Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
Rhiannon Silva
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Astrophysicist. Currently working on my second PhD on gravitational waves from black holes, at the Gravity Exploration Institute, Cardiff University. They/any 🏳️🌈
Cofnas supporter @hossenfelder.bsky.social is now a "race realist", retweeting the worst racists like Jordan Lasker (cremieux) and Hanania.
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6d agonot only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist
Ghent University could have saved itself a lot of trouble by simply not hiring a known racist in the first place.
roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 6d agoThe second part of the UGent suspension letter to Nathan Cofnas. Clearly he is a problem at the university and causing discord and damage to the institution. A guest speaker even cancelled because of Cofnas’s association with UGent. He was not suspended for whistleblowing. That is a Cofnas lie.
Here's a handy list of academics to avoid.
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 6d agoThere’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
Jason Arday's death is the result of "scientific" racism, and now the same people who have helped promote that racism will use his death to advertise their books.
Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · 2w agoyikes
Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author?
猫好きな人@valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2w agoFrom her piece in UnHerd:
Every single article should include Nathan Cofnas’ name as the instigator of this.
Chris Berez@chrisberez.bsky.social · 2w agoHoly fucking shit Jason Arday found dead
Cofnas should not have any academic appointment. dailynous.com/2026/03/18/f...
Faculty & Students at Ghent Call for Resignation of “Race Science” Philosopher - Daily Nous
Faculty and Students at Ghent University are objecting to the university's recent hiring of philosopher Nathan Cofnas. Readers may recall Cofnas as the person who wrote on his blog that "In a meritocr...
dailynous.com
Probably a good indication of where we're at is this guy has a job and isn't being hounded by every news outlet in the UK.
Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 2w agoIn the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
Nathan Cofnas is responsible for this man's death. End of story.
I recently started a new job with @semiconductorscdt.bsky.social so of course I created a Bluesky account for them. If you are interested in semiconductors or doctoral training, follow us there!
Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing CDT@semiconductorscdt.bsky.social · 4mo agoWelcome to the new Bluesky account for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing! The CDT is led by Cardiff University, in partnership with the University of Manchester, the University of Sheffield, and University College London.
My anxiety has only increased after seeing the England results. Still waiting for the first Wales results to come in.
Rhiannon Silva@rhiannonsilva.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn Senedd elections they don't start counting the votes until after 9am the next day, so the only thing keeping me up tonight is the anxiety about tomorrow's possible results.
In Senedd elections they don't start counting the votes until after 9am the next day, so the only thing keeping me up tonight is the anxiety about tomorrow's possible results.
I joined Linked In, because I needed it for my new job, and it's just so weird. I don't get it at all.
People of Wales, don't forget to vote! But please don't vote for Reform.
“Perhaps most damaging for the regulator (OfS) meant to oversee freedom of speech, the accusation of bias in the process was upheld The regulator was also found to have taken a flawed approach to deciding what was academic freedom” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Sussex wins landmark free speech case against universities regulator
A record fine had been issued by the Office for Students over the university's trans and non-binary inclusion policy.
bbc.co.uk
More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕
When Kate Marvel leaves NASA because working there means not being able to tell the truth, it's a big deal. More coverage here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-...
A top climate scientist just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
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Kate Marvel@drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy resignation letter
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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When questioned on his lack of qualification for judging which grants to cut: "A person can have enough judgement from reading books..." Which books? "There were no books"
404 Media@404media.co · 6mo agoThis is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
A study of social media content 18-24-year olds see in #Finland, #France and #Romania shows that algorithms overwhelmingly feed them right-wing political content - whether or not the users are interested. Three country average for right wing content was 58% - in Finland, 67%! yle.fi/a/74-20214134
I’m at a philosophy conference and it is WILD. You philosophers are fascinating people.
"Like many universities we are responding to sector-wide difficulties including declining participation rates, rising operating costs, and changes in policy relating to international students."
Hundreds of jobs to go at major Welsh employer
The UCU union described the scale of the cuts announced by the University of South Wales as 'shocking' and vowed to fight any compulsory redundancies
walesonline.co.uk
There’s another horrific video circulating on the timeline and this is my regular gentle and loving reminder to *turn off autoplay* on your videos so you can give consent to see these things.
"I really want to encourage more people from backgrounds like mine to get into a system that has always shut us out." Hannah Spencer MP: plumber, plasterer, parliamentarian
Back in 2016, our scientists from @gravitycardiff.bsky.social explained the our first detection of gravitational waves youtu.be/Lcxt097G4Ps?... (Featuring our now spokesperson Prof. Fairhurst enjoying paddling in a swimming pool) #GW10Years
The First Ever Detection of Gravitational Waves
YouTube video by Cardiff University
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