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nicemangos.bsky.social
White American Nazi killing happens ...

David Frum: what are we a bunch of brown people?!
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
"we detail anthropology's role in the development of racial science and the subsequent placement of whiteness at the top of the world's global political and cultural systems of power...[and] examine the early critiques of anthropology's racializing practices by Black and Indigenous anthropologists"
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology
This review presents a historical and contemporary view of white supremacy as an entrenched global system based on presumed biological and cultural difference, related practices of racism, the valoriz...
www.annualreviews.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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ruthmace.bsky.social
UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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marekkohn.bsky.social
Striking illustration of how eugenicist criteria are being extended from 'quality of offspring' to the quest for personal fulfilment. And thereby broadening their influence.
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
If you need any more reason to be anti-eugenics, read this unbearably bleak vision of dating agencies set up by eugenicists (spoiler: they do not result in love)
The application, which can take hours to complete, asks users for their height, ancestral background, SAT score and their feelings about entrepreneurs. They can chose from an exhaustive list of political affiliations (conservative or progressive, Zionist or anti-Zionist, neoliberal or neo-Nazi) and select their partner's "ideal" ethnicity. The system can assess their cheekbone prominence, jaw strength or body-fat percentage from a scanned photo, and analyze their application to estimate an IQ score. Users who fail to make a match, or who bomb on a date, receive constructive feedback. "It wouldn't say, 'Lose 15 pounds," Mr. Myers said. "It would say that we know what type of person you are looking for, and the people you are looking for would be a match for you if you lost 15 pounds. So do with that information what you will." A woman in the crowd raised a hand. She noted that one of Mr. Zervas's slides had featured an image of a modelesque woman. She had been assigned an attractiveness rating of 8.6. "If that was an 8, what's a 10?" she said. "I've never seen a 10 if that's an 8." "That was an example profile," Mr. Zervas said. "Don't base your entire Weltanschauung" - German for "worldview" — "on my slides."
January 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
This is a real tweet.
In college, as a progressive, I was told by a friend that race was socially constructed and had no genetic basis. This was obviously insane to me. I can classify people into races by sight with high (though not perfect) reliability. So race exists. No category is perfect. “Chair” is not perfect. Even “hydrogen” can become fuzzy in certain regimes. All reasoning is about inferring attractors, common patterns, regions of phase space occupied at much greater frequency than other regions. All thought is impossible without this concept. The exact same pattern of reasoning that opposes the reality of race could be used to oppose the reality of any concept at all.
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣

"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."

doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Analysis of BBC Question Time concludes “The findings reflect growing concerns about the role of sources on televised panels for broadcasters globally and a media agenda led by the radical right that is shaping the nature of political debate”
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20d
'This approach raises concerns about an over-reliance on journalists and pundits from right-wing media, especially those who are regular contributors to the political magazine The Spectator.' 2/2
December 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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brunelcce.bsky.social
1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪

Watch the full talk here 🎥👇
The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics
YouTube video by The British Academy
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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toxicological.bsky.social
And long term, they can do more than create stigma - it isn’t hard to imagine a world where your health insurance premiums go up if you don’t use this.
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
As usual the science is questionable, but Anomaly is a particularly nasty and intellectually/ethically problematic person at the helm
sashagusevposts.bsky.social Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Dec 13
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
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open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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nicemangos.bsky.social
I can make myself temporarily believe in a world with dragons... but I cannot make myself believe that Western govts and cops are anything but evil beyond belief.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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kohngregory.bsky.social
The scientific community failed when it allowed Lynn and others to promulgate obviously shoddy national-IQ “science” without substantial backlash. Lynn was biased by his admitted racist aspirations. His errors and lies are now malignant with our culture, and being weaponized by the right.
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
Not to be alarmist or dramatic but the VP and probably half the inner circle of this admin thinks the average IQ of Africans and countries from the global south is < 70 because a white supremacist made a fraudulent database 40 years ago. Those are dots I don’t want to see connected
juliametraux.bsky.social Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Dec 5
We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it
The case law is clear: There's more to intellectual disability than IQ tests. Will Trump's justices care?
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
There is no such thing as a ‘perfect baby’ because it is a human being and not a custom-tailored suit you sickos
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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devoevomed.bsky.social
"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...

🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics
This article explores the legacy of eugenics and its harmful impact on Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines how genetics research historically
academic.oup.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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profsimonfisher.bsky.social
If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
www.cell.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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lesja.bsky.social
Things you could not get me to listen to for a million dollars
Maiden Mother Matriarch ‪@louiseperry.skystack.xyz‬ The Eugenics Debate - Diana Fleischman vs Lyman Stone | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 173
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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aiyanakoka.bsky.social
On a roll with papers this week. PNAS paper with @michealdebarra.bsky.social giving some evidence to the idea that people turn to the supernatural because of uncertainty about causal processes. BONUS of curing whooping cough with donkeys and warts with snails 🐌
December 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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willgervais.com
Teaching a fun science & critical thinking course this semester.

Trying out THAMES as a handy mnemonic for what to look for in evaluating science papers & such (obvs not all are as relevant for every paper)...
THAMES mnemonic for reading science: T Theory •What BIG IDEA is the focus? H Hypothesis •What SMALLER IDEA is actually getting tested? A Assumptions & Alternatives •What needs to be true to connect T:H? •What else could explain results/predictions? M Methods: Measures & Manipulations •Were methodological tools validated? •Evidence that we’re measuring/manip what’s claimed? E Evidence & Ethics •Are claims calibrated to EVIDENCE? Is EVIDENCE appropriate? •ETHICALLY sound in practice/intent/implication/application? S Sampling Statistical Model •Who was studied? Who are claims about? •Do stat results match verbal ideas?
October 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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jesbattis.bsky.social
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
The take-home message when I give talks about race science: “for bad science to persist, you need (1) a core of ethically or methodologically compromised people who are willing to fabricate data or create misleading evidence & (2) a larger group of people who are willing to promote these ideas”
Sociology of science: What does it take for erroneous or fraudulent claims to take hold? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
“examines how eugenics has resurfaced as a blueprint for contemporary ‘tech-utopian’ & nationalist projects in the West….tech capitalists & conservative elites deploy eugenic logic as ‘common sense’ solutions to social challenges such as climate change, ‘gender ideology’ & fears of depopulation”
Building the ‘Fitter’ Future: Eugenics, Tech Capitalism, and the Politics of Existential Risk
Abstract. The appointment of Elon Musk as head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) exemplifies the unprecedented and troubling
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM