Dan Graur
@dgraur.bsky.social
Cantankerous evolutionary biologist. Detest hubris, pseudo-profound bullshit, bad science, & Open Access. Art Lover. Used to be a Democrat Before They Became Socialists (Been There Done That ... in Romania). Antizionism = Antisemitism.
Was the bombing of German cities in WWII genocide? No. It was war! Was the dropping of atomic bombs on Hroshima and Nagasaki genocide? No. It was war! Are the civilians killed in Gaza victims of genocide? No. It is war. Does the Koran and the Hamas Charter preach genocide? Yes and Yes.
#Nauru suffers from depleted guano reserves (its main income), billions of dollars in mining royalties lost to corruption, high Inflation, environmental devastation & land ruin, climate vulnerability, water scarcity, extreme obesity rates & limited healthcare. The solution: Nauru ➡️ #Naoero.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 3d agoThe Pacific Island country of Nauru has changed its name to the Republic of Naoero, its president said, matching the spelling and pronunciation in the national language. https://to.pbs.org/3RMYoxp
A prehistoric (October 25, 1999) article from a now-defunct newspaper (Herald Tribune): The sale of eggs from fashion models for artificial insemination (the original #AI). #eugenics en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Har...
A democratic socialist in the White House?These delusional ignoramuses are Republican Trojan horses. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A democratic socialist in the White House? Activists are thinking big.
The Democratic Socialists of America summit was abuzz about whether to endorse a presidential candidate, potentially Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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What all plankton have in common, whether they are animals or not, and whether they are large or small, is that they are unable to overcome water currents and are passively carried by them. Below: Larva of the Magelona worm, 2 mm in length.
Orcas cause sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed. Is it food processing or are orcas enjoying playing with their food? www.newscientist.com/article/2580...
Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed | New Scientist
Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a form of play as well as food processing
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If the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, there is no need for dark energy to exist to explain it. www.newscientist.com/article/2580... doi.org/rg57
Dark energy doesn't exist, claims controversial paper | New Scientist
An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy to exist to explain it
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The eternal uselessness of holistic humanities
Dan Graur@dgraur.bsky.social · 5d agoDiamond is flint arrived at consciousness. Granite is ether. Forests are the hair of the animal Earth. The bulge in the equatorial region is the belly of nature. The East is oxygen, the West hydrogen. It rains when clouds from the East mix with clouds from the West... and so on...
The uselessness of the interpretative humanities.
Dan Graur@dgraur.bsky.social · 5d agoThe term psedo-profound bullshit was introduced in 2015. However, Deepak Chopras existed long before. Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) was a philosophy professor at University of Berlin. In place of Newton "groundless hypothesis," he suggested a holistic poem: 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The term psedo-profound bullshit was introduced in 2015. However, Deepak Chopras existed long before. Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) was a philosophy professor at University of Berlin. In place of Newton "groundless hypothesis," he suggested a holistic poem: 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core
On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit - Volume 10 Issue 6
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#Authorship used to be straightforward: contribute meaningfully, get listed. Yet in many research groups, the author list resembles a seating chart at a very crowded dinner party; full, political, and bewildering. When everyone gets a seat at the table, the meaning of authorship begins to blur.
AI firms are shredding physical books. Isn't that the definition of evil? In an aswer to my question, #chatGPT admits to the possibility that rare books are indeed destroyed, but blames @anthropic.com. How convenient. cryptoslate.com/why-copyrigh...
AI firms are shredding physical books because copyright law is quietly rewarding them
Anthropic’s book-scanning ruling and ISBNdb’s sourcing pitch expose a preservation gap as AI developers pursue pre-AI books.
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Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS
In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...
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The Jewish kapos betrayed their own people in the misguided hope that they would be saved. They ended up in the gas chambers alongside those they had betrayed. I wonder how long it will take the Democratic Socialists of America to discard Bernie Sanders because he is a Jew.
Grapefruit-sized hailstoes may become more common in a warmer world. #globalwarming www.sciencenews.org/article/larg... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Grapefruit-sized hail may become more common in a warmer world
A global model suggests that climate change could make hailstones larger and more damaging in many regions, especially at mid-to-high latitudes.
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1. The way @nytimes.com biases news: A car kills and maims people at a Pride Parade in Berlin. "The police are looking for a motive." NYTimes, then, mentiona, a massacre at a Christmas market in in 2024. The link is to a news flash from the day, and guess what: "Police are looking for a motive."🧵
If Jews controlled the world. For centuries Jews answered antisemitic stereotypes with facts. Perhaps it's time to answer them with punchlines. blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-jews-cont...
The Blogs: If Jews controlled the world
For centuries we've answered antisemitic stereotypes with facts. Perhaps it's time to answer them with punchlines
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1. The late physicist Richard Feynman, whom Freeman Dyson called "half genius and half buffoon," pondered a restaurant dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick to on old favorite or try something new? 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.sciencenews.org/article/math...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Today, I am 73. My life expectancy is ~12 years. My probability of dying within the next year is ~2.8%. ~91% of the U.S. population is younger than I am. ~95% of the world's population is younger than I am. ~25% of the people born in the same year as I was are no longer alive.
If there is one truth about science, it is that scientists are human and as all humans they are reluctant to admit error. So, although scientists preach Popperian falsification, few like to find themselves on the falsified side of the equation. www.tumblr.com/judgestarlin...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 1 · The Case of the Invading Cell and 500,000 Garbage Articles · This essay was prompted by a belated obituary in The New York Times from July 4, 2026, titled: “Stanley M. Gartler, Pio…
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The scientific literature contains at least half a million cell-culture papers that are worse than worthless. They are garbage—useless and harmful. #HeLa today.https://judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/822672140433227776/the-case-of-the-invading-cell-and-500000-garbage
The Case of the Invading Cell and 500,000 Garbage Articles
This essay was prompted by a belated obituary in The New York Times from July 4, 2026, titled: “Stanley M. Gartler, Pioneer in Cancer Research, Dies at 102.” Gartler actually died earlier, on May 25,....
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Bishop Adam of Melrose doubled the butter tax from 6 kg butter per 20 cows to 6 kg per 10 cows. The farmers complained to the local ruler, Earl Jon Haraldsson, who replied: "The devil take the bishop and his butter; you may roast him if you please!... which they did. Religion ≠ Social Justice.
Are the #Maine dems mad? Is this the best candiate they have? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Democrat set to replace Platner in Maine led state Senate with a temper
Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), yelled and cursed at fellow state lawmakers, interviews reveal.
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Are the #Michigan dems mad? Is this the best candiate they have? jewishinsider.com/2026/07/abdu...
Michigan Dem who praised grandfather’s Nazi military service hosting fundraiser for Abdul El-Sayed
Elizabeth Warren, who is speaking at a rally for El-Sayed later that day, was originally billed as a speaker for the event but was since removed from event publicity
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