Except you didn’t have beat reporters, you brought on a transphobe to source a complete nothing story from his white supremacist buddies

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Look I’m willing to say it: maybe James Watson got two things right

POD EP 5: A Conversation About Dialectical Biology, with Mac Parker and Anatarah Bin AlKaf—on Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins' "Dialectical Biologist"! patreon.com/posts/episod...

Happy to see this paper from my time with @spicybotrytis.bsky.social out in @theplantcell.bsky.social! Amanda, a fantastic PhD student with Dan, led this "phylo-functional" work & uncovered complex duplication & loss of a glucosinolate gene across the Brassicaceae affecting enantiomeric specificity

Sorry, Lawrence, but "Feynman would have done what I did" isn't the defense you think it is

If you’ve never heard of the “arctic origins of East Asian psychology” theory it’s because it was made up whole cloth by “David Sun”, some failed grad school applicant who somehow got one paper about it published and otherwise just posts lewd AI anime art about his theory on Twitter

i do think the authors were exceptionally kind in their critique of woodley et al's content analysis if you dig into the details of woodley et al's supplemental data, there's evidence suggestive of data tampering for example, they average 1 and 1 together to get 0.5 multiple times, seen here

Really quite striking how blatantly hereditarian research violates scientific norms. One of the papers under critique was accepted the same day it was submitted

new york times headline: new emails reveal potential relationship between epstein and trump the email: Re: re: re: My Best Friend Donald Trump is a Pedophile, We were doing Pedophile Stuff together

Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/

You’re telling me SpringerNature doesn’t need to charge $13,000 a paper for Nature Plants? I’m shocked!

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer. They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy. 3/n

132 imaginary spiders valiantly died trying

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“Through wise taxation, regulation focused on the public good, and strong labor rights to empower unions, you get all of the benefits that the ownership society wants to produce without corporate decimation of our democracy and without the need to have centibillionaires in the world...Good stuff.”

If you like D&D and hate race science and Elon Musk, you’re gonna love this article

“What’s The Point Of Standards?” is the tag line to Bari Weiss’ career

Evolutionary biologists have been warning us for decades about the danger to humanity posed by fish men. Will we listen?

The recent GBE paper on whole-genome duplication in Potamopyrgus antipodarum is the focus of November's Highlight. Highlight: Genome Duplication in a New Zealand Snail Holds Clues for the Persistence of (A)sexual Reproduction 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf198 #genome #evolution #WGD

"The world's richest man continually manipulates his company's AI to lie about science and promote white supremacism" sounds like some hack sci-fi writing, but it's just our current reality

Dems are not beating the controlled opposition allegations

Nice thread to balance things out! There are good researchers doing the hard work to treat evolutionary hypotheses of human psychology with the seriousness and rigor they deserve. Testing assumptions and, if necessary, shedding zombie theories is how a field progresses and improves

So, lots of people picking up Kevin's post to declare all Evolutionary Psychology/ists misogynistic pervs. And I get why but look: I trained in Evo Psych. I trained in Behavioural Ecology too which maybe helps but I came into academia an enthusiastic researcher of sexual selection. 1/

New research from #ProcB: Confounding Fuels Misinterpretation in Human Genetics royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #Behaviour #Evolution #Genomics

Evolutionary psychology makes a big to-do about their finding that sexual selection favors a "feminine body type" that "signals fertility/reproductive potential", including some rather... silly research. Turns out, those traits don't seem to signal reproductive success. Oops! doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

A fantastic piece. Fascinating that Watson was another victim of The Bell Curve and became entrenched by his undeserved arrogance and hubris

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

A political message all branches of the tree of life can get behind

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

FIRE are a really shitty rightwing org pretending to care about free speech.

Very glad to see this important paper published at last

We're excited to share the final version of our paper, where we demonstrate how confounding remains a thorny problem for claims about causal genetic influences on human behavioral and socioeconomic outcomes. (w/ @jedidiahcarlson.com @oliviarxiv.bsky.social Ruth Shaw @arbelharpak.bsky.social) 🧵👇

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

Same! I’ve preprinted every paper I’ve led, but I’m far less keen on biorxiv if they’re facilitating AI slop like this.

disappointed that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is implicitly endorsing the use of LLMs to replace scientific thought @richardsever.bsky.social this is a short-sighted move and a net negative for science

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

bro are you fucking kidding me

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Another recommended read from Andrew Winston: “I show how post-WWII neoliberals and libertarians could employ ideas of “innate intelligence” to promote the reduction of government funding of social programs….IQ data could also be employed in the fight against “egalitarianism.”

🌱Check out this new #AJB Review!🌱 The #polyploid continuum & the landscape of polyploid genomic variation By Alex Twyford, Justin Conover, Jeff Doyle, Annaliese Mason, Douglas Soltis, Pamela Soltis & Jonathan Wendel doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #polyploidy @soltislab.bsky.social

absolutely insane to see leftists now clowning on the harvard story and being like 'everyone was always over-reacting.' you people have rocks in your brain. you have no idea what college campuses have become in the last decade lmao

Carole Hooven has contacted me to object to this characterization. For the sake of respecting private communication, I will not reveal any further details, unless she violates my request not to contact me again.

Dick Cheney taught me it was ok to be weird

Now in Evolution: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... This paper started when @3rdreviewer.bsky.social, Mike, and I had a lunch at which there was a lot of, "What do you mean when you say X?" Fun to spend time thinking about when terms get too muddy, and great work by Drew to pull it all together!

I think democrats should stand for environmental consciousness and equitable education