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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Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of.
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
David Brooks wrote an entire column about offensive it was to say "Epstien Class" without volunteering that he was at a conference with Epstien.
February 1, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Steven Pinker wrote a legal analysis of a *child sex crimes law* as a favor to Epstein and then had the gall to say he had no idea what the guy was accused of.
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
All of the “hey what’s the big deal here” pageantry is insulting
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You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta say something" in defense of soliciting money from a known and convicted child sex trafficker
I feel like someone’s gotta say something, so I guess it’s going to be me. I’m 100% certain that I either know, have met, or have sought meetings with people who have done horrible things in their lives, too. How about y’all? Association is not causation, and it's not guilt — of anything. (1/8)
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 PM
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta say something" in defense of soliciting money from a known and convicted child sex trafficker
This can't be real, and yet somehow it appears to be
February 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
This can't be real, and yet somehow it appears to be
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woke 2 is coming to baseball let's go
The Mariners will wear Steelheads uniforms on all home Sundays this season, and are launching the Steelheads Community Fund with a $500,000 commitment "in support of local Black-led baseball and softball organizations and community initiatives."
Mariners to make history with throwback 'Steelheads' Negro Leagues unis
The Mariners announced Saturday that the club will honor the legacy of the 1946 Seattle Steelheads on Sundays at T-Mobile Park. In addition to wearing Steelheads uniforms on home Sundays, the Mariners...
www.mlb.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:32 AM
woke 2 is coming to baseball let's go
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Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
January 31, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)
That's the Bluesky Guarantee™️
some of you are not beating the humorless allegations
February 1, 2026 at 12:21 AM
That's the Bluesky Guarantee™️
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This email from Dawkins in the latest Epstein documents is a kind of perfect glimpse into the psychology of old boys club: Dawkins whinges about the "nasty young woman", but also has an undercurrent of unease, and seeks reassurance from Brockman that the child sex trafficker wasn't all *that* bad
January 31, 2026 at 11:55 PM
This email from Dawkins in the latest Epstein documents is a kind of perfect glimpse into the psychology of old boys club: Dawkins whinges about the "nasty young woman", but also has an undercurrent of unease, and seeks reassurance from Brockman that the child sex trafficker wasn't all *that* bad
The movie is Sisu, by the way. Going to spend my evening watching Nazis enjoy the kind of justice that Nazis deserve
What the fuck is this "AI recap" button on Prime Video? Why would I need a recap for the movie I'm currently in the middle of watching?
January 31, 2026 at 11:43 PM
The movie is Sisu, by the way. Going to spend my evening watching Nazis enjoy the kind of justice that Nazis deserve
What the fuck is this "AI recap" button on Prime Video? Why would I need a recap for the movie I'm currently in the middle of watching?
January 31, 2026 at 11:31 PM
What the fuck is this "AI recap" button on Prime Video? Why would I need a recap for the movie I'm currently in the middle of watching?
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta say something" in defense of soliciting money from a known and convicted child sex trafficker
I feel like someone’s gotta say something, so I guess it’s going to be me. I’m 100% certain that I either know, have met, or have sought meetings with people who have done horrible things in their lives, too. How about y’all? Association is not causation, and it's not guilt — of anything. (1/8)
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 PM
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta say something" in defense of soliciting money from a known and convicted child sex trafficker
This thread is going to be a very useful resource
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:14 PM
This thread is going to be a very useful resource
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ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Rice students create nationwide ICE tracker to monitor immigration enforcement
The students had been teaching weekly children's classes as volunteers. One day, the kids stopped showing up.
www.houstonchronicle.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:50 PM
ICYMI, Rice University students have developed a free online map to track ICE activity throughout the country.
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Find it here: www.icemap.dev.
Gift link to @houstonchronicle.com story about it:
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Huberman just lucked out by making it big with his podcast after it was too late to be cultivated by Epstein
Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
January 31, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Huberman just lucked out by making it big with his podcast after it was too late to be cultivated by Epstein
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I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.
If not, why not?
If not, why not?
Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.
Doo do doo
January 31, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis.
If not, why not?
If not, why not?
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Can you imagine a world in which a teacher made $490k in overtime pay
I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...
One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did
One OPD officer logged 5,242 total working hours, racking up $490,000 in overtime pay. If he worked more than half of the time in a calendar year, why can't the city tell us what he did?
oaklandside.org
January 31, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Can you imagine a world in which a teacher made $490k in overtime pay
But I was assured that, apart from being photographed together and being on the Lolita Express flight logs, Pinker actually had nothing to do with Epstein!
Where? WHERE? [from the latest drop of the Epstein files. Reminder: Epstein was convicted of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute in 2008]
January 31, 2026 at 6:13 PM
But I was assured that, apart from being photographed together and being on the Lolita Express flight logs, Pinker actually had nothing to do with Epstein!
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what if university of austin is 100% sex criminals
submitting this to forbidden courses because they love when we ask bold questions about dangerous ideas
submitting this to forbidden courses because they love when we ask bold questions about dangerous ideas
January 31, 2026 at 6:11 PM
what if university of austin is 100% sex criminals
submitting this to forbidden courses because they love when we ask bold questions about dangerous ideas
submitting this to forbidden courses because they love when we ask bold questions about dangerous ideas
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had about enough of this guy
On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
January 31, 2026 at 5:04 PM
had about enough of this guy
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If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 3:27 PM
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Medieval Iberia
2. Organic Chemistry
3. Plague and Pestilence in Literature
4. Evolution
5. History of Science Through Science Fiction
1. Medieval Iberia
2. Organic Chemistry
3. Plague and Pestilence in Literature
4. Evolution
5. History of Science Through Science Fiction
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Medieval Iberia
2. Organic Chemistry
3. Plague and Pestilence in Literature
4. Evolution
5. History of Science Through Science Fiction
1. Medieval Iberia
2. Organic Chemistry
3. Plague and Pestilence in Literature
4. Evolution
5. History of Science Through Science Fiction
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btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 12:33 PM
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...
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JFG has long claimed that this was funding for his scientific work (he was previously a neuroscience grad student) and if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
January 31, 2026 at 12:50 PM
JFG has long claimed that this was funding for his scientific work (he was previously a neuroscience grad student) and if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
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Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Genuinely bizarre.