I don't know how to speak about being Jewish right now. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/my-only-pr...

Our paper is now out in Hormones and Behaviour. We found little evidence for group differences in 2D:4D ratios by sexual orientation when jointly modeling publication bias and heterogeneity. w/ @fbartos.bsky.social, Ben Jones & @tvpollet.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵1/9

down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU

Perfect. No notes. Somebody get these guys their own show.

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

In the news release BC Gov put out announcing the switch to permanent daylight savings time, they cite a Stanford Medicine report to back up their decision, but the report actually says the opposite, that permanent standard time is better news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

In response to reporting about deaths, province has decided to no longer produce data related to deaths globalnews.ca/news/1169038...

Hehehe

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

A lot of people seem to have trouble with the idea that “cause” does not mean “the one and only thing that explains the totality of this phenomenon”.

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

Where it gets really interesting, is that while 12.5 % of the Irish population died during the Great Famine, less than 1% of the Belgian population did. Why? As soon as the failure of the potato harvest became clear, the Belgian government abolished all import tariffs on foodstuffs. The government/

These numbers are all the more shocking when you realize that the overall youth suicide rate in the UK *declined* during the same period of time.

i only feel envy if someone is better than me at something or more successful or has more stuff

This #MeetASAB features Madam President herself: Melissa Bateson (@melissabateson.bsky.social) Melissa was elected as ASAB president in 2024. In the past, she has also been on council as grants secretary and as an ordinary member. She has been an ASAB member since she was a PhD in the 90s… 1/6

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

Today in selection bias.

The presentation of the Cass report as this gospel text is also disingenuous given the significant academic criticism it has received. Just last year, a peer-reviewed critique led by Irish researchers from the University of Galway found serious flaws with the report.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Two @propublica.org journalists’ accounts of ICE’s actions in Minneapolis

A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

This one hurts.

Calling the Gestapo “the Gestapo” is causing the Gestapo to act like the Gestapo.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Very revealing that my feeds have many, many ads for PhDs but very few for faculty positions Some will say, yes, we are training people who go into other sectors - but if that’s the idea, a PhD is rarely the best choice Truth is most doing PhDs would like an academic career, and most won’t get one

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Incredibly important story that everyone should read. These are not disorganized lone actors, but well-funded and powerful networks to be treated as serious threats. They are using our work to push a eugenicist and racist agenda that is scientifically invalid and morally reprehensible.

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

Absolutely surreal to read "Homelessness is rising fast among a surprising group: infants and toddlers" as Congress prepares to hand ICE another $10 billion to terrorize communities across the country.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Donald Trump wants to own Greenland. Canada might be next. One thing is certain: if he does attack Canada, there will be plenty of right-wing media figures and Conservative supporters who will happily justify and defend his decision. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...

I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

Is anyone here an expert on #rstats ellmer structured data? It works when I define the JSON schema of an object A containing an array of object B, but not when I read object B from JSON schema and use type_object and type_array to set up object A. Reprex: gist.github.com/debruine/d35...

If you read one thing today, it should be this Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ www.thetimes.com/article/01ba...

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

My friends at @aclupa.org and the Hangley Aronchick law firm have filed quite a motion to intervene on behalf of the University of Pennsylvania's Jewish Law Students Association as well as faculty directly affected by the Trump EEOC's efforts to force Penn to provide, literally, "lists of Jews."

Holy fuck they actually did it

Any time I see a study about wings, I think:

This should be worth another floor crossing or two.

Very happy to share that I just published a new paper from my thesis! 🎉 We analysed 546 species of ant to understand how extreme specialisation into reproductive and non-reproductive roles evolved.  Key discoveries in thread🧵 👇 Full paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

They’re not perfect, but golly, public universities are one of the best engines of economic mobility we have

Hoverboards are the future, segways are the future, betamax, laser disc, Google glass is the future, 3d tvs are the future, curved screens are the future. Like do we have to traipse through the whole graveyard of tech to get these people to understand just becauae you say it doesn't make it true.