Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Steven Pinker "effectively helped Dershowitz to obtain a “completely unprecedented” plea bargain with U.S. attny Alex Acosta in 2008 which granted Epstein [..] immunity to federal prosecution for trafficking dozens of underage girls," writes Cathryn Townsend www.liberalcurrents.com/epsteins-gif...

The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study is used by hereditarians to claim victory for their beliefs about the innate intellectual inferiority of Black versus White people, but its design can’t separate genetic from environment causes of IQ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Katydid has to go the neurologist in a month so I’m running a sale on all not catnip items in my Etsy shop. All funds will go towards her summer checkup, bloodwork, and getting her seizure meds for another 6 months. Use code NEURO4KD to get 25% off non catnip items mindysperson.etsy.com

This is one of the dumbest of the race science fans' collection of dumb ideas. You should read Kevin's takedown, and if you want more context on some of the people he discusses, read my SPLC profile on Henry Harpending

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."

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Interesting development. Raised concerns with Cambridge University Press about books which use "national IQ" data and wondered whether any action would be taken (won't find out from them as their policy is not to let those raising concerns know the outcome of any investigation)

1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 24th June, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇

Since this piece about contemporary manifestations of eugenics, including “fertility crisis“ narratives, mentions evolutionary psychology, it’s worth noting that evolutionary psychologists are now actively promoting those “fertility crisis” claims in their journals

Oh to be so Enlightened that you “forget” you got ten grand for a letter that you let other people doctor to help a paedophile get off lightly and continue abusing 100s of children for years. Truly the transition from status to contract is the liberation of the mind.

I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.

I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

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Have a nice dinner, like me

An ERC-funded philosopher at Ghent University appears to be openly adopting Richard Lynn’s strategy of “hav[ing] a go at the rehabilitation of eugenics”

Very good statement clearly outlining the costs of hiring pseudoscientists: "This is the academic version of “flood the zone with shit”: spread controversial, unsubstantiated claims that others must respond to. That way, they have less time for the important, high-quality research they want to do"

New Climate Ethnographies A Collective Book Talk We invite you to our collective book talk of new climate ethnographies: five innovative works that analyse the impacts of climate change in cultures and societies globally. Each presenter will talk about their recently published work.

My wife is teaching some classically themed summer courses on myth and Pompeii for kids ages 8-13 online. She’s offering a discount for early enrollment 👇

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

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.

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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