Interesting discussion of why fertility rates for men and women may differ here: "adjusting for demographic and socio-economic factors significantly reduces the fertility differential. Residual differences may stem from measurement errors, selection biases, or unmeasured variables"

The normalization of (almost) everything: Our minds can get used to anything, and even crises start feeling normal 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... The tendency to normalize is a phenomenon that undercuts our response to many large-scale problems, from health, to gun violence, to climate change.

Impressive journalism @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social regarding closure of New England Primate Research Center, recounting traumatic death of monkeys, inadequate veterinary care, and more. We know today that #animalfreescience = better science. cc @whenwejustify.bsky.social #primates #animalrights 🧪

Revisiting this very interesting book.

Congratulations Mona Oraby and Toni Alimi, who are finalists for @aarweb.bsky.social Book Awards! Devotion to the Administrative State, Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Studies: hubs.ly/Q03QP0030 Slaves of God, Best First Book in the History of Religions: hubs.ly/Q03QP0j50

Evidence for symbolic use of ochre by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea 🏺🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Results highlight Neanderthal cognitive complexity and underscore the importance of regional, multiproxy approaches in evaluating the emergence of symbolic material culture.

"The actual evidence shows not only that men and women are far more similar than his book suggests, but also that Baumeister’s own practices demonstrate a departure from scientific standards."

Women are not ruining the workplace because women are not so very different from men: “In personality and evolutionary psychology, the consensus is clear: Men and women evolved under shared pressures for cooperation, mutual dependency and parental investment, not perpetual conflict or exploitation”

excellent paper.

Full OA paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Very glad to see this important paper published at last

conversations about Watson's death rn are a potent reminder that racism and/or misogyny have RARELY been professionally disqualifying, especially in this country

As you read the homages remember that strong commitments to racist and misogynistic beliefs when one holds potions of power and prominence shape disciplines, knowledges, and practice. All the contributions, beneficial, ignorant, and harmful, should be on the table. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Amen - I saw a lecture by him back in the early 90s during grad school - I was unaware of all the issues he had with women (other than stealing data from Dr. Franklin!!) until his visit to our campus - his less than enlightened jokes just made it all even more cringe

As you read the homages remember that strong commitments to racist and misogynistic beliefs when one holds potions of power and prominence shape disciplines, knowledges, and practice. All the contributions, beneficial, ignorant, and harmful, should be on the table. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

It says something about my feed that I'm reading more good riddance threads about James Watson today than I did about Dick Cheney on Monday lol

This.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

In an unsigned order on Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to require U.S. passports to list travelers' assigned sex at birth. Actress and activist Laverne Cox responds to the blatantly anti-trans policy.

A nice story in @science.org this week about the collaboration between archaeologists and Kuikuro people in Brazil, which has been central to uncovering evidence of social complexity in the Amazon region more than 600 years ago. www.science.org/content/arti...

As I wrote in my Charlie Kirk essay: “The period since Kirk’s death has revealed a deeply unsettling cultural shift…espousing open and explicit bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the civil rights era.”

Do we need a Nature paper for that? Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Not every idea is worth airing. Not every point of view is worth hearing. Not everything that "a lot of people believe" should be credentialed by homepage space. Would the NYT editorial board run "Did Homosexuals Ruin Culture?" or "Did Black People Get Too Big for Their Britches?" I guess we'll see.

A whole new generation is going to be reading about Eugene Debs this morning. Read him from Haymarket in his own words. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

Deadline approaches for our open professorship here at @au.dk @auarcher.bsky.social. Get in touch if you have q international.au.dk/about/profil...

This is good context to my earlier post, but I'd still argue that we should change the name. If it's not just about religion, let's call it something more accurate and appropriate than RE. bsky.app/profile/huma...

YES! Anthropology.

Young people don't need more "Religious Education" to live in modern world. If it's inclusion/social cohesion govt is aiming for, then a better approach would be to drop RE, and create new subject Anthropology, on critical thinking, philosophy & belief systems. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Good. But it's time for canonical penalties for collaborationists. Vance is a Catholic. Homan is a Catholic. Rubio is a Catholic. Leavitt is a Catholic. They all have bishops and who have a responsibility they must exercise on pain of damnation if they shirk it. Or perhaps Leo has to do it himself.

Two #Postdoc opportunities in the Pontzer Lab at Duke -Human Ecology, Energetics, and Climate -Population Ecology Aging, and Health Network (PECAHN Check it out and spread the word! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

If you haven't seen The Great Dictator, you should. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...

The Biden administration worked hard to accomplish this new free IRS filing system. It’s astounding that one should have to pay fees in order to pay their taxes. But this rent seeking is entirely consistent with the economic policies of the current administration that benefit the most wealthy.

The little known, musical, story of Dick Cheney. www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ji...

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great article! Thanks @needhibhalla.bsky.social @marymunson4.bsky.social Joann Trejo!

Exactly!!!

It’s Election Day with critical races in several states. This is the first general election where voters get to tell Donald Trump what they think of him so far. Don’t miss your chance to make your voice heard! Vote like your country depends on it. Because it does.

It's #MongooseMonday 🎉 Dwarf mongooses are #cooperativebreeders, living in groups of 3-20 with a dominant breeding pair & helpers of both sexes. doi.org/10.1098/rsos... We study a South African population habituated to our close presence & trained to weigh themselves! #fieldwork #social #behaviour

Too real! I spent years cautioning students to think critically about when and how to use Wikipedia, and now I'm like oh good you used Wikipedia. Sigh.

The amount of AI generated art in slides at this conference, primarily used by older scientists, is killing me. Scientists please. Don’t use these ai platforms to make your figures or slides. They look bad and I have yet to see them meaningfully improve the message of talks.

A new post covering some recent work on estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and pregnancy from ancient skeletons. A window has just opened a crack but it’s another fascinating area where the lives of ancient people may be encoded in their bones and teeth. www.johnhawks.net/p/finding-ho...

In which Palantir recruits high school students for fellowships by telling them to skip college because its holds little value and then puts them through a cherry-picked curriculum that oddly resembles… college

The WSJ piece notably omits that Palantir CEO Karp holds a PhD in philosophy/social theory from Goethe University—home of the Frankfurt School—mentioning only his Haverford BA and Stanford JD.

A very good point - the right to refuse to use genAI must be enshrined as a principle of academic ethics

Safeguarding Sound Science, Evolution Edition is awesome!!! from @ncse.bsky.social Check out the podcasts! ncse.ngo/safeguarding...