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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Nature is as much about the evolved connections between species as the actual species themselves. EcoSYSTEMS. 🌎

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 21/03/2025

Thatcher’s claim, that there’s no such thing as society, although wildly wrong in 1987, is starting to smell a bit like a self-fulfilling prophecy

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Don’t threaten me with a good time

A notification I just got:

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fully-funded PhD position on the cultural evolution of environmental management! Link evolution, ecology and behavioral science in the ACE Lab timwaring.info Details: forms.gle/gZWK9BpwYfoG... @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @alexmesoudi.com @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social @michael.muthukrishna.com

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ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory

culture, evolution, cooperation, and sustainability

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 10/03/2025

The number of resilient, purely individualistic societies so far discovered is zero.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Not a novel observation, but the economic system we've adopted was developed by men like Musk to benefit men like Musk. That anyone else has benefitted at all is largely thanks to efforts to constrain that system.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What are the risks of extreme wealth? Join us on 6 March, 6.30pm for a panel discussion with Fernanda Balata, @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social, @garyseconomics.bsky.social, @deschuttero.bsky.social and Tania Burchardt as they explore the viability of an extreme wealth line. Register here:

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Where do we draw the line? Exploring an extreme wealth line

Public event at LSE | Ingrid Robeyns, Olivier De Schutter, Fernanda Balata, Gary Stevenson, Tania Burchardt | Thurs 6 March, 6.30 to 8.00pm

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 05/03/2025

Resilient societies have mechanisms to constrain sociopaths’ ambitions. Decades of neoliberalism have empowered rapacious sociopaths to the point that they can openly destroy what few constraints remain, and take all community resources. This is precisely the dynamic of late-stage cancer.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 23/02/2025

Is this a surprise? Didn’t Trump publicly say that “we’ll fix it so you won’t have to vote anymore” while campaigning?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 20/02/2025

One of the hallmarks of cancer is immune system evasion.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 20/02/2025

I’m curious: which problems do you see as most directly related?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 14/02/2025

If I don’t get this, where on the distribution am I?

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Important piece on the role of Ockham's razor in the modern world of scientific modeling in @pnas.org. Conclusion: Complex models can be quite useful, and parsimony and complexity can complement each other in helping us to gain new insights! doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Is Ockham’s razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony | PNAS

The preference for simple explanations, known as the parsimony principle, has long guided the development of scientific theories, hypotheses, and m...

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 09/02/2025

Could there be any stronger indicator of an attempted transition to full-blown kleptocracy?

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Sri Kosuri @srikosuri.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendritic cell sarcoma (IDCS). I’m reaching out to identify clinicians/patients who have encountered pediatric IDCS or other (non-LCH) dendritic or histiocytic sarcomas cases.

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won. What now? A 🧵. 1/ t.co/FKxxmLyfce

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 05/02/2025

I seem to remember this guy talking about how we need his EVs and rooftop solar to deal with climate change. Isn’t this contrary to his business interests?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 03/02/2025

Any thoughts on the new administration’s real strategic aims with their tariffs? Presumably they realise the costs to the US consumer; why do they want that?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 03/02/2025

Explain it to me like I’m ten years old: how can a company expect to successfully sue other companies for not buying their services?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 30/01/2025

There is a huge number of highly trained scientists and technologists in Europe who are currently not working in those fields due to underfunding of universities and public research institutions. If you want groundbreaking tech, perhaps consider funding positions for the people who can create it.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 30/01/2025

I appreciate a distaste for bureaucrazy. I also note that every known resilient complex system is full of complex regulation mechanisms.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 28/01/2025

Do ideologues ever appreciate systemic complexity?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 27/01/2025

There are now much more efficient ways to review and share research findings. Society would be richer if this industry were regulated out of existence.

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 26/01/2025

Vet friend at a conference is trying to focus and this dolphin has other ideas

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The supreme irony of Germany offering sanctuary and opportunities to scientists unable to work in fascist USA is knocking on the door.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 11/01/2025

If the purpose of the economy is to exploit and extract and generate as much inequality as possible, marketising everything does indeed seem to be optimal.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 08/01/2025

First thing that comes to mind is the fire brigades scene from Gangs of New York, in which competition between providers takes precedence over fighting the fire. Those were amateur brigades. Should be much better when big money is at stake, right?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 05/01/2025

I think this is plausible if managers assume that academics will do the work unpaid, which they probably do. Still seems like bad management though. If researchers have more (unpaid) time for research, they’ll publish more (on average) and increase grant success rates, bringing in more money.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 05/01/2025

Does anyone understand why this is so common? Why do senior managers in academia so often insist on paying Drs and Profs their going salaries to do what could be done by people whose time is much cheaper?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 03/01/2025

Any device that moves heat up a temperature gradient (from a colder to a hotter space) is a heat pump. When we’re talking about buildings though, if the heat is being pumped out, we call it AC, and if the heat is being pumped in, we call it a heat pump. Not sure why!

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 03/01/2025

How will this make more money for meta? User-level rather than just feed-level optimisation for engagement?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 29/12/2024

Among my many favourite things about living where cities were built for people and horses is that I don’t need to own a car. Having ‘needed’ one for 15 years in Australia, it’s hard to overstate the reduction in stress, costs, danger and inconvenience that comes from never having to drive.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 27/12/2024

Ah the green growth good old days. Sounded like magic back then too but enough smart people got behind it and we all wanted to believe…

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 27/12/2024

I’m just a guy, standing in front of an army of EV enthusiasts, asking them to give performance numbers in mass specific units.

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 26/12/2024

Anyone else old enough to remember when the IT revolution was going to decouple economic growth from ecological impact?

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 26/12/2024

Yeah but the second type is theoretically optimal because very smart people who solve dynamical systems by assuming away time evolution proved it. So get ready for paradise

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Andrew Ringsmuth @andrewringsmuth.com · 25/12/2024

A human is composed of ~37 trillion cells, each descended from unicellular organisms that, over evolutionary time, learned the benefits of cooperation. Even the staunchest libertarian is themselves an elaborately regulated community four orders of magnitude larger than the global human population.

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