Q. McLamore
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Q. McLamore
@ghawinriver.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Social Psychology (They/Them). Views expressed are strictly my own and not those of my employer.
One wonders that troll farms have any work left to do in spreading misinformation, when irresponsible press outlets do it for them so readily and with so little prompting
The Times’ reporting on employment tribunals is routinely awful. The headlines are clickbait claims which the body copy often contradicts. In this case the issue was not the use of the word “fireman” but failing to challenge a campaign of persistent offensive behaviour. And he wasn’t fired. He left
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
While this is obviously on the nose, what is worth pointing out is just how complete the capture of U.K. politics by anti-trans pressure groups has been. The whole thing now speaks exclusively in Sex Matters UK buzzwords and slogans as shibboleths. It's a total eclipse.
November 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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First they set up an arduous trial to try to justify more restrictions on puberty blockers for trans kids. Then they demand the trial be stopped because there is no such thing as a trans kid.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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This was how AAP responded to the HHS report on gender dysphoria.
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Thinking about OpenAI's court defense of "user violated terms of use" in the wrongful death case and reading their terms of use, which are more about IP protection (how ironic!) than user safety. But also see the wildly detailed usage policy.

openai.com/policies/row...

openai.com/policies/usa...
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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And COVID showed that MAHA and MAHA doctors have a very high tolerance for kids dying from vaccine preventable diseases.

This is pocket change to them.

They just don’t care.
Since this guy came on board, Louisiana has had a record pertussis year, with 2 infant deaths in the state. Now RFK Jr gave him a promotion up to the CDC.
CDC’s new top deputy had ordered his state health department to stop promoting mass vaccinations amid a flu surge www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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However, both major parties are vastly unpopular, and trust in established institutions has been declining massively.
 
America is not experiencing a realignment as much as it is going through a de-alignment of the established order.
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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No matter where we look: Religious identity, racial and cultural resentment, attitudes towards the religious/racial/cultural pluralization of American society are dividing the country - and shaping the political conflict - much more strongly than education polarization.
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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To think of people with a college degree as synonymous with a “liberal elite” makes no sense: That group also includes those who graduated from the many religious-conservative colleges.

And there is little correlation between education and political alignment among people of color.
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Yes, Trump dominates among the *white* working class (if defined as people without a college degree). But even here, religion played a key role: In 2024, about 86 percent of non-college white evangelicals voted for Trump – vs. only a minority of the non-evangelical white working class.
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
 
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election. They are only obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment.

As the piece is partially behind a paywall, I’ll share some key thoughts:

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The Myth of a Rightward Realignment
Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment
steady.page
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The tribune of the poor, the downtrodden? Studies clearly indicate that Trump’s most ardent supporters, especially in poorer areas, are, by local standards, quite wealthy / financially stable. Their “economic anxiety” is mostly downstream from anxieties over racial and cultural status.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This is the correct take. Stewing in white supremacist propaganda is bad for your thinking. And if think you are so savvy that it won’t impact you, you are the exact kind of mark they are slowly converting (I’m looking at you, centrist pundits).
It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Hearing the phrase "non-important game dialogue" and its derivatives makes me want to chew through sheet metal.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Hegseth also ends this by invoking the "faith of this country, the Christian faith" and gives "appeals to Heaven" projects.propublica.org/christian-na...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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New preprint alert!

Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations

#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
OSF
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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You know how I say major corporations are built on an ideology of control as being more important than profit? www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Krafton CEO allegedly asked ChatGPT to help him find a way out of paying Subnautica 2 devs their bonuses because he wanted to avoid the 'professional embarrassment' of being seen as a 'pushover'
A pre-trial brief filed by former Unknown Worlds bosses says Krafton CEO Changham Kim was worried about losing his job for overpaying for the studio.
www.pcgamer.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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It only took us several decades and dozens Nature/Nature Genetics papers but we finally got to the conclusion that plant and animal breeders (and Lewontin) arrived at from the start: twin studies suck!
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Stellar work from @robbeewedow.bsky.social, Brian Donovan, & company continuing the work on how changing genetics can reduce genetic essentialism in students.

This is the kind of work under attack by the current administration. Several grants on humane genetics literacy were targeted this year
www.cell.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I talked a bit with Jason about Grokipedia and it is, without exaggeration, like if you trained an LLM solely on white supremacist blogs and had it try to write Wikipedia entries. Some of the most insane stuff I’ve seen on the internet
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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'The manosphere’s enthusiasm for evolution goes beyond appropriation and selective interpretation of existing research' New paper by LouisBachaud et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
A hundred and two just-so stories: exploring the lay evolutionary hypotheses of the manosphere - Volume 7
www.cambridge.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM