Jennifer Raff

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide.

#MarchForHumanity

(🎥 Ema Franklin)

@agraybee Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

(I never tire of hauling this one out.)

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

Hell yeah I’m going to make pierogi for my family this weekend! And I, too, will not share with Alan Dershowitz. 👊🏻

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Thanks!!!!

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

Under pressure from the White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit at the National Museum of American History

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Photo of magazine cover. The image is a digital art picture of a woman's face, with cutaway like a house inside her mind referring to headline story "Sharpen Your Memory".

Photo of first pages in story called "The Other Humans". Image is people in silhouette walking along a ridge. They have spears.

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New piece I wrote for BBC Science Focus is out, on the increasingly complex but ever more interesting story of early Homo sapiens' origins & dispersal, and the other kinds of humans we encountered.

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

Photo of president Harry S. Truman laying the cornerstone of the NIH clinical center.

President Harry S. Truman laid the cornerstone in 1951, saying of the Clinical Center's future work: "Medical care is for the people and not just for the doctors and the rich." He mentioned that 75 million Americans then without health insurance would soon become a "medically indigent class" and he challenged the scientific community to "translate the new knowledge gained by research into better care for more people." "Research to prevent disease" was a better investment for federal dollars than "providing unlimited hospitalization to treat it."

In 1951, Harry S. Truman laid the cornerstone of the NIH clinical center, stating, "Research to prevent disease" was a better investment for federal dollars than "providing unlimited hospitalization to treat it."

“We fight to win. That means we lose. And lose and lose and lose….until we’re ready.”

IYKYK

Ox, 7, is rolling his eyes every time certain, in his words, “cosplayers” appear on his favorite Egyptology documentary. 😏

This is a super thread that really puts the whole "Neanderthal fat factory" into much broader context and highlights the multiple dimensions of hunter-gatherer diets. Very interesting to get a crop scientist's perspective on this topic! Definitely worth a read!!

Wine and biscuits, but yes. Although she was asleep by then 🥰

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ugh, sorry. I feel that.

I did not suck in jiujitsu today/ I will be physically paying the price for not sucking for at least a week.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Good Girl in the company of her mother must always be enthralled by Jane Austen.

All of these cuts from NASA to NIH to NSF and beyond will haunt us for years. Just throwing away decades of investment in science and all of the information and benefits we've accrued in this time.

The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics ABSTRACT The panmictic population concept is at the heart of population, evolutionary and conservation genetics. However, in nature, true panmictic populations are vanishingly rare. As an idea conce...

🚨 New paper klaxon! 🚨

The History of the Panmictic Population Concept and Its Legacy in Contemporary Population Genetics

Quite niche admittedly, one for the historians of evolutionary thought, and population geneticists.

doi.org/10.1111/ahg....

For two decades, Masterson has fought AGAINST adequate public school funding. He carried water for Brownback’s unconstitutional “block grant” K-12 funding plan, pushed for constitutional amendment to weaken the KS Supreme Court and installed an anti-public school chair of Senate Education.

This account makes me so homesick for Chicago. Best city in the world.

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

Wait, sometimes there are surprises. Apparently some Republicans have now grasped the immense damage to their communities caused by massive cuts to NIH funding.

We told them this beforehand, yet they still thoroughly enjoyed seeing the massive cuts…until it affected them directly.

The First Peoples in the Americas. Ancient DNA with Dr Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social is now ported to Spotify

See it on YouTube here: youtu.be/TcWPRdtT2B8
Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/0F9V...

“With these considerations, we expect to fund through the 4th percentile.”

There it is, in black and white, the destruction of cancer research in the US.

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump

Terrible. Just shameful.

this is why scientists and scholars of every stripe cannot be silent or stay on the sidelines. There are no more sidelines. Huge swaths of people put their faith in "Grok" and related "AI" for basic knowledge. If there is not a tsunami of resistance then this BS becomes baseline "knowledge."