Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Incorporating Evolutionary Theory Into Forensic Anthropology Methods and Practice: A Proof‐of‐Concept Study Using Skeletal Sex Estimation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Modern Human Dentognathic Remains From MIS 3–2 of Jianshan Cave, Southern China onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New Middle Pleistocene Hominin Dental Remains From Velika Balanica, Serbia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

The new Wiley journal review system is an absolute nightmare. Editorial assistants have been replaced by a clunky, AI-enabled website that makes it harder to find and invite reviewers. Associate editor workloads have increased. I'm not convinced the invitations to reviewers are even going through.

INBOX: an investigation by @annenbergmedia.bsky.social found that the United States Navy has paid USC more than $860,000 over the last seven years for at least 89 “fresh cadaver bodies,” 32 of which were used specifically for Israel Defense Forces training at Los Angeles General Medical Center.

Appear to have a jays vs grackles squabble in my backyard, and that is the energy I need right now

My neighborhood today.

Post on r/Cleveland about the student radio station at Cleveland State University getting shut down for being "too woke," with the shut down attended by a state senator.

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I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst.

So this absolutely tracks.

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% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

We are looking forward to welcoming @benceviola.bsky.social back to Vienna for the first #HEASSeminar in the 2025-2026 series in #HumanEvolutionandthePalaeolithic.

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Beyond mutualism: the nature of domesticator–domesticate interactions www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

If you want to hear from Jane Goodall tonight given the news, this podcast interview she did for Wiser Than Me earlier this year was really good.

A momentous occasion: 'Java Man' is going back to Indonesia, along with more than 28,000 other fossils that Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois collected during the colonial era.

My story: www.science.org/content/arti...

"I do know that when talking to people who perhaps think very differently, the only chance you have of getting them to think in a different way is to touch the heart." — Dr. Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

Thanks, Jane, for touching our hearts.

Neandertal Cold Adaptation: Technological, Anatomical, and Physiological Responses to Cold Stress in One of Our Closest Fossil Relatives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

He’s blocking her because she would be the final vote necessary to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. He’s doing this to protect pedophiles. Release his Grindr profile!