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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18h
Notable that a think tank-AEI-is the center of "reformist" thought on the future of the American university. None of their ideas or narratives about higher ed would survive peer review. Similarly, the Yale, Cornell, Vanderbilt reports weren't peer reviewed. They couldn't have been bc they're false.
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princetonanthro.bsky.social @princetonanthro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Professor @anthrofuentes.bsky.social answers the internet's questions about evolution with @wired.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejun...
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Anthropologist Answers Evolution Questions
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Michael Marshall @mrmmarsh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Recent events thrust eugenics back into the public eye, but we should be under no illusions – the field of "race science" is thoroughly discredited.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“race and racism are pervasive, persistent social constructs, which serve to oppress racially minoritised groups. There is no biological explanation to support disparate racial outcomes, & yet racial hierarchies do exist, & that injustice is exactly the reality that race realists wish to maintain”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NYC friends! Who will I see tomorrow at my book event with Perrin Ireland? She's talking about animal sex, I'm talking about a common consequence of animal sex, and we'll all have a good time: www.nypl.org/events/progr... 🧪
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"When Starmer’s government cut 40% from the international aid budget, it presumably did not intend to shred scientific research. Yet the result is a 60% cut to R&D funding. This foolish retreat is damaging UK soft power, as the US turning its back on science offers the chance for global leadership"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"the canid species that adapt to life in human communities [eg red foxes in London; coyotes in Toronto] & areas altered by a changing climate are generalists that exhibit similarities to domestic dogs in terms of high flexibility of social behaviour, diet & habitat requirements"
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The Behavioural Ecology of Canids
Canids are amazingly diverse, which is reflected in their adaptations to the varied habitats and social constellations in which they live all around the world. This chapter provides an overview of the...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026
The US higher education system is not equipped to correct for the effects of systemic injustice and underfunding at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
agreed. I'll be using this in classes and encouraging colleagues to read it. it's a lot. but it's a necessary piece and one that no one should avoid.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've read this bracing piece 2x this morning and know I will come back to it: "Najya’s teacher had most likely never performed the school’s mandatory reading assessments for Najya or any of her classmates but instead had assumed the flagging competency of these mostly low-income Black children."
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Dr. Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OFFS, if you are going to say yes to it, you need to read it and use your own damn brain. Otherwise, just say NO. I know there’s all sorts of pressure to volunteer your labor, but don’t volunteer and then feed it into the plagiarism machine because you resent it.
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princetonanthro.bsky.social @princetonanthro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Professor @anthrofuentes.bsky.social joins @wired.com to look at the AI slop that is taking over the internet. bit.ly/4hvqBCZ
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Anthropologist Fact Checks Stone Age Slop
AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes as we fact check the internet, anthropology edition. WIRED recommends: https://youtu.be/iHn63hPS9sw #StoneAge #IceAge #Evolution Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 Listen to the Uncanny Valley podcast ►► https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uncanny-valley-wired/id266391367 Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_YouTube?source=EDT_WIR_YouTube_0_Video_Description_ZZ Follow WIRED: Instagram ►►https://instagram.com/wired Twitter ►►http://www.twitter.com/wired Facebook ►►https://www.facebook.com/wired Tik Tok ►►https://www.tiktok.com/@wired Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: https://wrd.cm/DailyYT ABOUT WIRED WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.
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CMK Vaccinista "Grotesque Results" @cmkellner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I saw this just recently - you are so engaged and obviously having fun with all these questions!
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Microsoft director of applied science Brent Hecht has been quoted in court papers as calling #AI the “largest theft of labor in human history.” And all to produce utter crap. Friday fun from @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and WIRED.
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Anthropologist Fact Checks Stone Age Slop
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More fun from me & @wired.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejun...
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Anthropologist Answers Evolution Questions
YouTube video by WIRED
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
so much fun to make!!!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Jimothy the Raccoon @jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
JIMOTHY CHOOSES KINDNESS #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To put a finer point on it: he is right.
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Gift link: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology
College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
But also, want to know how f@%# up AI is? Study linguistic anthropology.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So *now* @wsj.com is on #teamsocialscience! And all it took was a few sci-fi hyperbolic threats of human extinction.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Have we discussed "AI" doomsday cults + Epstein? “parachuting humanity into a different evolutionary era...even obsoleting the human race as we know it...is a running theme in the Epstein files, and...tech evangelists...“It’s eugenics all the way down” www.codastory.com/authoritaria...
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"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not often in agreement the @wsj.com but am here: "Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology" www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Want to Succeed in an AI World? Study Anthropology
College students and workers alike are finding a new set of skills is needed for a rapidly changing workplace.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🎧📖 Sex is a Spectrum - The Biological Limits of the Binary by @anthrofuentes.bsky.social scientist's perspective on why a binary view of sex and gender is not only misguided but harmful & why there are multitudes of ways of being human Affiliate Link libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #booksky #audiobook
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Sex is a Spectrum Audiobook on Libro.fm
Being human entails an astonishingly complex interplay of biology and culture, and while there are important differences between women and men, there is a lot more variation and overlap than we may re...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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This comic book artist is drawing women into prehistory
Science chats with illustrator Ulli Lust, whose work is countering ice age gender myths
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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The researcher in question:
Bender from Futurama
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"genomic knowledge claims are not neutral but reflect a particular set of evidentiary norms, political rationalities & epistemological commitments that remain contiguous with the genetic determinism & race science from which the majority of contemporary genomics scholars distance themselves"
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“There are so many things in ecology that are demoralizing and depressing, but not beavers. Beavers are good news every day.” Beavers Are Having a Moment🧪 reasonstobecheerful.world/beavers-big-... Long considered a nuisance, they are finally being appreciated for their role in healthy ecosystems.
A Beaver
Credit: Tony LePrieur Photography / Shutterstock
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
America’s trend toward higher profits, higher share prices, and mounting executive pay but near stagnant wages is unsustainable — economically and politically. It's time to bring back profit sharing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Share the Profits! Why US business must return to rewarding workers properly | Robert Reich
The economy is booming and corporate profits are huge, but American wages still stagnate. History provides the answer
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~Art+Rage~ @artrage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is incredible
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Response to the Vanderbilt report: “I defend open disagreement, evidence, transparency & accountability, while warning that caricatures of “politicized” scholarship grant permission to dismantle fields the public needs precisely when democratic life urgently requires their insights”
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In Sex Is a Spectrum, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social explains why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male. Now available in #paperback! Learn more: buff.ly/TDUQZ3N #Biology
Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We never imagined how far that dream would travel, into homes, into hearts, into the way generations imagined what we could still become. In a world that often feels as divided as ever, maybe that's exactly why we need it now: a reminder that unity was always the point.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Taggart Rehnn 🇨🇦🍁 @taggartrehnnauthor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago, a trailblazing sci-fi series that wouldn't have existed if Lucille Ball hadn't intervened, and Gene Roddenberry imagined a better society, capable of dealing with whatever existed where no one had gone before, took flight. Happy 60th Anniversary, Star Trek!👽🚀
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her schoolNorman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Power to the people! ✊
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