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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
Not to be alarmist or dramatic but the VP and probably half the inner circle of this admin thinks the average IQ of Africans and countries from the global south is < 70 because a white supremacist made a fraudulent database 40 years ago. Those are dots I don’t want to see connected
juliametraux.bsky.social Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 1d
We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it
The case law is clear: There's more to intellectual disability than IQ tests. Will Trump's justices care?
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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jackiantonovich.bsky.social
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
There is no such thing as a ‘perfect baby’ because it is a human being and not a custom-tailored suit you sickos
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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devoevomed.bsky.social
"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...

🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics
This article explores the legacy of eugenics and its harmful impact on Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines how genetics research historically
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December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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lesja.bsky.social
Things you could not get me to listen to for a million dollars
Maiden Mother Matriarch ‪@louiseperry.skystack.xyz‬ The Eugenics Debate - Diana Fleischman vs Lyman Stone | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 173
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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aiyanakoka.bsky.social
On a roll with papers this week. PNAS paper with @michealdebarra.bsky.social giving some evidence to the idea that people turn to the supernatural because of uncertainty about causal processes. BONUS of curing whooping cough with donkeys and warts with snails 🐌
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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willgervais.com
Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
THAMES mnemonic for reading science: T Theory •What BIG IDEA is the focus? H Hypothesis •What SMALLER IDEA is actually getting tested? A Assumptions & Alternatives •What needs to be true to connect T:H? •What else could explain results/predictions? M Methods: Measures & Manipulations •Were methodological tools validated? •Evidence that we’re measuring/manip what’s claimed? E Evidence & Ethics •Are claims calibrated to EVIDENCE? Is EVIDENCE appropriate? •ETHICALLY sound in practice/intent/implication/application? S Sampling Statistical Model •Who was studied? Who are claims about? •Do stat results match verbal ideas?
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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jesbattis.bsky.social
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
The take-home message when I give talks about race science: “for bad science to persist, you need (1) a core of ethically or methodologically compromised people who are willing to fabricate data or create misleading evidence & (2) a larger group of people who are willing to promote these ideas”
Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
“examines how eugenics has resurfaced as a blueprint for contemporary ‘tech-utopian’ & nationalist projects in the West….tech capitalists & conservative elites deploy eugenic logic as ‘common sense’ solutions to social challenges such as climate change, ‘gender ideology’ & fears of depopulation”
Building the ‘Fitter’ Future: Eugenics, Tech Capitalism, and the Politics of Existential Risk
Abstract. The appointment of Elon Musk as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exemplifies the unprecedented and troubling
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November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
If you’ve never heard of the “arctic origins of East Asian psychology” theory it’s because it was made up whole cloth by “David Sun”, some failed grad school applicant who somehow got one paper about it published and otherwise just posts lewd AI anime art about his theory on Twitter
rebeccasear.bsky.social Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24d
The influence of race science is spreading in the evolutionary behavioural sciences. This new paper means members of a race science network have now been published in Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Behavioral Science, Evolutionary Psychology & Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology
Screenshot of a paper published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology Testing the Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology using Ancient and Modern DNA Published: 04 November 2025 Volume 11, article number 18, (2025) Davide Piffer
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
I'm particularly proud of the section on psychological life-history research tradition, where we trace its history not to evolutionary biology and ecology and their decades of theory and modeling, but to the baseless abberation initiated by JP Rushton. This distinction is not widely known enough. 8/
1.1.2. Psychological life history research Woodley of Menie et al. (2025b) contest our inclusion of papers utilizing life-history theory applied to human psychological and behavioral variation, claiming they are based on a “well-established” and “commonly used” framework and are distinct from Rushton's “Differential K" theory of race differences (p. 7). Both points are false. Woodley of Menie et al. (2025b) equivocates two scientific programs under the name “life-history theory”. In ecology and evolution, life-history theory refers to a set of assumptions and models to understand how energy is invested between growth, survival, and reproduction (life-history traits) across the life course and their timing across the lifespan. Early biologists hypothesized species fell on a continuum of life-history strategies. One extreme (r-selected) experienced selection for a high population growth at low population densities, while the other (K-selected) experienced selection to maximize survival at high population densities (MacArthur & Wilson, 1967). Later work postulated that r-selected species would be physically smaller in size, mature earlier, and produce more offspring, while K-selected species would be larger, mature later, and produce fewer offspring (Pianka, 1970). Importantly, r/K theory was not a central feature of life-history theory nor was it a result from formal mathematical modeling that is central to evolutionary research in life history. Shortly after its formulation, biologists largely abandoned r/K theory because of the lack of evidence for its core claims (Nettle & Frankenhuis, 2020; Stearns & Rodrigues, 2020). Contra to the decline of r/K in evolutionary biology and ecology, Rushton (1985) introduced the model to human psychological and behavior evolution with his “Differential K theory”. No empirical or theoretical work justified this extension of r/K to psychological and behavioral traits (Anderson, 1991). While this initial paper focused on both individual and group (racial) differences, Rushton's own historiography makes clear that racial differences were the primary motivation and focus of his theory (Rushton, 2012). Most of the subsequent life-history research in psychology on individual differences in human behavioral and cognitive traits is derived from Rushton's work (Black, Figueredo, & Jacobs, 2017; Nettle & Frankenhuis, 2020; Sear, 2020, Sear, 2021).4 This work is noticeably distinct from life-history theory in ecology and evolution by the centrality of the r/K continuum (sometimes called the fast/slow continuum), isolated citational communities, and the lack of formal mathematical evolutionary models to support or test theoretical predictions (Nettle and Frankenhuis, 2019, Nettle and Frankenhuis, 2020; Sear, 2020; Stearns & Rodrigues, 2020).5 The psychometric constructs used (e.g. Figueredo et al., 2005, Figueredo et al., 2006) are not grounded in evolutionary or ecological theory (Sear, 2020, Sear, 2021; Volk, 2025) and show little relation to traditional life-history traits related to growth and reproduction (Kwiek & Piotrowski, 2020; Međedović, 2020; Sear, 2020, Sear, 2021).6 While psychological life-history researchers attempt to distance themselves from the field's RHR origins, the connection to Rushton's program is still apparent in the modern literature, contrary to Woodley of Menie et al. (2025b) (see Sear, 2021). Cabeza de Baca and Woodley of Menie (2018), state that “individual models subsume group-difference models of life-history” and use the psychological life-history model to support Lynn's (2002) explanation of racial differences in criminality…
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
“Buying more stuff isn’t prosperity”

Pure reactionary nostalgia paired with some kind of weird anti-modernism. What could “affordability” possibly mean if making stuff cheaper doesn’t matter?
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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forbetterscience.bsky.social
Rutherford defended eugenics before. forbetterscience.com/2020/06/03/i...
I am not a racist but…
Some geneticists have very unorthodox ideas. These might sound like racism or eugenics to simple folks, but it is really high science. UK Biobank is apparently on board.
forbetterscience.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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waslottie.bsky.social
It's interesting that as a philosopher of bioethics Singer is completely disinterested in the psychological effect of segregation & exclusion on trans women. It illustrates a problem that does exist in philosophy as in the rest of society - viewing us as an 'issue', not equal human beings.
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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siobhancully.bsky.social
7) We don't own the data we collect. Communities do. It is our responsibility to steward these in collaboration with communities.
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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scurry.bsky.social
A potent and plain-spoken defence of DEI in science - from the experts. Representation *matters*.
Highlighted excerpt from article quoted reads: Put more plainly, broadening participation in and democratizing science is not a zero-sum enterprise; it produces more effective and supportive training environments for all scien-tists, creates a wider and more relevant array of scientific research questions and approaches, and results in more innovative science and technologies that benefit all people.
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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nicemangos.bsky.social
Adding to the already extremely heightened anti Muslim sentiment, Bec of NYCs mayoral election...

Gad Saad says this to his 1.1 million followers. Truly vile man.
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
“Aunt tifa”
October 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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esqueer.net
The "diversity."
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
The conflation of academic freedom with free speech has predictable consequences. A Cambridge academic who made scientifically indefensible claims has had complaints against him dismissed on the grounds that his claims were "lawful free speech". This doesn't end well for science.
Uni clears don accused of ‘abhorrent racism’
The University's internal investigation launched last year has dismissed all complaints against Nathan Cofnas, and found his ideas 'represented lawful free speech'
www.varsity.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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karlbode.com
a serious, ethical media industry could leverage modern op/ed sections to amplify revolutionary, thought-provoking, under-platformed ideas

instead it's all been converted into lazy, engagement-chasing contrarian trolling by the least remarkable thinkers and writers imaginable
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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magicmoneytree.bsky.social
The very racist man he's quoting - Emil Kirkegaard - also has some "liberal" friends: www.pinkerite.com/2025/06/emil...
Emil Kirkegaard, Steven Pinker, Maarten Boudry and the racist Heterodox Conference
Whee! We're such jolly racists! ----------------------------------------------------- So according to an article in DeWereldMorgen, the " fr...
www.pinkerite.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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magicmoneytree.bsky.social
And now Pinker is promoting Rob Henderson, whose friends include Nathan Cofnas, Steve Sailer, Emil Kirkegaard, Richard Hanania, Bo Winegard, Diana Fleischman, Geoffrey Miller, and Curtis Yarvin (see picture)

@pinkerite.com @econenby.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM