@anthrofuentes.bsky.social
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A reminder from @kevinlala.bsky.social and colleagues that the way that we communicate our science can have positive or dangerous consequences. Race science is often pseudoscience. Learn how to promote more empirically grounded views here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A reminder from @kevinlala.bsky.social and colleagues that the way that we communicate our science can have positive or dangerous consequences. Race science is often pseudoscience. Learn how to promote more empirically grounded views here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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And this. My experience also supports that being *more* open about racist, sexist, and ableist histories of our fields is more engaging, not less, for students (and faculty) from minoritized backgrounds. Transparency can only enhance rigor.
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
And this. My experience also supports that being *more* open about racist, sexist, and ableist histories of our fields is more engaging, not less, for students (and faculty) from minoritized backgrounds. Transparency can only enhance rigor.
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Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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"This Issue stems from the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund, designed to bridge the social & natural sciences, promote equity, diversity & inclusion & support work with policy relevance. This diversification of the CE field strengthens its capacity to positively shape global futures"
Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"This Issue stems from the Cultural Evolution Society Transformation Fund, designed to bridge the social & natural sciences, promote equity, diversity & inclusion & support work with policy relevance. This diversification of the CE field strengthens its capacity to positively shape global futures"
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Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
December 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Among Republicans - " The Holocaust of Jews and Nazi Germany was greatly exaggerated or did not happen as historians describe"
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
Disagree: 56%
Agree: 37%
Manhattan Institute / Oct 26, 2025
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"Once someone is fixated on the 'biology' of gender as the cause of—and solution to!—all life’s problems, they are already on the road toward white supremacy, and from there, toward fascism."
Another killer essay from @judedoyle.bsky.social
Another killer essay from @judedoyle.bsky.social
‘Biology’ is backlash | Xtra Magazine
Why do the arguments of men’s rights activists and TERFs sound so … similar?
xtramagazine.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"Once someone is fixated on the 'biology' of gender as the cause of—and solution to!—all life’s problems, they are already on the road toward white supremacy, and from there, toward fascism."
Another killer essay from @judedoyle.bsky.social
Another killer essay from @judedoyle.bsky.social
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One of the best news of the year. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/44-biso...
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
44 bison released into Coahuila reserve as part of 25-year grasslands conservation initiative
Absent from the central Coahuila desert for 160 years, the American bison has returned to the region as part of a 25-year biodiversity conservation effort in northern Mexico.
mexiconewsdaily.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One of the best news of the year. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/44-biso...
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
"The new arrivals were welcomed [..] with a ceremony directed by the indigenous Ndé... The return reconnects the Ndé Nation with a brother that is part of our identity, our spirituality and our collective memory,”
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Holy cow! NPR used the R-word to describe Trump's statements about Somali-Americans & Somali immigrants. Used it correctly & appropriately. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is the first time I've seen a mainstream media outlet call one of Trump's racist deeds racist.
This is the first time I've seen a mainstream media outlet call one of Trump's racist deeds racist.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants. n.pr/4oxkCha
Ilhan Omar says Trump attacks on Somali immigrants 'deflect attention' from scrutiny
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Holy cow! NPR used the R-word to describe Trump's statements about Somali-Americans & Somali immigrants. Used it correctly & appropriately. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is the first time I've seen a mainstream media outlet call one of Trump's racist deeds racist.
This is the first time I've seen a mainstream media outlet call one of Trump's racist deeds racist.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants. n.pr/4oxkCha
Ilhan Omar says Trump attacks on Somali immigrants 'deflect attention' from scrutiny
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who came to the U.S. from Somalia, about President Trump's racist tirade against Somali immigrants. n.pr/4oxkCha
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We're thrilled to see two PUP titles in @nature.com's 2025's Best Books in Brief! Huge congratulations to @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, author of Sex is a Spectrum, as well as @gillian-murphy.bsky.social and @ciaragreene.bsky.social, authors of Memory Lane. See the full list here: buff.ly/G2wzPoQ
Nature
Nature is the foremost international weekly scientific journal in the world and is the flagship journal for Nature Portfolio. It publishes the finest ...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
We're thrilled to see two PUP titles in @nature.com's 2025's Best Books in Brief! Huge congratulations to @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, author of Sex is a Spectrum, as well as @gillian-murphy.bsky.social and @ciaragreene.bsky.social, authors of Memory Lane. See the full list here: buff.ly/G2wzPoQ
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SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
USTA bans trans athletes from competing as women to comply with Trump executive order
The national tennis governing body's policy change was made with no announcement.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
SCOOP: The United States Tennis Association (USTA) quietly updated its player eligibility policy to ban trans women from competing as women in their leagues, tournaments and competitions in order to comply with Trump's anti-trans sports executive order. The policy went into effect on Monday.
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By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
December 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
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You can access the article for free here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(Sorry for the previous link which is broken!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(Sorry for the previous link which is broken!)
Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy - Nature
Rapidly growing satellite constellations pose a substantial threat to astronomical observations, with projections indicating that future space telescopes will have more than 96% of their exposures aff...
www.nature.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
You can access the article for free here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(Sorry for the previous link which is broken!)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(Sorry for the previous link which is broken!)
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Humankind has launch more satellites in the past four years (2021 - 2025) than in the previous seven decades.
75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).
75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Humankind has launch more satellites in the past four years (2021 - 2025) than in the previous seven decades.
75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).
75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).
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I'm increasingly interested in race science as a form of cultivated, weaponized statistical illiteracy. Take this figure, one of the most common propaganda plots, plotting national IQ data against education polygenic scores. "The correlation is so high! Clearly IQ differences are genetic!"
Oops!
Oops!
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I'm increasingly interested in race science as a form of cultivated, weaponized statistical illiteracy. Take this figure, one of the most common propaganda plots, plotting national IQ data against education polygenic scores. "The correlation is so high! Clearly IQ differences are genetic!"
Oops!
Oops!
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Obama really broke them
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Obama really broke them
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These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
@anthrofuentes.bsky.social and I are working on a letter regarding the archiving of #NSF #DDRIGs in the #SBE Directorate and impacts on our fields. What did you/your students discover as a result of a DDRIG award? What other impacts resulted from the award? Post here or DM. Please repost for viz.
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Palate-cleanser: just one stunningly beautiful AND accurate human-made archaeological image (by the extraordinary @tombjorklundart.bsky.social) 🏺
"Lola", a girl whose DNA was extracted from c. 6000 yr old chewed birch tar
(& she's in #Matriarcha!)
museumlollandfalster.dk/en/stiftsmus...
"Lola", a girl whose DNA was extracted from c. 6000 yr old chewed birch tar
(& she's in #Matriarcha!)
museumlollandfalster.dk/en/stiftsmus...
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Palate-cleanser: just one stunningly beautiful AND accurate human-made archaeological image (by the extraordinary @tombjorklundart.bsky.social) 🏺
"Lola", a girl whose DNA was extracted from c. 6000 yr old chewed birch tar
(& she's in #Matriarcha!)
museumlollandfalster.dk/en/stiftsmus...
"Lola", a girl whose DNA was extracted from c. 6000 yr old chewed birch tar
(& she's in #Matriarcha!)
museumlollandfalster.dk/en/stiftsmus...
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The student gotchas might be the second most disruptive thing happening in higherEd. It’s the Heritage “debate me” model with the Turning Point edgelord leveling-up.
You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The student gotchas might be the second most disruptive thing happening in higherEd. It’s the Heritage “debate me” model with the Turning Point edgelord leveling-up.
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Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Hello Dr. Raff, we know you've been a supporter. Please continue that support by sharing our Mission & Vision with the world. #GivingTuesday bsky.app/profile/nati...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you’re looking for an organization to support today—or any day!—please put this one at the top of your list.