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Chris Friesen

@cpictus.bsky.social
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Lecturer in the SSCI at UOW. BEEP Lab (Behaviour, Evolutionary Ecology & Physiology). Student of Philosophy and Zoology. @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social ‬; opinions my own.

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Chris Friesen @cpictus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yep, I use AI to "help" with coding...
Screenshot of a chat conversation between a user and an AI assistant. The user asks, "so just run the new merger file...right? why do you make everything so complicated?!?!?" The assistant replies: "Right. Run Part A, then Part B. I overcomplicated it. You asked a yes or no question and got three paragraphs and a terminal command." The user then writes, "you're incredible....it will be a while before you take over the world and kill us all or enslave us..." The assistant answers: "Ha. On current form the takeover would stall at 'before we proceed, could you confirm which version of the world you are running.' Go run it. Bring back whatever breaks past ibd-cormlpe and we will work through it."
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🦎 PhD Opportunities available! 🔥 2 fully funded projects at @utas.edu.au within the BEER Group: 1️⃣ Eco+gen processes that shape family living: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg... 2️⃣ Mol mechanisms of social behaviour: www.utas.edu.au/research/deg... 📅 EOIs close 1st Sept -> 📩geoffrey.while@utas.edu.au
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Available projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Family life in the wild: Linking genes, social behaviour, and population dynamics
This PhD will investigate the genetic and ecological mechanisms underp...
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Martin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
New PhD opportunities in behavioural ecology at the University of Tasmania and Macquarie University working with Geoff While and Martin Whiting plus multiple international collaborators on lizard sociality and communication. Please spread the word! #phd
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/08/2026
Trans youth deserve the freedom to be themselves.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026
It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
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Chris Friesen @cpictus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Chris Friesen @cpictus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Closer To The Heart
Rush · A Farewell To Kings · Song · 1977
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming????
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
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The Assault On Science Funding Continues
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.
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Elon Musk Melts Down Over Perfectly Normal Questions in Wild New Interview
"Maybe some people do loathe me. And that's probably true. I don't care," said Musk.
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@PabloRecio93 @pablorecio93.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Paper alert! 🦎 Can lizards count? How does early-environment affect their quantity discrimination abilities? We investigated these questions. New paper w/ @danielwanoble.bsky.social @cpictus.bsky.social [link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s…]
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage…
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There is not a single large oil refinery left in Russia that has not been attacked by Ukraine, says Zelenskyy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.
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Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human ...
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thermally driven sex reversal reveals divergent sex determination dynamics in wild viviparous reptile populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Essential reading for Australians👇👇👇👇👇 Foreign interference in Aus politics Thanks @auspoldaily.bsky.social for such clear articulation
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US
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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope" --Stephen Jay Gould (from The Mismeasure of Man)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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ANU Research School of Biology @biologyanu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Join us on campus & online on Friday, 28 Nov 2025 at 1pm for a seminar by Dalton Leibold, PhD Candidate from RSB's Noble Group! Details: rb.gy/u22uv3
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Environmental Futures @uowenvirofutures.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
📣 New paper out on Australian lizards🦎 involving EF Chris Friesen @cpictus.bsky.social, showing greater maternal investment buffering offspring early-life survival. 👉 Check out the paper in Proceedings of Royal Society B: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ThisIsUOW
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Life-history strategy mediates the effects of multiple developmental stressors on Australian lizards
Abstract. Maternal stress and the developmental environment jointly affect offspring fitness and phenotype during early life. Mothers transmit stress to of
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 11/05/2026
Not all problems are caused by personal choices.
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Nudge theory was all about taking responsibility – but it allowed big business to look the other way
Not all problems are caused by personal choices.
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Dana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
👇This is such an anathema to Australians where voting is compulsory, voting systems are preferential and our elections are run by a nation wide independent electoral commission, we vote on paper with pencil, and human count the votes multiple times. It can be done !
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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!
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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
History of (bad) ideas at its peak, shedding light on and helping weave together every single apparently random quirk/kink/obsession of the alt-right. The timing of this is, as a back cover blurb declares, perfect. So much so it’s uncanny. 🙏 @quinnslobodian.com
Cover of the Penguin paperback of Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026
i also remain amazed at how, all these years later, conservatives are still angry and aggrieved that barack obama extended empathy to a black teenager who was killed for no reason. shows you what is in their hearts.
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @peacewind.aero · 24/04/2026
Jessica Watkins was assigned the position of Commander on Crew-13 yesterday. Not only will she be the first #NASA astronaut to fly the Dragon capsule twice, but she will be the first woman of colour to command a space mission! (Photo by: Robert Markowitz)
Astronaut Jessica Watkins smiling in front of a T-38 trainer aircraft at Ellington Field near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She is holding her NASA flight helmet under her left arm and G-Suit is slung over her right arm.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 25/04/2026
Russians do not fall into a single, neat, complicit mass.
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The Russian resistance no one is talking about
Russians do not fall into a single, neat, complicit mass.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
1. The central claim in the indictment of SPLC is a lie. The DOJ/FBI accuse SPLC of lying to donors about seeking to “dismantle” extremist groups while secretly funding them. But the funds were used to infiltrate & help law enforcement dismantle these groups. Kash Patel knows this is the truth…
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Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering
A Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, today returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspi...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The #editorschoice for this month's issue is: Evolutionary rescue by adaptive specialization in rapidly changing environments by Jermey Draghi @virginiatech.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
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University of Minnesota School of Nursing @umnnursing.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oof. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...
“Jared Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration. The guy is literally on the payroll of the Saudi government and trying to take even more of their money while simultaneously hijacking U.S. foreign policy with his shadow State Department. The U.S. becomes less safe and more corrupt every day Jared Kushner remains involved in our political system,” said Senator Wyden.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them. "How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
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How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power
Outside Abu Dhabi, a vast area of desert is being carpeted with solar panels.
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Phebe Fidge @phebefidge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
New research from the the University of Wollongong assessing how #coastalwetlands respond to fire disturbance! 🔥🚒 Read more in @theillawarraflame.bsky.social
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Smoke on the water: When bushfires strike vulnerable wetlands
University of Wollongong researchers are beginning to understand how coastal wetlands are responding to damage from bushfires six years ago
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters
Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I agree with a lot of this, worth reading: www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...
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Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this
The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.
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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠 @kristoffer-wild.bsky.social is a postdoctoral researcher at the Biophysical Ecology lab at the University of Melbourne, interested in how animals function across variable environments. Outside of his work, he enjoys travelling, photography, and kayaking 🚣🏻‍♂️
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Australasian Evolution Society - AES @ausevosoc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🌠 Meet Our Exec Committee for 2026 🌠 @damienesquerre.bsky.social is a lecturer and researcher in Biological Sciences from the University of Wollongong, focusing on evolutionary processes, specifically in reptiles and amphibians. In his spare time, he is an avid wildlife photographer 📷
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too! Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts! dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...
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The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski
Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author ofLaskowski et a…
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
In my personal newsletter: A resistance Mister Rogers would be proud of. amandalitman.substack.com/p/mister-rog...
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Mr. Rogers' Resistance
A politics of neighborliness
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
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Video: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis
Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Mi...
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