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LOL - racist asshole Jerry Coyne is here - I had no idea. Enjoy my piece about his career as a boot boy. www.pinkerite.com/2025/11/why-...

Jerry Coyne@evolutionistrue.bsky.social · 3d ago

The student newspaper at the University of Ghent is asking some of us questions about the Arday affair and the suspension of Nathan Cofnas. At the link I reproduce the answers of one academic, Michal Ben-Gad. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/08/25/a...

If anyone wants to block the Cofnas defenders, here’s a list I made. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Lol, if anything: Cofnas is exactly the right man for Bouke De Vries's eugenics and racism project, "Liberalism's Fertility Problem". More tomorrow morning on my site.

For instance, he reportedly was at the 2025 Heterodox Social Science Conference organized by Eric Kaufmann. The program was widely posted, he's not on it. Claire Lehmann posted photos of herself with race science peeps but said nothing about Kirkegaard. www.pinkerite.com/2025/06/emil...

Emil Kirkegaard, Steven Pinker, Maarten Boudry and the racist Heterodox Conference

Whee! We're such jolly racists! ----------------------------------------------------- So according to an article in DeWereldMorgen, the " fr...

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Speaking of, why don't they let Kirkegaard sign the Cofnas letter? Dutton signed already, as fake professor at fake university in Poland.

I presume Steven Pinker et al. will be signing the inevitable petition to protect this academic’s freedom?

Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 18h ago

Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.

Of cours neither Cofnas nor the US ambassador would mention it, but the UGent website says the complete suspension was always going to be temporary, and he is still not allowed to teach and required to work from home pending the on-going investigation that could still lead to disciplinary measures.

Most of us feel sometimes like, "I wish everybody would like me, but I guess I'm not everyone's cup of tea." I strongly suspect that people like Nathan Cofnas and Richard Hanania are able to live with themselves because most of the people they've ever met hate them, and they accept it.

Its hilarious that Nathan Cofnas thinks hes genetically superior to anyone.

In the context of the Trump regime’s assaults on academic freedom and free speech, this means official U.S. policy is that race science is one of the very few things it’s acceptable to do at a university, and must be promoted by the state, while most other pursuits should be crushed by the state.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 18h ago

Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.

According to the University of Ghent, despite what Cofnas and the US Ambassador are claiming, the investigation into Cofnas continues www.ugent.be/en/news-even...

[Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser] [Cofnas, who accused Arday of plagiarism, accused of having “very limited expertise” for his academic role by professors also working at Ghent U, who say he has “far-right agenda”] www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ghent professors challenged expertise of Jason Arday’s plagiarism accuser

Allegations Nathan Cofnas was unqualified for Ghent role and would cause ‘negative impact’ made to senior leaders months ago

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It seems like Cofnas prefers the EU lol. That far right gravy train *is* funding him currently, while he's still over there. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t.... EU media was also really excited to jump on the racist attacks against Arday, so much so they didn't even do ANY digging on Arday or Cofnas.

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

The US government lying to hide the fact they couldn’t actually intervene to protect some D-tier race scientist is like a Veep episode I would write.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 18h ago

Nathan Cofnas and the US Ambassador to Belgium say that the University of Ghent have now lifted his suspension, thanking the US government for supporting him (with threats of retaliation). The Ambassador says that Cofnas will be able to complete his one year appointment to March 2027.

NEW LIVE EVENT! Ari Emanuel in Conversation with Rachel Maddow: Roll the Calls Tuesday, September 22 at 7:30pmET at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Details and tickets here: www.92ny.org/event/ari-em... NB: These 92nd Street Y events sell out quick.

Dolly Parton lived with a gay man for years. She was a vocal advocate for LGBTQ+ folks and a philanthropic champion of childhood literacy and education, vaccines, and the black people in her community. "We don't know what her politics were"? Please. She lived them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/a...

Dolly Parton’s Cautious Politics Resulted in Widespread Affection

Bipartisan tributes demonstrated the success of the singer’s long-running effort to stay out of party politics in a sharply divided country.

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Parton spoke in support of gay people for close to forty years. I am old enough to vividly remember the limb she was out on in doing so. So let me put it another way: We may not know what her politics were, but we certainly know what they weren't.

I hate this kind of thing, because just beneath its surface is a smug piety that treats "politics" as nothing but mess and rancor rather than as something with a direct connection to people's lives, and argues for being "above politics" as a kind of virtue. It's so dishonest. Anyway, good morning.

I’ve been expecting it for a while but it hits harder right after Dolly.

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Alt: Tim Curry

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Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.

Fuck cancer.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton's publicist says she died at a Nashville hospital after a brief battle with cancer.

[Exit Queen.]

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

Of all the 80 year olds who should die, she wasn't one of them. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

She lived the American dream, she was a feminist icon. She will be missed.

Hey does anybody here know David Reich to ask him about this claim by Razib Khan?

Nathan Cofnas was hired by my colleague Bouke De Vries, who attended the 2024 London Conference on Intelligence alongside Edward Dutton and Emil Kirkegaard. With more than 400 colleagues, I signed an open email to the rector to argue why we think this is problematic. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/20...

Appointment of controversial “race researcher” questioned by 300 staff and students at Ghent University | VRT NWS: news

300 staff and students are asking Ghent University to reconsider the appointment of a controversial American researcher. ‘The man spreads racist ideas, which is contrary to Ghent University's code of ...

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"On the one hand, nothing at the genetic level resembles what it requires for hereditarianism to be tenable. On the other hand, look at all of these differences that I will just assume have to do with genetics."