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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 16h

So, umm, for all of you arguing that progressive leftists are ruining the social sciences (Vandy report and its sub-reports), what's your take on this? www.science.org/content/arti...

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17h

Having untaxed billionaires is a policy choice.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sigh... it bears repeating: imagine if a Democrat had pulled that shit today in a congressional hearing. Every major newspaper editorial board in the country would be calling for their resignation, and Jake Tapper, through tears, would spend a chunk of his show asking what our country has become.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

reacher season 4 is about the triumph of independent journalism

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

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Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Season 2 of our online talk series starts this Tuesday! #philsci #philsky #STS #HPBio

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I pity the fool that only values education in so far as it will earn you a specific wage.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Their best defense against the growing challenge from the left would be simply to meet the moment and act more aggressively against Trump. If they just did that, half the energy behind DSA challenges would dissipate and they'd be safe. But no, they'd rather punch left in a panic.

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British Society for the Philosophy of Science @thebsps.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We have published an open letter to the University of Exeter Executive Board expressing our concerns about proposed redundancies. Read it here: www.thebsps.org/news/open-le...

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Open Letter to University of Exeter Executive Board regarding proposed redundancies

- BSPS

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Just spent 20 minutes talking with Mitch McConnell, he told me how much he regrets holding up Obama’s SC nominee to replace Scalia, he said it was the kind of partisanship that destroys republics.

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Now they’re ready to fight

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Can I just say how fucking wild it is that a man travelled to Montreal, booked a hotel room across from the Pornhub offices, fired BULLETS INTO THE WINDOWS OF PORNHUB, killed two bystanders and the Guardian does not mention Pornhub or WHY HE WAS THERE. Even as they warn against "copycat attacks."

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Canadian police warn of possible copycat attacks after deadly shootout in Montreal

Assailant behind shooting that left three people dead wrote ‘incel’-like manifesto that was posted by a far-right outlet

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…

Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

New for @undark.org: "What I Learned from Teaching Darwin" "For Darwin at least, science was a conversation between humans and nature, more than it was an industry. I wish that were true today, for all of us." undark.org/2026/04/23/o...

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What I Learned from Teaching Darwin

Opinion | Charles Darwin’s books offer lessons for how to grapple with the current state of science and its complicated future.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/05/2026

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

his young sister is getting attention. this is unacceptable. no betrayal has ever been more complete. happiness has rotted, all joy has become miasma.

an orange and white cat looks extremely miffed. he is laying on a blue couch

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

“According to ASU’s intellectual property policy, the Board of Regents owns the rights to most instructional materials. The board claims ownership of ‘any intellectual property created by a university or Board employee in the course and scope of employment,’ the policy states.”

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Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder

ASU debuted the web app quietly this month and faculty—whose content the AI pulls from—are concerned about how it works and who can access it.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

So I did this debate on To the Contrary, an NPR debate show about the new International Olympic Committee rule banning trans women from competing in women's sports. I want to give a trigger warning: my opponent says offensive and hideous things about transwomen. www.pbs.org/video/olympi...

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To The Contrary | Olympic Ban on Trans Women: Fair Play or Flawed Science? | Season 35

Olympic trans ban debated: fairness, science, and the future of women’s sports.

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Next Monday, we will kick off this semester's lecture series with the talk by Banu Subramaniam. Banu will talk about migrant ecologies, plants, and the afterlives of Empire. Just register for the talk via the link and join us on Zoom!🤗 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture... #HPBio #HistSci #PhilSci

Poster for the talk by Banu Subramaniam (University of Massachusetts Amherst), entitled "Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire". It will take place on Monday, 20 April 2026, at 4 pm (CET) via Zoom.

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Celso Neto @celsoneto.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Interest in the relationship between human genomics and the global economy? Submit your abstract to our open panel symposium at the next 4S conference, Oct 7-10. More info at: hugera.org/blog/ #STS #HPS #4S

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Matt Tontonoz @mtontonoz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

My amazing advisor Jane Maienschein and the incomparable Betty Smocovitis featured in the HSS newsletter: hssonline.org/blogpost/198...

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History of Science at the AAAS - History of Science Society

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

‘’Say what you will about threatening world-historic war crimes, it sure beats any symbolic recognition of trans people as human beings. I am not a crackpot”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

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Mariel Goddu @marielgoddu.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I've really enjoyed this series on Philosophy of Biology from @closertotruth.bsky.social: closertotruth.com/project/phil... Videos are 25min each, consist mainly of interviews with experts, and cover topics ranging from units of selection to biological information to evolution of cognition

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Philosophy of Biology - Closer To Truth

Philosophy of Biology has two sides: the process of science and the content of biology. We address key questions. What is the nature of life? How does evolution work and what…video Why Philosophy of B...

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I am shocked to see this language from the NSF. “The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”

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Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request to Congress

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 24/03/2026

Okay I think it's far enough past the original broadcast to say, no it's not surprising but it still drives me nuts that Nini ended up in the bottom because Michelle doesn't know what a monarch butterfly caterpillar looks like

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I lost my jobs, my kids have measles, I can't afford steak, and gas is $5 a gallon. But at least now there's a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

please do something about it

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 15/03/2026

There’s no money for your health care but they can afford to spend nearly a billion dollars a day on this war?

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Every media outlet in the country should be loudly calling for Tuberville's immediate impeachment or resignation.

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/03/2026

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Iran being able to disrupt the world economy by closing a small channel feels like the Death Star having an exhaust port you can shoot that makes the whole thing explode

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It was always a political appointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS News, except ideologically. Her appointment as Editor-in-Chief thus required conflict with the newsroom. Scott Macfarlane, I think, saw all of this, and drew the obvious conculsions.

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Videos like this are utterly cathartic. I want EVERY Dem to throw away decorum and politeness and start YELLING the truth, like Rep. McGovern.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

First they came for the journalists. We don't know what happened after that.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

So I'm confused here. The issue for Nancy Mace is that Hillary Clinton had some communication with Howard Lutnick a while ago -- the same Howard Lutnick whom Trump made Commerce Secretary and is standing behind despite his close Epstein ties???

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/02/2026

where’s that furious goose when you need it

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

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Janet Mills @janetmillsforme.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I talked with podcaster Brad Carr recently, about genetic determinism, race and IQ, and James Watson. The title captures the gist, but the devil's in the details... You can check out our conversation here: YouTube: youtu.be/f8qiz1aCdno Audio: bradcarr.transistor.fm/episodes/170...

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Why Eugenics Made a Comeback in America | Dr Nathaniel Comfort

YouTube video by Brad Carr

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

On every important vote that matters, Susan Collins votes with Trump. Every time her vote could stop something he’s trying to do, she votes with him. She is a fake moderate with a MAGA voting record. A vote for Susan Collins is a vote to give Trump more power.

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

As a botanist, this isn’t funny. Plants are sessile and only do this when they’re in extreme distress

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