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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there's a continuum of closeness, see book above. Sure, anything done passionately with some rules can be poetic to someone, but a lot of mediums of expression rely more on physical craftsmanship and less on patterned permutations of abstract ideas.

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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 1d

Of the ones I know somewhat, I think Lakoff and Nuñez, Reuben Hersh, Saunders Mac Lane wrote about math in this vein.
george-lakoff.com/books/where-...

Where Mathematics Comes From

Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being

george-lakoff.com

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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 1d

Good proofs are mostly perceived as beautiful.

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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 1d

In the cognitive sense, both math and poetry are interconnected structures of abstract ideas and images, with rules, that are aesthetically pleasing (for some people). A matrix or wave function is poetic as a building block of a structure, inducing an idea/image in the brain, like a line of a poem.

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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 1d

Mathematical visualizations are poetry.

Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 1d

Niels Bohr was born on this day in 1885.

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”

🧪 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci #PhilSky

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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 1d

First as tragedy, then as farce.

Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 1d

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Ann-Sophie Barwich @smellosopher.bsky.social · Aug 27

And we are live!

"Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain"
A.S. Barwich, S.J. Firestein, M. R. Dietrich
European Journal of Neuroscience

Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#NeuroSky #neuro #neuroscience #philsci #hps #sts

Wider Than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World Onto the Brain

Challenging the topographic paradigm: The olfactory system's dynamic organization and phenomena like representational drift challenge traditional spatial mapping models, advocating for flexible, r...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · 2d

🧠📈 Do neurons of a feather flock together? Not quite.

New evidence shows that neurons of the same specific type tend to avoid each other in space, supporting the mosaic hypothesis in the cortex.

📄 Read the @cp-cellreports.bsky.social study: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

US: drill baby drill. kill green industries & put pressure on allies to buy US oil

China: double down on green tech & step in to power the whole world’s green transition
I interview Mathias Larsen, on our new Hopkins report. A BRI 2.0
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25d

the amount of Chinese investment in green manufacturing plants around the developing world is mind boggling.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

It's rare and refreshing to see a politician who views Palestine-Israel through the lens of universal values of human rights, and not as two opposing teams of exclusionary ethnonationalisms that you have to choose between.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Artemy Kolchinsky @artemyte.bsky.social · 2d

After a long time in the making, my paper on nonequilibrium thermodynamics of Darwinian evolution has been published in Philosophical Transactions B. Updated version: arxiv.org/abs/2112.02809

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 2d

What if the chaotic-looking patterns in dryland vegetation were actually hiding a deep order? Check our new @pnas.org paper on "disordered hyperuniformity": a hidden structure with big implications for sustainability in Earth’s most fragile ecosystems.https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2504496122

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 20d

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?

Then check out our new preprint, lead by
Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 6d

Electric fields shape biological structure. Is there any doubt they shape neural processing? Spoiler alert: No.
Field-mediated bioelectric basis of morphogenetic prepatterning
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Field-mediated bioelectric basis of morphogenetic prepatterning

The endogenous electric field of a simplified bioelectric network model of an embryo facilitates the autonomous formation of voltage patterns. Transient exogenous electric fields can leverage this pro...

www.cell.com

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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 3d

and undermined the geopolitical conditions that had made a British-led liberal order possible”.

A great read.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-e...

The end of Pax Britannica

A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order, destined to replace it. The experience of Britain's imperial past suggests that this transfor...

engelsbergideas.com

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Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 3d

treasure trove of tools

Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social!

It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.

A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code

We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems

👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab

Jan Okorn @okornjan.bsky.social · 3d

Moving family saga of attitudes to otherness from the decolonization of Indonesia to present-day Netherlands.

Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 3d

The echoes of my grandmother Charlotte’s letters carry into the present: once files weighed people as ‘Western-oriented’ or ‘assimilable’; now forms speak of safe-country lists, case prioritisation and queues. The terms shift while families still have to fight to stay together.

New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 3d

A trove of family documents reveals how Dutch-Indonesian families were caught between two worlds as an empire collapsed. @chrisosieck.bsky.social writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on a painful personal story that crosses continents and generations.

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 8d

What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the paper, open access: nature.com/articles/s41...

And here is an interactive website with time-series data from 2000 to 2022: doughnuteconomics.org/doughnut

Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature

A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

nature.com

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 3d

Highly recommended. My impression so far: Tons of political economy insight, with a good amount of French sprinkled in (and a pinch of Latin). All produced, it seems, at Tooze speed.

cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 3d

Friends, I have a substack with my thoughts and others on current events and megatrends from an international political economy perspective. geoeconomic.substack.com

Geoeconomic | Substack

Cornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program. Click to read Geoeconomic, a Substack publication with hu...

geoeconomic.substack.com

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Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social · 6d

Simply reducing beef and lamb consumption to one serving a week -- as recommended by EAT-Lancet -- could reduce emissions by almost 3 billion tons CO2-eq. The equivalent of all of Russia's annual emissions.

Thanks to @melinawalling.bsky.social for including my thoughts in this article.

Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 6d

“People associate what they eat with identity and strict diets can scare people off, but even small changes help." - @enviroem.bsky.social

Do you agree? Let us know in the comments below! Read the full article in @apnews.com

apnews.com/article/plan...

A recipe for avoiding 15 million deaths a year and climate disaster is fixing food, scientists say

Scientists are presenting new evidence that the worst effects of climate change can’t be avoided without a major transformation of food systems.

apnews.com

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ShouraHashemi @shourahashemi.bsky.social · 4d

Großer Fan der britischen Senior*innen, die wissen, dass sie weder Jobs noch existenzielle Grundlagen zu verlieren haben, keine Drohanrufe bekommen, und damit auch freier gegen Ungerechtigkeit kämpfen können - und das auch tun!

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: turns out the EU helped finance a bunch of spyware companies with..public money.

Extremely bad look.

Group of MEPs calls for action.👇

apache.be/2025/10/01/e...

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