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Jimmy Erkens
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Ph.D. Student in Biological Anthropology at Boston University

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The other thing about the OU student who wrote the bad essay on God-given gender roles is that she herself is rejecting those religious ideals about femininity by going to college, playing a sport, and having a mother who is a media personality and lawyer for Jan 6ers. Trad for thee but not for me
December 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Why is Dave Portnoy on his tippy toes
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance

#TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames

*** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *
November 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Happy LGBTQ in STEM Day! I remain hopeful knowing we collectively stand on the shoulders of giants and that queer people will never go away ❤️
November 18, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Nine people were taken into custody in the Nov. 4 immigration raid on the car wash. Their attorney said many of those workers had legal authorization to work in the United States, and two workers were granted bail in a hearing on Monday.
2 Allston Car Wash workers released on bond, while owners say BU student was 'reckless' for calling ICE
Nine people were taken into custody in the Nov. 4 immigration raid on the car wash. Their attorney said many of those workers had legal authorization to work in the United States, and two workers were...
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November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
First time on the SEPTA and they’re eating the mbta up rn… but does Philly have a gay train
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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It's irritating that they describe the effects of his racism as limited to causing controversy within science and reputational consequences for himself rather than giving an immeasurable boost, false veneer of legitimacy, and idiot-friendly prestige to modern scientific racism and eugenics.
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Whenever I see men complain about the male loneliness crisis or unique emotional/psychological issues faced by men, it’s very clear that they just don’t see women as full people capable of experiencing the exact same emotions they do
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...
How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science
A new anthology showcases the intellectual failures of a diminishing brand.
nymag.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Triple taked at this flyer bc what does “keep wokeism out of science” even mean lol
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...
How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific
A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.
www.richmondscientific.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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asking such a whimsical creature as myself to file my taxes is flatly evil
April 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
With the NCBI stuff going down rn I figure I should mention that a couple of weeks ago, links to supplemental information in an NIH article were totally broken for me (I just wanted their protocol 🙃). Maybe its time to switch to EMBL lol
March 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Guess I’m now part of the Twitter exodus 🫡
November 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM