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40,000-Year-Old Bird Figurines Found in German Cave | Sci.News

Archaeologists in southwestern Germany have unearthed two miniature bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory, among the smallest and most delicate examples of Ice Age art ever found.

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Public service announcement: if you want to preserve your hearing, don’t go & see The Odyssey at the iMax. It is monstrously LOUD! Otherwise, the film is fine.

I’ve added an ethnographic video short to my website of Ik children playing - spear-throwing, play fighting & football. More video shorts to come. They may be used as teaching resources with credit. site-1717690-9933-5006.mystrikingly.com

I’ve added an ethnographic video short to my website of Ik children playing - spear-throwing, play fighting & football. More video shorts to come. They may be used as teaching resources with credit. site-1717690-9933-5006.mystrikingly.com

⏰Andy Burnham: it’s time to fix our broken voting system! 👇Add your name to the open letter 👇 actionnetwork.org/petitions/an... @makevotesmatter.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social

This talk has now been rescheduled for 29 July👇 so let’s hope for no train-melting heat this time

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 29th July, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇

Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative

The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.

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Steven Pinker "effectively helped Dershowitz to obtain a “completely unprecedented” plea bargain with U.S. attny Alex Acosta in 2008 which granted Epstein [..] immunity to federal prosecution for trafficking dozens of underage girls," writes Cathryn Townsend www.liberalcurrents.com/epsteins-gif...

Epstein's Gifted Scientists

Somehow it’s never the billionaires who are told that they have bad genes and shouldn’t breed.

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The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study is used by hereditarians to claim victory for their beliefs about the innate intellectual inferiority of Black versus White people, but its design can’t separate genetic from environment causes of IQ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Was the Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study Abhorrent or Just Controversial? - Behavior Genetics

The Minnesota Transracial Adoption Study (MTRAS) has been a source of enduring controversy due to its goal of addressing genetic and environmental explanations of Black-White IQ differences. The study...

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Katydid has to go the neurologist in a month so I’m running a sale on all not catnip items in my Etsy shop. All funds will go towards her summer checkup, bloodwork, and getting her seizure meds for another 6 months. Use code NEURO4KD to get 25% off non catnip items mindysperson.etsy.com

This is one of the dumbest of the race science fans' collection of dumb ideas. You should read Kevin's takedown, and if you want more context on some of the people he discusses, read my SPLC profile on Henry Harpending

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · last mo.

Twitter is going kind of crazy about crime and genetics right now (What's new?). My next post is a deep dive into a paper behind a widespread claim that brutal execution in Medieval Europe selected for reduced aggression, allowing civilization to develop. The title says it all, really.

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

Big Tech is saying out loud "You can have a habitable planet or machine generated slop, but you can't have both."

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Subscribe to @sequencermag.bsky.social, independent science media. www.sequencermag.com

Sequencer

Decode the universe. A writer-owned popular science magazine

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Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · last mo.

Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com

Interesting development. Raised concerns with Cambridge University Press about books which use "national IQ" data and wondered whether any action would be taken (won't find out from them as their policy is not to let those raising concerns know the outcome of any investigation)

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · last mo.

Springer Nature will start issuing expressions of concern notices for books after investigating hundreds of its books for integrity-related problems in recent years.

1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 24th June, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇

Since this piece about contemporary manifestations of eugenics, including “fertility crisis“ narratives, mentions evolutionary psychology, it’s worth noting that evolutionary psychologists are now actively promoting those “fertility crisis” claims in their journals

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...' My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...

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The Emotional Lives of Farmed Animals and Why They Matter

Vicki Hutton highlights the ethical challenges and uncomfortable moral dilemmas about the welfare of these sentient beings by focusing on the inner lives of rescued individuals.

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Oh to be so Enlightened that you “forget” you got ten grand for a letter that you let other people doctor to help a paedophile get off lightly and continue abusing 100s of children for years. Truly the transition from status to contract is the liberation of the mind.

Cat T@cattownsend.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.

I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago

“Epstein was a central node in a toxic gift network that included celebrities, politicians, and billionaires. Academic scientists of the Epstein class covered for his crimes, laundered his reputation, and legitimized his pseudo-intellectual pursuit of eugenics, racism and sexism.”

I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2mo ago

“Epstein was a central node in a toxic gift network that included celebrities, politicians, and billionaires. Academic scientists of the Epstein class covered for his crimes, laundered his reputation, and legitimized his pseudo-intellectual pursuit of eugenics, racism and sexism.”

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

once again tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, reader funded newsrooms how and where you are able to

Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

Have a nice dinner, like me

An ERC-funded philosopher at Ghent University appears to be openly adopting Richard Lynn’s strategy of “hav[ing] a go at the rehabilitation of eugenics”

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As predicted! From the person who gave us "Eugenics will solve global poverty", now: "Eugenics will solve climate change".

Very good statement clearly outlining the costs of hiring pseudoscientists: "This is the academic version of “flood the zone with shit”: spread controversial, unsubstantiated claims that others must respond to. That way, they have less time for the important, high-quality research they want to do"

Pieter T. L. Beck@ptrbck.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences issued a statement on the hiring of Nathan Cofnas /43 www.ugent.be/lw/philosoph...

New Climate Ethnographies A Collective Book Talk We invite you to our collective book talk of new climate ethnographies: five innovative works that analyse the impacts of climate change in cultures and societies globally. Each presenter will talk about their recently published work.

My wife is teaching some classically themed summer courses on myth and Pompeii for kids ages 8-13 online. She’s offering a discount for early enrollment 👇

Really helpful blog post on ‘missing heritability’, which shows how out-of-touch ‘hereditarian’ IQ researchers are with modern population genetics. 👏

Kevin Bird@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

First real post on the new blog! If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right?