Unless I'm mistaken, I haven't shared this great post by Fons Dewulf yet. Includes the story of Fons, @janpotters.bsky.social and I doing a pilgrimage to receive the Word from Hasok Chang. /1 www.fonsdewulf.be/post/never-t...

"Given all of the decay I’d seen over the past couple of years, my realization that even professors had begun to succumb to the digital disease was tinged with the relief of a terminal patient that the fight was finally over." On AI and education. www.thenewcritic.com/p/the-great-...

bean has a hard time accepting that if she wants to learn how to do something super amazing, she has to start by learning some boring things first. and do a bunch of annoying practice. she feels like she should get to skip that stuff. bean is seven. i would hope a professor knew better than that.

Part 2 of the New Yorker series on higher ed is up; it’s an interview with someone who has even weirder and less good ideas than Jay Caspian King (the author / interviewer). For example: rhere’s no meaningful experience at the edge of chemistry without knowing some (and probably a lot of) chemistry.

Just encountered this piece of work. It's like a playground for race science. /1

We are very happy and grateful to host prof. Charles C. Roseman (@evoroseman.bsky.social) for a lecture on "Race science, genetics, and evolution: a scientific evaluation" More info in the screenshot below. The lecture can be streamed via this link: ugent.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Volgende week woensdag zal ik samen met collega-filosoof en -neo-luddiet dr. Vanrie spreken tijdens een studiedag over AI in de juridische praktijk. /1 gandaiusacademy.ugent.be/programma/re...

Ik ging op onderzoek socialmedia-discussies, podcasts en een lezing van de Gentse 'race realist' Nathan Cofnas en vormde zo een beeld van zijn politieke agenda en allianties. Springen jullie mee in de rabbithole? www.kifkif.be/bijdragen/de...

Today we performed the first Liebig combustion analysis the way Liebig himself would have performed it (with a few minor adaptations for safety and convenience). Working with charcoal was a bit of a hassle (and warm), but it was exciting to know that we now came close to the original procedure. /1

'AI boosters...think that when people write they are directly transferring...ideas that exist pristinely in their heads directly into language. They see the effort of writing as something that gets in the way of this pure process. They see writing as a transparent process of transference'. 1/2

Man when you lay it all out like this it sounds crazy, but it's somehow basically true www.reddit.com/r/cognitives...

I wrote a reply to @nathancofnas.bsky.social on Substack. Nathan has been dragging me over his tendentious interpretation of a blog post I wrote 20 years ago, which I already explained many times. Nathan's contention is that I am lying about what I really think, but fortunately he knows better.

Pragmatist philosophers: you peeps go on with your silly fight, we'll just get back to work

Waarom toch weer die poging om de vakgroep op basis van incorrecte beweringen af te schilderen als een soort woke broeinest dat in de waanzin is vergleden na het verdwijnen van de vermeende laatste bakens van de rede /1

Israel has been bombing Lebanon non stop since last night. A thread including all people reporting on this. Spread the word 🧵

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

Video has been put online by organization (still have to double check whether it's the entire lecture): "The Lecture They Didn't Want You to Hear" is a bit dramatic for a lecture which just took place without any incidents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZsK...

Also mindboggling is that anyone employed in academia in 2026 would cite the guy who apparently believes the earth is flat as an authority (if you don't know the story of the flat earth paper - which still sits in the Elsevier journal Intelligence as if it were science - you should read up on it)

It's mindboggling that anyone employed in academia in 2026 would defend "cold winters theory", an incredibly silly just-so story which - very literally - claims Europeans & Asians are more intelligent than Africans because Africa doesn't experience cold winters (dismantled here by an archaeologist)

🧵 illustrating the laughably bad argumentation of the hereditarian crowd 👇 no one would take the slightest notice of these incompetent academics if their claims weren’t politically useful

The discussion yesterday led me to fix the links to this piece. If thinking about Cofnas has you thinking about so-called racial differences in behavior, you might be interested. The same argument in spelled out at greater length in Chapter 9 of my book. @ptrbck.bsky.social

Fijn, op een gegeven moment zijn er zo proefwerken die niet gemaakt zijn door een mens en die niet zijn beoordeeld door een mens. Klinkt wel echt als iets dat je moet willen.

Last Thursday, the far-right student organization KVHV organized a public lecture by Nathan Cofnas. The lecture was an absolute train wreck. It will take a while to analyze everything, but here are some first impressions. /1

This is a facanating must read for anyone interested in oral history or the history of science.

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition @janpotters.bsky.social looks at Tom Kuhn's frustrations interviewing ~100 physicists for the landmark Sources for History of Quantum Physics project. An important lesson in what we want from oral history and what it can give us. 📷Niels Bohr & Homer Dodge #HPS

"Cofnas hinkelt door zijn presentatie, leest vooral slides af, strooit met namen van filosofen en tabellen en incasseert opmerkingen over de beperkte wetenschappelijkheid van zijn beweringen." /1 www.standaard.be/binnenland/l...

Cofnas quote of the evening: "The problem with the far right in America is that they're racist in a bad way"

It's turning into race science bingo. Just got the Rindermann survey.

Half an hour in and Cofnas has already discussed Richard Lynn's "cold winters theory" as if it was mainstream science.

VRT mocht wel net de zaal binnen. Hopelijk nemen ze dit mee in de berichtgeving

Live update van de Cofnas lezing: het is nog geen half 8 maar een groep die er "te links" uitzag mag de zaal niet binnen. Zeer open debat!

‘Academisch’ racisme en de geest van de grootmoeder — Over morele ontwikkeling versus moreel verval aan de alma mater www.nieuwwij.nl/opinie/acade...

Misschien ook nog maar eens herhalen: Cofnas doet zelf GEEN onderzoek naar ras en IQ en heeft dit ook nooit gedaan. Fatma Taspinars uitspraak dat Cofnas zijn bewering over het vermeende lagere IQ van zwarte mensen baseert op "zijn onderzoek" klopt dus niet @deafspraak.bsky.social

Maarten Boudry in @deafspraak.bsky.social : "Het ziet er naar uit dat Cofnas zijn gelijk zal halen [in de rechtzaak tegen Cambridge]" Newsflash: Cofnas heeft de rechtszaak tegen zijn ex-college verloren, ondertussen al meer dan een week geleden /1 thecritic.co.uk/cofnas-cambr...

As a way to spread the word about the various Lebanese mutual aids that support all those affected by the ongoing Israeli war and occupation of Lebanon, I thought I'd share a bunch of contemporary Levantine musicians who are popular among my Beirut peeps, a thread 🧵

Question for the Bsky hive mind: what’s the most batshit pop Evolutionary Psychology study you’ve ever come across? Particularly interested in examples in the area of female parental investment, but I’ll take others too …

Congrats to all those journal editors & peer reviewers who legitimised Lynn’s “national IQ” database by letting it into their journals. Truly, it’s a victory for academic freedom to publish papers which claim that children living in a refugee camp constitute a nationally representative sample 👏👏

The thing is, the science IS settled on these matters. The absurdly simplistic claim that White and Black people have innately different levels of intelligence is not supported by genetic evidence. Claiming settled science is not settled is a “merchants of doubt” strategy

First test-run today with Bunsen burners instead of charcoal. Liebig combustion train pre-ignition and Kali-apparat in action @liebig-museum.de

The ‘time-consuming tasks’ referred to here are reading & thinking. Pretty important tasks if your purpose is to learn something. The ‘help’ offered is to do both for you.

The downfall of *Theory and Society* is a networked event. A nicely orchestrated campaign. Thread of some of the links. 1/

Back in the lab. This year we're replicating Liebig's method for the analysis of organic compounds, using beautiful glasswork made by Tim Gijs. For those interested in Liebig: check the 360° tour of the Liebig Museum replica of Liebig's lab @liebig-museum.de www.liebig-museum.de/museum-labor...

@ivemarx.bsky.social : zoals ik al vaak heb moeten herhalen: open mail aan de rector vertrok van schendingen van de deontologische code, nt van het gegeven vn pseudowetenschap /1 www.standaard.be/opinies/er-w...

Kleine rechtzetting: het geciteerde deel van het artikel over de Rindermann paper werd geschreven door Richard Nisbett. Andere delen van de paper (onder andere) door Turkheimer. Credit where credit is due.

Misschien een potentieel onderwerp voor het #nerdland maandoverzicht? @jbaert.bsky.social

A week ago @terzake.bsky.social gave a platform to Nathan Cofnas. At some point, Cofnas said: "The people who do know, the experts, are not the ones calling me a racist pseudoscientist." He received no critical questions about this statement. /1 www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Nice writeup of my discussion with Rindermann at @dailynous.com. Thanks to Justin Weinberg.

Bouke de Vries en co voeren tegelijkertijd een wetenschappelijke, politieke, ethische en juridische strijd. Deel van hun oorlogsstrategie is om bij tegenreactie telkens van het ene naar een ander front te springen. Zie de uitleg van Cofnas in Terzake en en hoe Tom Naegels die analyseerde in DS. 1/