After facing pressure from AAUP Penn and other organizations, a federal judge has delayed the order for the University of Pennsylvania to comply with the Trump administration and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's subpoena to hand over a list of Jewish faculty and students. Read more ⬇️

The gaslighting will continue until the polls improve.

I will forever be grateful to the non-profit hospice that helped us care for my mother in law during her final 18 months. This should not be a profit-seeking industry.

Half of all Americans die in hospice care. Easy money and a lack of regulation transformed a crusade to provide death with dignity into an industry rife with fraud and exploitation. (Published 2022 with @newyorker.com)

We are proud to publish this thoughtful & nuanced article by Aylward et al. on the Genetics Society's changing relationship with eugenics over the past 100 years. 'Eugenics and the Genetics Society' by Alex Aylward, Daniel J. Fairbanks, Maria Kiladi & Gregory Radick www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lots of interesting stuff to wade through in this paper. Is it odd that my first reaction was, "wow...imagine how complex aDNA from sub-Saharan Africa at ~80-120ka is likely to be..."? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes." Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

John is absolutely right to see the “infinite patience” for Khan’s failed EdTech creative destruction & the closure of Hampshire as linked. EdTech has always been dependent on using grades as the foundation for A/B testing, behavioral modification (which they pretend is learning), & tokenization.

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about. Gift link:

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government. Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.

In this moment, seeing former students experience professional success is an incredibly good feeling

Woo-Hoo! First comprehensive assessment of the evidence for Pleistocene mobile containers! A biocultural perspective viewing container use and manufacture as a process of niche construction! Jennifer C. French, Somaye Khaksar, me & @marckissel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just Gal Pals! The Differential Treatment of Sexual Behavior Among Nonhuman Great Apes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What Is the Acheulean? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

U.S. federal support for human origins research may be over www.johnhawks.net/p/us-federal...

Glad we have a comprehensive article on the intra-community split in the Ngogo chimpanzees. It was shocking to see chimps that once had close, intimate friendships become violent, lethal enemies within just a couple of years! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A three-decade long study of chimpanzees has revealed a primate version of a bloody civil war. It's now at risk of getting eliminated due to cuts at the National Science Foundation. My story here (gift link): nyti.ms/4mhr5NQ

Once again it is time to contract your representatives: The FY27 budget request for NSF (see nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...) would get rid of the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.

This is a cataclysm for social science in the United States. SBE helped to foster the field of Science and Technology Studies in the country (it supported the development of #STS training programs at UCSD and my alma mater, Cornell, in the 1990s). Unfortunately, Vannevar Bush would love this part.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

Calling all archaeologists with expertise in British stone tools! These two just turned up among my father-in-law’s house contents. Unfortunately no provenance data. The narrow one is quite thick, diamond-shaped in cross-section, and the flat end appears to be broken.

This is weirdly difficult for students at first and speaks to the challenge of spatial reasoning inherent in flint knapping! Even a handaxe was hard on the first try, let alone a levallois

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Speaking of visibility, America has absolutely shown its whole goddamned ass on trans issues, displaying its cultural capacity to be whipped into stupid fear and hatred of a tiny group by cynical demagogues. We have met the enemy and he is us.

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

Article 50, Rendering Water Unfit for Use: "Combatants shall not poison or render otherwise unfit for human consumption water indispensable for the health and survival of the civilian population" www.dw.com/en/iran-war-...

Hard to overstate how obvious this was in Minneapolis. They'd roll around the neighborhood in full gear, doing nothing immigration-related at all, wait for angry crowds to gather, and then attack them with tear gas and pepper spray! It was a violent siege and the feds owe us billions in reparations.

Biocultural Approaches in the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition: A Reflection on 50 Years - Wiley - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment - Wiley Online Library anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Wonderful research from @projectceti.bsky.social showing other sperm whales, including non-kin, attending the birthing process of a female. #whales #cetaceans #childbirth #assistedbirth #anthropology #biology #animalcognition

This paper - on “The dysgenics objection to longtermism” & published by Elsevier - includes uncritical (& selective) citations of a who’s who of scientific racists & eugenicists, yet the author appears to have an ERC Starting Grant. Eugenics is no longer fringe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Genuine spit take.

Open access makes the rich get richer #science #publishing #academia 🧪🗺️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

It's crawfish season and Louisiana's crawfish processing plants are at a standstill because there is no migrant labor www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

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AABA Task Force on the Ethical Study of Human Remains Recommendations: Proposal for the Management and Oversight of Community Partnership and Ethical Stewardship of Human Remains onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Who Speaks for the Dead? Of Communities and Stewardship in Legacy Collections of Human Remains onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very cool

“Recovering signatures of archaic introgression using ancestral recombination graphs” nice new preprint from PriyaMoorjani’s lab, with good summary thread by first author @yulinzhang.bsky.social 👇🧪🧬

The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date. We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens. www.goldberglab.org/join

Awesome database published by my @propublica.org colleagues where you can look up financial disclosures of over 1,500 of Trump's appointees. #NICAR26 data nerds will appreciate this one! projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

What's angered Trump re Noem? Her testimony about a $200 million self-promotional ad campaign at DHS — about which @propublica.org broke the critical details last year: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.