After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? @kevinlala.bsky.social and @kztwyman.bsky.social blog about their recent paper in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Our article "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience" (with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social, @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marc Feldman) is now published online. We describe five factors that contribute to the spread of racism and suggest strategies for countering them. doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

This is an important essay. Surprisingly the comments push back, with only scant evidence to support arguments for the use of race as a biological construct. Medicine Still Treats Race as Biology. As a Physician, I Choose Evidence Instead. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

For the @puddingviz.bsky.social, I explored which animals we gender, and why. Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug. Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

Great article showing that animal characters are gendered in children's books too- pudding.cool/2025/07/kids... (see onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... for my study looking at this in films)

What can schools do to help end sexism? Dr Lara Wood, Reader in Socio-Cognitive Development at Abertay University, argues that to end sexism and misogyny in schools, we need to start young and be proactive in positively challenging children’s behaviour. @larawood.bsky.social

#Resistance tools from bsky.app/profile/whys... when asked “why are we funding this” from uncles & Senators alike. www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%... Shoutout bsky.app/profile/amer... for keeping the lights on while we reclaim #Science from the privatizing dismantlers. #StandUpForScience

Delighted to write a blog for @endsexisminschools.bsky.social prodiving some evidence-based tips on how educators can challenge sexism in schools endsexisminschools.org.uk/what-can-sch...

Great to see the conversation in the US around how gender-blind design leaves girls out of parks. Also great to see Brickfield Park in Bath mentioned – co-created with teenage girls, alongside inspiring examples from Vienna. Awareness is growing! nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan

Really important work here from @daveleavens.bsky.social and team. Will be covering this in next year's teaching

It's CES election time! We have FOUR positions that have come up for renewal, so please consider nominating yourself or your colleagues. Nominations close June 20th, with voting from June 30th -July 4th.

🚨 CE PhD opportunity! @onicatam.bsky.social is looking for PhD applicants interested in projects related to cultural evolution or language evolution for a fully funded scholarships at the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNH532/s...

Did you know that our field guide to cross-cultural research on childhood learning is completely FREE? books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2521782... @socialdevelopment.bsky.social

there are times when the dangers of inaction become sufficiently threatening to individuals or the planet that scientists who are able and willing to do so will have to enter the public arena and bring their voices to debates of critical societal importance. This is such a time.

A common claim in #EvoPsych is that the persistence of psychological sex differences in gender-egalitarian* countries shows that the differences are innate. I've argued that ignores the highly-gender-unequal media environment. Now @larawood.bsky.social has proved me right! #EHBEA #HBES

I've just finished reading @anthrofuentes.bsky.social's book #SexIsASpectrum, a digestible, & evidence-packed exploration of the issues around oversimplifying and essentialising sex/gender. I wish this was a core textbook for all human science fields! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Children’s animated films inaccurately and consistently portray predators as male and prey as female. Young children learn and maintain these gender stereotypes into adulthood.   See thread by @larawood.bsky.social or read the whole paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

🚨New publication... Children's films contain innacurate gender stereotypes and these corresespond to children's (and adult's) implicit and explicit gendered associations. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Read thread for more details...

I really enjoyed Adam Rutherford's book "Where are you really from?". It's a great book to give to kids to educate them about race and learn how modern science undermines racism. @adamrutherford.bsky.social

📣 BREAKING NEWS: Harvard sues Trump administration over foreign student ban, calling move unconstitutional and a threat to academic freedom. “Harvard is not Harvard without its international students,” the university writes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Enjoyed reading 'Sex is a Spectrum' by @anthrofuentes.bsky.social: "Human sex and gender are complicated. Every human body, and life, is a blend of biological and cultural processes, & nowhere is that more evident than sex biology". press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... @princetonupress.bsky.social 🧪

Trump administration trying to ban Harvard from accepting international students and forcing current intl. students to transfer is key authoritarian move. The academy must unite to resist loudly and forcefully

"there is no single correct approach to addressing sex & gender in health research... researchers [should] bring careful attention to the incorporation of sex & gender considerations in ways that are appropriate for their research context & articulate the limitations of their chosen approaches"

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lies... My review of Agustin Fuentus's new book, Sex Is A Spectrum.

Observations from a seminar series in Biology shows that "Female speakers had smaller audiences, especially among professors, even with comparable productivity metrics." https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/7175/ recommended @PeerCommunityIn Ecology […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

🚨New open access book! To promote informed applications in research, policy, medicine, and public health, the Ernst Strüngmann Forum convened scholars from diverse fields to examine a widely held assumption that sex and gender are conceptually separate. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"American researchers should now be granted the same considerations and care as colleagues in other countries that are authoritarian or at risk of political unrest and conflict". #AcademicSky #ResearchSky www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Great talk at #ehbea2025 by Karen Golden on social learning of gendered subject selection in UK school children: pupils showed higher interest in joining projects where they would be in the majority gender, and boys held particulaly strong stereotypes regarding subject choice. @larawood.bsky.social

Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender stereotypes in children's films correlate with explicit and implicit gender stereotyping: http://osf.io/jwtg9/

Really nice study by @larawood.bsky.social on gender stereotypes in children's film: 'After accounting for a 75% male character bias, there was a disproportionately high number of predators assigned male and prey assigned female.' #ehbea #psyscisky 🧪

Cutting “unfunded” research will hurt some types of research much more than others, and will be pretty disastrous for academic freedom and creativity

“X was "no longer a place where we want to encourage conversations with our university"” www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

New to this platform. If you know me and my interests, please recommend who I should be following. TIA