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📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
May 16latest
6
Avg engagement / post
3–6
Typical post (engagement)
1.3%
Engagement vs followers
62/100
Consistent reach
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 3 and 6 likes + reposts (median 4) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: Every day I grieve as I see plants failing in my garden, knowing · 19 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.2 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
1.1×
Follows 437 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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This 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.
https://www.sequencermag.com/call-a-spade-a-spade/
Richard Lynn was a psychologist who used shoddy science to advocate for white supremacist ideology. In this article, co-authors & I investigate the ongoing use of his work in academic literature:
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/richard…
An article in Biology Letters uncritically used the concept ‘dysgenic fertility’. Its findings contradict the usual eugenics narrative, but its use of the concept serves to legitimize the defective beliefs & values of eugenicists in the sc…
The concept ‘dysgenic fertility’ is a phrase that has been used by eugenicists to refer to their perception that people with ‘undesirable’ traits are having more children than people with ‘desirable’ traits. It’s most often been used to re…
Eugenic ideology does not belong in science.
In this commentary in Biology Letters, co-authored with @rebeccasear.bsky, we gently reprove the uncritical use of a eugenic concept- ‘dysgenic fertility’ in this respected scientific journal. …
Time to make popcorn
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1691902756972278206?t=yhQZZG_bazBeQGXMGJfkAg&s=19
Related: this paper found little evidence for selection for disease resistance alleles in past 10,000 years:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.13.439742v1.abstract
Anthropologists note: this does not sit well with the idea that there has been a "storm of genetic change" due to selection for the "civilized" world as posited in the "10,000 year explosion" strand of gene-culture evolution theory.
https:…
Fascinating research! Documents the persistence of matrilocal culture among descendants of the Khoe-San indigenous people of South Africa, despite admixture and incorporation into patriarchal colonial society.
https://link.springer.com/art…
Look at this sweet potato
"To use the basic biology of reproducing sexually as a way of identifying “true nature” is just wrong. Lobsters, humans, mole rats, blue whales, vultures, monarch butterflies and anacondas all have sex, but they most certainly have very di…
Time to make popcorn
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1691902756972278206?t=yhQZZG_bazBeQGXMGJfkAg&s=19
Related: this paper found little evidence for selection for disease resistance alleles in past 10,000 years:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.13.439742v1.abstract
Anthropologists note: this does not sit well with the idea that there has been a "storm of genetic change" due to selection for the "civilized" world as posited in the "10,000 year explosion" strand of gene-culture evolution theory.
https:…
Fascinating research! Documents the persistence of matrilocal culture among descendants of the Khoe-San indigenous people of South Africa, despite admixture and incorporation into patriarchal colonial society.
https://link.springer.com/art…
Look at this sweet potato
"To use the basic biology of reproducing sexually as a way of identifying “true nature” is just wrong. Lobsters, humans, mole rats, blue whales, vultures, monarch butterflies and anacondas all have sex, but they most certainly have very di…
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fediscience.org
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On Mastodon since
Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~1.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Anthropologist. Cooperation & egalitarian systems. African hunter-gatherers. Antiracism esp. scientific racism. She/they
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