Adam Rutherford
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL
Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
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Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
So happy these bastards are paying me for stealing my work.
some of my favorite snippets from newly released court docs in the Anthropic copyright book case. eye-opening stuff on Project Panama, their plan to "destructively scan all the books in the world" in order to train AI
January 28, 2026 at 7:32 AM
So happy these bastards are paying me for stealing my work.
2 unsolicited TV opinions.
1) Night Manager 2 was not very good. Until the Pacino/Deniro Heat sit down, which was ELECTRIC. Annoying to rescue something struggling with such fabulous dynamite.
2) The Seven Dials is all sorts of fun. Please make many more with Bundle and Superintendent Battle.
1) Night Manager 2 was not very good. Until the Pacino/Deniro Heat sit down, which was ELECTRIC. Annoying to rescue something struggling with such fabulous dynamite.
2) The Seven Dials is all sorts of fun. Please make many more with Bundle and Superintendent Battle.
January 27, 2026 at 7:52 PM
2 unsolicited TV opinions.
1) Night Manager 2 was not very good. Until the Pacino/Deniro Heat sit down, which was ELECTRIC. Annoying to rescue something struggling with such fabulous dynamite.
2) The Seven Dials is all sorts of fun. Please make many more with Bundle and Superintendent Battle.
1) Night Manager 2 was not very good. Until the Pacino/Deniro Heat sit down, which was ELECTRIC. Annoying to rescue something struggling with such fabulous dynamite.
2) The Seven Dials is all sorts of fun. Please make many more with Bundle and Superintendent Battle.
Oh god, imagine how insufferably victimy he will be when he loses.
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Oh god, imagine how insufferably victimy he will be when he loses.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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We can't wait for our first Wild Talks event in a week's time! Join us on 3rd Feb for Trailblazers & Pioneers: 200 Years of Wildlife Science to hear how ZSL has been at the heart of scientific breakthroughs for two centuries. Hosted by @adamrutherford.bsky.social 🔬🐸🌊 1/2
January 27, 2026 at 9:08 AM
We can't wait for our first Wild Talks event in a week's time! Join us on 3rd Feb for Trailblazers & Pioneers: 200 Years of Wildlife Science to hear how ZSL has been at the heart of scientific breakthroughs for two centuries. Hosted by @adamrutherford.bsky.social 🔬🐸🌊 1/2
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Seven, by Joanna Kavenna is the most brilliant novel I’ve read in AGES, part academic satire, part philosophy of AI and gaming, all hubris-puncturing wisdom worn with such levity that I was cackling from start to finish. Astonishing writing.
January 26, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Seven, by Joanna Kavenna is the most brilliant novel I’ve read in AGES, part academic satire, part philosophy of AI and gaming, all hubris-puncturing wisdom worn with such levity that I was cackling from start to finish. Astonishing writing.
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1/ "Crick - A Mind In Motion" - I'll be in conversation with author @matthewcobb.bsky.social next Monday 26/01 at the Grand Central for #BrightThink, talking about his landmark biography of the great man - details/tix: www.brighthink.org/events/crick #Brighton
CRICK: A Mind In Motion - From DNA to the Brain — Brighthink
Francis Crick was a restless, relentless thinker, as fascinated by Beat poetry and psychedelics as the genetic meaning of life and the inner workings of the brain. Join Matthew Cobb as he discusses hi...
www.brighthink.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
1/ "Crick - A Mind In Motion" - I'll be in conversation with author @matthewcobb.bsky.social next Monday 26/01 at the Grand Central for #BrightThink, talking about his landmark biography of the great man - details/tix: www.brighthink.org/events/crick #Brighton
Seven, by Joanna Kavenna is the most brilliant novel I’ve read in AGES, part academic satire, part philosophy of AI and gaming, all hubris-puncturing wisdom worn with such levity that I was cackling from start to finish. Astonishing writing.
January 26, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Seven, by Joanna Kavenna is the most brilliant novel I’ve read in AGES, part academic satire, part philosophy of AI and gaming, all hubris-puncturing wisdom worn with such levity that I was cackling from start to finish. Astonishing writing.
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Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops
January 25, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Stalin notorious for making sure you could walk to the shops
Same story over and over. These larpers - Kirkegard, Pesta et al - pumping out the same effluence with their strategy - exposed by @harryshukman.bsky.social + @hopenothate.org.uk - to normalise and spread scientific racism. They KNOW it's bullshit too.
Read this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Read this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
January 25, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Same story over and over. These larpers - Kirkegard, Pesta et al - pumping out the same effluence with their strategy - exposed by @harryshukman.bsky.social + @hopenothate.org.uk - to normalise and spread scientific racism. They KNOW it's bullshit too.
Read this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Read this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
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This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
AI nudification: the latest weapon of violence against women and girls
In Julie Burchill’s recent article in the Spectator, Does it really matter if Grok undresses us all?, she makes the argument that those who, like me, have repeatedly had their clothes removed by socia...
jessasato.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:21 AM
This week, an X user created an AI video of me being chloroformed and prepared for rape.
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
Victims are told it's not real and they're getting offended for no reason.
But nudification tools are weapons of sexual assault, and the harm they cause is real 👇
jessasato.substack.com/p/ai-nudific...
This man is an idiot.
Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids?
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.
January 22, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This man is an idiot.
Obviously grotesquely inaccurate and deeply offensive to the non-US Nato people who served, but don't act surprised. President Bonespur has consistently and persistently denigrated the military, casually, interpersonally and formally.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Obviously grotesquely inaccurate and deeply offensive to the non-US Nato people who served, but don't act surprised. President Bonespur has consistently and persistently denigrated the military, casually, interpersonally and formally.
And the USA has had enforced sterilisations all the way into the 2020s, so what’s your point caller?
WELKER: Why is it necessary to do something 85% of Greenlanders oppose?
BESSENT: Denmark has a terrible history w/ Greenlanders. There were forced sterilizations until the '90s. Now that the US has expressed an interest, there is this new interest. But the US needs to be in control to prevent a war
BESSENT: Denmark has a terrible history w/ Greenlanders. There were forced sterilizations until the '90s. Now that the US has expressed an interest, there is this new interest. But the US needs to be in control to prevent a war
January 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
And the USA has had enforced sterilisations all the way into the 2020s, so what’s your point caller?
I had a cheesecake last night that was made with Parmesan. It was surprisingly good.
That’s my news. Carry on.
That’s my news. Carry on.
January 18, 2026 at 8:42 AM
I had a cheesecake last night that was made with Parmesan. It was surprisingly good.
That’s my news. Carry on.
That’s my news. Carry on.
The new ICE Bluesky account only follows journalists from NPR, The Washington Post and the NY Times. I guess they must be interested in keeping up with current affairs, cos of course public monitoring of the free press by a Governmental violent militia might look a bit fashy.
January 17, 2026 at 7:34 AM
The new ICE Bluesky account only follows journalists from NPR, The Washington Post and the NY Times. I guess they must be interested in keeping up with current affairs, cos of course public monitoring of the free press by a Governmental violent militia might look a bit fashy.
This is very good, and funny. LORD Yoby Toung's club launched an investigation into who donates to Hope Not Hate, and got a High Court Injunction to block investigations into who donates to the Free Speech Union.
🔴 Last week the Free Speech Union got a High Court writ to prevent the publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
So we decided to investigate who *does* fund Toby Young's outfit
Wanna see? 🫣
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
This is very good, and funny. LORD Yoby Toung's club launched an investigation into who donates to Hope Not Hate, and got a High Court Injunction to block investigations into who donates to the Free Speech Union.
Betteridge, he say no, Rutherford also add ‘god I hope not the weird anti-evidence wiener obsessed Wiener’
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Betteridge, he say no, Rutherford also add ‘god I hope not the weird anti-evidence wiener obsessed Wiener’
It is so strange that crime doesn’t occur where people don’t live.
January 12, 2026 at 10:27 AM
It is so strange that crime doesn’t occur where people don’t live.
Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4. Three absolute crackers: Daisy Fancourt’s Art Cure, Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces, and Chekhov’s youthful comedy, with Rosamund Bartlett.
We bring the joy in dark January.
We bring the joy in dark January.
January 12, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4. Three absolute crackers: Daisy Fancourt’s Art Cure, Tom Service’s A History of the World in 50 Pieces, and Chekhov’s youthful comedy, with Rosamund Bartlett.
We bring the joy in dark January.
We bring the joy in dark January.
My cab to take me in to prep and present Start the Week tomorrow will arrive at 5:45am.
January 11, 2026 at 11:12 PM
My cab to take me in to prep and present Start the Week tomorrow will arrive at 5:45am.
Now I've got a decent stalker on here and a couple of the 'reply to everything I say' anonyguys, it's just like Twitter in the olden days, before it became a nazi porn site.
a police officer says i 've never been happier while sitting in a chair
ALT: a police officer says i 've never been happier while sitting in a chair
media.tenor.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Now I've got a decent stalker on here and a couple of the 'reply to everything I say' anonyguys, it's just like Twitter in the olden days, before it became a nazi porn site.
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This podcast about the history of eugenics is very timely www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
BBC Sounds - Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Bad Blood: The Story of Eugenics on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:19 PM
This podcast about the history of eugenics is very timely www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived by @adamrutherford.bsky.social
Which I believe has a new updated version coming out soon?
Which I believe has a new updated version coming out soon?
January 9, 2026 at 1:11 PM
A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived by @adamrutherford.bsky.social
Which I believe has a new updated version coming out soon?
Which I believe has a new updated version coming out soon?