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.
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.
Terrible Man Theory of History sadly still making a strong case for itself
how!! are there only!! precisely!!! sixteen men who have defined!!!! everything about the world!!!!! for the last twenty years!!!!!!
January 31, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Terrible Man Theory of History sadly still making a strong case for itself
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how!! are there only!! precisely!!! sixteen men who have defined!!!! everything about the world!!!!! for the last twenty years!!!!!!
January 31, 2026 at 4:50 AM
how!! are there only!! precisely!!! sixteen men who have defined!!!! everything about the world!!!!! for the last twenty years!!!!!!
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Epstein is like pervert forest gump.
Nearly missed this one but Epstein was sending SOMEONE to the Yuri board back in fucking 2011. That's when MY ass was active on site. This is insane to think about.
January 31, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Epstein is like pervert forest gump.
The is the most depressing thing I've ever read, and I desperately wish it wasn't true
Today is the least online we’ll ever be again. And then tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
How are you supposed to explain to people how this entire social, political, and economic reality is entirely downstream from anime getting banned on some dipshit's forum 25ish years ago
January 31, 2026 at 4:59 AM
The is the most depressing thing I've ever read, and I desperately wish it wasn't true
So if Epstein prompted the creation of /pol/, do we think he was posting on /b/?
January 31, 2026 at 4:57 AM
So if Epstein prompted the creation of /pol/, do we think he was posting on /b/?
Isn't this just @pdjeliclark.bsky.social's books?
“We finally created the Djinn from the bestselling book Actually, Djinn Can Convert To Islam, It’s Fine.”
the bots fuckin found out about religion. call the Turing police. no not the regular Turing police
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Isn't this just @pdjeliclark.bsky.social's books?
Is there bsky etiquette for when you QT a post and they delete but the QT keeps doing numbers?
January 31, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Is there bsky etiquette for when you QT a post and they delete but the QT keeps doing numbers?
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That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
January 31, 2026 at 3:43 AM
That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:
I so want to set up an email autorespond that just says "deal withthis . thanyou"
January 31, 2026 at 4:02 AM
I so want to set up an email autorespond that just says "deal withthis . thanyou"
The idea that the most damaging thing thing done by the world's most notorious pedophile, who ran a sex trafficking network for pedophiles including the President of the United States, an English Prince, and the richest man in the world, was encourage an anonymous message board sounds crazy, and yet
Jeffrey Epstein convinced moot to start /pol/ sounds like a completely deranged conspiracy theory, and yet...
he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The idea that the most damaging thing thing done by the world's most notorious pedophile, who ran a sex trafficking network for pedophiles including the President of the United States, an English Prince, and the richest man in the world, was encourage an anonymous message board sounds crazy, and yet
Jeffrey Epstein convinced moot to start /pol/ sounds like a completely deranged conspiracy theory, and yet...
he also appears to have met moot the same day /pol/ was (re)launched (not my image)
January 31, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Jeffrey Epstein convinced moot to start /pol/ sounds like a completely deranged conspiracy theory, and yet...
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I'm not joking when i say race science dipshits think people are pokemon, but it's rather less funny that a eugenicist has been an assignment editor for much of the mainstream press for the past six years
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
I'm not joking when i say race science dipshits think people are pokemon, but it's rather less funny that a eugenicist has been an assignment editor for much of the mainstream press for the past six years