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"Yet the very idea of European (or African or Asian) genetic ancestry depends on the belief that continental boundaries divide human genetic diversity into natural categories, which is not the case." 🔥🔥

The Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame is accepting applications for a TT, assistant professor in the history of science, philosophy of science, or science & technology studies to begin in August 2025, with duties including research, teaching, & service.

By the way, here's a _great_ piece by Emily Merchant on why it's generally a bad idea for government to try to affect birth rates one way or the other... theconversation.com/the-problem-wi…

Fortune published a write-up of the article on pronatalism I published with Win Brown a few weeks ago!

I’m an “expert” now!

📢New Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR) Debate out! Emily Klancher Merchant Emily Merchant and Kathryn Grace ponder on demography’s role as a scientific field in addressing and mitigating the harms related to #climatechange. Wittgenstein Centre 👉austriaca.at/0xc1aa5572_0x0…

Spreadsheets every day of the week.

Demography for the win.

I have been off caffeine since 2013. Still no positive benefits, unless napping a lot counts.

For more than 50 years now, behavior genetics has been using deeply flawed research methods to claim that sociology is wrong because everything is genetic. Yet they have discovered no specific genes or biological mechanisms causally connecting DNA to SES.

A reminder that, behaviorally speaking, we should ignore anything following the words, "New twin study suggests..."

100 years ago, an article like this would have been published in Eugenics Review. Now it's published in Behavior Genetics. That's right -- the Behavior Genetics Association was created with funding from the American Eugenics Society. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers: Revenue: Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Reviewers: $0

Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. This didn't happen because she herself fought for it -- although she did fight hard the whole way to even get to that point. 👩‍🔬 What happened was that the award was offered to her husband, Pierre. (1/n) 🧵

GWAS for Nobel prize laureates.

Hi The New York Times, this is insane. Donald Trump is literally talking about eugenics and ethic cleaning. What the f—- are you doing? This isn’t just sanewashing, this is *white*washing.

This is actually a pretty good description of what it’s like to be a historian.

There will be much to say and understand, with honesty and humility, about this election. For now, I want to thank and celebrate Vice President JD Vance Kamala Harris for her dedication and leadership. Over 107 long days, you inspired us with a new vision for our rights, freedoms and opportunities.

When you’ve made a career out of not believing in god and wind up believing something even more fanciful:

Florida has been destroying American democracy since 2000.