Holly Dunsworth
@dunsworth.bsky.social
Human evolution-obsessed anthropology professor, book coming 2027, southern Rhode Islander; https://ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2025/06/fossil-men-indeed-book-review.html
Still Dreaming
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December 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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The claims by AI defenders are always alarmist projections: *they* are running out of good ideas, so they say *we* are running out of good ideas. They find the humanities useless so they tell us that *most people* think humanities suck.
They are the issue, and these machines are their bad therapy.
They are the issue, and these machines are their bad therapy.
Lmfao every AI defense piece is like "AYY I FUCKIN SUCK BRO HOPEFULLY THIS FUCKIN STEAL YOUR SHIT MACHINE WILL MAKE ME SUCK SLIGHTLY LESS OK"
December 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The claims by AI defenders are always alarmist projections: *they* are running out of good ideas, so they say *we* are running out of good ideas. They find the humanities useless so they tell us that *most people* think humanities suck.
They are the issue, and these machines are their bad therapy.
They are the issue, and these machines are their bad therapy.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
New banner for next semester's syllabuses just dropped!
---If you do not imagine yourself doing the work in this class without AI assistance, then please drop this course immediately. It will save everyone the misery of you earning an F for using AI.---
(Grading is going super duper!)
---If you do not imagine yourself doing the work in this class without AI assistance, then please drop this course immediately. It will save everyone the misery of you earning an F for using AI.---
(Grading is going super duper!)
December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
New banner for next semester's syllabuses just dropped!
---If you do not imagine yourself doing the work in this class without AI assistance, then please drop this course immediately. It will save everyone the misery of you earning an F for using AI.---
(Grading is going super duper!)
---If you do not imagine yourself doing the work in this class without AI assistance, then please drop this course immediately. It will save everyone the misery of you earning an F for using AI.---
(Grading is going super duper!)
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Listen to these amazing colleagues - and please share their message. We should all be united in keeping children safe from preventable diseases.
The Save America Movement’s Science & Health Committee, led by Dr. Angela Rasmussen, unites experts from Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale & more to expose how Trump’s plan to rewrite the childhood vaccine schedule endangers families and public health. Watch here: www.youtube.com/shorts/4wnNy...
December 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Listen to these amazing colleagues - and please share their message. We should all be united in keeping children safe from preventable diseases.
Would these people like to come to my university and, say, drive generative AI off our campus, thereby transforming our university into the most badass of them all? Or at least as badass as a McDonald's ad?
It's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down.
People hate AI slop!
People hate AI slop!
McDonald's Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Would these people like to come to my university and, say, drive generative AI off our campus, thereby transforming our university into the most badass of them all? Or at least as badass as a McDonald's ad?
Thank you, Bluesky, for reading The Chronicle of Higher Education so I don't have to.
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Thank you, Bluesky, for reading The Chronicle of Higher Education so I don't have to.
Is there a novel like ZatAoMM, except it's about the surreal way that the obsession with knowledge has led to outrageous ignorance about wisdom and how there is no way to get the value of wisdom across to these knowledge-lovers as knowledge, but they may gain it by having to take general education?
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Is there a novel like ZatAoMM, except it's about the surreal way that the obsession with knowledge has led to outrageous ignorance about wisdom and how there is no way to get the value of wisdom across to these knowledge-lovers as knowledge, but they may gain it by having to take general education?
Don't be surprised when the next generation of female techbros dress like this:
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Don't be surprised when the next generation of female techbros dress like this:
Guess what, TECHBROS. Heaps of human genius cannot be expressed let alone learned via words on a screen.
P.S., you trained your AI on my 2007 book Human Origins 101 that, in hindsight, has more outdated BULLSHIT than I'd like to admit. And that's just ONE of the MILLIONS you fed your monsters.
P.S., you trained your AI on my 2007 book Human Origins 101 that, in hindsight, has more outdated BULLSHIT than I'd like to admit. And that's just ONE of the MILLIONS you fed your monsters.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Guess what, TECHBROS. Heaps of human genius cannot be expressed let alone learned via words on a screen.
P.S., you trained your AI on my 2007 book Human Origins 101 that, in hindsight, has more outdated BULLSHIT than I'd like to admit. And that's just ONE of the MILLIONS you fed your monsters.
P.S., you trained your AI on my 2007 book Human Origins 101 that, in hindsight, has more outdated BULLSHIT than I'd like to admit. And that's just ONE of the MILLIONS you fed your monsters.
How do I tell Bluesky that I'd like my feed to be 95% this?
December 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
How do I tell Bluesky that I'd like my feed to be 95% this?
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"There were few people better placed to
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
James D Watson: a cautionary tale
There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson
(1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many
years, Watson was one of the ...
www.thelancet.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"There were few people better placed to
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
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Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Alt text version. Thanks for sharing Harry.
How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
How and for whom can genetics education reduce beliefs in genetic essentialism? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41267401/
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
"We also find that the 3 intervention curricula are highly effective across sociodemographic group characteristics [...] we offer evidence-based strategies for curriculum development"
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Feeling very old...
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Feeling very old...
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A health care industry rag featured a story on how hospitals want to use AI for nursing the day after the administration declares nursing degrees will no longer be considered professional degrees. So there’s the endgame folks.
Same for public education.
Same for public education.
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A health care industry rag featured a story on how hospitals want to use AI for nursing the day after the administration declares nursing degrees will no longer be considered professional degrees. So there’s the endgame folks.
Same for public education.
Same for public education.
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
I’ve recently finished writing a book, so negative book reviews elicit peak empathy from me at the moment. Except this one. This is a riot.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I’ve recently finished writing a book, so negative book reviews elicit peak empathy from me at the moment. Except this one. This is a riot.
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Randall Munroe, welcome to The War on Cars.
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Randall Munroe, welcome to The War on Cars.
Going against my personal rules to post this, but …
Veep is telling us that he likes Grok bc it is most pseudoscientific.
ANTHROPOLOGISTS!
if you can hear me (and you don’t know this already), Grok will come at you with Phillipe Rushton papers to say you’re wrong about genetics and race.
Veep is telling us that he likes Grok bc it is most pseudoscientific.
ANTHROPOLOGISTS!
if you can hear me (and you don’t know this already), Grok will come at you with Phillipe Rushton papers to say you’re wrong about genetics and race.
JD Vance: "I'm a Grok guy. I think it's the best. It's also the least woke."
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Going against my personal rules to post this, but …
Veep is telling us that he likes Grok bc it is most pseudoscientific.
ANTHROPOLOGISTS!
if you can hear me (and you don’t know this already), Grok will come at you with Phillipe Rushton papers to say you’re wrong about genetics and race.
Veep is telling us that he likes Grok bc it is most pseudoscientific.
ANTHROPOLOGISTS!
if you can hear me (and you don’t know this already), Grok will come at you with Phillipe Rushton papers to say you’re wrong about genetics and race.
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I am trying to process a college professor saying she uses AI to figure out how to explain ("dumb down" in her words) complex concepts because she doesn't otherwise know how to teach them to her students
"Does ChatGPT every give you a little like, 'Isn't that YOUR job?'" 😂
"Does ChatGPT every give you a little like, 'Isn't that YOUR job?'" 😂
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I am trying to process a college professor saying she uses AI to figure out how to explain ("dumb down" in her words) complex concepts because she doesn't otherwise know how to teach them to her students
"Does ChatGPT every give you a little like, 'Isn't that YOUR job?'" 😂
"Does ChatGPT every give you a little like, 'Isn't that YOUR job?'" 😂