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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.

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Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Powerful clip @johnthejack.bsky.social on the BPS model for #MECFS It meant he was “an unreliable witness” to his own body, he could get better if he just changed his thinking and his behaviour. People viewed him differently, they thought they knew what he needed better than him.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Zack Polanski, "Palantir.. £240 million contract last month" "That was lobbied by Global Counsel which is Peter Mandelson's lobbying group" "The idea that a defence company from the US has its fingerprints all over our healthcare system, alongside Peter Mandelson"

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Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This hit home: "And it felt tremendously tough – depressing much of the time, arduous almost all of the time, but then occasionally joyful, inspiring, even triumphant when it came together." Prof Sir Ian Chapman - new chief executive of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) www.ukri.org/publications...

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Four images to illustrate some prominent single-gene myths. Top left shows a photograph of a person deftly rolling their tongue into a U-shape. Top right shows a photograph of a person’s ear, highlighting the shape and features of the earlobe and cartilage. Bottom left shows a close-up photograph of a person’s eye, with a vivid blue colouration. Bottom right shows a photograph of a person poised to write with their left hand on the blank white page of a spiral-bound notebook.

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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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Vlad Vexler @vladvexler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I've just translated Dmitry Glukhovsky's powerful post on Russia's moral catastrophe. It's too good to leave to Google Translate. Read it for a rare perspective on how Russians should talk to themselves. 1/x

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Karen Hargrave @karenlhargrave.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I found some time recently to sit down and write for our #ThereForMe blog. In my day job I’ve spent a lot of time lately thinking about narratives. Some thoughts on why #ME and #LongCovid narratives matter - and how we can change them for the better. www.thereforme.uk/p/from-yuppi...

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From ‘yuppie flu' to ’anti-recovery activists’

Why narratives around ME and Long Covid matter – and how to change them

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/11/2024

Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

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