“A brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian - where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone - is presented to us as ideal” - Badiou

Neo-liberalism has killed off imagination and creativity.

Fake references should lead to academic sanctions for the researchers involved, from both industry as well as from institutions. It needs to happen now, before every norm of academic integrity ends up sacrificed on the altar of production.

A fourth child has frozen to death in Gaza in just 10 days—two of them babies—as Israel continues blocking tents and winter shelter aid, despite UN supplies pre-positioned at the border that could immediately shelter more than 1.3 million displaced Palestinians.

possibly relevant:

The US continues as it always has, now they just lost all pretence. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

"LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."

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Yet another example of what happens if we allow LLMs to become a form of epistemic grounding for society.

I saw this at my Department during my PhD at the US, and is pasted in my current department as well. I don’t think it means what they think, and is wrong on so many levels… it is a failure as scientists

Because in China, industrial policy means investment can be directed toward what is most necessary; whereas in the West investment is directed toward what is most profitable to capital.

In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.

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In an era marked by rapid climate change and biodiversity loss, it is imperative that we continue to invest in the unique value of natural history collections data "Global sampling decline erodes science potential of natural history collections" 🧪

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

I’m going to regret asking this, but… what mechanism are people proposing whereby AI will “end scarcity”? This feels like literal underpants gnomes thinking, and as I never tire of pointing out, it’s being driven by a lot of the same actual people

🚨New paper out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you're interested morphological evolution, fossil phylogenetics, and macroevolution 🧪 "Assessing the impact of character evolution models on phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data"

"Spherical cows and bipedal goats: perspectives on mathematical models in biology". 13 and 14/11/2025 (Salle Jaurès, ENS-PSL, rue d'Ulm, Paris). More info about the event: montevil.org/talks/2025--...

Detecting Introgression in Shallow Phylogenies: How Minor Molecular Clock Deviations Lead to Major Inference Errors academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.

#PCM folks: What tools are out there for forward-in-time simulation under historical biogeography models (e.g., DEC) that include simulation of both range and lineage dynamics?

Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Each generation seems to rediscover the riddle of organismal agency: are organisms agents that pursue intrinsic goals—and how could we know? Our 📕 gathers historians, philosophers & scientists to explore this debate—now available in paperback!👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsky #HPS #evobio

Why is the U.S. targeting boats in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela?

The US has criminally murdered several latin americans, including Colombians. Most remain in silent complicity, those few who denounce it are called narco-terrorists.

As tensions escalate between Colombia and the United States, Colombia has recalled its ambassador from the U.S. back to Bogotá. Democracy Now! speaks to Ambassador Daniel García-Peña about the decision.

Did a new one

« La dette est le lieu d’un conflit de classes : l’État emprunte aux riches plutôt que de les taxer » : les explications du sociologue Benjamin Lemoine ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/o5q

L'ex-futur prix Nobel de la paix, Donald Trump, menace à présent la Colombie après le Venezuela sous le même prétexte du narcotrafic. Les menaces directes contre le Président Gustavo Petro n'ont qu'un sens : punir son engagement ferme et avancé contre le génocide à Gaza.

so "testing" means violating, got it

and my perspective piece on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Legend! @johncusack.bsky.social

Report from Gaza: Despite Ceasefire, Humanitarian Crisis Continues as Israel Severely Restricts Aid

How anyone can watch footage from Palestine without bursting into tears, I will never know.

Well done Liam for speaking up for Palestine.

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸

On Friday, we will host a discussion with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor. The topic will be Debt, Empire and the Future. It will be streamed on our Youtube channel. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLAT...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

The right (yes, “center” too) has become so utterly cynic (and, as usual, unimaginative) that they assume fulfilling the basic rights of people is not possible (nor desirable) and thus that anyone interested in providing just that must be lying or share their hidden intentions.

La France, pays qui reconnaît l’État de Palestine ET en même temps interdit illégalement les manifestations de soutien à la Palestine et les gaze si elles ont lieu.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Journalists are being massacred in Gaza and the U.S. is doing nothing to stop the bloodbath it’s bankrolling. Use our easy, new tool to tell Congress you’re fed up with the government’s inaction.

The problem is that anyone working towards justice is slowly being labeled a "terrorist." This is happening in Israel. It's happening in the US. And it's even happening in the UK and Germany. Don't you all see it?

Today I learned (on the Nazi site) that the first attempt to break Israel's siege on Gaza via a flotilla took place 15 yrs ago, in 2010. Israeli forces boarded the Mavi Marmara & killed 10 people. The youngest, 19 yr old Furkan Dogan, was shot five times from close range. He was an American citizen.

Tsunami of People in support of the Palestine!🇮🇹🇵🇸🔥I love Italy