Mourn the species declared extinct in 2025 -- then fight like hell to prevent other plants and animals from the same fate. https://therevelator.org/extinct-2025/

Yes. This. Great piece by @killgrove.bsky.social and @nicolanese.bsky.social plus linked to the actual article. all worth a read and worth sharing around extensively.

I put on my bio anth hat to co-write this piece with @nicolanese.bsky.social, our excellent health editor at Live Science. 🧪🏳️‍⚧️

Intriguing research about Kanzi Bonobo, regarding pretend play in a shared context. I don't understand why numerous other examples (wild and captive) are so readily dismissed. Aren't we yet able to recognize the value of qualitative-research cases? #apes #primates #animalcognition #anthropology

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

The Plate-billed Mountain Toucan will be your overlord this week, sitting smugly at the equator where the groundhog has no sway. 🪶

Perhaps these quiet/timid institutions (and Thorp) should be hearing the voices within the scientific community not as 'heated activists' but as scientists and citizens, people with a stake, people who are both doing the work of science and working to ensure a future for science.

But this presentation of dichotomies is false and facile. Many of those marching, writing commentaries (that need not seethe to be effective) and calling congressional offices are also scientists - at all stages from students to NAS members - who see the value of dualities.

Our cultural backgrounds almost always (perhaps unavoidably) influence our epistemology & the questions we ask. Especially in the human sciences. E.g. some really interesting discussion here about how renascence values shape our thinking about neanderthal artwork. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"As a Trek convention-attending fan, I can tell you that not only do these men not understand the franchise, but they have never really seen it." @chanda.blacksky.app institutions.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

yes. so, so yes. @chanda.blacksky.app

Elon Musk does not understand science fiction either. As @chanda.blacksky.app wrote about this week: www.newscientist.com/article/mg26.... Likewise for Jeff Bezos and too many other people with too much money.

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

This documentary is a must see!!!!

The Librarians is set to premiere on PBS this Monday, Feb. 9, after a robust theatrical and festival run that saw Kim A. Snyder’s documentary earn awards across the country.

This guy is one of the most powerful people in the world and one of the most dangerous, vile, hateful, and deluded (assuming he really believes this stuff, which he seems to) fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

New round of NSF GRFP declines without review. If you were affected: 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter This is the link to the post: bsky.app/profile/noam...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

an unusually good piece from @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/s...

The WaPo cuts are devastating. And to cut the Books section entirely makes the already bleak critical landscape even more bare. This was all preventable but Bezos, who could find the post I perpetuity without noticing it, is hellbent on destroying the Post. And for what?

Proud to serve as a senior advisor to the International AI Safety Report. The most important takeaway this year: the evidence base on AI risks is stronger, but the gap between what we know and what we are doing about it continues to widen. That gap is the urgent work ahead.

The International AI Safety Report is clear-eyed: threats from AI are growing--to rights, autonomy, health, cybersecurity, and planetary well-being. The evidence is stronger than ever. Commitments from industry and government to the safe, trustworthy, and responsible use of AI are urgently needed.

holy shit

A lovely read about researchers who make animals happy for a living 😊 A day spent playing the sounds of baby bonobo laughter is surely a day well spent www.sciencenews.org/article/scie...

Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare. A nice little article by my excellent colleague Jasmeen Kanwal. doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Again for those in the back: "#AI IS NOT A PEER, SO IT CAN'T DO PEER REVIEW."

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Fascinating to see the considered views of actual AI expert @melaniemitchell.bsky.social put next to the ramblings of medieval military historian Yuval Noah Harari in @nytimes.com 🤖🏺 archive.ph/0uZJX

Amazing coda here.

Happy Whistle Pig Day! The updated site is live and we are celebrating LIBRARIES! We are thankful for our great library - the FLC! It may be freezing in the Valley, but it's cozy in our library! #bcvammm #2026MM

As per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

NPR covering the Olympic mascots who are stoats! This is clearly an attempt to win over the coveted #2026MMM crowd (though oddly NPR missed the #StoatsAsMeasurement metric....) www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

To learn even more, be sure to check out Jorell's incredible book, available in English from PUP and Spanish from Planeta de Libros USA. 🇵🇷 (3/3) press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Grammys #BadBunny #DeBÍTiRARMáSFOToS #PuertoRico #AlbumOfTheYear

These 17 short videos tell stories from across Puerto Rican history, from the lineage of the Puerto Rican flag and early "Americanization" of the archipelago to the roots of reggaetón and more: www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

It's amazing how some academics (active and emeritus) are so invested in a limited and incurious view of biology, culture, and the human experience. It seems to make them angry, hateful, and really insecure. How does one get into the world of knowledge production on purpose and come out so myopic?

This is an excellent piece 👇 its discussion of the “tyranny of the quantifiable” reminded me of the recent article about the tech guys whose miserable vision is for dating to be determined entirely by algorithm

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I forgot I got a still of proud mama harbor seal!!! #sealsky 🦑 🦭

"The solution to technology is not more technology. The solution to loneliness is each other, a wealth that should be available to most of us most of the time." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in @theguardian.com with a must read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Fela Kuti hive! Our time is now.

“As things become more popular on the side of the people, you see more desperate attempts by the regime to try and deter it.. One of the goals of an authoritarian regime is to scare the people into submission, and the most important thing that we can do to counteract that is to continue showing up."

🎙️ New podcast episode! Chris Lynn and Courtney Manthey talk with Seth Quintus, Pacific Island archaeologist and professor at the University of Hawai‘i.

In 2025, departures of govt scientists outnumbered new hires by a ratio of 11 to 1. This reduction in STEM PhDs translates to 106k yrs of federal work experience across 10,000 employees. These talents will take their expertise elsewhere. Experience is indispensable. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...

This! Thanks @kevinlala.bsky.social

I am happy to share this article, entitled "The importance of Biological Theory". It is my inaugural editorial as the new Editor-in-Chief of @biologicaltheory.bsky.social . In these complex and challenging times, theory is more important now than ever. Enjoy! doi.org/10.1007/s137...

The disproportionately white blonde peoples are being kicked out of the tent of whiteness for being too nice to the N words That's what I'm hearing here

oh my...this is awful. Really, those two guys on that topic??? Ohio State WTF?