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Important details about that new embryo selection company, its dubious scientific claims, plus its many affiliations with white nationalism 👇👇👇

Numerous FAQs & think pieces were written promising GWAS participants & the broader public that sociogenomics was focused on education improvement, environmental interventions, and away from the hereditarian past. All quickly betrayed.

He did everything in Excel. I forgot that he also never learned how to use Illustrator/Inkscape.

How do you even begin to deal with the petulant entitlement that underpins this entire ideology? Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, it's possible that a non-white person could be more qualified than you are? Explain how that's simply not possible? Oh right, you wrote for Quillette...

Just stating the obvious:
- academic jobs are super competitive, even with a good CV
- Colin severely overstates how impressive his CV is (he doesn't know how to use R or Python)
- Colin makes no mention of the fact he was in the middle of a massive scandal and has had many papers retracted

The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn't Get Scooped By A Bigot | Defector On Thursday night, right before a long summer holiday weekend, the New York Times published a triple-bylined bombshell: 16 years ago, in an application form for a college that ultimately did not accep...

The New York Times Had To Work With A Eugenicist So They Didn’t Get Scooped By A Bigot @defector.com
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Really highlights how the world of the far-right is kinda like Plato's cave, but they're all in the cave voluntarily, and it's just them making shadow puppet shows for each other and getting scared

Unfortunately I do not. He's deleted a lot of reddit posts and I'm not sure if anyone ever archived them

I've been MIA for a while, but it makes me happy to see everyone now hates this racist dipshit Jordan Lasker guy as much as I do.

Some niche lore on Jordan: he's such a pathological liar that even other neo-Nazis eventually got sick of his bullshit: tgstat.com/channel/@TGH...

I'd like to know why you think it's fine to make between group genetic comparisons for different SES classes? Does the Lewontin seed analogy not apply for SES class just like it does for race? Seems like you have a blind spot here

Quite surprised there isn't any mention of concepts such as population stratification/spurious correlation of genes with environment/environmental inheritance, etc. The way this comic comes across is that there really are genes for being poor/rich. I assume the NHB paper doesn't make this mistake?

I'm rarely online these days and don't have the time to dig read the original paper, but I hated the comic itself.
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The comic does a lot of reifying old classist ideas present in The Bell Curve. This panel is especially misleading: there aren't genes for being a lawyer or a baker. The environment of a family that is being inherited here, and the SNPs correlating with families is a result of pop. stratification

A tweet from the official NIH account on X: Today #NIH is terminating more than $250 million in funding—including more than 400 grants—to Columbia University following directives from the Trump Administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism. The cancellations are due to Columbia University’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.

The Trump admin is terminating scientific grants under the pretence combating antisemitism. They are going to any use any pro-Palestinian activity on campus as an excuse to do this to all American universities, effectively killing science and free speech rights in one go

"facism is fun haha :P" ew

A while ago I decided to give up on maintaining my own Neovim config because I was just making a worse replica of LazyVim, so now I just use LazyVim and haven't looked back

Mature #HIV-1 contains >2000 copies of “spacer peptide 2”, but we didn’t know why. We now see that SP2 binds the matrix protein and triggers the change into its mature arrangement. Summary video from @margotriggi.bsky.social

Posted about this on X. Let's see if that's what gets my account suspended...

As expected, the Royal Society does nothing like a bunch of cowards. Nazism, spreading lies, and destroying scientific institutions are A-OK according the Royal Society

It's finally official and verified: The X user "Cremieux" is ID'd as a guy called Jordan Lasker. Lasker has been LARPing as an expert in genetics on X to promote racist pseudoscience. @sashagusevposts.bsky.social has been calling out his bullshit for ages

Many of them built their careers thanks to science funding (Dawkins, Pinker, Coyne, etc.). They're right-wing reactionaries though, so it's ok when Trump destroys science

The thing is, if you asked any of these people about the right-wing currently gutting science, they'd feebly say something about how it's the lefts fault. That or they simply don't care and they wanted science to die anyway, which is also likely.

Also, Richard Dawkins fucking sucks lol

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science.

Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics".

Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about".

We need to sound the alarm.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The DOGE tweens are geniuses because they're putting the US government through a massive deep scanning mutagenesis experiment to determine what can be cut. Next, we'll see if DOGE can fix a radio?

Cremieux (a race science fraudster) tweets: DOGE has a very obvious feedback mechanism for its cuts. If DIGE makes a big broad cut against a million programs, people get upset about a few specific, very good ones like PEPFAR, and the program comes back because DOGE's members are, thus, informed it was good.

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them

USDA accidentally fored officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them

Wow! The DOGE feedback mechanism is working exactly as thus planned!!

I bet if neo-Nazis tried to get racial pseudo-science taught in the science classroom, there would still be a bunch of scientists (especially ones in the Royal Society) hand-wringing about how we shouldn't get all political about it.

Since the topic of "should science get involved in politics" has once again sprung up, here's Joseph Thornton talking about the Creationism effort to undermine scientific education, and how scientists initially tried not to get involved.

Sure, but those topics are still political. In most cases, science wanted to stay out of politics, but politics did not stay out of science. It is not immunologists' fault that vaccination became so politicised? Should they quit so as to "stay out of politics" then? Where is the cut-off?

The question "should science get involved in politics" is an absolutely stupid one that has already been answered. Yes. Are vaccines safe? Is smoking bad? Is climate change real? These are all cases of science being political, and society is better for it

"These are different" are they? How are you defining this cut-off? If numerous scientists say "Elon Musk has anti-scientific views", is that voicing political opinions and fine, or is that science getting political and is bad?