John Benning
@_jbenning
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humanist, scientist, optimist | assistant professor, Cornell EEB
Ithaca, NY
Joined February 2015
The reliance of unwoke alphas on the "woe is me" narrative always makes me chuckle.
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Colin says "I left academia in 2020 because I realized that no publication, no study, no breakthrough—nothing I could contribute—would open the doors that should have opened.".As a counterpoint, I'll note that I -- white, het, male evolutionary biologist -- was just hired🤔.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ve taken legal action against Cornell University for racial discrimination. Represented by @A1Policy, I’ve filed an EEOC complaint after leaked internal emails revealed Cornell secretly ran a faculty search in my exact field (evolutionary biology) specifically
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Published an op-ed in my hometown paper, advocating for the continued funding of American Science.
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Published July 2025 in my hometown paper, The Franklin Times. Part of the Science Homecoming initiative. KJ Muldoon was only a few days old when his parents received devastating news: their son was…
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RT @OsitaNwanevu: Hilarious touch that Trump is actually very good at doodling and denying it!.
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Very stoked to tell y'all that I just started as an assistant professor in EEB @Cornell. More to come later, but for now, if you know folks looking to do a PhD in evolutionary ecology, they can chat with me about the awesome fellowship linked below. 2-pg LOI is due July 31!.
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RT @McFaul: USAID will be back. Do not give up hope. Do not accept Trump's horrendous foreign policy decisions as permanent. That fatalism….
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RT @Weather_West: What a remarkable--and pointless--loss for NOAA and for the United States.
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RT @ethanblinck: ad to come, but I'm looking for an M.S. student to work on conservation genomics of swift foxes on the American Prairie Re….
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RT @mbeisen: I think the modal view amongst academics is "universities are in serious need of reform, but not this crazy-ass vindictive shi….
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RT @pastramimachine: If any PhD student working in computational biology is displaced by this most recent tumult and is looking for a new l….
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RT @littmath: I think it’s reasonable to be annoyed by complaints about college admissions, but also important to be kind about it when the….
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RT @SashaGusevPosts: I wrote about how population stratification in genetic analyses led to a decade of false findings and almost certainly….
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if you believe the revolution will be led by the richest person in the world then I don't know if you really get revolutions.
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