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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Death by a thousand cuts as universities revoke international offers "en masse" of prospective students from Bangladesh, Nigeria and Pakistan to avoid losing ability to recruit international students. More job losses and course closures predicted in consequence. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 13/07/2026

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on the OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3 PM ET today at our OMB Deadline Day meeting to hear from experts and learn what comes next. Leave your comment 👉 zurl.co/oz4dV Register for the meeting 👉 zurl.co/iv9o0 Or links in bio!

The graphic displays images of speakers at the SUFS OMB Deadline Day meeting. Their titles read: "Dr. Colette Delawalla, Founder & CEO of SUFS, Dr. Veena Dubal, AAUP General Council, Randi Weingarten, President of AFT, Jillian Blanchard, Senior VP of Climate Change & Environmental Justice, LFGG". More speakers that are not displayed in the graphic will be attending. The graphic also displays a photo of Russell Vought and the logos of Stand Up for Science, American Association of Professors, American Federation of Teachers, Democracy Forward, and Lawyers for Good Government. The graphic reads: "Today, 2 - 3 PM ET, OMB Deadline Day, The Fight is Just Beginning, Virtual and Accessible, Registration Link in Bio!"

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We’re hiring! We are recruiting for a Lectureship in Global History of Science to join our Department from September 2026. For more info and to apply, please visit: bit.ly/3R94V58 Closing Date: 9th June 2026 #WeAreSTS #Science #Historyofscience #Globalscience

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

Screen grab of an NIH grants checklist showing the first question is: "1. Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?"

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I PROMISE you Trump doesn't know what the NSB is. This is another layer of Destruction a la Vought. And by the way...they can't call "saving money". The National Science Board is a volunteer position. This is about wiping the NSF completely off the face of the planet. PERIOD. Don't sugar coat.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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guichitarivera.bsky.social @guichitarivera.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

So proud of my beloved @err-ring.bsky.social 's latest work. Erik & co overcome the limits of Pagel's 'discrete' method by developing a novel class of generalized dynamic phylogenetic models. doi.org/10.1111/2041... Years ago I asked how he figured this out: 'By thinking really hard.'

screenshot of "Trait coevolution and causal inference using generalized dynamic phylogenetic models" in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I quickly scored the different journals by their "Susceptibility to racist pseudoscience", using the number of publications in the data set with weightings for recency (1 for a 2000s publication, 2 for 2010s, 4 for 2020s).

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births." gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...

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US Presidential Party switches are mirrored in global maternal mortality

In this observational study, we provide estimates of the impact on the maternal mortality ratio of swings in US aid for family planning and reproductive health driven by changes in the implementation ...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Reflexivity and Positionality Statements in Quantitative Research "Choices about research questions, data sources, analytical techniques, and interpretation are all influenced by researchers’ epistemological commitments, their lived experiences..." By @maddipow.bsky.social & @scordoban.bsky.social

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Positionality statements are relevant for all research

Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for refle...

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🚨 Job Alert: Professorship in Evolutionary Anthropology / Primatology at University of Zurich, focused on understanding evolutionary and cultural evolutionary foundations of gender-based inequality and violence, with research in non-human primates. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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UZH: Professorship for Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology

We are seeking candidates in the field of Comparative Evolutionary Anthropology and Primatology for the Irene Staehelin Endowed Professorship at the University of Zurich. This position focuses on the ...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🚨WE'RE HIRING AGAIN!🚨 Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Permanent lectureship in historically European music (anywhere in the world) in the long 18C. Must have PhD in hand at application. Deadline 12th March; job talks/interviews 1st & 2nd April for ASAP start. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/138148-...

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Lecturer in Music History | King's College London

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Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos @handle.invalid · 10/02/2026

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11/02/2026

The FAA is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport, for “special security reasons." The FAA's notice did not provide additional details.

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FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights

The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Epstein’s passion for injecting eugenics into conversation after conversation in his emails should shape the way we think about his role in funding scientific research and development—and steering richer men’s money in that world”

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social & I are convening open panels at EASST (Sept) on 'STS & biology revisited: biosociality, interdisciplinarity & the biosociences, in an age of increasingly biological fascism'. Please consider submitting, &/or circulate to colleagues easst.net/conference/e...

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is really a nightmare for scientific integrity and public trust. The reputational damage was there before Trump even took office & it's only going to get worse. How can you convince people to enroll in these kinds of studies to improve health & wellness if this is what can happen to their data?

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 23/01/2026

nine years old

“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”

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Steve Saidemonster 🧌🧛🦇⚰️👻👹 @smsaideman.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Comparing American hegemony to warsaw pact life under Soviet rule is an amazing step. Carney really is punching (rhetorically) as hard as one can. The China move was a real policy change that follows from this attitude. What's next? CAF in Greenland? That he did this before Trump speaks? Wow.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice

In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The full protocol of the study in Guinea Bissau provides no reassurance. If anything is spells out just how insanely unethical the planned study is. The PI who wrote the protocol tried to defend the indefensible by writing to me directly. I responded publicly. Read 👇 substack.com/@bktitanji/n...

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BK. Titanji (@bktitanji)

Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed response. I’m replying directly and point-by-point, because while I appreciate the care with which you’ve articulated your position, I remain fun...

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guichitarivera.bsky.social @guichitarivera.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I really am struggling to participate in science Bluesky for various reasons I don't feel comfortable writing about publicly, but I do miss you all and am trying to get back in sharing and liking groove. Waves hello weakly.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/01/2026

Folks on the ground are asking me to lift this up because the need is still growing, all around Minnesota. If you can give, please do, and if you can't, please amplify!

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

"we detail anthropology's role in the development of racial science and the subsequent placement of whiteness at the top of the world's global political and cultural systems of power...[and] examine the early critiques of anthropology's racializing practices by Black and Indigenous anthropologists"

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White Supremacy and the Making of Anthropology

This review presents a historical and contemporary view of white supremacy as an entrenched global system based on presumed biological and cultural difference, related practices of racism, the valoriz...

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Ruth Mace @ruthmace.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

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Evolutionary Anthropology seminars

Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

irishtimes.com

At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’

Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

this is really grim

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guichitarivera.bsky.social @guichitarivera.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

On my way to the AAA travelling solo with my rambunctious 2 year old and have been helped by strangers on the Thameslink, the Elizabeth line, Heathrow and not that I have ever lost my faith in people but I really do feel it today.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Keep talking about Sudan.

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guichitarivera.bsky.social @guichitarivera.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Media are barely mentioning Sudan, where genocidal violence is accelerating. Yale researchers analyzing satellite data warn many of the 250K in El-Fasher may already have been killed-- there's no sign that they made it out. Link to the report: files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/bc...

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 For the first time, EHBEA is giving an award for this members who excel in public outreach and communication of the evolutionary human sciences 📣 📣 📣 Deadline: December 19, 2025 Check the form below 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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EHBEA-Public-Communication-Award-nomination-form 2026.docx

2026 EHBEA Excellence in Public Communication award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary ehbea.secretary@gmail.com Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DEC...

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Grateful to @resprofnews.bsky.social for doing a write-up of our call for action to incentivise the publication of negative results. Now looking for world-leading funders and institutions to show some leadership on this issue…

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

“the manosphere generates its own untested and speculative evolutionary hypotheses, or “just-so stories”, about men, women, and society… ..we reflect on implications for evolutionary scholars and for the field as a whole, in terms of ethics and public image” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Hundred and Two Just-So Stories: Exploring the Lay Evolutionary Hypotheses of the Manosphere

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

488 arrests at a peaceful silent protest for "supporting a "proscribed organization." Despite all our problems, I'm glad to live under the protection of the U.S. constitution. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

📢 Come join us! Penn State Anthropology is hiring *two tenure-track assistant professors*, one in human reproductive ecology and one in archaeology. Here are just a few reasons why working at Penn State is awesome:

A photo of the Susan Welch Liberal Arts building at sunrise

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

1/5 I am pleased to announce a new paper, based on a talk I gave last year at the annual meeting of the Human Biology Association. This link is open 4 a free read for a while but eventually it will get pay-walled because I can't afford open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Rethinking Gender/Sex Identity

Until quite recently, investigations of gender/sex development operated from a baseline assumption that gender/sex is dichotomous or binary. Most such studies constructed gender/sex outside of or adj....

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/04/2025

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

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Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research

A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.

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Pablo Nepomnaschy @pablonep.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Join us! go.bsky.app/AByvxiY

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 06/04/2025

When I was in grad school in the 90's the rule of thumb from twin studies was that the heritability of everything was ~50%. It turns out that twin studies are highly confounded, & after unconfounding w/ new genome-based methods (Family-GWAS), the median heritability of behavioral phenotypes is ~5% 🧪

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Siobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Monday and Tuesday! Many open sessions and awesome participants. Please come and re-post to your networks!

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Prof Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Had a lovely time presenting to @femquant.bsky.social about how reflexivity in quantitative researcher may improve transparency and rigour. We talked about how open science frames "bias" as a problem to be stamped out, but feminist epistemological approaches offer a different (more nuanced) take

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guichitarivera.bsky.social @guichitarivera.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Who on here is going to the #AABA? I'm venturing out to Baltimore for my first big conference post baby now that my little one is weaned and walking and would love to reconnect 🫶

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