Dan Samorodnitsky

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i'm an editor and science writer. i cover biology, genetics, the environment, stuff like that. my pronouns are he/him

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One of our co-authors of the STAT piece on Richard Lynn’s national IQ data, @dsamorod.bsky.social, has some reflections on Lynn, racism, fascism, and science over at his new science magazine, Sequencer 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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‘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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honestly really moved by the dedication of these scientists to protect the academic record from fraudulent data that was produced to justify racism. there are so many ways to be anti fascist and this is a good one! www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/r...

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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my view on these things is fairly dismal to start but the real story of the datasets behind the Bell Curve managed to slither under my considerably low expectations. very good article here detailing all the specifics

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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Thrilled to share this new project of mine with @goesbykim.bsky.social @dsamorod.bsky.social and Maddie Bender. It's an online mag & newsletter we've named SEQUENCER writer-owned and reader-supported www.sequencermag.com/about/

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Nice to see postdoc mentor Jacopo Grilli quoted and ICTP mentioned in @dsamorod.bsky.social’s new piece on the rules governing microbial communities, now out in Quanta www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-fo...

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Given the apparent cause-and-effect relationship between Ackman’s attacks on higher education and revelations of his wife’s academic misconduct, I can only assume that this think tank means that Neri Oxman blackmailed her dissertation committee, and is possibly a serial killer.

Sigh... And here we go with the next iteration of Ackman's crusade... academicsky www.thedailybeast.com/bill-ackman-...

Bill Ackman Forming Think Tank to Continue Higher Ed Crusadewww.thedailybeast.com The hedge fund manager, who has been critical of antisemitism and DEI efforts on college campuses, says he plans to “go after these issues in a very aggressive way.”

Readers of the late Gawker Media Group knew that of all the terrific writers employed there -- at Gawker, Deadspin, Jezebel, Gizmodo -- Tom Scocca was the best of all of them. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tom-scocca-medical-mystery-essay.html

Tom Scocca: Unraveling My Medical Mysterynymag.com The strangest things happen to other people’s bodies. Then they began happening to my own.

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In a recent study, biologists watched a nematode delete a whopping one-third of its genome, as if to pull weeds from the genetic garden.

To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA | Quanta Magazinewww.quantamagazine.org Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an uncompromising tactic that may combat harmful genetic parasites.

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