You know you've made it when they turn your book into a cake! Erik L. Peterson

This is the heart of the 2024 GOP fight: right and left wing anti-expert, knownothingism aligned under the false pretense of “truth” and “accountability.” flgov.com/2022/12/13/gov…

Oooo! History of Science moment! Reports of sundogs (parhelia) 4 centuries ago spurred Descartes’ doubts about the reliability of human observations and any simplistic science built solely on them. #histsci

Everything changes once you know what McCarthy and Gaetz were actually saying #118thCongress #KevinMcCarthy #MattGaetz

An Ohio teacher, who was reading The Sneetches to her Grade 3 class, was abruptly cut off by an admin when a student said "It's almost like what happened back then, how people were treated. Like, disrespected. Like, white people disrespected Black people.” dispatch.com/story/news/edu…

Not only do these books by Daniel Lucks Professor Tanya Kateri Hernandez Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg Erik L. Peterson Margaret Peacock @KayJWhitlock and others show the societal morass brewing behind the #January6thInsurrection. They also light a way forward. buff.ly/3XkQ1ab

More good news! You can now order Ancestry Reimagined online at global.oup.com/academic/ and get a 30% discount using the promotion code ASPROMP8. Please share this with anyone interested!

Our paper (with Erik L. Peterson) “The racist origins, racialist connotations, and purity assumptions of the concept of admixture in human evolutionary genetics” has now been published online in the journal Genetics. academic.oup.com/genetics/advan…

Saddened to hear of the death of Garland Allen on 9 February. He was a central figure in our communities, ISHPSSB, JHB and MBL, among others, and a great scholar whose enthusiasm was infectious. He was a kind person who was a true gentleman, and will be deeply missed.

Your reminder for when Republicans inevitably blame “mental health” for the shooting at Michigan State:

No! Diseases are not inherited! What is inherited are alleles that make the difference in the development of the disease in individuals in a population. If an allele always "caused" the same disease, then scientists would not need concepts such as penetrance and expressivity.

ICYMI: The AHA sent a letter to president Irma Becerra on Marymount University’s short-sighted decision to eliminate their history major. “This decision…undermines the university’s commitment to ‘intellectual curiosity, service to others, & a global perspective’.”historians.org/news-and-advoc…

How did the ‘Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium get its funny name?’ A story about skulduggery and cricket 🐅Kathy Freeston 🐅 Chat Biology @CMooreAnderson Jane Still neilingram.co.uk/how-did-the-ha….

Watch the trailer here for #ScienceAsMastery. And thank you again to our experts featured in this film- @MyrnPerez, Erik L. Peterson, Terence Keel, @GravesJl55, @DrCooperOwens, @SankOfAdna, Aaron Panofsky, & Agustín Fuentes. Watch in FULL here: sciencereligiondialogue.org/resources/scie…

“New physics” needed to explain mind?! I can almost hear Walter Elsasser and CH Waddington yelling “hold my beer” from beyond the grave.

Impressive remarks from Barack Obama today at Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as he courageously draws a parallel between the media's focus on the #TitanicSubmarine and the tragic loss of approximately 700 asylum seekers in a recent shipwreck near #Pylos | #RefugeeWeek #Titanic

I look forward to reading this book, but I think the story is quite complicated. Idolization is a problem for sure. Darwin was racist and sexist by some standards, but not of the worst kind in either case. See the essays by Erik L. Peterson and me here: cambridge.org/ch/universityp…

Starting this up. Hindsight is 2020: deepersickness.substack.com/p/thursday-may…

It’s a Darwin book. The Clash lyrics are Easter eggs … mostly for me :) books.google.com/books/about/Un…

Democracy is clarity. As a student of human behavior, I believe it reflects the will of the people. The race is not over but the blame game has begun. I will not let the pundits scapegoat Black voters. I will not let you scapegoat Arab American voters. Not even the shift of