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Naturalist, anthro nerd, animal lover. Clean living, pro-life, vegan, teetotal. Opinions may be sincere, satirical, or thought experiments. Retweets may or may not be agreeement. No harassment is intended.
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Is anything wrong with the Foucaltian approach? The history of human ideas? Things like psychiatry and sexology, despite the best efforts of sincere researchers in these fields, have scarcely been scientific. Foucalt's focus derives from the physician, Georges Canguilhem, who pondered disease.

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It might be true. Not all fictional works, nor fictional genres, are equally descriotive or verbose

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Id the ancestor the same as the descendant? When is the chicken, no longer the egg? (Or however you want to phrase it.)

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Analytic philosophers of science be like... #philsci

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Interesting informed proposal for a psychology of science. People who study causal learning, concept acquisition, updating of beliefs are already doing some of this. But this is more specific, including the idea of studying wellbeing in science, which i like a lot (especially if it covers illbeing!)

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Whatever one thinks of Musk, is he wrong to moderate what is, essentially, a website and app that he owns?

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Imagine a world in which we get what we deserve: a good death (I wrote the script for this BBC animation) www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos...

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Today I watched a crocodile, playing with his food

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As a child I always insisted, on looking inside a book, and not judging the book by its cover

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How Neotropical in nature does the Geisetal-Messel fauna look these days? A new description of a second Geisetal Eoconstrictor species, has this European Eocene genus, the sister to Neotropical boas academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

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Its all a confusing mess and it still is. Interesting he predicted a Tubulidentata + Macroscelididae clade. Amongst other little details

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Fertility vs longevity. George Williams meets UK Biobank. Here's my story of an old evolutionary theory meeting new data. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/s...

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Kind of amazed to see ring-necked pheasants on the list of top prey species for domestic cats. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Were Neanderthals morning people? The genes of today’s early risers certainly point that way. Here’s my story. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/s...

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Old familiar faces are not unique to us. Chimpanzees and bonobos show signs of recognizing ape acquaintances after more than 26 years. Here’s my story on the deep roots of long-term social memories. 🧪 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/s...

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'Pray the gay away' is ridiculous and odious, but the same religious therapy is used by Alcoholics Anonymous. Their activities are parallel, but curing alcoholism is universally seen as good. So no one criticises them for confusing religion with therapy.

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"Our desire for life itself, for a habitable planet, is being hijacked, manipulated, and commodified for profit and paid for in blood" Utterly **blistering** piece on the UAE buying up Kenyan land to justify its fossil expansion

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Only Catholics oppose conteaception, not mainline US evangelicals. This is the tired old 'womems bodies' narrative from the 1970s, plus alarmism to keep 20th century tripe relevant. The religious right are stuck in the Salem witch trials. Feminism is stuck in the 1970s.

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It has professional assassins, necromancy, rigorous historiography, Machiavelli & Michelangelo’s sex lives, politically active nuns, Viking fish paste, Lucrezia Borgia, disability studies, Shakespeare, Kristina of Sweden the transgender king, & fresh reasons Nazis suck. What more could one ask for?

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I've just arrived at Blue Sky and I have no followers 😞 what will happen if I post my awesome new blog post? Will anyone even see it? Maybe someone will take pity and repost me.

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Today seems like a good day to clear out some of the PDFs on my desktop. Gonna start with "Some Philosophical Questions About Telepathy and Clairvoyance," by Professor H. H. Price: www.jstor.org/stable/3746086

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This excellent paper by @harveylederman.bsky.social made me think that there are three philosophy topics which should be discussed together more than they are: - Multiple dimensions of value - Imprecise probabilities - Equilibrium selection rules A short thread to follow...

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