Want more info than you got in the NYT article on DOGE and the NEH? Go here: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

We will be hosting a public debate at The University of Delaware on whether biological sex is binary. Debating on Friday, March 6th at 4:15pm in the Gore Recital Hall will be the authors of two recent books - Tomás Bogardus (Pepperdine Philosophy) and Agustín Fuentes (Princeton Anthropology).

Calvin and Hobbes comic. Calvin runs along yelling it's July already and wonders what happened to June. Summer vacation is slipping through his fingers like gr ains of sand. He wants to hoard his freedom. Calvin's eyes bulge with worry that time rushes on. Hobbes says he doesn't want to be there at the end of August. Calvin keeps running around yelling it's a half-hour later than it was a half hour ago. Run! Script Calvin: IT'S JULY ALREADY! OH NO! OH NO! What happened to June?! Summer vacation is slipping through our fingers like grains of sand! It's going too fast! We've got to hoard our freedom and have more fun! Time rushes on! Help! Help! Hobbes : I don't think I want to be here at the end of August. Calvin: AAUGH! It's a half-hour later than it was half an hour ago! Run! Run!

How I feel about my spring semester sabbatical:

“It would be easy for MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to condemn the use of their game highlights in such a despicable manner and force X to remove them for copyright violations.”

Column by Paul Sullivan

Gift 🔗

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/08/w...

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Literally everything the Heritage Foundation suggests is nauseating

“The state’s proposed “trigger laws,” …are direct challenges to Plyler v. Doe, a narrowly decided 1982 Supreme Court case that enshrined the right to a free K–12 public education regardless of immigration status.”

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.

this is a must read 🔥🔥

So happy that my work with the @genderscilab.bsky.social on sex and gender in Adverse Drug Events is wrapping up with this last (planned) paper, out this year in Women's Health Issues.

Check out the explainer video (linked in the thread quoted below, but also here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCym...)

New teaching video + paper out today on the role of gender in understanding sex disparities in adverse drug events!

This is the third of 3 videos we created to help build understanding and dialogue across fields and communities about the importance of considering gender-related variables.

Announcing Alondra Nelson as the 2026 History of Science Frederick A. Jakobiec Lecturer | Department of the History of Science

Pleas save the date, Cambridge-Boston friends histsci.fas.harvard.edu/announcing-a...

“To me, it was very simple: Don’t associate with him.”

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

SUFS ANNOUNCES AAUP AS AN ENDORSER OF MARCH 7TH NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Stand Up for Science is excited to welcome The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) as an endorser of our National Day of Action on March 7th!
Join us: standupforscience.net/march7

#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7
#savescience

Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.

Very important essay from @zacharydubois.bsky.social @jaepuckett.bsky.social & Noelle Martin-- "Invalidating someone’s identification documents has immediate and powerful consequences that cascade into all aspects of their life." theconversation.com/kansas-revok...

Paperback cover of Father Time: How Nurturing Is Natural for Men by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Now in #paperback, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy's Father Time is a sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Evolution #Biology #Anthropology

I love reading John's substack, but this one has me particularly chuffed since he is highlighting the part of this new paper that got me most excited (and was ignored in a lot of the coverage). He gives a great summary of identifying matrilineal kin networks/ -based migration in the human genome.

a, The proposed modern human migration routes from Sunda to Sahul; the northern route through Wallacea is delineated by the red arrows, and the southern route is delineated by the blue arrow21. The red dots represent the areas with Pleistocene rock art in eastern Borneo and southwestern Sulawesi. b, Map of Sulawesi showing the location of dated rock art sites in Southeast Sulawesi: (1) Liang Metanduno, (2) Liang Pominsa, (3) Gua Kaghofighofine, (4) Madongka 3 rock shelter, (5) Waburi 1 rock shelter, (6) Lia Bunta rock shelter, (7) Gua Anawai, (8) Gua Mbokita and (9) Gua Berlian. m + MSL, metres above mean sea level.

It's hard to measure the ages of early rock art. It's even harder to know who made it. Was this the work of Denisovans? Island-hopping modern humans?

We're still struggling to piece together the early history of our species. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was an interesting exercise. I wanted AI assistance to help with organizing an in-class debate for a large course that I am working to make more student-centered and less lecture-heavy. Topic = uses and abuses of evolution & human behavior.

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Reminded me of this essay about the #hallucinations of #AI that my friend and colleague @raedear1.bsky.social shared with me:

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

hmm, should write it now I guess....

This is a great awards program for science communication. Enter now (before April 3) and/or please encourage others to do so. Categories include researchers (early, mid- & late career), journalists, independent & institutional. From @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

Fungi and Human Life: The Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines That Fill Our World by Nicholas P. Money

Drawing on the latest advances in #mycology, Fungi and Human Life by Nicholas P. Money reveals what scientists are learning about the importance of #fungi to our lives.

Available 17 March. Preorder your copy today!

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

#Biology #Health #Mushrooms

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any li...

Story time:
The CDC (Kennedy) gave $1.6m to fund an unethical Hep B trial in Guinea-Bissau. WHO/scientists denounced it.

Enter @standupforscience.bsky.social. They briefed congress on this study. It is now cancelled.

Science activism is essential right now.
🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...

¿Por qué necesitamos creer? En este artículo-conversación, Gustavo G. Diez y Agustín Fuentes profundizan en qué significa creer, cómo esa capacidad nos ha convertido en la especie que somos y qué responsabilidad implica en un mo...

¿Por qué necesitamos creer? nirakara.com/blog/por-que...

“Silence is not neutrality; it is permission. The record that university chancellors, presidents and trustees create in this moment — who spoke, who acted and who stayed silent — will be studied long after today’s political actors are gone.”

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans

Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender

Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans

Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️‍⚧️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Strike out pigs and rats. Demonising language is used by people whenever people go head to head with wildlife. Language has consequences!