Reposted by Chris FriesenNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In 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. 391765683
Reposted by Chris FriesenJen 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...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA 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 596165407118
Reposted by Chris FriesenAustralasian 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.auutas.edu.auAvailable projects for research degrees | University of Tasmania - Family life in the wild: Linking genes, social behaviour, and population dynamicsThis PhD will investigate the genetic and ecological mechanisms underp... 053
Reposted by Chris FriesenMartin Whiting @lizardlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New 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 02742
Reposted by Chris FriesenBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026These 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. 440107123483
Reposted by Chris FriesenACLU @aclu.org · 26/08/2026Trans youth deserve the freedom to be themselves. 9699138
Reposted by Chris FriesenGil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026It'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... 30896622814
Chris Friesen @cpictus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026open.spotify.com/track/4u3oXu...open.spotify.comCloser To The HeartRush · A Farewell To Kings · Song · 1977 100
Reposted by Chris FriesenLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A Senate candidate talking about the Powell memo???? Pinch me, am I dreaming???? 12968131934
Reposted by Chris FriesenCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/20261. 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.nytimes.comTrump’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. 5120221139
Reposted by Chris FriesenDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/07/2026Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.science.orgThe Assault On Science Funding Continues 9809254
Reposted by Chris FriesenMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.gizmodo.comElon 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. 30154521398
Reposted by Chris Friesen@PabloRecio93 @pablorecio93.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Paper 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…] 1113
Reposted by Chris FriesenJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I will not be listening to opinions on gender and biology from those who think women originated from a rib cage… 455156552896
Reposted by Chris FriesenWarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 07/07/2026There is not a single large oil refinery left in Russia that has not been attacked by Ukraine, says Zelenskyy. 18865168
Reposted by Chris FriesenDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Tens of thousands celebrated Budapest Pride, the first since Viktor Orbán’s ousting.pbs.orgTens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted outSaturday'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 ... 34212874724
Reposted by Chris FriesenbioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thermally driven sex reversal reveals divergent sex determination dynamics in wild viviparous reptile populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 031
Reposted by Chris FriesenDana Bergstrom @danambergstrom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Essential reading for Australians👇👇👇👇👇 Foreign interference in Aus politics Thanks @auspoldaily.bsky.social for such clear articulation 22315
Reposted by Chris FriesenAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Buttigieg: 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 413153453737
Reposted by Chris FriesenDr. 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) 094
Reposted by Chris FriesenKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026It’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. 23980482825
Reposted by Chris FriesenANU Research School of Biology @biologyanu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Join 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 021
Reposted by Chris FriesenEnvironmental 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... #ThisIsUOWdoi.orgLife-history strategy mediates the effects of multiple developmental stressors on Australian lizardsAbstract. Maternal stress and the developmental environment jointly affect offspring fitness and phenotype during early life. Mothers transmit stress to of 121
Reposted by Chris FriesenThe Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 11/05/2026Not all problems are caused by personal choices.tcnv.linkNudge theory was all about taking responsibility – but it allowed big business to look the other wayNot all problems are caused by personal choices. 199
Reposted by Chris FriesenDana 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 ! 061
Reposted by Chris FriesenR. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act! 21492672597
Reposted by Chris FriesenDavid Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026History 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 0227
Reposted by Chris Friesenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/04/2026i 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. 313377349
Reposted by Chris FriesenLisa 🇨🇦 @peacewind.aero · 24/04/2026Jessica 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) 823750607
Reposted by Chris FriesenThe Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 25/04/2026Russians do not fall into a single, neat, complicit mass.theconversation.comThe Russian resistance no one is talking aboutRussians do not fall into a single, neat, complicit mass. 0109
Reposted by Chris FriesenTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22/04/20261. 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…justice.govFederal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money LaunderingA 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... 631658668
Reposted by Chris FriesenTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/04/20261/7. 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. 131533482
Reposted by Chris FriesenJournal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The #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/... 085
Reposted by Chris FriesenUniversity of Minnesota School of Nursing @umnnursing.bsky.social · 01/04/2026After 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... 4545851481
Reposted by Chris Friesenemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Oof. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb... 311213412
Reposted by Chris FriesenTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026If 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. 520269358469
Reposted by Chris FriesenKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Make 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"reuters.comHow falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar powerOutside Abu Dhabi, a vast area of desert is being carpeted with solar panels. 732313674
Reposted by Chris FriesenPhebe Fidge @phebefidge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026New research from the the University of Wollongong assessing how #coastalwetlands respond to fire disturbance! 🔥🚒 Read more in @theillawarraflame.bsky.socialtheillawarraflame.com.auSmoke on the water: When bushfires strike vulnerable wetlandsUniversity of Wollongong researchers are beginning to understand how coastal wetlands are responding to damage from bushfires six years ago 011
Reposted by Chris FriesenDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/03/2026We 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...open.substack.comLiving in a Time of Lunatics and MonstersLet's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War 531879667
Reposted by Chris FriesenRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/03/2026I agree with a lot of this, worth reading: www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...friendlyatheist.comBefore you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read thisThe narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious. 39754136
Reposted by Chris FriesenAustralasian 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 🚣🏻♂️ 072
Reposted by Chris FriesenAustralasian 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 📷 0193
Reposted by Chris FriesenKate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Stoked 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...dynamicecology.wordpress.comThe value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate LaskowskiWelcome 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… 13924
Reposted by Chris FriesenAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026In my personal newsletter: A resistance Mister Rogers would be proud of. amandalitman.substack.com/p/mister-rog...amandalitman.substack.comMr. Rogers' ResistanceA politics of neighborliness 18613
Reposted by Chris FriesenTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/01/2026There 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...nytimes.comVideo: How Battlefield Tech Was Used in MinneapolisOur 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... 14139061415