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a cartoon rat is saying `` pure poetry '' in a kitchen . Alt: a cartoon rat, Remy from Ratatouille, is saying `` pure poetry '' in a kitchen.

bookmarking this banger to recite to Revi, who is into rhymes and tongue-twisters, and now he can also learn about assumptions making an ass out of u (mptions)

and then, perhaps, “the problem with eugenics back then was that they dehumanized the wrong set of traits” doesn’t sound so compelling

discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

A graphic announcing 3 ways to celebrate Thanksgiving with Pow! 1. Watch Pow! on FNX, 2. Review Pow! on Letterboxd 3. Tell your friends!

When I was a kid, the only Native representation I saw in cartoons was A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Special.

I made Pow! to show that modern, funny Native characters deserve to be seen too. Watch us on FNX. If you like it, review us on @letterboxd.social and tell your friends!

I want to explain why this is so bad for people who aren't familiar with National Science Foundation funding. in addition to "senior" projects that go to professors, there are a variety of other opportunities for grad students to get funding. 1/

Bad mentors hurt people What to do about bad mentors?

You know those labs that keep harming students, again and again? Some reflections on why it's so hard to stop this from happening and where our responsibilities lie.

scienceforeveryone.science/bad-mentors-... 🧪

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.)

RTs appreciated.

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Howell Township puts pause on data centers after hundreds protest www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Don Davis (NC-01) Chris Pappas (NH-01) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Jared Golden (ME-02) Josh Riley (NY-19) Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Pat Ryan (NY-18) Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) Kim Schrier (WA-08) Adam Gray (CA-13) Eric Sorensen (IL-17) Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Susie Lee (NV-03) Gene Vindman (VA-07) David Min (CA-47) George Whitesides (CA-27)

These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

See @cohodes.bsky.social recent work for empirical evidence… bsky.app/profile/coho...

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Yes, shouting at seagulls actually works, scientists confirm This is one of the few times shouting might actually help.

There is so much fun & interesting language-related research coming out recently.

A fascinating new study from the University of Exeter shows that herring gulls don’t just react to what we say — they react to how we say it.

🔗 tinyurl.com/mta7ba9f

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#langsky #linguistics #language

Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.

Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.

I was always pro-choice, but being pregnant and having children myself radicalized me even more. Forcing someone to do all that if they don’t want to is inhumane.

“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Emails between Chomsky and Epstein in 2015

In 2023, Chomsky told WSJ about his relationship with Epstein: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”

Epstein: you are of course welcome to use apt in new york with your new leisure time, or visit new Mexico again

Notes from Beethoven’s genome Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

With sequencing of Hitler's DNA making headlines, time for a reminder: analysing a polygenic score from a dead historically-significant figure won't give new insights into that person's behaviour. In a brief paper last year, we used Beethoven's genome to directly illustrate the fallacies involved.🧪👇

3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults.

📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD
📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD

This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation.

11/12

The University of Michigan is censoring a quilt? • Michigan Advance If you explore the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor, go upstairs, and find the Opera Room, you might see a quilt. It is a work by Toby Millman, a University of Michigan faculty member and alum, and was com...

“Americans often imagine that you lose your democracy when there are tanks in the streets[…] democracies are more likely to die in subtler and superficially legal ways […] as anti-democratic political forces take advantage of others’ weakness, careerism, and fear” michiganadvance.com/2025/11/12/t...

There has to be more work that explores race, class and eugenics among the late 20th century and 21st century wealthy elites, imo.
Sure, rich elites think they’re ‘innately’ superior but I’m interested in the social, political, intellectual and financial work they’ve been doing to promote eugenics.

Today is the day! Our reply to the two concurrent critiques (from the same set of authors) is now published in the journal Intelligence 🧵 1/

This paper clearly exposes the hereditarian project for the pseudoscience it is 👇 Also highlights how overtly political are those who promote the claim there are evolved racial differences in cognitive and behavioural traits, despite strong protestations to the contrary

The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual A direct and approachable guide for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children.About 90% of all deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children are born to parents with…

It's RRRREEAAADDDYYYY! The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is now available for pre-order.

It's a modern parenting guide for hearing families with deaf or hard of hearing children. Makes a great gift for parents, family members and educators, and a useful weapon for throwing at an LEA or admin,

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Washington Spirit fans again with the “Free DC!” chant at the 51st minute.

#NWSL #thatsthespirit #WOSO