He’s the living embodiment of that tweet about the guy who thinks he could take on Serena Williams before having a tennis ball go clean through his skull

🙄 I'm immediately picturing every victim blaming trope adapted for science funding: "If they wanted science funding, they shouldn't have worn those progressive viewpoints, how could anyone expect the right to not defund their science with those views on?" 🤬🤬🤬

Instead of the talk I spent hours preparing, they urged me to switch to a fireside chat and talk about my professional “journey.” But… this is the journey. And walking away is also movement.

So they asked me to delete half the deck: •screenshots of scientific articles •George Floyd’s autopsy report •med students holding signs for “White Coats for Black Lives” •a cartoonish image of Musk lest we offend the trillionaire •Butler quote: “choose your leaders with wisdom & forethought” ETC

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

The bit also religion, Nazis, and woke left had me thinking about this all day:

It’s really in everyone’s best interest for evolutionary psychology to better police its disciplinary boundaries and better integrate with contemporary evolutionary theory and methods. This Science Wars hold-over behavior just creates a refuge for this cadre of charlatans to fester

Lol. Princeton University praised Nobel laureate Anne Carson, a former classics professor at the school, on social media, despite denying her tenure in the 1980s.

Academia distilled.

if you never take out your own trash, the entire neighborhood will quickly associate your house with the smell of trash. you will be seen as the trash house, the house that enjoys having mountains of rotten trash. The alternative is really easy: take out your own trash and tidy up a bit