Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man. State schools, vaping: NAH.

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

My dad came in second in an ugly man contest. My mom’s genes only helped out so much…

Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jowi...

I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective

Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.

Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics

Brings back memories of Marc Feldman saying "John Maynard Smith" in his spectacular Australian accent.

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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!

👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair! @annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept. As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2) #WplusEBS

Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

Aaaannnddd I messed up the link. Here it is. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Are you interested in tooth evolution and evodevo? Ben Auerbach and I would like to direct your attention to our new preprint “The inhibitory cascade model and evolution in segmentally organized tissues.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🦴🐭🐒🧪🦷🧬 @nsvitek.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social

You know who learns real quick to identify racist tattoos, for the sake of their own safety? Black servicemembers.

'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

And I'm about to start the ethics training...

This is real. Chicago today.

"The mice won't fuck."

When masked secret police are crashing into cars & violently pulling women out & beating them to a pulp with no warrant, answering to no one, this isn't democracy! We have 1 chance to retake power—Prop 50! If you care about our country, VOLUNTEER or DONATE. WE NEED YOU! (Anyone can volunteer)🧵

Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid. This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.

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As @isabellamweber.bsky.social says, if we are to defeat the rise of the far right, we need an "Anti-fascist economics" www.thenation.com/article/econ...

This is it. Last chance...

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Please read this.

I'm writing something about Samuel Morton, the 19th century craniographer, and autocorrect corrected a slip of my fingers to "Samuel Moron." Which was occasion for a good giggle and a reflection on how "moron" is a good example of how eugenics and race science resonates through culture.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Extraordinary. We've known for a while that JD Vance and the rest of the Trump admin all follow the same race-and-IQ obsessed weirdo freak accounts on twitter (like this eigenrobot loser), and that miasma of idiocy is what runs America now

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?" Unashamed to say this made me cry.

Thanks to @oceansinitiative.org for prompting this idea. Here's the state heatmap of where official congressional e-newsletters mentioning "killer whale" come from:

@psychillinois.bsky.social Social Cognition Lab, fall 2025

UK Biobank data is being used here for blatant race pseudoscience by a white supremacist blogger, Jordan Lasker. @ukbiobank.bsky.social this looks to be a clear breach of terms and an unauthorised use the data, no?

Political violence is not just violence against politicians. Political violence is also violence for political ends - like ramping up dehumanizing language against marginalized groups, disappearing people off the street, & calling for the release of police convicted of the murdering Black people.

Here's a really handy "Back to School" toolkit from @aaup.org @aft.org with resources for campus organizing, defending academic freedom, promoting racial justice, and supporting international communities. Great go-to guide, and includes several resources created by #CDAF. Solidarity.

This is a reminder that if you are faculty in Texas or anywhere else for that matter you need to join @texasaaup.bsky.social and @aaup.org . Your administration will not protect you from right wing attacks

Absolutely correct—a number of US universities have and are currently losing their status as legitimate, both due to their appeasement responses to external pressure and/or having been sabotaged by their own state legislatures (Texas, Indiana, Ohio, and so on).

I told myself that supporting my diverse lab and teaching about complex biology with excitement and appreciation was a way that I was countering the current *waves hands*. With today's news from Texas, I stand by that feeling - I look forward to teaching Genetics again next semester. #AcademicSky