@anthrofuentes.bsky.social
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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The solicitations for this program were recently archived as we work to improve how we support the SBE research community. Future solicitations to support early career talent development will appear on nsf.gov and grant.gov.” 3/3
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
nsf.gov
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The solicitations for this program were recently archived as we work to improve how we support the SBE research community. Future solicitations to support early career talent development will appear on nsf.gov and grant.gov.” 3/3
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Here is the standard language they are using in response to inquiries:
"Thank you for your interest in the directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program. 2/3
"Thank you for your interest in the directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program. 2/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here is the standard language they are using in response to inquiries:
"Thank you for your interest in the directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program. 2/3
"Thank you for your interest in the directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program. 2/3
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All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
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George Packer calls @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right "[a] lively, devastating taxonomy and critique." Read his full review in @theatlantic.com.
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity. George Packer on Laura Field’s new book, “Furious Minds,” and the rot of the MAGA mind:
An Anatomy of the MAGA Mind
Under Trump, post-liberal intellectuals have abandoned tradition for radicalism and scholarship for vulgarity.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
George Packer calls @lkatfield.bsky.social's Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right "[a] lively, devastating taxonomy and critique." Read his full review in @theatlantic.com.
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In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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Thanks Agustin.
New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
The Four Sexes
The ruff bird’s three male morphs and one female morph offer a vivid example of why biology resists strict sex binaries.
www.prosocial.world
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Thanks Agustin.
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This new essay on sex complexity is now available on Prosocial World (This View of Life). @agustin
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
Beyond the Binary: The Compounding Complexity of Biological Sex
Sex in nature is far more complex than a simple male–female divide, emerging instead as a diverse, overlapping continuum shaped by biology, development, and culture.
www.prosocial.world
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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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
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.
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Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
A Neandertal recipe with lentils and grain
Looking at a fascinating new study that finds mixtures of different plants within ancient morsels of charred foods.
www.johnhawks.net
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Coming together to eat the food we share has been part of humanity from the very beginning. I wrote this post after a Thanksgiving week lecture on evidence for Neanderthals and other ancient people making prepared mixtures of grains, lentils, and other foods.
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
www.johnhawks.net/p/a-neandert...
New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
The Four Sexes
The ruff bird’s three male morphs and one female morph offer a vivid example of why biology resists strict sex binaries.
www.prosocial.world
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
New essay at @prosocialworld.bsky.social from the always excellent @birdlady.bsky.social ..Ruffs!!! punchline: sex biology is complicated and a little biochemistry can go a long way www.prosocial.world/posts/the-fo...
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Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
American Society of Naturalists Student Research Award Outcomes
The American Society of Naturalists (ASN) gives out student research awards (generally $2000 each) to support activities of our student members. We request that Student Research Award recipients provi...
docs.google.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Did you receive a Student Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social ? We'd love to hear what you achieved with those awards (or, please share with someone who had one), even going back many years:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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DON’T LET THIS MOMENT BE ERASED (A guest column by Lisa Diamond and Scout)
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
DON’T LET THIS MOMENT BE ERASED (A guest column by Lisa Diamond and Scout)
We dont need government funding to collect data
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
DON’T LET THIS MOMENT BE ERASED (A guest column by Lisa Diamond and Scout)
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
open.substack.com/pub/sterling...
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I talked to Joan Donovan about Twitter's very old foreign influence problem, which was unmasked in the funniest possible way over the weekend: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Twitter's foreign influence problem is nothing new
The platform's just-debuted geolocation tool illuminates a disturbing and persistent issue.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I talked to Joan Donovan about Twitter's very old foreign influence problem, which was unmasked in the funniest possible way over the weekend: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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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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Stellar work from @robbeewedow.bsky.social, Brian Donovan, & company continuing the work on how changing genetics can reduce genetic essentialism in students.
This is the kind of work under attack by the current administration. Several grants on humane genetics literacy were targeted this year
This is the kind of work under attack by the current administration. Several grants on humane genetics literacy were targeted this year
www.cell.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Stellar work from @robbeewedow.bsky.social, Brian Donovan, & company continuing the work on how changing genetics can reduce genetic essentialism in students.
This is the kind of work under attack by the current administration. Several grants on humane genetics literacy were targeted this year
This is the kind of work under attack by the current administration. Several grants on humane genetics literacy were targeted this year
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New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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"can two individuals born only five or ten years apart end up with very different family structures? Our findings show that the answer is yes"
www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
The kinship gap. When just a few years of difference make a difference - N-IUSSP
Rapid decline in a country’s birth and death rates creates a “kinship gap”, leaving people born just years apart with vastly different family support networks. Sha Jiang discusses the ensuing ... Read...
www.niussp.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"can two individuals born only five or ten years apart end up with very different family structures? Our findings show that the answer is yes"
www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
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"In the public imagination, universities are national institutions with clear responsibilities. Showing how these responsibilities are being met – for the whole country, not just those who study for a degree – is how the sector can maintain public trust, and meet the political challenge it faces"
The political centre of gravity continues to shift towards higher education sceptics
Graduates and non-graduates are polarised in their views of university study. Steve O’Neil thinks through how the sector can demonstrate its value across the electorate Graduates and non-graduates are...
wonkhe.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"In the public imagination, universities are national institutions with clear responsibilities. Showing how these responsibilities are being met – for the whole country, not just those who study for a degree – is how the sector can maintain public trust, and meet the political challenge it faces"
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"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...
dl.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
oooh..certain folks on X think it's a slam to do a mark-up of my photo to make me look like the Joker in response to this essay...I think it's actually not so bad (the image). It reflects their level of ability to engage in actual discourse. www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
oooh..certain folks on X think it's a slam to do a mark-up of my photo to make me look like the Joker in response to this essay...I think it's actually not so bad (the image). It reflects their level of ability to engage in actual discourse. www.prosocial.world/posts/beyond...
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Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Sharing our zine here, since we promptly ran out at #AAA2025! It's yours to print, fold, and distribute as much or as little as you like! Very proud of the collective behind this work. #anthrosky
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….
drive.google.com/drive/u/0/fold….
"We conclude that adult individuals are composed of a mosaic spectrum of sex characteristics in their somatic tissues that should not be cumulated into a simple binary classification." elifesciences.org/articles/99602
elifesciences.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
"We conclude that adult individuals are composed of a mosaic spectrum of sex characteristics in their somatic tissues that should not be cumulated into a simple binary classification." elifesciences.org/articles/99602
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Heading to see Wicked: For Good today? 🩷💚
In honor of Oz's most famous duo, we've pulled together a few of our pink and green titles. Explore these—and many more—here:
press.princeton.edu
#Wicked #WickedForGood #Elphaba #Glinda #ReadUP
In honor of Oz's most famous duo, we've pulled together a few of our pink and green titles. Explore these—and many more—here:
press.princeton.edu
#Wicked #WickedForGood #Elphaba #Glinda #ReadUP
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Heading to see Wicked: For Good today? 🩷💚
In honor of Oz's most famous duo, we've pulled together a few of our pink and green titles. Explore these—and many more—here:
press.princeton.edu
#Wicked #WickedForGood #Elphaba #Glinda #ReadUP
In honor of Oz's most famous duo, we've pulled together a few of our pink and green titles. Explore these—and many more—here:
press.princeton.edu
#Wicked #WickedForGood #Elphaba #Glinda #ReadUP
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Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Did Neandertals choose their prey when practicing cannibalism?🍖
Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Check out our new study, just published in Scientific Reports - @natureportfolio.nature.com!
We provide the strongest evidence to date for a highly selective cannibalism at the end of Neandertal lineage, 41-45.000 years ago.
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Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"
Hugely important new data here, I need time to digest it (🙃), but this kind of detailed contextual work is EXACTLY what we need to avoid stereotypes that #Neanderthal body processing & cannibalism were simply "brutal massacres"