So true.

All hype about the power of facilitating "human-AI collaboration" aside, we don't quickly implement extremely strong norms of disclosure around AI use, science is cooked. From arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12282, one of many many efforts in this direction.

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Words of Freedom from the height of the Free Speech Movement.

There goes the First Amendment.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

Received my copy of this formidable doorstopper. A thousand pages on how cultures change. In Chapter 66, with @twaring.bsky.social and Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, we consider how the science of cultural change can be applied to... ...change culture more, and climate less. Or so we hope.

The count down starts for #CESRabat! Follow @ces2026.bsky.social and join us May 11-13 next year for an exciting meeting in Rabat, Morocco. Massive thanks to the #CESRabat organising committee: Sarah Alami (co-chair) Mathieu Charbonneau (co-chair) Zachary Garfield Edmond Seabright

I've been thinking for a while that humans have expanded beyond the scale of the individual and need to start thinking about emergence when dealing with social issues. Today, I'm reading this paper...

🚨 Excited to share a new paper 📃, years in the making, with Zach Wood. We propose that human evolution is characterized as an Evolutionary Transition in Inheritance and Individuality (ETII). Explainer and OA paper below:

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.

If you want to help the people in Gaza, this is a very worthwhile cause- Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza is a Palestinian-Israeli partnership working to bring immediate, life-saving solutions to the hardest-hit communities. support.arava.org/jumpstarting...

States To Take Up Health Fight Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Consider regional approach to vaccine guidance after CDC changes www.nbcboston.com/news/local/n... #Vaccines #CDC

The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)

As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.

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Still in Norway enjoying the fjords. Well done, Slartibartfast.

The Cultural Evolution Society is offering Teaching Innovation Awards to foster the growth as an academic field

Students? @seancarleton.bsky.social

Reminder: It does not matter if Lisa Cook filled out a form wrong or if the raid finds some document in a file folder in John Bolton's house. These actions are wrong no matter what because they selectively target opponents of the government. The rule of law is under attack.

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵 🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards. 🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

Rethinking where and how we publish in health sciences doi.org/10.51224/SRX...

Something academia could learn from the world of business. But instead science funding is increasingly about flagships and "strategic" funds (and downstream Matthew-effects).

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Do you love alpine plants, ancient DNA, and/or population genetics? My lab will be hiring a postdoc soon to be based at the University of Maine! We’re looking for someone who uses genetic tools and thinks like a community ecologist. Happy to chat at #ESA2025 if you’re interested.

As we near prime #mushroom hunting season, you might be interested in how, why, when, and where humans across cultures have interacted with the fungal kingdom. That's all available in my recent global review of folk-mycological traditions: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic 4: "Galactus is coming! Everyone needs to use less power if we're going to survive." "Let's do it, F4!" Real life: "Climate crisis is coming! Everyone needs to use slightly less power." Techbros: "Here's a supercomputer that only tells lies and uses more power than Argentina."

Full solution here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fermi #smbc

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

We are pleased to announce our newly elected committee members of the Cultural Evolution Society: Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Welcome and congratulations!!

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

Just sayin’

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

What are the best games (any platform/medium, but preferable multiplayer) that has mechanisms of evolution at their heart?

Globally, we produce sufficient food that no one needs to go hungry. A lack of general AI is not the problem here. This is not a tech problem. It's a societal and values problem.

We're thrilled to announce upcoming ACE Teaching Innovation Awards, made possible by Eric & Peggy Peterson. This aims to empower teachers through access to course materials in the CES Teaching Library. Selected applicants will also be able to consult with winners of the ACE Course Design Awards.

Vatican solar farm will make it the world’s first carbon neutral state.

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President should not be allowed to trade stocks. Ban insider trading now.

Here are some nice mushrooms

Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling I'm happy to be joining Peter Søgaard Jørgensen on his Anthropocene Navigator research project, which is looking for an integrative, trans-disciplinary postdoc on modeling global-scale social, economic and political dynamics in the Anthropocene.…

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

'Hello human, nice to meet you'

A classic coordination failure: everyone makes excuses for why they go along with authoritarianism rather than resisting. And democracy and the rule of law crumble. We thought our institutions and culture were stronger, but we are following Hungary's path.

Postdoc in agent-based human-earth system modelling We are looking for a modeller with experience in agent-based or human earth system modelling and with interest in transdisciplinary sustainability science as part of the Anthropocene navigator project in a two-three year position in Stockholm.