Catbird / 야옹새
@catbirdmeows.bsky.social
Bi/pan aromantic. Bicoastal and bicontinental, env sci/env law/legal realist. 온갖 이상한 동물을 좋아합니다. 범성애자 에이로맨틱, 법현실주의자 미국변호사, 전직 (안)척척박사, 현직 야간 대학원생.
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For the uninitiated, Philippe Rushton is known as the guy who argued that Black folk have the largest penises and the lowest IQs, and therefore the smartest people have smaller penises and vice versa. psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-...
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 AM
For the uninitiated, Philippe Rushton is known as the guy who argued that Black folk have the largest penises and the lowest IQs, and therefore the smartest people have smaller penises and vice versa. psycnet.apa.org/record/1988-...
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Some of my fav classes in Race and Science were watching students tear apart his work, and laugh at him and his weird obsession with genitalia
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Some of my fav classes in Race and Science were watching students tear apart his work, and laugh at him and his weird obsession with genitalia
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-You mean it's just a bunch of massive creeps using the vague imprimatur of SCIENCE to backfill their worst tendencies?
-Always has been
-Always has been
February 1, 2026 at 4:47 PM
-You mean it's just a bunch of massive creeps using the vague imprimatur of SCIENCE to backfill their worst tendencies?
-Always has been
-Always has been
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In a lot of ways, Epstein is just applied evo psych.
so the guy sharing gross transphobic slop with Epstein here is Robert Trivers, the scientist who invented the specious yet popular "parental investment" theory, in which sperm are cheap so men want to f*ck lots of women, but eggs are expensive so women are looking for a man with "good genes"...
O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
February 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM
In a lot of ways, Epstein is just applied evo psych.
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얘들아 제발…… 내면의 남성애를 직시하고 기왕이면 사귀고, 지지고 볶고 싸우다가…… 그러다가 침대에서 뭐 좀 행복하게 보내고…… 그래라.
←헤세 작품 읽을 때마다 이리 됩니다.
←헤세 작품 읽을 때마다 이리 됩니다.
February 2, 2026 at 7:03 PM
얘들아 제발…… 내면의 남성애를 직시하고 기왕이면 사귀고, 지지고 볶고 싸우다가…… 그러다가 침대에서 뭐 좀 행복하게 보내고…… 그래라.
←헤세 작품 읽을 때마다 이리 됩니다.
←헤세 작품 읽을 때마다 이리 됩니다.
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There’s a massive disconnect between important ocean science research and what hedge fund bros think ocean science research looks like.
🐠 OceanXplorer: a 'one-stop shop' for marine research
AFP reports from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel, as it studies seamounts off Indonesia. The ship pairs scientific research with high-end media content to make marine biology and conservation accessible.
AFP reports from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel, as it studies seamounts off Indonesia. The ship pairs scientific research with high-end media content to make marine biology and conservation accessible.
February 2, 2026 at 1:25 PM
There’s a massive disconnect between important ocean science research and what hedge fund bros think ocean science research looks like.
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Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats
February 2, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats
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헤르만 헤세
대표작 데미안……
뭐 아무튼 그 사람 책 몇 권 읽어 봤는데 일관적인 여캐 존못 남자끼리의 진한 교류 어쩌고긴 하더라.
내 생각엔 그냥 주요 인물인 남자 둘이 섹ㅅ했으면 분량이 줄어들 소설들이 많았다.
기왕지사 그냥 해라…….
둘이건 셋이건 지들끼리 한다는데 뭐 누가 말리겠냐. 어, 뭐 유산소 운동 잘 하고……. 행복하게 사시고…….
대표작 데미안……
뭐 아무튼 그 사람 책 몇 권 읽어 봤는데 일관적인 여캐 존못 남자끼리의 진한 교류 어쩌고긴 하더라.
내 생각엔 그냥 주요 인물인 남자 둘이 섹ㅅ했으면 분량이 줄어들 소설들이 많았다.
기왕지사 그냥 해라…….
둘이건 셋이건 지들끼리 한다는데 뭐 누가 말리겠냐. 어, 뭐 유산소 운동 잘 하고……. 행복하게 사시고…….
February 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
헤르만 헤세
대표작 데미안……
뭐 아무튼 그 사람 책 몇 권 읽어 봤는데 일관적인 여캐 존못 남자끼리의 진한 교류 어쩌고긴 하더라.
내 생각엔 그냥 주요 인물인 남자 둘이 섹ㅅ했으면 분량이 줄어들 소설들이 많았다.
기왕지사 그냥 해라…….
둘이건 셋이건 지들끼리 한다는데 뭐 누가 말리겠냐. 어, 뭐 유산소 운동 잘 하고……. 행복하게 사시고…….
대표작 데미안……
뭐 아무튼 그 사람 책 몇 권 읽어 봤는데 일관적인 여캐 존못 남자끼리의 진한 교류 어쩌고긴 하더라.
내 생각엔 그냥 주요 인물인 남자 둘이 섹ㅅ했으면 분량이 줄어들 소설들이 많았다.
기왕지사 그냥 해라…….
둘이건 셋이건 지들끼리 한다는데 뭐 누가 말리겠냐. 어, 뭐 유산소 운동 잘 하고……. 행복하게 사시고…….
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Our leaders are failures.
February 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Our leaders are failures.
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February 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
As a 30-something-woman in law school, I didn't find out until I was already gone that some of our 1L professors were famously creepy to my peers who were not in their 30s
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 PM
As a 30-something-woman in law school, I didn't find out until I was already gone that some of our 1L professors were famously creepy to my peers who were not in their 30s
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This isn't hypothetical; at least four times, I've later learned that someone I've worked with or connected a student with was a predator, after the fact. In the absence of institutional action, sometimes a whisper network is all we have. But whisper networks only work if you're in the network.
February 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM
This isn't hypothetical; at least four times, I've later learned that someone I've worked with or connected a student with was a predator, after the fact. In the absence of institutional action, sometimes a whisper network is all we have. But whisper networks only work if you're in the network.
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Just as a quick note while we discuss all the new (and familiar) names in the Epstein files: be careful about saying "everyone knows" about prominent people who are predators. People new to the field, people less connected (often marginalized folks), people who are adjacent, etc. may not know.
February 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Just as a quick note while we discuss all the new (and familiar) names in the Epstein files: be careful about saying "everyone knows" about prominent people who are predators. People new to the field, people less connected (often marginalized folks), people who are adjacent, etc. may not know.
As a small-handed, long-ring-fingered cis woman I went to a reputable animal behaviour conference in 2018. When I saw that at least one of the talks concerned the Digit Ratio, I yiked so loudly; why can't those weirdos leave us alone to talk about cute, otherworldly bugs and worms and furry things?
epstein funded trivers research and trivers began advocating a weird theory where relative digit length indicates (trans)gender identity. all around weird! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Digit Ratio (2D:4D), Transgendered Belief, and Transsexual Drug Therapy in the BBC Internet Study - Evolutionary Psychological Science
Transgendered belief—the conviction that one is the opposite gender to one’s natal gender—may be influenced by prenatal sex steroids. We consider this possibility by examining the relationship between...
link.springer.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
As a small-handed, long-ring-fingered cis woman I went to a reputable animal behaviour conference in 2018. When I saw that at least one of the talks concerned the Digit Ratio, I yiked so loudly; why can't those weirdos leave us alone to talk about cute, otherworldly bugs and worms and furry things?
Everyone should read Roughgarden - not only is she absolutely inspiring, but she also discusses the most fascinating critters in the world.
...btw since a lot of ppl (astoundingly) still believe in Trivers' parental investment theory, I figured I'd drop this endnote from Sexed Up of references that review of all the evidence against the theory:
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Everyone should read Roughgarden - not only is she absolutely inspiring, but she also discusses the most fascinating critters in the world.
I used to believe creationists were being unreasonable when they talked about the ills of 'Darwinism' to human morality. Now, I am not so sure. Maybe they had a very good point.
It’s wild how literally every big name sociobiologist and evopsychologist turns out to be a eugenicist and how many of them also are the types to go “ackshually it’s hebephilia”
yes, there is a lot of overlap between ppl who believe in Trivers' parental investment theory & those who believe 1) in things like scientific racism & eugenics (which favor those with supposed "good genes") & 2) sex with teenage girls shouldn't be considered statutory rape because they are fertile
February 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I used to believe creationists were being unreasonable when they talked about the ills of 'Darwinism' to human morality. Now, I am not so sure. Maybe they had a very good point.
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yes, there is a lot of overlap between ppl who believe in Trivers' parental investment theory & those who believe 1) in things like scientific racism & eugenics (which favor those with supposed "good genes") & 2) sex with teenage girls shouldn't be considered statutory rape because they are fertile
February 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
yes, there is a lot of overlap between ppl who believe in Trivers' parental investment theory & those who believe 1) in things like scientific racism & eugenics (which favor those with supposed "good genes") & 2) sex with teenage girls shouldn't be considered statutory rape because they are fertile
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so the guy sharing gross transphobic slop with Epstein here is Robert Trivers, the scientist who invented the specious yet popular "parental investment" theory, in which sperm are cheap so men want to f*ck lots of women, but eggs are expensive so women are looking for a man with "good genes"...
O cool The hypothesis that the elite were trying to segrigate trans people from society purely to keep us as sex slaves was real, but only for trans women since they see trans men as undesirable for sex and want them eliminated which is EXACTLY THE POLICIES AND RHETORIC WE'RE SEEING HAPPEN RIGHT NOW
February 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
so the guy sharing gross transphobic slop with Epstein here is Robert Trivers, the scientist who invented the specious yet popular "parental investment" theory, in which sperm are cheap so men want to f*ck lots of women, but eggs are expensive so women are looking for a man with "good genes"...
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I took a political biology class in grad school and literally every paper or book we read was by someone who’s been outed as a scientific racist, eugenicist, is in the Epstein files, or some combination of the three
February 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I took a political biology class in grad school and literally every paper or book we read was by someone who’s been outed as a scientific racist, eugenicist, is in the Epstein files, or some combination of the three
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It’s wild how literally every big name sociobiologist and evopsychologist turns out to be a eugenicist and how many of them also are the types to go “ackshually it’s hebephilia”
yes, there is a lot of overlap between ppl who believe in Trivers' parental investment theory & those who believe 1) in things like scientific racism & eugenics (which favor those with supposed "good genes") & 2) sex with teenage girls shouldn't be considered statutory rape because they are fertile
February 2, 2026 at 5:07 PM
It’s wild how literally every big name sociobiologist and evopsychologist turns out to be a eugenicist and how many of them also are the types to go “ackshually it’s hebephilia”
'Free speech absolutists' are always the most eager to make sure nobody will ever be seen disagreeing with them. That's because they want to control speech, and they don't want others to do so. They know they have the money, and how dare 'the poors' seek to override them?
And of course this joke of a 'publication' blocks everyone who disagrees with them.
February 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
'Free speech absolutists' are always the most eager to make sure nobody will ever be seen disagreeing with them. That's because they want to control speech, and they don't want others to do so. They know they have the money, and how dare 'the poors' seek to override them?
Free speech absolutists will always side with corporations over democracy.
February 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Free speech absolutists will always side with corporations over democracy.
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Must read.
Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.
(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)
Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Must read.
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이 다큐멘터리에 따르면, 뻐꾸기 새끼를 기르는 숙주새는 속은 게 아니라 "기르다보니 정이 들어서" 계속 길렀다는 거야. 기르다보니 정이 들어서.....
February 2, 2026 at 12:41 PM
이 다큐멘터리에 따르면, 뻐꾸기 새끼를 기르는 숙주새는 속은 게 아니라 "기르다보니 정이 들어서" 계속 길렀다는 거야. 기르다보니 정이 들어서.....
과제를 하다가, 18-19세기의 미국에는 청소동물로 '집돼지'가 살았다는 사실을 알게 되었어요! 정말 쓸데없이 너무 귀엽지 않나요?
February 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
과제를 하다가, 18-19세기의 미국에는 청소동물로 '집돼지'가 살았다는 사실을 알게 되었어요! 정말 쓸데없이 너무 귀엽지 않나요?