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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
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williamcostello.bsky.social William Costello @williamcostello.bsky.social · 7d
In our new American Psychologist paper, we debunk the decades old zombie idea that evolutionary psychology is unfalsifiable.

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williamcostello.bsky.social William Costello @williamcostello.bsky.social · 8d
Out now and open access for four weeks as the editor's choice Topic in Focus in American Psychologist.

Contrary to popular belief, evolutionary psychology hypotheses are testable and falsifiable.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
January 30, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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wtfis2bdone.bsky.social
My take on your field? Burn it down and salt the earth. But what do I know about the extremely harmful externalities of a made-up discipline, I'm just a political theorist. 🙃
February 4, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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pinkerite.com
New on Pinkerite:

Steven Pinker, the Intellectual Dark Web, Race Science and the Jeffrey Epstein files

www.pinkerite.com/2026/02/stev...
Steven Pinker, the Intellectual Dark Web, Race Science and the Jeffrey Epstein files
Well that didn't last long. I called Claire Lehmann the voice of reason last month , but now, the woman who won the International Society fo...
www.pinkerite.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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simine.com
Academics:
If you’re trying to make sense of how people you know knew Epstein, it’s book agent John Brockman. He’s savvy enough to lay low, but we should be talking about him.

Friends don’t let friends sign with Brockman.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...

And

newrepublic.com/article/1548...
How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits
The Edge Foundation runs what has been called the “world’s smartest website” and held annual “billionaires’ dinners.” It was also financed by Jeffrey Epstein and gave him access to elite circles in sc...
www.buzzfeednews.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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bmceuen.bsky.social
I hear the fruit punch is to die for
ericdirnbach.bsky.social Eric Dirnbach @ericdirnbach.bsky.social · 17d
Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.
Make Heaven Crowded Tour 2026, featuring Erika Kirk.
January 20, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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nicemangos.bsky.social
White American Nazi killing happens ...

David Frum: what are we a bunch of brown people?!
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
"we detail anthropology's role in the development of racial science and the subsequent placement of whiteness at the top of the world's global political and cultural systems of power...[and] examine the early critiques of anthropology's racializing practices by Black and Indigenous anthropologists"
White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology
This review presents a historical and contemporary view of white supremacy as an entrenched global system based on presumed biological and cultural difference, related practices of racism, the valoriz...
www.annualreviews.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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ruthmace.bsky.social
UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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marekkohn.bsky.social
Striking illustration of how eugenicist criteria are being extended from 'quality of offspring' to the quest for personal fulfilment. And thereby broadening their influence.
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
If you need any more reason to be anti-eugenics, read this unbearably bleak vision of dating agencies set up by eugenicists (spoiler: they do not result in love)
The application, which can take hours to complete, asks users for their height, ancestral background, SAT score and their feelings about entrepreneurs. They can chose from an exhaustive list of political affiliations (conservative or progressive, Zionist or anti-Zionist, neoliberal or neo-Nazi) and select their partner's "ideal" ethnicity. The system can assess their cheekbone prominence, jaw strength or body-fat percentage from a scanned photo, and analyze their application to estimate an IQ score. Users who fail to make a match, or who bomb on a date, receive constructive feedback. "It wouldn't say, 'Lose 15 pounds," Mr. Myers said. "It would say that we know what type of person you are looking for, and the people you are looking for would be a match for you if you lost 15 pounds. So do with that information what you will." A woman in the crowd raised a hand. She noted that one of Mr. Zervas's slides had featured an image of a modelesque woman. She had been assigned an attractiveness rating of 8.6. "If that was an 8, what's a 10?" she said. "I've never seen a 10 if that's an 8." "That was an example profile," Mr. Zervas said. "Don't base your entire Weltanschauung" - German for "worldview" — "on my slides."
January 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
This is a real tweet.
In college, as a progressive, I was told by a friend that race was socially constructed and had no genetic basis. This was obviously insane to me. I can classify people into races by sight with high (though not perfect) reliability. So race exists. No category is perfect. “Chair” is not perfect. Even “hydrogen” can become fuzzy in certain regimes. All reasoning is about inferring attractors, common patterns, regions of phase space occupied at much greater frequency than other regions. All thought is impossible without this concept. The exact same pattern of reasoning that opposes the reality of race could be used to oppose the reality of any concept at all.
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣

"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."

doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Egalitarianism is not Equality: Moving from outcome to process in the study of human political organisation
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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rebeccasear.bsky.social
Analysis of BBC Question Time concludes “The findings reflect growing concerns about the role of sources on televised panels for broadcasters globally and a media agenda led by the radical right that is shaping the nature of political debate”
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Dec 28
'This approach raises concerns about an over-reliance on journalists and pundits from right-wing media, especially those who are regular contributors to the political magazine The Spectator.' 2/2
December 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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brunelcce.bsky.social
1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪

Watch the full talk here 🎥👇
The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics
YouTube video by The British Academy
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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toxicological.bsky.social
And long term, they can do more than create stigma - it isn’t hard to imagine a world where your health insurance premiums go up if you don’t use this.
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
As usual the science is questionable, but Anomaly is a particularly nasty and intellectually/ethically problematic person at the helm
sashagusevposts.bsky.social Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Dec 13
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
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open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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nicemangos.bsky.social
I can make myself temporarily believe in a world with dragons... but I cannot make myself believe that Western govts and cops are anything but evil beyond belief.
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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kohngregory.bsky.social
The scientific community failed when it allowed Lynn and others to promulgate obviously shoddy national-IQ “science” without substantial backlash. Lynn was biased by his admitted racist aspirations. His errors and lies are now malignant with our culture, and being weaponized by the right.
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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stairwaytokevin.bsky.social
Not to be alarmist or dramatic but the VP and probably half the inner circle of this admin thinks the average IQ of Africans and countries from the global south is < 70 because a white supremacist made a fraudulent database 40 years ago. Those are dots I don’t want to see connected
juliametraux.bsky.social Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Dec 5
We're not supposed to execute people with intellectual disabilities because it violates the 8th amendment. The Supreme Court will hear a case where Alabama argues that Intellectual disability when it comes to death penalty should only be decided only by IQ tests.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Alabama wants to lower the bar for executing disabled people—if SCOTUS lets it
The case law is clear: There's more to intellectual disability than IQ tests. Will Trump's justices care?
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
There is no such thing as a ‘perfect baby’ because it is a human being and not a custom-tailored suit you sickos
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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devoevomed.bsky.social
"Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics" is a particularly important essay given the recent spate of human genetic engineering startups...

🧪 #Science #BlueSkyScience #AcademicBluesky #BioSky

academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
Echoes of eugenics: confronting its effects in indigenous genomics
This article explores the legacy of eugenics and its harmful impact on Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines how genetics research historically
academic.oup.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM