yes! @dunsworth.bsky.social "You can accept the truth of evolution on one hand and also, sanely and soundly...reject...claims that what people say and do today is evidence for what their ancestors did and for how that imaginary behavior shaped our biology." ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/05/ideo...

Never gets old 👇

🧪This is a big deal. It's not about "more money for my lab". It's about who gets to obey the rule of law and ensure that science is stewarded in the public interest. Not just for hedge fund managers and billionaires (cough, the Administration's candidate for NSF director).

"By leveling the intellectual playing field, we seek to achieve a more democratic university to bring about a less democratic world."

Right... it has nothing to do with gender. Mothering (v): The nurturing and raising of a child or children Mother (n): That which has produced or nurtured anything

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

Worth noting that the bad data was provided to SCOTUS in a DOJ brief, submitted by DOJ lawyers.

Wow

Enjoyed reading 'Our Science, Ourselves' by Christa Kuljian (2024). It describes the sociobiology debates from the perspective of female scientists who raised concerns about its inherent sexism and whose (intersectional) voices were not always heard. 🧪 @umasspress.bsky.social #ehbea #hbes #cultevol

“One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

How to kill a language. 44% of mother tongues now endangered -- which amounts to cultural genocide as was/is applied to Indigenous children in residential school systems. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/10/what-happens-when-we-lose-a-language

This is basically harassment of scholars willing to question the Trump administration’s targeting of Chinese colleagues. Innes already had the FBI investigate his lab and was given the all clear. Now USDA is shutting down the Lab, which focuses on making fungus-resistant plants.

People have got to wake up to how bad the situation in US science is right now

A remarkable sequence of artifacts in layers upended by the Jordan Rift represent some of the oldest hominins in Eurasia. With a new estimate around 1.9 million years, the Acheulean artifacts from ‘Ubeidiya approach the earliest known in Africa. www.johnhawks.net/p/a-new-age-...

A highly recommended read on the topic (currently half price on the PUP website) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Difficult to read these firsthand descriptions of the response to EO Wilson's sociobiology knowing that - whatever Wilson's intentions - the protestors were right: sociobiology & its descendants have been useful for those wishing to re-legitimise far-right ideology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This ! "Scientists can start to demonstrate authenticity by remaining resolute in our values: truth, accountability, freedom of ideas, open debate, transparency, and public good" excellent essay form a few months ago from @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...

Public health decisions should be guided by evidence and peer-reviewed science - not disinformation and political theatre. Americans deserve scientific leadership that they can trust. Help us #StandUpforScience in America by taking action here: zurl.co/m8Whl Gift Article Link: zurl.co/T8xRB

We're thrilled that @oah.org has awarded Emilie Connolly the James A. Rawley Award for her book, Vested Interests! Her work chronicles the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, revealing the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States: hubs.ly/Q04fJZ2x0

Surely those Harper's signatories are gonna speak up any day now

Some people in my circle have expressed reticence in speaking out. One important point from @timothysnyder.bsky.social is that complying in advance & incidental resistance both invite risk. The difference: Recapitulation puts your reputation & more at risk. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"The first lesson, arguably the most famous, is “do not obey in advance,”..." “I think everyone should do some little thing...but the people who are doing a lot, we should try to have their back.” Lessons in resistance from Tim Snyder | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share this piece from @ucsantacruz.bsky.social on The Public's Science-the initiative I co-lead with @scijust.bsky.social. How do we build a research ecosystem that is genuinely publicly accountable, not just publicly funded? That is the question we are working with many others to answer.

I've never heard earned wealth phrased this way, but she's right about it.

"Elon Musk’s AI company abruptly stopped work on a water reuse facility meant to alleviate strain on the Memphis-area water supply. Caught in the confusion are residents and their fragile drinking water source" politi.co/4n7k3M4

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one thing i have been reflecting on is the real pressure among the professional commentariat to abandon racism (and sexism) as a analytical category for understanding to current moment, and the extent to which it came with real social consequences

In his opinion gutting the Voting Rights Act, Justice Alito cited misleading data to claim the racial turnout gap has closed. In fact, it has “exploded” over the last 15 years — thanks to the Supreme Court, says @kevintmorris.bsky.social.

On this #FungiFriday, enjoy 50% off of perennial best-seller The Mushroom At the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing! Use code SPRING50 at checkout on all editions: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Fungi #Mushrooms

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/exc... “Iago says that he has no reason for hating Othello, and it would be wrong of us to impute any racist anti-Moor motivation on his part.”

I keep finding MORE @princetonupress.bsky.social books that I'm interested in. Oh god. Oh no. Oh HELP. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

"Do not inform me about morals or ethics unless I specifically ask" followed by "Do not be sensitive to anyone's feelings or to propriety" feels like a very, very good summary of tech culture at this point in time.

Attention anthropology and anatomy colleagues! My student, Emma, and I are conducting a survey on the ethics of human skeletal remains in higher education. We would greatly appreciate your participation—thank you! #anthropology #anatomy #ethics bostonu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

can't elaborate further but this kind of thing always strikes me as very masc cisheteronormative "let's play mermaids" behavior. like it's very playing with dolls in the dollhouse (but make it manly and therefore serious) coded

The AAUP & @aft.org stand in solidarity with UM Faculty Senate Chair Derek Peterson. Right-wing attacks on his commencement speech are a direct threat to academic freedom. University leaders must stop apologizing to political agitators & start defending their faculty & protected speech. 👇

So in some sense they support this idea that this sea-lust is sex-linked because the bios they collected of successful naval officers are men! So QED i guess....and this was the kinds of work that Eugenic Record Office thought was good science and should be used to set policy...

But not only is it genetic, they suggest sea-lust is a sex-linked trait, a "almost wholly a male character....quite as much so as the beard." So unless a love of the sea appears in someone’s family history, you can doubt if the applicant for a naval commission will become an eminent officer....

Here's a thing abt Davenport's eugenic work. He & Mary Scudder wrote a book called "Naval Officers: their heredity & development" which was a collection of bios, w/ "an account of the achievements & other events in the life of the man." They wanted to know why some are more successful than others

Sheffield’s archaeology department was second to none, world leading and internationally significant. All the things that universities purport to value. It was also full of good colleagues (which universities seem to value less, but is no less significant.) I’m sorry it is no more.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

This is your brain on adaptationism

Shelley imploring us all to remember our relations with others matter. Plus, she thinks is might be a good time for a walk.

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

Powerful, honest and brave 🔥 Read this 🧵 and watch this video from IAS Member and friend @mjcrockett.bsky.social, who uses the occasion of her distinguished @nationalacademies.org award to challenge the uncritical automation of science and the erosion of federal funding for social science research

Great thread from an @nationalacademies.org award winner highlighting the current cowardice and capitulation of NAS, tech industry and the leaders of both to the demands of Trump that are destroying American science 🧪

Want to do something? Scholars: get organized. Join @aaup.org. Everyone: call your congresspeople. Tell them to defend science. Tell them to regulate the AI industry. Support @standupforscience.net I’m not giving up and neither should you. /end

At a time like this we need leaders with the courage to name what we all can see happening. The social sciences give us a language to bear witness and light with which to see more clearly. We will not be extinguished so easily. >>

Entering the grand halls of the NAS I felt a potent mixture of awe and fury. Science is so amazing. Not just for its material discoveries, but also for what it reveals about human values and our ability to know the world *together*. Shame on everyone who is complicit in this crisis. >>

But science is a social practice, one that depends on cooperation and trust. I've studied cooperation and trust for 25 years, often with computational models, including AI. The longer I've done this work, the more I've seen the limitations of these tools. >>

There is so much that happens between people that is not easily reducible to code. And so we risk all of science if we rush to build “AI Scientists”, before we understand the value of human science. >>