These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
this is a must read 🔥🔥
So happy that my work with the @genderscilab.bsky.social on sex and gender in Adverse Drug Events is wrapping up with this last (planned) paper, out this year in Women's Health Issues.
Check out the explainer video (linked in the thread quoted below, but also here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCym...)
New teaching video + paper out today on the role of gender in understanding sex disparities in adverse drug events!
This is the third of 3 videos we created to help build understanding and dialogue across fields and communities about the importance of considering gender-related variables.
Pleas save the date, Cambridge-Boston friends histsci.fas.harvard.edu/announcing-a...
“To me, it was very simple: Don’t associate with him.”
This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.
SUFS ANNOUNCES AAUP AS AN ENDORSER OF MARCH 7TH NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Stand Up for Science is excited to welcome The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) as an endorser of our National Day of Action on March 7th!
Join us: standupforscience.net/march7
#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7
#savescience
Very important essay from @zacharydubois.bsky.social @jaepuckett.bsky.social & Noelle Martin-- "Invalidating someone’s identification documents has immediate and powerful consequences that cascade into all aspects of their life." theconversation.com/kansas-revok...
Paperback cover of Father Time: How Nurturing Is Natural for Men by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Now in #paperback, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Father Time is a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Evolution #Biology #Anthropology
I love reading John's substack, but this one has me particularly chuffed since he is highlighting the part of this new paper that got me most excited (and was ignored in a lot of the coverage). He gives a great summary of identifying matrilineal kin networks/ -based migration in the human genome.
a, The proposed modern human migration routes from Sunda to Sahul; the northern route through Wallacea is delineated by the red arrows, and the southern route is delineated by the blue arrow21. The red dots represent the areas with Pleistocene rock art in eastern Borneo and southwestern Sulawesi. b, Map of Sulawesi showing the location of dated rock art sites in Southeast Sulawesi: (1) Liang Metanduno, (2) Liang Pominsa, (3) Gua Kaghofighofine, (4) Madongka 3 rock shelter, (5) Waburi 1 rock shelter, (6) Lia Bunta rock shelter, (7) Gua Anawai, (8) Gua Mbokita and (9) Gua Berlian. m + MSL, metres above mean sea level.
It's hard to measure the ages of early rock art. It's even harder to know who made it. Was this the work of Denisovans? Island-hopping modern humans?
We're still struggling to piece together the early history of our species. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This was an interesting exercise. I wanted AI assistance to help with organizing an in-class debate for a large course that I am working to make more student-centered and less lecture-heavy. Topic = uses and abuses of evolution & human behavior.
Reminded me of this essay about the #hallucinations of #AI that my friend and colleague @raedear1.bsky.social shared with me:
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
hmm, should write it now I guess....
This is a great awards program for science communication. Enter now (before April 3) and/or please encourage others to do so. Categories include researchers (early, mid- & late career), journalists, independent & institutional. From @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social
Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World by Nicholas P. Money
Drawing on the latest advances in #mycology, Fungi and Human Life by Nicholas P. Money reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of #fungi to our lives.
Available 17 March. Preorder your copy today!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Biology #Health #Mushrooms
That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...
Story time:
The CDC (Kennedy) gave $1.6m to fund an unethical Hep B trial in Guinea-Bissau. WHO/scientists denounced it.
Enter @standupforscience.bsky.social. They briefed congress on this study. It is now cancelled.
Science activism is essential right now.
🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...
“Silence is not neutrality; it is permission. The record that university chancellors, presidents and trustees create in this moment — who spoke, who acted and who stayed silent — will be studied long after today’s political actors are gone.”
our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor
Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender
Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans
Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Strike out pigs and rats. Demonising language is used by people whenever people go head to head with wildlife. Language has consequences!
THE REFERENCE PAGE, my friends. Give this guy a scicomm award. Who needs a video abstract when they can read this?!
In light of what is happening in Kansas, I want to reup this @sciam.bsky.social article on the world's first trans clinic destroyed in Nazi Germany.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
ALERT!!!
Because of popular demand we are now launching SUFS pop-up protests. Pick a busy street corner, make some signs, bring your friends, protest! Learn more and register a site here! :
standupforscience.net/march7
I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:
We will be hosting a public debate at The University of Delaware on whether biological sex is binary. Debating on Friday, March 6th at 4:15pm in the Gore Recital Hall will be the authors of two recent books - Tomás Bogardus (Pepperdine Philosophy) and Agustín Fuentes (Princeton Anthropology).
