 imaginary spiders valiantly died trying

Musk recently referred to people living in small town UK and Ireland as innocent "hobbits" that have to be defended from the invading forces who rape their children. It's a not-so-subtle framing of immigrants as sub-humans, akin to orcs, and of people like him as heroes rather than gutter racists.

Is it "surprising research"? @dasharez0ne.bsky.social taught us all this years ago.

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Yeah :D

It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.

Ms. Rachel 2028

Oh so we're kink-shaming Herasight's entire customer base now?

@jbenning.bsky.social @jedidiahcarlson.com et al. exemplify how confounding can lead to flawed inference on genetic causality. In studies of human behavior and social outcomes, the cost of downplaying this problem can be steep. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... bsky.app/profile/jben...

We are concerned that a publishing culture which rewards sensationalism may drive a decline in standards of rigor. In that respect, everyone has a role to play: it is crucial that researchers, reviewers and editors uphold high standards in their handling of these issues.