Most of you have probably seen @atrupar.com’s tweet of Benny Johnson saying Somalians have IQs of 70.
What’s more interesting (and troubling) to me however, is this reply by Stephen Miller’s wife Katie about Richard Lynn. Because *that* s**t deserves a deeper dive.
So let's do that. /1
New evaluation of the taxonomic affinities of the Late Pleistocene fossil hominin from Kabua, Kenya. Very happy to finally have the chance to finish and publish this work, nearly a decade after a very happy time in Tuebingen working on it with excellent colleagues.
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
The shift from non-figurative (geometric designs) to figurative art (animals, mostly)—and what propelled it—is one of the big enduring puzzles of cave art.
We discuss a couple accounts of this shift, including
@izzywisher.bsky.social's intriguing suggestion that pareidolia offered a bridge.
In this piece I go into a 20-year history of looking at selection on human genes. It's a foundation for the recent work on ancient DNA showing fast evolutionary change. That's been a well-supported conclusion from anthropology for a very long time.
www.johnhawks.net/p/how-human-...
there's currently a graduate student who's been detained by the federal government for two years for his political speech. you won't guess what his ideological affiliation is
It reads like someone put all the manifestos of racist, misogynist mass shooters in an LLM
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
A new analysis published by UN Women shows that more than 38,000 women and girls—including over 22,000 women and 16,000 girls—were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and December 2025, representing an average of at least 47 women and girls killed per day.
www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
All it took for the U.S. stock market to reset at a new all-time high was for Donald Trump to... 1) start an illegal war with Iran, 2) exhaust American defense stockpiles, 3) kill thousands of civilians, 4) empower and enrich Iran, and 5) then surrender to Iran's demands to end the war.
3 panels showing the Neanderthal infant skeleton: the bones as they were being excavated from the ground, the individual bones laid out in anatomical position, and a 3D virtual reconstruction of the skeleton
Interesting new study of a Neandertal infant skeleton called “Amud 7”, dating to over 50 thousand years ago #FossilFriday www.cell.com/current-biol...
Do we need another form of capital? Probably not. Am I pushing one anyway? Yes, absolutely.
I had to do so much chanting for this… so please read the first article to come out of my ethnography on American shamans (those who appropriate Indigenous healing).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Terrific @science.org study by Alex de Casien @bogglerapture.bsky.social and collaborators, examining in great detail the sex effects on gene expression across the human cerebral cortex at cell type resolution 🧪🧬🧠
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Right up my alley! Any chance you can share a pdf? My school doesn’t have access to the journal
Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"
Say it with your whole chest.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
"The difficulty of raising kids as a teenage mom is woke conspiracy theorizing from the Lugenpresse" has exceeded my expectations for the insane directions that Great Replacement propaganda would go.
Important new paper, led by Lumila Menendez, out now. Recommends workflow to maximise retrieveable information and minimise damage when studying archaeological human remains. Happy to be a small part of this discussion. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
yeah, i think political work needs to be done to connect vance directly to people like orban. "vance wants to rule over you like you're a slave
Pinchy!
3D single-cell maps of embryos reveal "universal" geometry of blood vessels and nerves.
More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The ceasefire isn't a ceasefire.
The blockade isn't a blockade.
What he said wasn't a war is actually a war.
This whole situation has to be the most brutally stupid foreign policy blunder America has made in my lifetime.
And it's the sort of thing that should cost everyone involved their jobs.
Post Doc at Uni Tübingen! 100% position for 3 (+3) years; they're looking for somebody to analyze large-scale longitudinal datasets in education research.
Expertise in machine learning is an advantage, commitment to research transparency desirable 😌 proficiency in German beneficial but not required
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
New episode!! 🎙️🎉
A chat w/ @izzywisher.bsky.social about Paleolithic art.
The questions surrounding cave art are old: Who made it? What did it mean to them? But with new methods and frameworks, scholars are starting to see these enigmatic works in a new light.
Listen: disi.org/illuminating...
Human Self-Domestication or Self-Control
Human Social Evolution:
Self-Domestication or Self-Control? 🏺🧪
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
This account further illustrates the significant differences between humans and domesticates, thus challenging the notion of human self-domestication.
Job news!! We're looking for an archaeological chemist to join us on the ReNEW project: on waste management during the transition to the Neolithic. This role will be to carry out organic residue analysis.
The PDRA position is for 2 years: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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