We’re excited to launch the official BlueSky profile of ISHPSSB! Founded in 1998, we connect researchers in philosophy, history, and social studies of biology and medicine worldwide. Follow us for updates and events! #PhilosophyOfBiology, #HistoryOfScience, #STS, #Biology, #Medicine

Balanced and considered account of scientific racism in the evolutionary sciences and what academics can do to counter it:

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright

📃 Check out the paper in BioScience: "Cultural inheritance is driving a transition in human evolution" academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... But, wait, is this bullshit?

Animals don’t just live in their environments—they transform them. And in doing so, they may also shape their own evolutionary trajectories. Our new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution introduces a framework for zoogeochemical niche construction. A thread 👇

Lectured about the immigration restriction and Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s today, so I'm going to repost this piece on the Great Replacement Theory that drove white supremacists back then and that still drives them today.

Here is the link to a short blog that @kztwyman.bsky.social and I wrote about our article (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marc Feldman) entitled "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience": www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online. We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them. doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

For those interested in my latest book, Trusting Science, here is a 30% discount code:

Balanced piece, including the opinion that EO Wilson made significant contributions to biological research and the acknowledgement that "Sociobiology lent evolutionary storytelling about human behavior and cognition an air of scientific legitimacy. That legacy is manifest today"

I'm pleased to share this new article by @svenkasser.bsky.social, Laura Fortunato @anthrolog.bsky.social, Marc Feldman and myself. The article extends gene-culture coevolution to recognize evolutionary effects of culture arising through drift and migration. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New commentary in Science, with Gillian Brown and Kevin Lala, on the human sociobiology debate 50 years on: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very happy to share this article, coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Clark Barrett, on the contemporary relevance of the human sociobiology debate, 50 years after publication of Wilson's landmark book.

Thanks to Tim Lewens for a wonderful review of our 'Evolution Evolving' book. "In this exceptionally ambitious and impressive book, Lala and collaborators... show how an understanding of development is essential to an understanding of evolution" Read it here: shorturl.at/mgGEm #evolution #evodevo

Really happy to share this article I'm grateful to have been a part of: 'Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience' coauthored with @kevinlala.bsky.social, @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social and Marcus Feldman. Check out a preprint here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #ScientificRacism #Antiracism

Excellent talk by @rebeccasear.bsky.social at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social on maintenance of scientific racism in contemporary academic literature. Academic journals play a role in platforming scientific racism (eg failure to retract articles using fradulent 'national IQ dataset'). #ishpssb2025 #ehbea

I was very happy to bump into my dear friend Eva Jablonka at the ISHPSSB meeting in Porto. What a great scientist and wonderful person she is.

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

Thanks for your great talk @petinozappala.bsky.social

A really thoughtful and inciteful review of my book "Evolution Evolving" by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social in Bioscience. "By taking into account the structure of development, we can begin to envision how the system of evolution will itself be evolving." See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios...

The extraordinary legacy of Conrad Waddington was the focus of a terrific workshop held at the KLI last week. Superb talks, a beautiful venue, and great discussion made for a lot of fun. Thanks to all the participants, and particularly organizers Alejandro Febregas Tejeda & Francisco Vergara-Silva.

An excellent short video by @rebeccasear.bsky.social on the resurgence of eugenics. Definitely worth investing 10 minutes of your life to watch.

been a long time coming, there's now a preprint along with Will Hoppitt describing our new R package for creating, fitting and interpreting bayesian NBDA models (STBayes). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Documentation is here michaelchimento.github.io/STbayes/inde...

A terrific review of my recent book in this month's Biological Theory: Enrico Petracca argues that "Evolution Evolving marks a tip- ping point in the study of evolution". link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Look what I got from my local library. I'm stoked! @kevinlala.bsky.social

Love this article/series, particularly this quote from Hella Péter: "Just because me and the other featured ecologists are still in the field, it does not mean ecology is an accepting and accommodating place for disabled people in general." www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

“By lending his Harvard credentials to Aporia, Pinker contributes to the normalisation and spread of dangerous, discredited ideas.”

"Trump and his allies hope to resurrect biologic race as the key explanatory variable that underpins patterns of morbidity and mortality.... to achieve this, they must discount decades of research that confirms Homo sapiens does not contain biological races." New by Joseph Graves shorturl.at/bWoLY

there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena and bring their voices to debates of critical societal importance. This is such a time.

Paxson (2025): "Science has contributed to... discrimination through biological essentialism, either by assigning specific undesirable biological characteristics to socially-normed... groupings or... assigning a genetic basis for these phenotypic differences." 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The new edition of 'Sense & Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour', co-authored with @kevinlala.bsky.social , is available! Get 30% off (promotion code ASPROMP8): global.oup.com/academic/pro... Ebook is available on Kindle. Thank you to Prof. Clark Barrett for the endorsement! 🧪

I really enjoyed Adam Rutherford's book "Where are you really from?". It's a great book to give to kids to educate them about race and learn how modern science undermines racism. @adamrutherford.bsky.social

Kostas Kampourakis' "Darwin Mythology" book is a very interesting read. A strong cast of authors deconstruct myths and misunderstandings about Darwin. I particularly appreciated historian Erik Peterson's analysis of why Darwin's dislike of slavery does not equate to a belief in racial equality.

The social construction of human nature: “Given that the term has little explanatory power but carries extensive baggage, we suggest that it should be abandoned” [2018] academic.oup.com/book/25419/c...

Enjoyed reading 'Sex is a Spectrum' by @anthrofuentes.bsky.social: "Human sex and gender are complicated. Every human body, and life, is a blend of biological and cultural processes, & nowhere is that more evident than sex biology". press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social 🧪

I am please to share my latest article "A developmentalist’s view of inheritance", just published in acta ethologica. rdcu.be/em4wW Inheritance is a time-distributed developmental process by which diverse developmental resources become available to the next generation.

Odling-Smee offers some thought-provoking conceptual contributions.

Should be a great day!

📣 CCE's final seminar of this year is by the amazing @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social on "Are human mate preferences ‘universal’? A critical evaluation" 🌏👥 📣 📅 21st May / 13:00 - 14:30 / Online and in person (ESGW 111) Joining info below 👇 🔓 Open to all 🧡💚💙

Quote from 'Evolution Evolving.The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', with Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marc Feldman & Scott Gilbert. Find out more at www.evolutionevolving.org #evodevo #nongeneticinheritance @princetonupress.bsky.social

It's always a great pleasure to chat with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social ...here is our latest conversation

Excellent essay which clearly demonstrates the unscientifc and brutal nature of eugenics, as seen in 21st century America www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My new book, “Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary” publishes today from @princetonupress.bsky.social My goal in writing this book is to facilitate a better conversation. A short thread…

"These are just a few of the many practical, evidence-based ways for universities to reduce racial gaps in achievement and representation. To make progress, institutions need to recognize that racism ... is a provable scientific fact, and must act accordingly." rb.gy/jgt3ox

that’s Elon Musk FRS doing his bit for US science, @royalsociety.org

8/10 people think recognising role of Commonwealth soldiers matters. But much patchier awareness that those who won the war came from every ethnicity + faith. A narrow majority (55%) know Indian soldiers part of WW2. But only a quarter know of Caribbean & African service. VE Day can raise awareness

Animal culture: conservation in a changing world Access content online at bit.ly/PTB1925

Thank you @sbratman.bsky.social. Much appreciated.

Another quote from 'Evolution Evolving. The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity', with Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marc Feldman & Scott Gilbert. Find out more at www.evolutionevolving.org #evodevo #nongeneticinheritance @princetonupress.bsky.social

I am happy and thrilled to learn that Rob Boyd has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. For all those who study cultural evolution, Rob is a true great, a pioneer and leader, and brilliant scientist. Wonderful news! (Would have liked to have seen Pete Richerson elected too!)