Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

A website to honor all the Gaza academics and scholars and their legacy murdered by the US-Israeli imperialism. rememberinggazascholars.org

"We're so disgusted with our government's policy of deliberately causing misery for the Cuban people." Read more from Medea Benjamin in Le Monde.

When people choose to not talk about "politics", it is usually because they directly benefit from it.

"Palestine, while in unspeakable pain, should inspire the world to resist the monsters to achieve emancipation, justice, dignity, and equality."

Fundamental documentary by @abbymartin.bsky.social reporting the grave environmental (on top of the already devastating human) cost, of US imperialism.

"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics." In her speech at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Yara Hawari examines the brutal reality of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

By Sony Thang... Americans love to say, "We are better than this." When? During slavery? During Jim Crow? During Vietnam? During coups in Latin America? During Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Palestine? At what exact point was this mythical moral golden age?

Where is the outrage from scientists said to defend science?

Le doyen de la faculté des sciences de l’Université libanaise, à Hadath, Hussein Bazzi, ainsi que Mortada Srour, un professeur sont décédés suite à une frappe israélienne d’un drone a visé le bâtiment universitaire. Hussein Bazzi : ul.edu.lb/en/teachers/... #ESR

And another massacre post-My Lai: in 1988 the US fired two missiles at the civilian flight Iran Air 655, while it was transmitting civilian identification codes, killing all 290 occupants, including 65 children.

Someone corrected me and pointed out that the Minab massacre follows the Amiriyah massacre in Iraq in 1991, when the US massacred over 400 civilians taking refuge in a shelter.

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”

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I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!

The US-Israeli criminal pedo-military complex now killed several scientists by targeting the Faculty of Science in the Lebanese University.

This is a picture of Tehran now. Covered in thick black toxic clouds of smoke, raining oil on 9 million people with cancerous polluted air entering every lung. People breathing this. Animals breathing this. Trees breathing this. A humanitarian and environmental catastrophe.

Sorry to say it, but it's true, X is proving to be the best source of news and valuable information at this time than any other social media platform I am on. The tip is to use the "following" option, which restricts your feed to only those you've chosen to follow, rather than the algorithm feed.

Happy Women's Day to all!

The U.S. and Israel continue to be the biggest threats to children (and humanity).

The world's two rogue states, Israel and the USA, have started a war not against Iran but against the whole world. We stand with Iranians, with Humanity, against the notion that Israel and the US can bomb anyone their fancy takes them to bomb. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

“This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war”

THE STORY OF CAPITAL OUT NOW

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Honestly, any us-american thinking they were “moral” before Trump is a brainwashed fool.

As shocking as the Trump administration’s abduction of Nicolas Maduro was, a look through The Nation’s archives reveals that US intervention in Venezuela—and hunger for its old—goes back over 100 years. Richard Kreitner lays it all out here. https://bit.ly/4bMj9B7

They simply can't help themselves. It's utterly pathological.

this is so good. it also reminds me of the time media outlets sane-washed Neuralink's first human patient trial. WSJ said the company fixed "a problem" with the wiring ahead of their second volunteer. the problem? 85 PERCENT OF THE WIRES DETACHED FROM HIS BRAIN www.popsci.com/health/neura...

Across #Gaza, nearly 90% of all school buildings have been damaged or destroyed during the war. Children are now being taught by UNRWA teams in temporary learning spaces or through digital learning. Come what may, now like then, #UNRWAworks

“The genome is a source of resources that cells can use” Phillip Ball in taking about organism’s agency

Want to learn the ins and outs of diversification, trait and biogeographic evolution models? I will be giving another edition of "Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods" in Oct! @tscourses.bsky.social www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evol...

so is it a common experience that the same dudes who were super into crypto like 7 years ago are the same dudes that are super into ai hype now? is it just the same group of guys getting scammed over and over while they lecture us normies about how we are missing out because we are stupid?

"Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation." Unbelievably stupid. theintercept.com/2023/10/29/w...

C'est une catastrophe sanitaire et écologique. Si rien n'est fait, le coût des polluants éternels atteindra 1 700 milliards d'euros d'ici à 2050. Les PFAS doivent être interdits. Il y a urgence. www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Same story over and over. These larpers - Kirkegard, Pesta et al - pumping out the same effluence with their strategy - exposed by @harryshukman.bsky.social + @hopenothate.org.uk - to normalise and spread scientific racism. They KNOW it's bullshit too. Read this: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Gaza's children have been abandoned. But you can give them food, shelter, and water. Please donate anything you can to this verified Palestinian charity. chuffed.org/project/1640...

Big Oil has a long history of interference in Latin America. Documents reveal that "Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial," invest in "market-oriented public policies" and ensure "continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.” 😑

A very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

Time to update the list of US military interventions in Latin America.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

The US empire continues killing and pillaging without remorse or accountability, with most of its brainwashed population believing they are the moral ones.

Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity. Apply here no later than February 11 2026: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1

"How Europe and “the west” responds to Trump now and the actions that governments take downstream from that is going to set the path for 2026. Because Trump isn’t just a rogue, out-of-control president, America is a rogue state. And the longer we fail to acknowledge that, the more danger we are in."

Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.