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Florida legislators passed a law that prevents medical boards from punishing doctors accused of spreading covid misinformation online. Other states prevent the disciplining of physicians for prescribing ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.

https://www.washingtonpost...

05:15 PM - Jul 27, 2023

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I've been following this "Box of Rocks" series from Keira Havens, which examines attempts to promote an ideology of biological essentialism & human hierarchy e.g. racist pseudoscience. This latest one is about eugenics.

https://medium.com/Keira_...

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Box of Rocks #5 — Zoom Out. The goal of hereditarians is to gain… | by Keira | Jul, 2023 | Medium

When I invited folks to do a little self reflection about their proximity to those promoting human hierarchies and eugenics I did not expect people to say “yep, that’s where I belong!” and hop right…

10:33 PM - Jul 16, 2023

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Anthropologists note: this does not sit well with the idea that there has been a "storm of genetic change" due to selection for the "civilized" world as posited in the "10,000 year explosion" strand of gene-culture evolution theory.

https://www.biorxiv.org/co...

07:28 PM - Jul 14, 2023

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Fascinating research! Documents the persistence of matrilocal culture among descendants of the Khoe-San indigenous people of South Africa, despite admixture and incorporation into patriarchal colonial society.

https://link.springer.com/...

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Persistence of Matrilocal Postmarital Residence Across Multiple Generations in Southern Africa | SpringerLink

Factors such as subsistence turnover, warfare, or interaction between different groups can be major sources of cultural change in human populations. Global

09:19 PM - Jul 05, 2023

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1) Seeing a number of misleading or downright false posts over on bird app claiming the “Out of Africa” model of human evolutionary history has been discredited or is completely wrong. I believe this is a scientific racism talking point, so a short 🧵to explain why Africa is still key.

Tweet saying "Models do not change the existence of genes. Also all out of Africa models are wrong anyway. They are all based off assumptions. The lack of African genes in other populations actually implies into Africa."

02:59 PM - Jun 26, 2023

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There's a rather silly article in Time magazine that reproduces hackneyed tropes from Social Darwinism but applied to AI.

10:06 AM - Jun 01, 2023

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From Anthrofuentes for RevistaIconema

Sexual reproduction doesn't tell us what our true nature is. Lobsters, humans, mole rats, blue whales, vultures, monarch butterflies & anacondas all have sex, but they have very different lives.

https://iconema.com.mx/bio...

08:57 PM - May 15, 2023

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New kind of anti-woke liberal guy just dropped. The kind who is disappointed in Charles Murray for... being too religious.

08:49 PM - May 12, 2023

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"The best predictor of professional success isn’t cognitive performance, it’s whether your parents have money."

Article discuses imperfect evidence for activities said to boost cognitive performance, like exercise.

https://english.elpais.com...

10:48 AM - Apr 15, 2023

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Reet Petite

@rsbarnes99

What happens in Mississippi does not stay in Mississippi, & the Magnolia State is not the outlier that many who look down on the state & its people would like to think. Often dismissed, Mississippi’s history & current events continue to be instructive—even predictive—for the rest of the country.

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What Happens In Mississippi Never Stops In Mississippi

Continuing efforts to restrict access to abortion pills nationwide show that what happens in Mississippi never stops in Mississippi.

09:36 PM - Apr 14, 2023

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If you feel like having a giggle, listen to this discussion of "the paper thin analogies and cherry-picked analogies" in the book 'Coddling of the American Mind'.

https://podcasts.apple.com...

09:59 AM - Mar 09, 2023

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Not So Deep Thoughts

@GreatAmericanBlowhole

Bonus word of the day is: sedition - which is conduct or speech intended to incite rebellion against the state.

Used in a sentence:

This is sedition.

#wordoftheday

09:58 PM - Feb 20, 2023

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TurtleGirl PhD

@TurtleGirl

Any artists here yet? I'm a hobby watercolorist, emphasis on "hobby". #ArtSpout #painting #watercolor #art #SpoutibleHobbies #SpoutArt

06:36 PM - Feb 15, 2023

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Stalin, Hitler, & Mao all used the phrase "enemies of the people" to delegitimize the press.

Collin Rugg wants members of the press "punished" for reporting on an FBI investigation.

02:22 PM - Feb 15, 2023

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Good afternoon. I'm teaching non-STEM students about the immune system, & infectious disease pandemics. If you come across misleading social media posts on these topics, please send them my way. They're a great teaching resource (for students to unpack what's wrong with them).

09:03 PM - Feb 14, 2023

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Hi all, are there any tools for finding mutuals from twitter & mastodon out there? I'm eager to fill up my timeline but I just don't have the time to manually look for people right now.

04:04 PM - Feb 12, 2023

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Who is a Jew? (PCA cannot tell us).

'Looking at the enthusiasm of scientists for PCA, remind me of Shakespeare’s Macbeth who probably described it best “a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing,”'

https://medium.com/eranel...

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How math was recruited to invent the Jewish people | by Eran Elhaik | Jan, 2023 | Medium

Who is a Jew is a debate that finds its roots in the Iron Age Kingdom of Judah and its conquest by the Achaemenid Persian Empire. The Hebrew word ‘Yehudi’ (Jew in English) has been used at least…

03:24 PM - Feb 12, 2023

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Helen De Cruz

@helenreflects

"I am vulnerable to life-threatening complications from Covid. My health is worse now than before Covid. So three years on, I’m still shielding... I would much prefer to see a doctor’s face when in consultation, – but the reality is that masks protect my health and my life."

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No one wants masks, but we still need them to keep Covid at bay | Coronavirus | The Guardian

Letters: Doctor Kelly Fearnley and an immunocompromised patient respond to Dr Jack Pickard’s letter calling for an end to the requirement for mask-wearing in all clinical areas

06:12 PM - Feb 11, 2023

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Mark Rubin

@MarkRubin

Little clip from a presentation I gave a year ago in which I was concerned that preregistration may bias researchers against testing post hoc hypotheses, some of which may be better than their a priori hypotheses!

https://youtube.com/clip/U...

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✂️ A Preregistration Commitment Bias? - YouTube

42 seconds · Clipped by Mark Rubin · Original video "Does Preregistration Improve the Interpretability and Credibility of Research Findings?" by ERIM Research

07:27 PM - Feb 11, 2023

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Mark Rubin

@MarkRubin

Nice to see our article, “Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests,” is gathering interest. Published just 6 months ago, it’s already the 6th most read article of all time in Philosophical Psychology:

https://doi.org/10.1080/09...

09:28 PM - Feb 10, 2023

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Helen De Cruz

@helenreflects

"We are conditioned to see the poor as lazy... I wonder if it’s even possible to understand the sheer amount of work it takes poor people, just to remain in that hole instead of six feet under. Just to stay poor and housed instead of destitute and homeless." by Mary Pezzulo

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Just To Stay Poor Another Day | Mary Pezzulo

There is a myth that gets told in just about every culture, with variations depending on the time and place. And the myth goes something like this:

01:10 PM - Feb 11, 2023

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Lolita Bruce

@loloabundance