Zach Cofran

you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it

War must be going really bad for the US to already start setting up Israel to become the scapegoat for its failures and atrocities

We are governed by idiots, dependent on idiot boxes to function:
"A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”"

maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living

It was only a year ago that Elon Musk and DOGE were dominating the daily narrative. Now we're at war with Iran. In between we've had masked secret police in the streets killing people and well ... everything else.

One year.

It looks like the war on Iran is going about as poorly as the regime’s previous wars against Chicago, Minnesota and Los Angeles.

"Maximun lethality not tepid legality." - Secretary of War Crimes Hegseth

And this morning our Orange Führer is musing about mass murdering Iranian civilians and has said we will invade Cuba next. We are becoming the new Axis powers; it will take generations to live down the shame of this.

I'm out of words here

The Desire for Terror And the defense of democracy

A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or “federalize” the coming Congressional elections.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-desire...

Then what?

“Blow the hell out of these people” is a means, not an end.

Kill and destroy in pursuit of… ?

Expect the violent means to achieve positive ends because… ?

By voting for a serial rapist over qualified women--2x--millions opted to preserve an oppressive system of violent misogyny.

It was--& still is--an unrecognized Civil War.

Now the rapist has let that domestic conflict escape containment, starting a war to deflect from his crimes against ♀️ & girls.

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

Submissions accepted through tomorrow Mar 7! @bioanth.org @leakeyfoundation.org #AABA2026

He’s literally trying to use this war to *checks notes*...

Make us forget about the Epstein files, bait us into funding DHS without any guardrails on ICE’s lawless behavior...and now let Netanyahu off the hook.

No, no, and no.

Oh, we are COOKED.

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

FL deems intro textbooks in my discipline illegal.

It's bc Sociology analyzes systems...it gives people the practical thinking tools to dismantle the master's house.

As a fmr English Lit major, Sociology is the most powerful thing I've ever learned. I see why the Temu Savonarolas are scared of it.

U.S. national security offices, weakened by firings, confront Mideast war The U.S. military operation in Iran is testing a depleted Justice Department and FBI. Firings of experienced agents and prosecutors have diminished expertise to counter threats.

Crazy to think that these people were doing actual jobs that might have been important

3D rendering of a fossil skull in yellow, against a dark grey background. The top of the screen reads "Reconstructed Face of StW 573"

This #FossilFriday you can study the skull of "Little Foot" (the most complete Australopithecus skeleton), and check out the original research article about the skull by @ameliebeaudet.bsky.social, too!

Article: sciencepress.mnhn.fr/fr/periodiqu...
Fossil: www.morphosource.org/concern/medi...

Have you ever wondered how many archaic populations contributed DNA to modern humans? We know about Neanderthals and Denisovans, but the fossil and genetic evidence suggests a much more complex history!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

don't love this trend of precarious academic jobs that are framed like they're doing someone a favour

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Seems like there’s never enough money for anything good, just violence, death, and destruction

My two cents: Just as with previous Graecopithecus papers arguing for a hominin status and "Out of Europe", we are dealing with highly ambiguous data here and considering ape locomotor diversity, parallel evolution of bipedal habits in the Miocene might further complicate the story.

Thoughts?

Reflections on the Human Genome Diversity Project: a conversation with Marcus W. Feldman, Henry T. Greely, and Mary-Claire King Abstract. The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) began in 1991 as an initiative to study genetic variation from human populations worldwide. In 2002, th

If you research or are simply interested in human genetic variation, ancient and modern, read my and Noah Rosenberg's latest in GENETICS academic.oup.com/genetics/art... 1/2

Amy Goldberg, PhD - Join The Goldberg lab is moving to UCLA summer 2025, and recruiting postdocs and graduate students. We are a computational lab with occasional wet lab or field collaborators. We will be located in the Depa...

The Goldberg lab at UCLA is hiring one or more postdocs. Flexible start date.

We develop methods to study population genetics of humans, our primate relatives, and our pathogens.

www.goldberglab.org/join

Sex assessment in a hominin upper second molar (RV’23-350) from the Ruidera (Spain) Middle Pleistocene paleoanthropological site: a proteome-based analysis of the amelogenin Sex determination in fossil hominin remains is often challenging due to the fragmentary nature of the record and the limitations of morphological asse…

🧪 First proteomic sex assessment in Spanish Middle Pleistocene hominin, suggested male.
#HumanOrigins

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Featured prominently in these chats is the FIU Chapter of Turning Point USA. "Doing Politics the Right Way(tm)," according to an ostensibly liberal pundit at the NY Times.

Guess it was an obligate biped after all