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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is the world RFK Jr dreamed of—going back decades—a dream based on eugenics Republicans handed him the reins of the US health system, giving him the largest megaphone imaginable to peddle his dangerous conspiracy theories & kooky anti-science, anti-vaxx beliefs He made his dreams come true

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can't wait for the next version of Citizens United. "But AI is people too."

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The real meaning of Trumpist "pro life" policies

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Valerie Gutmann Koch @vgkoch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I ask: what happens when this disinformation flows not from fringe or private actors, but from the state itself – embedded in statutes, regulatory mandates, and official policy guidance? It is still very much a draft, and I welcome any and all feedback!

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Gave my first public lecture on the return of eugenics and race science this week at the British Science Festival. Reassuring to see how much interest, and concern, there was in the room

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Brooks describes one 'master of the universe' as “the guy who was the biggest success and the biggest asshole.” If the second descriptor is accurate, the first one cannot be. If at 65 you are probably despised by both peers and underlings, you have not found a 'success' worth having.

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ken, I'll take "former students" for $2000. [Greg Fosheim didn't win this round but we always knew he would be a star, so no surprise he made it to Jeopardy. Nailing Final Jeopardy by showing health expertise plus literary history was a good example of his range.] 2nd Chance should be next stop.

Middle aged bearded man in business suit and tie

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Frog, why do you keep looking out the window?” asked Toad. “Because I am waiting for the mail,” said Frog.

Frog and Toad both look out the window. Toad has a questioning look on his face.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"...on a yellow legal pad with a quill pen, in cursive."

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The Staunton Democratic Committee @staunton-democrats.org · 26/09/2026

🗳️🌊 JD Vance ? Pffttt ! She has three characteristics that Vance and Cline will never have: Integrity, Humanity and Selflessness. This is why she went the extra mile in getting medical help for an ailing Vet that no one else was helping. Vote early now in Virginia and be a part of the WAVE 🌊 !

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My goodness, what an incredible moment. After Justin Verlander secured the final out of his career, Tigers manager A.J. Hinch came out of the dugout...to summon Verlander's daughter out to embrace her dad on the mound.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 25/09/2026

Great pronatalist poster from France circa 1930s, showing outcome of a century of "normal fertility" versus "insufficient fertility." At least 3 children per household are needed "for a country to thrive" from Andrew Gelman's visit here: www.carnavalet.paris.fr/expositions/..., on his blog today.

Two population pyramids, with French text. Google translate:

AFTER A CENTURY OF

AFTER A CENTURY OF

NORMAL FERTILITY

INSUFFICIENT FERTILITY

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AMONG
DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS
At least, on average, 3 children per household are needed

JOIN THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR INCREASING THE

for a country to thrive

FRENCH POPULATION 217, Rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, PARIS

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Despite the fevered efforts of gilded buffoons and later day Babbitts, DC still contains plenty of beauty to enjoy.

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A great law school exam hypo, though.

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Now they have really taken away his binky.

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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Demographers recognize the “infection makes us stronger” as one of heterogeneity’s ruses. But in this case, the fact that infection doesn’t make individuals stronger is strategic. The focus is on making a eugenically “fitter” population over time and they think deaths can help them get it.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If the media wants a story about academia which is of real public interest, then they should cover the resurgence of race science, which is providing legitimacy for racism and eugenic ideology in political and public discussions. Unfortunately, there seems to be little interest in this story

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

now you see? this is what we need these days more books, fewer walls

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The book in which Galton named eugenics had lots of pretty graphs and illustrations.

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Engaging with the media: Essential skills for successful interviews - September 22, 2026 www.sciline.org/learn/scient... This course covers specific interview skills and techniques that scientists need to know about engaging with the media.

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Engaging with the media: Essential skills for successful interviews - SciLine

Enhance your media engagement skills with our webinar. Learn to navigate interviews, combat misinformation, and ensure accurate representation of your research.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Neither Florida GOP/national GOP responded to my requests for comment. If the party can't denounce Rawson, who -condoned slavery -called for gay people to be executed -appeared to advocate lynching -marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -was part of League of the South not sure there's a red line

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And don't forget earlier examples: former Va Gov George Allen and Mississippi's Trent Lot.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This post on the Trump Administration's attacks on disabled people is really good. And these questions are those we should be asking of the governors in every state. thesteveway.substack.com/p/another-da...

thesteveway.substack.com

Another Day

Another civil rights attack

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Marshall's medical oath: "First, do no harm." "Second: Soak them with interest." "Third: If they don't pay on time, sue them."

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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"There is not one— zero— known genetic variant that makes anyone smarter."

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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

All you really need to know about "The Bell Curve" and genetic studies of IQ/intelligence. osf.io/preprints/ps... jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-iq-her...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The posts are a useful reminder of just how enthusiastically EO Wilson supported overt racist Rushton, and yet it’s Gould and Lewontin who’ve been forever tarred with the “political” brush. Maddening to know that we’ve learned nothing and the same dynamic is still playing out today

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Replace these “wireless telegraphs” with smartphones, update the dress a little, and this vision of "isolating technology" from a 1906 issue of Punch magazine could easily be from today: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a…

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

About 15,000 years ago, someone with impressive powers of observation did this realistic sketch of a contented-looking horse on a wall of the Niaux Cave, in the French Pyrenees www.bradshawfoundation.com/niaux/index....

Detailed study of horse's head, slightly smiling(?), ears erect, eyes closed, hairy mane

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Northrup Frye on Shakespeare (1986) began as undergraduate lecture notes. Very readable and still available both hardcover and paperback. Serious, but not overly obtuse.

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Hank Greely @hankgreely.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Before it's gone—this is the 86th anniversary of the start of World War II, at least in Europe, w/the German invasion of Poland, started by a false flag "attack by Polish troops" on a radio station in Silesia. It was the middle piece of "the 20th Century War": WWI, WWII, Cold War. Changed the world.

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The PF was really good at making sure the trash they funded was distributed widely and for free. The technique is worth copying, with solid material rather than rubbish.

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Its head was never buried, just crouched in hiding for a time when it was safer to repeat its loathesome story out loud.

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 28/08/2026

"You can’t fix the whole crisis, but you can take up a single cause, and find some aspect of it for which you have enough skills, qualifications, time, or resources to make a difference."

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Paul A. Lombardo @plombardo2024.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Since the Pioneer Fund seems to be back in the news these days with the Cofnas affair, here is a piece I published in 2002 on the PF and its ilk, a reminder that the more things change, etc. . . It led to an attempted refutation by J. Philippe Rushton. www.researchgate.net/publication/....

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(PDF) "The American Breed": Nazi eugenics and the origins of the Pioneer Fund

PDF | The goal of this article is to fill the existing gap in the history of eugenics by presenting a detailed analysis of the origins of the Pioneer... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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