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Does physics still need experiment? | https://buff.ly/3CWfNMI Join Massimo Pigliucci and Rupert Sheldrake to question if science has drifted dangerously into fantasy. 🧪 ⚛️

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#News: Tesso Nilo National Park in #Sumatra #indonesia 🇮🇩has lost 78% of primary forest since 2009 due to illegal #palmoil plantations, endangering species like #tigers #orangutans #elephants. Help them survive! #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🔥⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/tes...

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Oh. #NewZealand #Australia #China

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"... neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists."

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As Trump leans into AI, automated systems are already ruining lives. A new organization is out to stop it.

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EUA: Ambientalistas processam para barrar planos de Trump

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Concern over rising environmental disinformation in Germany as it prepares for snap election

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Visitors who make the trek to Australia's largest salt lake will no longer be able to walk on its dry bed as a new management plan comes into force. But a local recreational sailing club has labelled the ban "a joke" and pledged to continue advocating for access.

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La empresa de redes sociales de Trump demanda a un juez del Supremo de Brasil que investiga a Bolsonaro

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Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account

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Philosophy of science in Ibero-America The list is far from complete. Please feel free to suggest additions, including your own name. Apologies in advance for any omissions. Thank you! go.bsky.app/4XmN14i

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Brazil continuously under destruction in the globalized neoliberal world. O Brasil continuamente sendo destruído no mundo globalizado neoliberal. sumauma.com/belo-sun-iba...

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god damn hippies www.wired.com/story/ketami...

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A revised version of "Minimum Viable Experiment to Replicate" is up, where we expound why standard expectations from replications are unrealistic and experiments that may deliver on those replications are rare, if not nonexistent. #metasci #sts #philsci philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24720/7/Mini...

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True words.

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39°C, and this is La Nina...

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🌱 Vol 8 No 2 has sprouted! 🐞 🦀 🐙 Joe reviews #InvertebrateJustice (2024), praising Durrant’s push for greater justice considerations, but critiques the author's sentientist stance, arguing for a more #Ecocentric approach. #GreenCriminology www.ecologicalcitizen.net/pdfs/epub-12...

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"The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they're selling: their ideas, their notion of inevitability. We may be many & they be few but they need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she's on her way. I can hear her breathing.” - Arundhati Roy

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The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is currently in the southern Atlantic Ocean. This iceberg is roughly the size of Rhode Island, and originally broke free from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986 before getting stuck on the sea floor until 2020.

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Brazil: new oil & gas round with 332 exploratory blocks across several onshore and offshore basins. www.offshore-energy.biz/brazil-in-fo...

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A powerful Brazilian soy grower lobby is recommending farmers reject the inclusion in soy purchase and sale contracts of the obligation to comply with the European Union anti-deforestation law. #EUDR uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brazil-...

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Starting to understand better why analytic philosophers always talk about hypothetical other worlds, zombies, and brains in vats...

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Seafood firm offers bounty to catch 27,000 escaped salmon off Norway Mowi to give fishers £36 per fish after loss from farm in what campaigners say is a ‘disaster for wild salmon’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon Open-net farms to continue despite numbers of wild fish halving as minister looks for ‘acceptable’ pollution levels www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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For those interested in collective intentionality: my new paper has just been published (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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A very curious young Urubu (Black Vulture - Coragyps atratus) just landed outside my office window at the University...

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Potential Health Impacts, Treatments, and Countermeasures of Martian Dust on Future Human Space Exploration agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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It's striking how prescient Isaac Asimov was when he introduced the Laws of Robotics in 1942. I'm reading "Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI" in IEEE Spectrum and brainstorming updates. How would you adapt the Laws of Robotics for AI? spectrum.ieee.org/isaac-asimov... #AI #Robotics

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"Can a book be ahead of its time by 50 years?! The answer is a definitive ‘yes’ in the case of this phenomenal book by Francisco Varela. A real gem of a book about the philosophical foundations of biology and so much more." - Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

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⚖️ 🇪🇺 Estrasburgo firma la 'Declaración Europea de los Derechos de los Animales'. La firma simboliza una nueva etapa en el reconocimiento y la protección de los derechos animales en Europa. ¿Cuál será la primera ciudad española en firmarla? Por Malou Amselek

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Since I just had cause to consult this I thought it was useful to signal boost this spreadsheet @drmjcwarren.bsky.social initiated where people can anonymously report their advance/royalty rates from academic publishers. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Roman Krznaric: Protesto é essencial contra crise do clima

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Another clean energy company says no to deep sea mining First Solar bars use of deep-sea minerals, early win for ESG group www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #StopDeepSeaMining

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Jameson (1981) on the idea that Communism would not change the fact that life is meaningless, but would change how the meaninglessness of life feels...

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Pour imposer le monde artificiel et inhumain que nous préparent transhumains et fascistes, il faut d'abord effacer toute mémoire de nos civilisations passées, du monde que nous habitons, de ce que nous avons été, de ce que nous sommes www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-n...

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Falling space junk poses a growing risk to traveler safety — and could harm the economy, experts warn

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Vehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high Alps

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A column today - what the hell happened to being "nature positive"? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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#Government is being treated as a beta release. "That is to say, none of this is ready to launch. But technological capacity is not the point": mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th... #ethics #AI #tech

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In case you need a distraction from... gestures broadly at everything here's a cool 🚨NEW PREPRINT🚨: Philosopher of medicine Cristian Saborido and I tackle the question of whether animals engage in medical practices. Spoiler alert: we think they very much do👇🧵 1/20

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Hannah Arendt in 1958 describing what Trump and Musk are doing now (and why so little is being done to stop them)...

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Cómo hacer frente al odio.

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Your Sunday Read: An interview with Ian James Kidd on his overview of philosophical misanthropy, defined as "the systematic condemnation of the moral character of humankind as it has come to be." #Philosophy www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/why-mis...