Dr. Ayah Nuriddin
@ayahnerd.bsky.social
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Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
Muslim. Yale prof. Historian of upsetting things. Librarian. Black Feminist.
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Dr. Ayah Nuriddin
@ayahnerd.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Hi new followers!! 👋 I'm a historian of eugenics, racism, and lots of other upsetting things that are becoming increasingly relevant for terrible reasons.
Remember to stay hydrated and cite Black women!
Remember to stay hydrated and cite Black women!
Well this is fantastic! I kinda want to play along but I also don't want to lol
Happy New Year! Here's hoping there's less *gestures wildly at everything*
Happy New Year! Here's hoping there's less *gestures wildly at everything*
2025 sucked.
In hopes of a better 2026, I am pleased to present the 5th annual batshittery bingo card.
In hopes of a better 2026, I am pleased to present the 5th annual batshittery bingo card.
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Well this is fantastic! I kinda want to play along but I also don't want to lol
Happy New Year! Here's hoping there's less *gestures wildly at everything*
Happy New Year! Here's hoping there's less *gestures wildly at everything*
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I won't lie, this was a tough year for democracy. But we enter 2026 with hope and optimism for the year ahead. I wish you all a happy and healthy new year.
January 1, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I won't lie, this was a tough year for democracy. But we enter 2026 with hope and optimism for the year ahead. I wish you all a happy and healthy new year.
So heinous! This would be a good time to donate to Planned Parenthood
BREAKING: Court allows Trump-backed cuts to Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding in 22 states reut.rs/4soSv7m
December 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
So heinous! This would be a good time to donate to Planned Parenthood
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RFK Jr.'s legacy is a sea of tiny coffins in the US and internationally. Every day he remains in office, the harm he causes grows.
Call your representative — it's time Congress impeaches and removes RFK Jr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Call your representative — it's time Congress impeaches and removes RFK Jr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
RFK Jr.'s legacy is a sea of tiny coffins in the US and internationally. Every day he remains in office, the harm he causes grows.
Call your representative — it's time Congress impeaches and removes RFK Jr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
Call your representative — it's time Congress impeaches and removes RFK Jr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr
*laughs in comprehensive exams*
December 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
*laughs in comprehensive exams*
This week in eugenics
December 20, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This week in eugenics
Listen to us talk about why @nursingclio.bsky.social is awesome, and then get your copy of the Nursing Clio Reader!
Some of our fantastic authors and editors sat down with @jwomenshistory.bsky.social to discuss our new book! Tune in to the podcast to hear @ayahnerd.bsky.social @lmansley.bsky.social and @sarahbelle721.bsky.social and learn more about the NC Reader! newbooksnetwork.com/the-nursing-...
The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, "The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice" (Rutgers UP, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Listen to us talk about why @nursingclio.bsky.social is awesome, and then get your copy of the Nursing Clio Reader!
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Worth noting that what Walsh is citing here isn't just the idea of IQ—it's the much more egregious "national IQ" data from Richard Lynn, something several colleagues and I wrote about last year for STAT News
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Worth noting that what Walsh is citing here isn't just the idea of IQ—it's the much more egregious "national IQ" data from Richard Lynn, something several colleagues and I wrote about last year for STAT News
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted a stay, allowing Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026, delivering a major win for President Donald Trump and his unprecedented national effort to rig the upcoming midterm elections.
SCOTUS Allows Texas to Use Racially Gerrymandered Map in 2026 Midterm Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has granted a stay, allowing Texas to use its new congressional map in 2026, delivering a major win for President Donald Trump and his unprecedented national effort to rig the upcoming midterm elections.
THIS
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THIS
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
As a historian of eugenics, just want to confirm that eugenics is bad. Racism and ableism are the foundations of eugenics, and if those things shape what you mean by "desired" genetic characteristics, then it is eugenics and therefore bad. However, not all genetic intervention has to be eugenic.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As a historian of eugenics, just want to confirm that eugenics is bad. Racism and ableism are the foundations of eugenics, and if those things shape what you mean by "desired" genetic characteristics, then it is eugenics and therefore bad. However, not all genetic intervention has to be eugenic.
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This right here.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This right here.
Sweet potato pie is the best pie. I will not be taking questions at this time.
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sweet potato pie is the best pie. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
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"An obsession with the gene, of course, is not a complete explanation for why racist ideas resonated with Dr. Watson ... [for these ideas] to strike such a chord, some part of him had to already be receptive to its arguments"
gift link: James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"An obsession with the gene, of course, is not a complete explanation for why racist ideas resonated with Dr. Watson ... [for these ideas] to strike such a chord, some part of him had to already be receptive to its arguments"
Very interesting take on Watson from @nccomfort.bsky.social, a preview of his forthcoming definitive and possibly magisterial biography!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very interesting take on Watson from @nccomfort.bsky.social, a preview of his forthcoming definitive and possibly magisterial biography!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...
It's always eugenics....
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 AM
It's always eugenics....
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If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.
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🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
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🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
Preview of the definitive and possibly magisterial biography of Watson!
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Preview of the definitive and possibly magisterial biography of Watson!
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“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."
Professors lament federal research funding cuts at faculty panel
The Yale chapter of the American Association of University Professors held a virtual panel Thursday featuring six faculty members who have been affected by President Donald Trump’s cuts.
yaledailynews.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
“We... wanted to address a frustrating narrative we’ve been hearing more frequently—that Yale has somehow been exempted from the funding freezes and disruptions affecting other institutions,” HoSang wrote... “The idea that Yale has been untouched is simply wrong."
Stay tuned for the definitive and possibly magisterial Watson biography!
James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon.
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Stay tuned for the definitive and possibly magisterial Watson biography!