Cathryn Townsend

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Anthropologist, gardener, animal lover, fantasy & sci-fi fan. Climate anxious. She/they.

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The evo behav sciences seem doomed to repeat the same conversations over again. From 2000: “Can we blame the field of ev psych for Kevin MacDonald? Intellectually speaking, no. But it’s the job of a scholarly association not just to foster discussion but also police the boundaries of its discipline”

Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semiteslate.com What scares people about the trial going on in London over whether Jewish historian Deborah Lipstadt libeled Holocaust denier David Irving by calling...

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While not the most pressing aspect, this ideological assumption underlies all the research about biological/genetic underpinnings of crime as well and that work unfortunately hasn’t stopped since the likes of Lombroso. The white supremacist Charles Johnson has a consumer genetics start-up doing this

This is the entire view of the right and one they’re pushing out tons of propaganda about. It’s why we get 10,000 stories of people shoplifting from Walgreens and nothing about tax cheats even though it involves multitudes more money. They want to define crime as existing entirely within the poor

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Sammie wanted to sit in the hammock. But she does not understand the physics of hammock.

Lazy summer day

Well despite the pending Starmer gloatfest, yay uk! You could have done worse

Wtf Fareham, Suella Braverman again? 😵‍💫

Over on bad place, the fake race science people are rallying with the fake archaeology people.

Glad to be seeing the back of Tories in power in UK but at the same time annoyed at the prospect of an empowered and smug Keir Starmer gloatfest.

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You know what cheers me up in the face of democracy imploding? Science news! Seriously, though if you need good cheer, here's some tech that can help us survive climate change. With a little help from E. Coli. Honestly, E. Coli owes us one. 🧪 🔬🍻🌱 engineering.wustl.edu/news/2024/Fl...

Fluctuating cellular energy drives microbial bioproductionengineering.wustl.edu Fuzhong Zhang’s lab explores ATP’s role in biomanufacturing

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"It’s discomfiting to look at the culture of science that you yourself are a part of (that I, too, am a part of) and reflect that maybe all the chatter we endured about peer review and scientific self-correction doesn’t actually work." nothing in science is held to a lower standard than IQ research

This from @dsamorod.bsky.social goes into the difficulties we had in publishing our STAT piece on Richard Lynn's data manipulation & white supremacism and the reasons for why that may be. www.sequencermag.com/call-a-spade...

Call a spade a spadewww.sequencermag.com Trying to do something, anything, about racism and fascism in the 21st century

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how do you explain what the concept of "art" is to the people that think shit like this is good

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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1/ On this list of journals downgraded to 0 (which means it's excluded from ranking) is 'Mankind Quarterly'. This journal was set up in 1960 by the Nazi sympathizer & multi-millionaire Wickliffe Preston Draper. retractionwatch.com/2024/06/28/f...

Finland group downgrades 60 journalsretractionwatch.com A panel of scholars in Finland has downgraded 60 journals in their quality rating system, following months of review and feedback from researchers. The Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO) classifies a…

Were they really just arguing about their golf handicaps? Wtf?

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Dancer Brenna Chumacero with Santa Barbara's State Street Ballet was doing this photoshoot with photographer Andre Yew a few hundred yards down the beach; the backlighting was amazing and my 800mm lens revealed a completely different angle on the scene.

I’m a bona fide cat lady since adopting my 3rd a few weeks ago.

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Thanks for the mention! The full article with archival references is here - people should send a message to my uni email if they need access. muse.jhu.edu/article/8992...

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Four years ago, Psychological Science published a paper which used a ludicrously poor quality dataset. That paper was retracted, partly in order to avoid “prolonging the use” of the data but the dataset still thrives in the academic literature. Read our article & 🧵 for examples

Journals that published Richard Lynn's racist 'research' articles should retract themwww.statnews.com Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.

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Meanwhile, the Washington State Ferry System is an absolute gem.

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The true Sauron

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Went and looked at the thread in the bad place. Damn. The dudes wanting to legitimize white supremacy are out in fucking force trying to pretend it’s all just academic. Though of note, many of them are anon accounts. Shocking! 🤦‍♂️

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Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.

Bunch of angry men going apoplectic in my (bad place) notifications since Steve Sailer RT’d my post about the Richard Lynn article.That’s what you get when you come back to social media after a peaceful break 😵‍💫 www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

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Richard Lynn was a pillar of 20th-century scientific racism. His magnum opus was a database of "national IQs", a menagerie of unrepresentative IQ studies with no explicit criteria for inclusion except that the results show a low IQ for Africans. This should be an open-and-shut case for retraction.

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since the racists of science are in the discourse, let's also share real evolutionary biology: Jeremy reviews what we know thus far about the genetics underlying queerness. It's incredibly complicated and nuanced. Anybody trying to sell you on race "science" or gender essentialism is full of bs. 🧪

For Pride Month 2024, I took a look at what the first modern-scale GWAS of same-sex behavior has accomplished, almost five years after its publication What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it? www.molecularecologist.com/2024/06/20/w...

What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it?www.molecularecologist.com (Flickr, karendasuyo) Not quite five years ago, a collaboration led by researchers at the Broad Institute published what seemed like the last word in “born this way”: a genomic study of…

‘The call for retraction, made Thursday in a First Opinion published in STAT, focuses on hundreds of papers published by the late Richard Lynn of the University of Ulster, who has described “the decay of European civilisation” resulting from immigration’ www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

Coalition wages campaign for retractions of Richard Lynn's racist journal articleswww.statnews.com A coalition of researchers, historians, and journalists is urging that major scientific publishers, including Elsevier and Springer, retract the racist articles of academic Richard Lynn.

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And now Stat News has published an article about our article! www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

Richard Lynn’s racist national IQ data sets and papers that use them should be retracted. New piece in Stat News from @dsamorod.bsky.social, @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social, @jedidiahcarlson.com, James Lingford, @rebeccasear.bsky.social, Cathryn Townsend, and me

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