Really helpful blog post on ‘missing heritability’, which shows how out-of-touch ‘hereditarian’ IQ researchers are with modern population genetics. 👏

First they came for gender and post-colonial studies and I said nothing because I was in STEM.

Please share widely! #chemsky #biosky #edusky #MKE #Milwaukee #Wisconsin #UWM #MSOE #Marquette #Hashtag

Happy weekend!

I once gave a lecture about climate change public opinion to judges for the Climate Judiciary Project. My university recently received an FOIA request for my emails & documents related to the lecture. Today, I learned my university is also working to make judges skeptical of climate science. Sigh.

Happy Sunday ❤️

Playtime

'Huge' underestimations in the UK regarding carbon impacts of AI data centers. Will folks wake up to the reality that AI not only robs creative people of jobs and diminishes the vitality of our kids' reading and learning, but also exacerbates the #climate crisis? #AI #AIdatacenters #environment

Predator into prey

Mom keeps stealing my toys

Found this little guy napping in a hideout of pillows

Based on Richard Lynn’s dodgy data, of course. This was the purpose of its creation, to masquerade racism as ‘science’ & thereby infiltrate mainstream politics. This is one reason why Co-authors & I have called for retractions of scientific articles that use this data - it’s effectively propaganda.

A mother’s love 💕

Same, girl. Same.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

@yale.edu released a report on why the public (allegedly) doesn't trust higher education. The @nytimes.com covered it uncritically. So... I'm "pleased" to unveil my next debunking: an interactive annotated doc that points out factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Enjoy! #AcademicSky

We ❤️ bed

Ok ENUFF mom

I guess it’s another early night then

Happy little family

Perfect rainy morning ❤️🌧️

Saturday morning mate innit?

Nineteen days old.

Mama cat and baby cat

Baby’s first steps

How his little ears move 😭

My new piece for TNR:

It’s Nap Time again

Easter bun says nap as u want feet up

You’re feeling very sleepy. In 3 seconds you will be asleep. 3… 2… 1…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Mind your foot, Quentin

Tapping the sign

Day 8, more napping

Littlest teddy bears

Six-day-old kitten blep

I sincerely believe that female cooperative breeding groups pushed human evolution towards a positive cooperative feedback loop that brought us complex culture, language etc. We’re finding more examples of female coalitions in other species now— valuable insights to be found here! ⬇️ 👍

With Western Civilization now deemed too woke, the manosphere has started converting to Islam. This is how the right breaks up. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

Shrimp.

All tucked in.

Day 3 of my life ❤️

Turns out she’s only having 2. We had a little emergency trip to the vet last night to be sure. I’ll be keeping this account live up until their adoption. Watch this space for cute kitten pics!

I guess with race science discourse still percolating, I should re-up my starter pack for people who work on the topic

Interrupting my social media break to announce the birth of two kittens, likely 2 more coming soon. Mom is a champ, please clap

Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."

A 1,600-year-old altar found in the Guatemalan jungle shows the ancient Maya and Mexico’s Teotihuacan once shared political power – a rare sign of alliance, not conquest, between two major Mesoamerican civilizations. apnews.com/article/guat...

Trapped!!

Scientific racism doesn’t exist without the active involvement and complicity of scientists. Or, in this case, social scientists 👇 One practical step we in academia can take to guard against attacks from the far-right is to stop facilitating scientific racism

An image of 10th/9th millennium BC Göbekli Tepe from the earlier days of the excavations, around 2007, with the central pillars of Building D still mostly covered by sediments. This was a great opportunity to study the reliefs and pillar heads in detail.