＃読了 面白かったけど、値段は高すぎです！
4.5 of 5 stars to 'trouble with gender' by Alex Byrne
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'Student codes of conduct...are meant to relieve some of the tension between free speech & academic freedom, & to ensure that schools are in compliance with government regulations & laws...But rules matter only when guardrails are consistently upheld. It’s in that enforcement…

'To permit attacks on one identity group while prohibiting attacks on others is worse than hypocrisy—it is profoundly immoral.' By Harvard Department of Economics professor Roland Fryer. wsj.com/articles/anti-…

Rick Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 Thank you! That's what it's about. Not the specific issue in this particular case.

I'm having trouble understanding the views of my smart friends/colleagues who think negotiations are warranted in such a situation. I'm sure they would demand the protest be removed if it were,…

Signed.

'Allowing community members to leverage their noncompliance with our rules to extract concessions from the University is...unfair. It denies the rest of us—those upholding our collective norms—the equal standing we ought to enjoy to have our voices heard.' thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

Honored to see my book 'The Invisible Gorilla' (with Daniel Simons) included in this list:
7 Best Psychology Books Everyone Should Read
goodereader.com/blog/book-reco… via Navkiran Dhaliwal

These are the last 6 slides from a BIOL 104: Principles of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology lecture at Yale, a required course for all pre-med students.

The slides attempt to obfuscate what males and females are by asserting that the binary concept of sex is 'essentialist' and…

“For most gender-distressed young people, a medical pathway will not be the best way to manage their distress.”

From On Point Podcast: 'Cass Review' author: More 'caution' advised for gender-affirming care for youth.
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IT'S HERE! The Kibale Chimpanzee Project, The Kasiisi Project, & Kibale EcoHealth epidemiological investigation of lethal respiratory disease outbreaks in wild chimps (literally decades in the making) is now published OA in nature Scientific Reports:

nature.com/articles/s4159…

More than 300 Harvard faculty members signed a letter sent to interim President Alan M. Garber ’76, urging his administration to negotiate with pro-Palestine student protesters staging an encampment in Harvard Yard.

@TillyRobin and Neil Shah report.

thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

My TED talk is now live on why US politics are broken - and how to fix them. TED Talks ted.com/talks/andrew_y…

Hello Anderson Cooper

In 2021, I and Tommy Lundberg published a review of all studies to date, including Dr Lundberg’s own lab research. This was shortly followed by another review of the same dataset.

Both concluded that male advantage is retained. The two different author…

Progressive activists today begin w/ their preferred policy outcomes or ideological conclusions & then try to force scientists & journalists to fall in line...Rather than challenging the progressive orthodoxy, science must serve as its handmaiden.' city-journal.org/article/unscie…

BREAKING: Harvard President Garber Breaks Silence on Encampment, Threatens ‘Involuntary Leave’ for Protesters

Emma Haidar and Cam E. Kettles report.

thecrimson.com/article/2024/5…

I was delighted to see my Alma mater MIT eliminate required diversity statements. Of course achieving a diverse faculty, including on ideology, is important but requiring statements of fealty from faculty job candidates is an affront to almost every academic freedom value.…

Bill Ackman I highly recommend this book by Carole Hooven on the topic: mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/978125081…

'More than 1000 of you became subscribers after reading this series. You...proved there is a hunger to be challenged, for writing that doesn’t just reify your...beliefs but that makes you grapple w/ new (& old!) ideas.' ⁦Emily Yoffe⁩ ⁦The Free Press⁩ open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/…

Are young people in the US worse off than their parents?

In his #TED2024 talk, Scott Galloway explores the growing disparity in generational wealth and how to put a stop to it: t.ted.com/6Fpv89Q

Our encampment remains, despite the administration saying that it must come down. Now they're projecting slogans on the wall of the admin building. ('Paul' is Paul Alivisatos, our President).

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