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(Interesting. So the formal notions drove theoretical innovation such as pursued by Simon, Newell and others, while the technologies seemed most relevant for *acceptance* of those notions and theoretical constructs

Fellow scientists, take note. And scientific racism is still among us, and growing stronger again. Don’t be naive. Take your responsibility to call it out when you see it. Work

Seen the Nature Comms paper that caused outrage? Did you also think: “this is not physiognomy, just an algorithm mimicking human biases; surely there is no intent to use that

Evolutionary bias, the tendency to think all scientific questions about human psychology and behaviour have evolutionary answers. Fun fact: I have been deemed a creationist for questioning particular evolutionary explanations

Now reading: ‘A Large and Long Standing Body’: Historical Authority in the Science of Sex (2020), by @jw_lockhart 1/nhttps://twitter.com/jw_lockhart/status/1247907440823283713 "In this chapter, I ... use sociology of science to examine