savithry
@savithry.bsky.social
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kohngregory.bsky.social
The problem is that innateness is not a neutral concept. It hinders our understanding of ontogeny by posing as a developmental explanation when it is not. Showing that a behavior is predictable across space and time is informative, but it does not reveal how it developed.
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kohngregory.bsky.social
Non-obvious factors guide development. Their existence challenged the retroactive view of development. This view posits that the presence of seemingly non-learned yet prepared responses to the environment is itself evidence of unobserved innate origins.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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kohngregory.bsky.social
From this, ethologists such as Patrick Bateson, Peter Klopfer, S. A. Barnett, and Jack P. Hailman showed how moving beyond the innate vs. learned dichotomy opened new avenues for investigating the evolution of behavior. Many of these research programs are now foundational.
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kohngregory.bsky.social
These critiques (especially Lehrman's) convinced luminaries in ethology such as Niko Tinbergen--who pioneered the modern concept of innateness--that usage of innateness in animal behavior had reached its natural conclusion. Development overcame the dialectical opposition of innate vs. acquired.
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dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
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timnitgebru.bsky.social
for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...
The TESCREAL Bundle
The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.
www.dair-institute.org
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
If you read the story, you’ll see an unfortunately familiar pattern. Someone in an abusive relationship, who already has a child, doesn’t want to have another one, and is then assaulted by her partner with a gun, who also looks to sic the police on her for breaking the law by having an abortion.
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chsaba.bsky.social
“Educators have the right — and responsibility — to teach the full complexity of human biology and identity without fear of censorship or retaliation. Students deserve honest, accurate education that prepares them to understand the world as it truly is, not as some wish it to be.”
savithry.bsky.social
I so appreciate the framing here (in contrast to academic freedom arguments, which feel esoteric):

By forcing educators to say there are two genders, the federal government (via university admins, school
boards, etc) are requiring educators to lie to students.

It’s lies!
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irahyman.bsky.social
Today I started my grad cognition class for our masters program (we’re on a quarter system).

After introductions, I start with a brief historical consideration of cognitive psychology. I note that the Gestalt school was a cognitive approach based in Germany.

We then talked about what happened. 1/
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pierrette1789.bsky.social
All my best to this FEMA employee, and may they succeed in their mission:
"I'M THE TYPE of person where, like, if you push me I'll push back. I don't like to live in a mindset of despair and negativity. When these people do this shit, it just lights my fire. It makes me more fucking mad. This used to be the best job I've ever had, the best environment I've ever had, the best culture I've ever had-and they fucking ruined it. I will never ever forget how much they ruined it. I'm like, fuck these people. They can't get me scared. I will not give them what they want. I will not just leave. I'm going to make it as difficult as possible for these fuckheads." -FEMA employee
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kyledcheney.bsky.social
BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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medievaliste.bsky.social
"If you want these conditions to change, you will have to act. Faculty are afraid to carry out their jobs faithfully in what they view to be your interest, and there is little evidence that the administration will shield them... Missing in this equation is you. What kind of education do you want?"
jenmercieca.bsky.social
"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥
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Anonymous Texas A&M professor calls on students to be ‘agent of change’
Editor's note: The following is an open letter to the Texas A&M student body written by a tenured professor at A&M and provided to The Battalion. The pr
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cborstell.bsky.social
And it's particularly sign languages in the Southern Hemisphere that have been added to the Glottolog database in the past 8 years.
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cborstell.bsky.social
Because sign language linguistics is a young field, many sign languages were undocumented for a long time, and still are.

In fact, in Glottolog, the "sign language" category is in the top with regard to the increase in number of documented languages across version releases.
A line chart with the title "Cumulative increase of documented languages by "family"/grouping across releases of Glottolog: only showing families with 10 or more languages". It shows the cumulative increase over time with releases of the Glottolog language database. "Sign languages" is highlighted in a turquoise line, steadily increasing, having increased by around 26% from version 3.1 to version 5.2.
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knifeboots.xyz
Critical race theory says that racism is the foundation of America and we need to fix that.

PragerU says racism is the foundation of America and it should stay that way.

Little wonder then that they object to anything that smells remotely like critical race theory.
blackamazon.bsky.social
Soo I got this from shoulders_not_knees on Threads and had to bring it over

Because at this point Praeger U is telling you racism is the foundation of America

And no one in all their desire to respond is discussing it so….

Racism is IN THEIR MINDS

The organizational principle
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PragerU • @prageru • 19h
Young people are enamored with "anti-racist" rhetoric because they think they are fighting racist systems in America. The TRUTH is they are fighting America itself and the very values the country was founded on.
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profgabriele.com
I think a lot of people are sleeping on how the ghost of Samuel Huntington haunts the Trump administration
chadbourn.bsky.social
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller at the Kirk memorial: “You have no idea the dragon you have awakaned.

“We will save this civilization and the West.”
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josephvw.bsky.social
These people seem to think the reason why race science disappeared at institutions was because it was considered taboo and not because it doesn't stand up to academic rigour
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donmoyn.bsky.social
I wrote recently about my more than 20 years in higher ed: "The biggest change I have observed is that I, my colleagues, and our students are intensely surveilled in the hope that we can be publicly shamed, fired or expelled if we say or do something wrong."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-hi...
How the higher education outrage sausage is made
I was exposed by Campus Reform and lived to tell the tale
donmoynihan.substack.com