We've known how New Deal programs that helped build white wealth created a major structural racism problem for decades. This labor of love just published online documents how racist. For a take on the impacts of redlining see soundcloud.com/user-8895563... 🧪 #racism

New-deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately - Nature

New data on homebuying loan records around the Second World War in the USA, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally excluded from mortgage programmes.

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We've known how New Deal programs that helped build white wealth created a major structural racism problem for decades. This labor of love just published online documents how racist. For a take on the impacts of redlining see soundcloud.com/user-8895563...

New-deal mortgage programmes benefited white borrowers disproportionately - Nature

New data on homebuying loan records around the Second World War in the USA, linked to race and immigration status, show that Black borrowers were disproportionally excluded from mortgage programmes.

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A cautionary note for those seeking a shortcut to publication--from a very authoritative source.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Pink Freudian Slip #fairhopesunsets #thisisalabama #gulfofeffingmexico #mobilebay

Distant neighbors of yours, Erica? @anthropologal.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/s...

Europe’s Green-Energy Future Has a Problem: Reindeer

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If you are tired of combatting self-appointed experts in your field of expertise, you might want to share this with them--but don't expect them to be grateful. 🧪

‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questions

Each study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn’t tell you all that much.

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Alabama’s ‘reckless rush to redistribute:’ We dare defend our whites www.al.com/politics/202...

"Only" 61% in the US have some or many false health beliefs. It's scary that the US is one of the better countries in this global survey of 16 countries. 70% overall said claims such as raw milk is healthier than pasteurized or vaccines are used for population control—were true.🧪

I guess I have to just refer to this as a pod of pelicans since Pelican Island is already taken! @anthropologal.bsky.social

While walking to the gym this morning my Trione Park detour took me past this osprey perched on a light by one of the football fields.

I wanted to get a quick walk by the bay before doing some shopping, but it was hard to keep up with this fellow.

If you've seen some of the recent stories about sapiens women preferring Neanderthal men or vice versa, this piece does a nice job of debunking the click-bait headline: phys.org/news/2026-04... #Neanderthal #interbreeding 🧪

A matter of taste: Did Neanderthals really like sapiens women?

Going by the headlines, the matter seems to be settled. El País announces that Neanderthal men "chose" sapiens women. Science journal speaks of a "partner preference." National Geographic is already i...

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@anthropologal.bsky.social Archie would have loved this walk today

Personally, I think we were both more informative and entertaining about redlining in our Speaking of Race episode: soundcloud.com/user-8895563.... If you'd like a transcript of the episode, let me know. #redlining #racism 🧪

Exploring contemporary public perceptions of historical redlining practices in the United States - Computational Urban Science

Redlining is a discriminatory practice of systematically denying loans or mortgages to residents in specific neighborhoods based on racial or ethnical composition. In current literature research, ther...

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"In the current moment every academic has to consider both what is at stake by staying silent and what one can do to protect everyone’s right to knowledge."🧪

Humans Are Wonderfully Varied. Scholars Shouldn’t Let the Government Say Otherwise. - Science Politics

Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.

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Alabama GOP lawmakers’ Commandment: We shalt not separate church from state www.al.com/politics/202...

No Yellowhammers--from either continent--on this morning's walk, but the warm sand between my toes more than made up for it. @anthropologal.bsky.social

@anthropologal.bsky.social, I know this is no hogweed, but thought I’d give you a taste of the old homestead.

If you have a presentation coming up soon, you might want to check out this research on the use of humor in presentations. Their finding jokes in presentations show male privilege can't come as a surprise. Humor can also help make the point stick.🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Statistically significant chuckles: who is using humour at scientific conferences?

Abstract. We’ve all been there: 11.47, swamped by a long stretch of dense scientific talks at a conference. Six slides into a hyper-technical presentation,

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The “rejection of empiricism makes selling falsehoods easier and contradicting them harder, which creates a fertile environment for anyone with something to sell, whether shady businesses or authoritarian governments.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Gullible, Cynical America

The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

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Jayanta Bhattacharya, NIH & CDC director, has started a new lecture series at the Nat'l Institutes of Health: "Scientific Freedom." First speaker—Matthew Ridley—a British kook & ex-science writer. He's a lab leak proponent, downplayed #Covid vaccination & claims climate change is exaggerated👇

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Good coverage of new "Scientific Freedom Lecture" series at NIH from @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/science/2026... 1/2

In the midst of all the horror around us, here's a reminder that science marches on.🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/smar...

‘Smart underwear’ measures how often humans fart

“Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.

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H. Holden Thorp on how Trump is dismantling science in the US for decades to come. When all advances are coming from non-American scientists, this is where it came from.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sabotaging the NSF fellowship is a blunder

Over the last year, the Trump administration has sent one discouraging message after another to young people aspiring to a scientific career in the United States. The corrosive rhetoric that mocks sci...

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Kay Ivey is proud as a loud muffler that Alabama is pro-pollution www.al.com/politics/202...

I had a cottonmouth for company on this morning’s walk in the swamp by the bay!

Human chins present an evolutionary conundrum. A recent study concludes that they are spndrels. So for an ancient boomer like me, that means the most famous chin in Hollywood history, the cleft chin of Kirk Douglas, is pretty much a fluke of other evolutionary pressures! 🧪 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Is the human chin a spandrel? Insights from an evolutionary analysis of ape craniomandibular form

Humans are unique among primates in possessing a chin, yet it is currently unclear whether the form of the symphyseal region of the mandible where the chin is located is the product of direct selectio...

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Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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