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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12h

It’s always so obvious that Pam Bondi would rather be yelling at a waiter than doing whatever she’s doing

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DEMSEC @demsec.bsky.social · 18h

Stephen froze like a deer in the headlights and pretended to have connection issues because he unintentionally gave away the game plan.

“Plenary authority is complete, absolute power over a specific area or issue, with no significant limitations."

Show people this clip. This is an insane slip up.

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · 1d

"The Secret of Our Success" by @joehenrich.bsky.social. This book explains how intwined human genetic and cultural evolution is, and explains how we've domesticated ourselves so that we can be more cooperative with individuals who are not our genetic relatives.

The Secret of Our Success

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosperHumans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic c...

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · 1d

A good popular science introduction is "This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution" by David Sloan Wilson. One of the progenitors of group and multilevel selection theory, DSW explains the theory and theorizes how we may use its insights to cultivate cooperation at a global scale

This View of Life

It is widely understood that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution completely revolutionized the study of biology. Yet, according to David Sloan Wilson, the Darwinian revolution won’t be truly complete...

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · 1d

@margaret.bsky.social killed in her exposition on one of my intellectual heros, Peter Kropotkin, on CPWDCS (the second part of which is linked below). For those whose interest was peaked by the discussion of group selection by @katiegoldin.bsky.social, here is some further reading..

Part Two: Mutual Aid and Evolution: Peter Kropotkin and the Battle for Science Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff | iHeart

<p>Margaret continues talking to Katie Goldin about the anarchist prince who laid the foundations for understanding cooperation in the wild.</p> <p>Sources:</p>...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 13d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · 6d

When introducing research ethics, George Costanza is really the only acceptable role model.

Two panel meme from the chinese restaurant episode of the show seinfeld, depicting george costanza yelling "you know we're living in a society! We're supposed to act in a civilized way." while the characters jerry and elaine look on.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 7d

Listen everyone gets mad at me when I try to talk about human nature but someone has to counter these maniacs who are going to keep saying this shit about dominance and hierarchy being "natural"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12d

The American public needs to understand that high-level HHS officials are shamelessly lying to us all.

Tylenol does not cause autism, and Makary, Bhattacharya, and Oz knew this as they stood there next to Trump as he said it did, nodding like bobbleheads.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 13d

Familial confounding in the associations between maternal health and autism www.nature.com/articles/s41... - drawing causal conclusions from observational studies is not a good idea

Familial confounding in the associations between maternal health and autism - Nature Medicine

Using national registry data from Denmark, 30 maternal diagnoses linked to offspring autism were identified with most associations attributable to family-level factors rather than direct causal effects of maternal diagnoses.

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · 20d

Good news for blow-addicted right wing chuds everywhere.

Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20d

The Trump-Miller administration's single-minded focus on migration is starting to impact the availability of drugs in the US, according to this detail from a very good investigation @wsj.com published today.

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Oseguera caught another break from the Trump administration. The president’s campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally has taken federal agents away from drug-traffic interdiction. In Arizona, two Customs and Border Protection checkpoints along a main fentanyl-smuggling corridor from Mexico have been left unstaffed. Officers stationed there were sent to process detained migrants. A senior administration official said the U.S. border is more secure than it has ever been.

Colombia is producing records amounts of cocaine, and the volume of the drug arriving in the U.S. is driving down prices, the people familiar with cartel operations said.

Cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half to around $60 to $75 a gram compared with five years ago, said Morgan Godvin, a researcher with the community organization Drug Checking Los Angeles. “The price of pure cocaine has plummeted,” Godvin said.

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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · Jul 18

Happy Shut The Fuck Up Friday, memorize the script 👇 and STFU

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · 27d

I suspect he never saw himself as the one to pay the price and that his wealth and influence would insulate him. But sometimes that's not enough to protect you in the lottery you endorsed.

Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of...some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” - A week after 3 children and 3 adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Political violence has no place in America. Nor does ignorance.

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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk: “It’s worth to have a cost of...some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment” - A week after 3 children and 3 adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

Political violence has no place in America. Nor does ignorance.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 27d

Sit on your posting hands if you have to, ok?

Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 27d

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27d

I'm hearing the FBI is looking for a man in Utah with a rifle, so they must have some really clear footage helping them narrow it down

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · Sep 3

A proposed new rule would limit international students on F1 or J1 visas to stays in the US of no longer than 4 years. This effectively means that intl. students will no longer come to graduate school here (time to PhD is 5-6 years). You can comment here:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media

Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy

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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · Aug 19

Trump’s tariffs on imports were officially enacted Aug. 7, ranging between 10% and 50%, depending on the country and product. While the tariffs were levied on all manner of imported goods, they may be particularly undigestible in the food sector.

Maine food businesses and shoppers seeing higher costs as tariffs hit

The hefty tariffs are raising prices on items ranging from cheese to coffee, and businesses are figuring out how to absorb the costs – or pass them on to customers.

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · Aug 13

Useful stuff to include in ETII @twaring.bsky.social

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · Jul 19

It's hard to stomach sometimes how much I resent people I know who voted for this.

Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Jul 19

Waking up to learn that the EPA office of Research and Development, which supports environmental science and informs environmental policymaking has been eliminated.
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EPA eliminates its scientific research arm

The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · Jul 19

Complexity science indirectly discovers democratic municipalism as an optimal solution to democratic governance. cool work by the folks at @vcsi.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... may be of interest @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social

Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem - npj Complexity

npj Complexity - Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem

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TLZ @fettfanlange.bsky.social · Jul 11

These are tough but necessary questions for early career. Worth thinking about tenure incentives and how they contributes. Not on that track currently, but if I were, shouldn't the quality of the lines of my CV should matter more than the quantity? Not sure that's the case currently.

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · Jul 11

This is a good piece and scientists should read it. The bit about research design goes by quick, but it shouldn’t be missed. There is so often a failure to tangle with thorny questions like “what am I trying to learn?” and “why is it important that I learn it?”

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 9

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jul 7

ICE's average annual budget through FY 2029 is now going to be $27.6 billion, which makes it a higher-funded agency than the FBI, ATF, DEA, U.S. Marshals Service, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

We are looking at a level of federal law enforcement in communities not seen in generations.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · Jul 7

Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...

Congress Gives ICE More Money Than It Could Have Ever Imagined

It’s impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget.

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