Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

WTF

NASEM sociologists signing:
Richard Alba
Lawrence Bobo
Dalton Conley
Karen Cook
Nicholas Christakis
Kathleen M Harris
Mike Hout
Arne Kalleberg
Douglas Massey
Afaf Meleis
Alondra Nelson
Stephen Raudenbush
Dorothy Roberts
Florecia Torche
Mary Waters
Yu Xie
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#WarOnScience

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This cure for sickle cell anemia was made possible by NIH-funded research to turn the gene for fetal hemoglobin back on. It was done predominantly by NIH researchers, including intramural researchers on the NIH campus.

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Massive die-in in front of the New York Stock Exchange to protest the illegal cuts by DOGE and the Trump administration.

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

new memo out today from leading law professors.

upshot: DEI remains lawful & universities should protect their DEI policies, knowing law & moral principle is on their side.

LINK: app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives.

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

The vice-president a week ago.

“Obviously.”

When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy.

by Charlie Kirk

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

This is terrible

NCAN devotes itself to making college accessible

It is a big, big deal for them to recommend that filing the FAFSA is too dangerous for some families

In 2008 I was TA for Intro to Am. Politics. After Obama’s election, prof lectured about how results were predictable given economy and fundamentals.

Then it felt cold blooded but now I see his point. Almost any ‘08 Dem could win after recession and almost any ‘24 Dem was gonna lose after inflation.

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 

What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs Some companies discriminated against Black applicants much more than others, and H.R. practices made a big difference.

This summarizes new results from an essential 2022 study by Kline, Rose, and Walters. Some employers discriminate much more than others.
www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/u...

Quick update on American Sociological Review’s failure to meet current social science standards Four complete replication packages for 20 quantitative data analysis articles. Ten of the 20 quantitative papers provide nothing.

American Sociological Review had replication packages for 20% of quant papers in 2023.

Graph of respondents to survey who say they (a) have ever shared data or code or ever preregistered study and (b) are in favor or not in favor of these open science practices. Shows sociology has less open science behavior, less support for data/code sharing and preregistration than econ, poli sci, and psych.

Come on, sociology, get it together.

From survey of (1) social science researchers who recently published in top 10 journal in field, and (b) PhD students in top 20 programs in North America. (n= 3257, 53% of initial sample of 6114).

Ferguson et al 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump: Migrants "poisoning the blood of our country" www.snopes.com/news/2023/10...

Mussolini: Parliament "poisoning the blood of the nation"
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Hitler: "great cultures of the past perished only b/c the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning"
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Pew Research Center analysis found that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now farther apart ideologically than at any time in the past 50 years. Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left.
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...