Hi everybody this is got sad just got back last night from a trip to Florida where I was a guest on Patrick

Bet David's podcast our chat is now up on his channel. You can go watch it. Two plus hours of fun

conversation. Got a chance to meet his co-host, Adam Susnick and Patrick's team, by the way, they also released these short clips

from the longer chats, so you can also catch those.

So please make sure to go and check it out. Had a really nice time.

Today I wanted to spend just a few minutes

covering a screenshot that was taken by the folks at Libs of TikTok. So if you want to go check out their channel, their Twitter handle at Libs, L-I-B-S of Tikic-T-T-T-O-T-T-T-O-I-B-S of an application, graduate application, if you're applying to the ecology evolution and behavior program at Michigan State University.

So this is a serious university, Michigan State, and a serious program, right?

An evolution and ecology program.

What I'm going to read you is the different choices that they have listed

when you're applying as a graduate student in terms of what your pronouns should be.

And again to people who say, but who cares about this if some people want to do pronouns and do all this kind of silly stuff?

Then you really don't understand how reason is destroyed

one millimeter at a time.

This is an ecology, evolution, and behavior program where graduate students,

masters and PhD students are applying to get training there at a serious university.

Now, why is it uniquely problematic, although it's problematic in any

context to have completely nonsensical meaningless pronouns that are made up that

no one's ever used.

But what's more problematic in this situation

is that it's an evolution program.

So let me contextualize. Natural and sexual selection are the

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