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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · 7d

The Royal Society has a code of conduct that we can all read (
royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...), which Elon has violated, but they can ignore it and say "well, it's not our job to "police" the conduct of our Fellows". Maybe they hope Elon will reward them for Obeying In Advance, but he won't.

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 7d

"I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish." Read the full statement from the President of the Royal Society Sir Adrian Smith: royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from the President of the Royal Society regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · 13d

I will be writing some experimental code and then forget that I'm on the main branch. All the time

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · 18d

Extraordinary. We've known for a while that JD Vance and the rest of the Trump admin all follow the same race-and-IQ obsessed weirdo freak accounts on twitter (like this eigenrobot loser), and that miasma of idiocy is what runs America now

@eigenrobot: if H1Bs are supposed to be a means of obtaining Labor not available domestically it's curious they're cheaper than domestic labor. an easy way to ensure that they aren't directly substituting for domestic labor would be to add a $100k surcharge per head

Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech
By Aditya Soni, Kristina Cooke and Jeff Mason
September 21, 202510:52 AM GMT+10Updated 8 mins ago

@eigenrobot: guys im gonna be honest if I had knows people were going to take my posts seriously enough to implement them as policy, if that's indeed what happened, I would have put a hell of a lot of more thought into them

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · 22d

UK Biobank data is being used here for blatant race pseudoscience by a white supremacist blogger, Jordan Lasker. @ukbiobank.bsky.social this looks to be a clear breach of terms and an unauthorised use the data, no?

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 28d

Today is the birthday of one of my favorite scientists, thinkers, and writers of all time, Stephen Jay Gould. He would have been 84 year old. “Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.” -S. J. Gould

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Sep 4

I watched "Eddington" the other night, and Ari Aster has proven once again that he is the undefeated best writer-director of this generation

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hold on, I thought trying to retract papers for political reasons was only something "woke" mobs did?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted — the journal said no

In a rare move for a US public official, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr called for a Danish paper finding no link between aluminium in vaccines and disease to be retracted.

www.nature.com

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Sep 4

#26 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The communication of conformational changes here is very good. Love the design choices

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Sep 1

"among other things" *cough cough*

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lots to unpack here, but the main thing I want to comment on is the absurdity of it all. Science/academia in the U.S. is being rapidly destroyed by the Trump admin, but all that pales in comparison to "woke" peer review, amirite folks? Cc'ing: @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social

Steven Pinker: Evidence that woke isn't dead, peer review is problematic, and science needs to address deep problems in its culture: A grad student at Harvard conducted the first systematic, data-based study to document & explain the rise in gender dysphoria. His paper was rejected from a leading journal because, among other things, "Throughout the manuscript, the authors use language that is considered prejudicial and outdated (e.g. "natal sex" as opposed to "sex assigned at birth"). It is critical to follow best practice and guidelines surrounding gender inclusive language particularly for research specifically on the topic of gender incongruence, expression, and identity."

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Aug 2

Important details about that new embryo selection company, its dubious scientific claims, plus its many affiliations with white nationalism 👇👇👇

Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Aug 2

A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · Aug 2

Numerous FAQs & think pieces were written promising GWAS participants & the broader public that sociogenomics was focused on education improvement, environmental interventions, and away from the hereditarian past. All quickly betrayed.

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Aug 1

He did everything in Excel. I forgot that he also never learned how to use Illustrator/Inkscape.

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Aug 1

How do you even begin to deal with the petulant entitlement that underpins this entire ideology? Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, it's possible that a non-white person could be more qualified than you are? Explain how that's simply not possible? Oh right, you wrote for Quillette...

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just stating the obvious:
- academic jobs are super competitive, even with a good CV
- Colin severely overstates how impressive his CV is (he doesn't know how to use R or Python)
- Colin makes no mention of the fact he was in the middle of a massive scandal and has had many papers retracted

👻Sewall Fright🎃 @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · Jul 31

Colin Wright is a world class loser

WSJ OPINION

Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an
EEOC complaint.
By Colin Wright
July 30, 2025 at 4:53 pm ET

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Jul 9

The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn’t Get Scooped By A Bigot @defector.com
defector.com/the-new-york...

The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn't Get Scooped By A Bigot | Defector

On Thursday night, right before a long summer holiday weekend, the New York Times published a triple-bylined bombshell: 16 years ago, in an application form for a college that ultimately did not accep...

defector.com

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Jul 9

Really highlights how the world of the far-right is kinda like Plato's cave, but they're all in the cave voluntarily, and it's just them making shadow puppet shows for each other and getting scared

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · Jul 9

Important to note that the "Cindy Steinberg" account on Twitter(now suspended) that prompted Grok's "Hitler is good" replies was a fake account created by nazis to seed posts they could shriek at. It matters b/c nearly all the anti-SJW stuff a decade ago was based on posts created using this tactic.

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Jul 9

Unfortunately I do not. He's deleted a lot of reddit posts and I'm not sure if anyone ever archived them

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Jul 9

I've been MIA for a while, but it makes me happy to see everyone now hates this racist dipshit Jordan Lasker guy as much as I do.

Some niche lore on Jordan: he's such a pathological liar that even other neo-Nazis eventually got sick of his bullshit: tgstat.com/channel/@TGH...

capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · Jul 4

The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Apr 2

I'd like to know why you think it's fine to make between group genetic comparisons for different SES classes? Does the Lewontin seed analogy not apply for SES class just like it does for race? Seems like you have a blind spot here

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Apr 1

Quite surprised there isn't any mention of concepts such as population stratification/spurious correlation of genes with environment/environmental inheritance, etc. The way this comic comes across is that there really are genes for being poor/rich. I assume the NHB paper doesn't make this mistake?

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Apr 1

I'm rarely online these days and don't have the time to dig read the original paper, but I hated the comic itself.
bsky.app/profile/dial...

Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Apr 1

The comic does a lot of reifying old classist ideas present in The Bell Curve. This panel is especially misleading: there aren't genes for being a lawyer or a baker. The environment of a family that is being inherited here, and the SNPs correlating with families is a result of pop. stratification

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Apr 1

The comic does a lot of reifying old classist ideas present in The Bell Curve. This panel is especially misleading: there aren't genes for being a lawyer or a baker. The environment of a family that is being inherited here, and the SNPs correlating with families is a result of pop. stratification

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Mar 11

The Trump admin is terminating scientific grants under the pretence combating antisemitism. They are going to any use any pro-Palestinian activity on campus as an excuse to do this to all American universities, effectively killing science and free speech rights in one go

A tweet from the official NIH account on X:

Today #NIH is terminating more than $250 million in funding—including more than 400 grants—to Columbia University following directives from the Trump Administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The cancellations are due to Columbia University’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · Mar 8

"facism is fun haha :P" ew

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