Jon Phillips
@jowiph.bsky.social
Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
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HSS Dissertation Travel Grant to support travel to sources for PhD students in history of science and technology working on their dissertation. Grants may be up to US$2,500. Grad students from any university are eligible
Deadline Tuesday, March 31.
hssonline.org/page/dissert...
#HPS
Deadline Tuesday, March 31.
hssonline.org/page/dissert...
#HPS
February 2, 2026 at 12:26 PM
HSS Dissertation Travel Grant to support travel to sources for PhD students in history of science and technology working on their dissertation. Grants may be up to US$2,500. Grad students from any university are eligible
Deadline Tuesday, March 31.
hssonline.org/page/dissert...
#HPS
Deadline Tuesday, March 31.
hssonline.org/page/dissert...
#HPS
Heading up to Yale to talk oral history with @ayahnerd.bsky.social's students!
February 2, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Heading up to Yale to talk oral history with @ayahnerd.bsky.social's students!
Not sure how comfortable I am with a tent big enough to include the Bundys
Amon Bundy being anti-Trump is yet another sign that “has any real principles at all” is increasingly the most salient dividing line in politics.
February 2, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Not sure how comfortable I am with a tent big enough to include the Bundys
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Oh man it just hit me that our good friends and respected colleagues in the Gender Critical movement are gonna have to "broken clock" *Jeffrey Epstein* when it comes to whose ideas are actually orientated around protecting and advancing the interests of women and girls.
February 2, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Oh man it just hit me that our good friends and respected colleagues in the Gender Critical movement are gonna have to "broken clock" *Jeffrey Epstein* when it comes to whose ideas are actually orientated around protecting and advancing the interests of women and girls.
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ALL the charlatans, ALL the time...
It's hard to keep up, but did we already know Bjorn Lomborg was hanging out with Epstein?
February 2, 2026 at 11:24 AM
ALL the charlatans, ALL the time...
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
It's not just me. There are dozens of us!
The first time I heard his name and saw him I was like, “You cannot do that. You cannot call yourself Jelly Roll. We already have one and he’s better.”
My wife groaned, as she does at most of my shit.
My wife groaned, as she does at most of my shit.
February 2, 2026 at 2:44 AM
It's not just me. There are dozens of us!
I keep seeing people talk about a musician named Jelly Roll and apparently it's not Jelly Roll Morton?
February 2, 2026 at 2:38 AM
I keep seeing people talk about a musician named Jelly Roll and apparently it's not Jelly Roll Morton?
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Dear Strngbda, how do yuo tpye wiht boxign glovs on
Dear Strngbda, how do yuo tpye wiht boxign glovs on
February 2, 2026 at 2:19 AM
from: [email protected]
Dear Strngbda, how do yuo tpye wiht boxign glovs on
Dear Strngbda, how do yuo tpye wiht boxign glovs on
Skyrizzy can't hold a candle to Jardiance, the drug that according to the ads can cause potentially fatal taint rot, or Pluvicto, the drug that can cause you to irradiate your loved ones if you stand too close to them.
no shade to anyone with Crohn's disease but the "ask your doctor about Sky Rizzy" ads are the closest I've come to leaving the "we are going to win" energy and embracing doomerism about civilization
February 2, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Skyrizzy can't hold a candle to Jardiance, the drug that according to the ads can cause potentially fatal taint rot, or Pluvicto, the drug that can cause you to irradiate your loved ones if you stand too close to them.
Wait, I knew Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was an incredible essayist, but he wrote for Veronica Mars??? How did I not know this??
February 2, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Wait, I knew Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was an incredible essayist, but he wrote for Veronica Mars??? How did I not know this??
Honestly, she looks like a particularly risqué alien from Star Trek TNG
February 2, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Honestly, she looks like a particularly risqué alien from Star Trek TNG
Was just added to a blocklist for "uncouth" accounts, and I don't begrudge anyone using the moderation tools to make this place better for them, but I'm also really curious about that person's bluesky experience
February 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Was just added to a blocklist for "uncouth" accounts, and I don't begrudge anyone using the moderation tools to make this place better for them, but I'm also really curious about that person's bluesky experience
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Still life with cat
February 1, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Still life with cat
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bring back shame
February 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM
bring back shame
One weird trick "they" don't want you to know about
I got my hairs cut. If you're ever looking to lose weight, this is a quick and easy way to lose several grams just a few minutes
February 1, 2026 at 7:42 PM
One weird trick "they" don't want you to know about
The transphobe-pedophile alliance stays losing
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 7:11 PM
The transphobe-pedophile alliance stays losing
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There was a reason my parents told me “Focus on school for now” when I hit my teens.
I was never a beautiful girl, and I was never in movies that sexualized me in in any way. But it didn’t matter. It was about access. I still got harassed.
The 2000s were a bleak, bleak time for young girls.
I was never a beautiful girl, and I was never in movies that sexualized me in in any way. But it didn’t matter. It was about access. I still got harassed.
The 2000s were a bleak, bleak time for young girls.
there were multiple different countdown clocks until the Olsen twins turned 18
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
reddit had its infamous 'jailbait' community online until late 2011
all of this shit was just out in the open, it was awful
I feel like maybe it’s a function of everyone online being born in 2002 but I don’t think most people realize how openly and explicitly pedophilic american culture was until like… maybe 10 years ago
February 1, 2026 at 7:04 PM
There was a reason my parents told me “Focus on school for now” when I hit my teens.
I was never a beautiful girl, and I was never in movies that sexualized me in in any way. But it didn’t matter. It was about access. I still got harassed.
The 2000s were a bleak, bleak time for young girls.
I was never a beautiful girl, and I was never in movies that sexualized me in in any way. But it didn’t matter. It was about access. I still got harassed.
The 2000s were a bleak, bleak time for young girls.
One of the biggest cultural reforms we're going to need to institute in Woke 2 is no more copaganda
February 1, 2026 at 7:02 PM
One of the biggest cultural reforms we're going to need to institute in Woke 2 is no more copaganda
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obscene to see him grandstand like this, to play it up for applause and clearly delight in the approbation, while his actions will disable and kill people, hurting the most vulnerable of us.
Utterly obscene.
Utterly obscene.
The surgeon general of Florida announced that ALL vaccine mandates in Florida will be ended.
February 1, 2026 at 6:59 PM
obscene to see him grandstand like this, to play it up for applause and clearly delight in the approbation, while his actions will disable and kill people, hurting the most vulnerable of us.
Utterly obscene.
Utterly obscene.
I think I agree with this list overall, but really, there's a lot of room for good faith disagreement about the correct ranking for everything except number 1, which is both obvious and inarguable.
On my blog, people are debating which Heinlein book is the worst Heinlein book. My list, from the bottom to the top:
7: Sixth Column: racist but not as racist as the source material. And it's short.
#ScienceFiction #TerribleHeinleinNovels
7: Sixth Column: racist but not as racist as the source material. And it's short.
#ScienceFiction #TerribleHeinleinNovels
February 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I think I agree with this list overall, but really, there's a lot of room for good faith disagreement about the correct ranking for everything except number 1, which is both obvious and inarguable.
Auctioning off a chance to make out a good friend of Jeffrey Epstein is certainly a choice
Bari Weiss attended a fundraiser last night in NYC, attendee tells me. There was an auction item for dinner with her and wife Nellie Bowles. Several people cheered in approval, many others said after how gross it was. Bari shouted out “And you can make out with Nellie!” It ultimately sold for $55k.
February 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Auctioning off a chance to make out a good friend of Jeffrey Epstein is certainly a choice
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February 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Some of these emails were during the height of metoo; rather than rethinking their connection w/ Epstein, many of his correspondents expressed their solidarity with him - things had gone too far, anyone could be accused, etc.
While it may explain some of the context, this framing also hides that women scientists didn't cozy up to epstein the way men did. They also need funding, no? This is also about being part of a powerful boys club where one can act in despicable ways with impunity. Misogyny is a huge driving factor.
February 1, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Some of these emails were during the height of metoo; rather than rethinking their connection w/ Epstein, many of his correspondents expressed their solidarity with him - things had gone too far, anyone could be accused, etc.
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the things is that evolutionary psychologists et al who promote a biologically essentialist (ie sexist and racist) view of humanity would be wrong and bad on their own terms without them spending all their private time hanging out chatting about torture with their rape daddy billionaire, and yet…
February 1, 2026 at 5:41 PM
the things is that evolutionary psychologists et al who promote a biologically essentialist (ie sexist and racist) view of humanity would be wrong and bad on their own terms without them spending all their private time hanging out chatting about torture with their rape daddy billionaire, and yet…