Charles C Roseman
@evoroseman.bsky.social
Evolution and genetics of complex traits. Genes, evolution, and society.
Masculine pronouns and noun classes in whichever language.
Masculine pronouns and noun classes in whichever language.
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Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
Happy to report that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution against the federal “compact” all of us in higher ed have been offered, encouraging our administrators to keep opposing it. #MADC www.senate.illinois.edu/2025-2026/20...
www.senate.illinois.edu
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Ive League: We are vewwy vewwy scared of the big orange man.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
State schools, vaping: NAH.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
My dad came in second in an ugly man contest. My mom’s genes only helped out so much…
bro are you fucking kidding me
November 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My dad came in second in an ugly man contest. My mom’s genes only helped out so much…
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Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know.
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
November 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
bsky.app/profile/jowi...
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I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’m really excited to be hosting @evoroseman.bsky.social for a 1 hour online workshop for the Biomolecular Humanities group on December 10th (8am to 9am PST : 11am to 12pm EST : 5pm to 6pm CET) on the intersection of evolutionary theory, demography and race/ancestry!
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective
The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... perhaps one of these papers that makes us stop and think how to approach our ecological (and evolutionary) research agenda from a philosophical perspective
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Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Adult sex ratios: causes of variation and implications for animal and human societies - Communications Biology
A detailed Review across animal and human societies provides insight on the causes and consequences of adult sex ratio skew.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Everything you wanted to know about adult sex ratios (ASR) but were afraid to ask 🧪 #bioanth: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.
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Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics
November 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy to share a new preprint, the first from my PhD research with Professor John Huelsenbeck at UC Berkeley! Here, we test whether PCA can recover hominin phylogeny from both geometric morphometric data and traditional measurements. 1/ 🧪 #PaleoSky #phylogenetics
Brings back memories of Marc Feldman saying "John Maynard Smith" in his spectacular Australian accent.
John Maynard Smith and Richard Lewontin at the University of Sussex, 9 March 1972.
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Brings back memories of Marc Feldman saying "John Maynard Smith" in his spectacular Australian accent.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the University of California's request that it block the release of a 28-page, $1.2-billion fine Trump administration UCLA settlement offer. UC is required to give a faculty group the document today. www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC must publicly release Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement. UCLA is required to share the document...
www.latimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Please understand that the only reason this has been released is because of the UCLA faculty association who filed a request and challenged the refusal in court. If you are a UC faculty member, join your FA!
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👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
👋 Meet Anne, our incoming Chair!
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
@annepisor.bsky.social is faculty in Penn State's Anthropology dept.
As incoming chair, she's learning the ropes from Chair @abbeyepage.bsky.social while supporting in roles like engaging with society leadership and leading event organization. (1/2)
#WplusEBS
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Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise
The War on Science, ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary "war on science" from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Are you interested in tooth evolution and evodevo? Ben Auerbach and I would like to direct your attention to our new preprint “The inhibitory cascade model and evolution in segmentally organized tissues.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🦴🐭🐒🧪🦷🧬 @nsvitek.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social
🦴🐭🐒🧪🦷🧬 @nsvitek.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social
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www.biorxiv.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Are you interested in tooth evolution and evodevo? Ben Auerbach and I would like to direct your attention to our new preprint “The inhibitory cascade model and evolution in segmentally organized tissues.” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🦴🐭🐒🧪🦷🧬 @nsvitek.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social
🦴🐭🐒🧪🦷🧬 @nsvitek.bsky.social @kevinlala.bsky.social
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You know who learns real quick to identify racist tattoos, for the sake of their own safety?
Black servicemembers.
Black servicemembers.
October 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
You know who learns real quick to identify racist tattoos, for the sake of their own safety?
Black servicemembers.
Black servicemembers.
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'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'21st century resurgence of eugenics and scientific racism' @rebeccasear.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk Evolutionary Anthropology seminar. Tomorrow TUESDAY 3.30-5pm DFL followed by 🍷 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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And I'm about to start the ethics training...
University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."
Also university administration:
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
And I'm about to start the ethics training...
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This is real. Chicago today.
Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is real. Chicago today.
"The mice won't fuck."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
"Statistical analysis used SPSS"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"The mice won't fuck."
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When masked secret police are crashing into cars & violently pulling women out & beating them to a pulp with no warrant, answering to no one, this isn't democracy!
We have 1 chance to retake power—Prop 50!
If you care about our country, VOLUNTEER or DONATE.
WE NEED YOU!
(Anyone can volunteer)🧵
We have 1 chance to retake power—Prop 50!
If you care about our country, VOLUNTEER or DONATE.
WE NEED YOU!
(Anyone can volunteer)🧵
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
When masked secret police are crashing into cars & violently pulling women out & beating them to a pulp with no warrant, answering to no one, this isn't democracy!
We have 1 chance to retake power—Prop 50!
If you care about our country, VOLUNTEER or DONATE.
WE NEED YOU!
(Anyone can volunteer)🧵
We have 1 chance to retake power—Prop 50!
If you care about our country, VOLUNTEER or DONATE.
WE NEED YOU!
(Anyone can volunteer)🧵
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Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid.
This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.
This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid.
This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.
This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.