We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

Why did the FAA just close the airspace over El Paso for the next several days?

“Epstein’s passion for injecting eugenics into conversation after conversation in his emails should shape the way we think about his role in funding scientific research and development—and steering richer men’s money in that world”

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social & I are convening open panels at EASST (Sept) on 'STS & biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity & the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism'. Please consider submitting, &/or circulate to colleagues easst.net/conference/e...

Not even $7k has been raised. The fucking guy that murdered that white lady had how much money at this point? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...

This is really a nightmare for scientific integrity and public trust. The reputational damage was there before Trump even took office & it's only going to get worse. How can you convince people to enroll in these kinds of studies to improve health & wellness if this is what can happen to their data?

nine years old

Comparing American hegemony to warsaw pact life under Soviet rule is an amazing step. Carney really is punching (rhetorically) as hard as one can. The China move was a real policy change that follows from this attitude. What's next? CAF in Greenland? That he did this before Trump speaks? Wow.

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

The full protocol of the study in Guinea Bissau provides no reassurance. If anything is spells out just how insanely unethical the planned study is. The PI who wrote the protocol tried to defend the indefensible by writing to me directly. I responded publicly. Read 👇 substack.com/@bktitanji/n...

I really am struggling to participate in science Bluesky for various reasons I don't feel comfortable writing about publicly, but I do miss you all and am trying to get back in sharing and liking groove. Waves hello weakly.

🎉New year, new pub.🎯 OPEN ACCESS "Troubling the canon: Language, geography, and the politics of STS publishing in five decades of journal publications" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Folks on the ground are asking me to lift this up because the need is still growing, all around Minnesota. If you can give, please do, and if you can't, please amplify!

"we detail anthropology's role in the development of racial science and the subsequent placement of whiteness at the top of the world's global political and cultural systems of power...[and] examine the early critiques of anthropology's racializing practices by Black and Indigenous anthropologists"

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

this is really grim

On my way to the AAA travelling solo with my rambunctious 2 year old and have been helped by strangers on the Thameslink, the Elizabeth line, Heathrow and not that I have ever lost my faith in people but I really do feel it today.

Keep talking about Sudan.

Media are barely mentioning Sudan, where genocidal violence is accelerating. Yale researchers analyzing satellite data warn many of the 250K in El-Fasher may already have been killed-- there's no sign that they made it out. Link to the report: files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences 📣 📣 📣 Deadline: December 19, 2025 Check the form below 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Grateful to @resprofnews.bsky.social for doing a write-up of our call for action to incentivise the publication of negative results. Now looking for world-leading funders and institutions to show some leadership on this issue…

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society… ..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

488 arrests at a peaceful silent protest for "supporting a "proscribed organization." Despite all our problems, I'm glad to live under the protection of the U.S. constitution. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Join us! go.bsky.app/AByvxiY

When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪

Monday and Tuesday! Many open sessions and awesome participants. Please come and re-post to your networks!

Had a lovely time presenting to @femquant.bsky.social about how reflexivity in quantitative researcher may improve transparency and rigour. We talked about how open science frames "bias" as a problem to be stamped out, but feminist epistemological approaches offer a different (more nuanced) take

Who on here is going to the #AABA? I'm venturing out to Baltimore for my first big conference post baby now that my little one is weaned and walking and would love to reconnect 🫶

Chair’s Notes from Emory Admin: “Emphasized that the use of race in anything is problematic, with failure to comply with Executive Orders risking the loss of federal funding” Guess they are putting a bunch of Black and Brown professors on sabbatical in the Fall. Or, fire us. EEO office is closed.

At #anthro #altac folks: I'm looking to create a panel of 4-5 folks that I will make available to the public to discuss alt ac careers that make use of anthropology degrees. If you are interested in being a panelist, please let me know. A Tuesday in late April. TIA.

Long but very interesting read on the junk science behind DNA-based face prediction for forensic purposes. Parabon nanolabs is famous for solving hundreds of cold cases using forensic genetic genealogy and advancing the science behind the technique. But... theintercept.com/2025/02/02/f...

Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!

Come on friends of Akash. Tell me about how his ethics, his moral compass. Tell me about the time his coding was so good, he was able to undermine Lex Luthor’s plan from within, how he wrote a codebase that collapsed an attempted coup. Tell me, please.

Are you a PhD student whose funding is in jeopardy because of recent executive actions, or a faculty member in a program dealing with these considerations? @mkhaw.bsky.social and I want to hear from you @chronicle.com. DM or email! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd

I'm hiring a postdoc to join my new lab at UTEP. It's very difficult to focus on science these days, but I am excited to support a junior scholar looking to grow their research program. A full job description is linked. Please circulate with junior colleagues looking for a postdoc position.

Penn State's Center for Black Digital Research is hiring a Data Scientist: www.higheredjobs.com/admin/detail...

Maybe niche, but if you received a PhD after January 2022, have one degree from National University of Ireland, and are looking for an anglophone university without fascist oversight/mass redundancy, here's a 2-year postdoc fellowship scheme for humanities/social sciences: www.nui.ie/awards/PostD...

There will be a protest on SUNDAY Feb. 2 at 3:00 p.m. outside the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) bldg., where Musk & his cyber-thugs have seized control of the government's computers. 1900 E Street NW (corner of E and 19th Sts.), Wash. DC. Spread the word to DC area folks!

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Bravo Dr. Clancy! A clear and technical explanation of why the EO is not based in biology.

why does everyone have a teeny tiny mic that they hold in their little fingertips now?

Here's some folks very good at squirreling away info old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

Pura mierda.