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ignacio quintero

@ignacioq.bsky.social
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CNRS Researcher at the Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris. website: ignacioq.github.io Evolutionary processes using stochastic models (usually on phylogenetic trees). Failed reincarnation of Montaigne.

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The fact that almost anyone think of condeming these evil, criminal and unlawful killings by the US says everything about how the lives of the global south, our lives, are considered as almost worthless.
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Kenneth De Baets @djbirddanerd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance #paleobiology #paleobiology #fossils #ecology #evolution #EarthHistory #biodiversity
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Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance
Fossil biotic interactions (fBIs) provide a critical but underutilized window into the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of life through time. Unlike modern ecological data, the fossil record captu...
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 02/09/2026
Today marks one year since the administration began its unauthorized and unconstitutional boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — killing over 200 people. One thing is clear: this military campaign, which continues with the latest strikes just last week, remains illegal and ineffective.
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daniel cadena @cdanielcadena.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
our in memoriam piece, celebrating the academic life and multifaceted, seminal scientific contributions of the great bob ricklefs is now out in the american naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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In Memoriam: Robert E. Ricklefs (1943–2026) | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Who is draining Africa? This figure shows net-appropriation of resources from Africa's CFA zone, illustrating two key facts. 1) Eurozone countries are the biggest appropriators, benefitting from the Francafrique system. 2) Contrary to conventional Western narratives, China's appropriation is tiny.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/08/2026
they’re making ai-generated, pro-concentration camp propaganda
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Dark times ahead. “After Petro” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Nick MacWilliam, After Petro — Sidecar
Colombia’s new president.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Workers from “The West” who have been told to hate communism (and do so) have no idea how much communism did for them.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 19/08/2026
⭕️ ANALYSIS | Israel Returns to Mass Killings in Gaza After Ben-Gvir Demands 30 to 40 Palestinian Deaths a Night Immediately after Jared Kushner met Netanyahu in Israel, and according to multiple leading Israeli outlets gave the ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive a green light to continue attacks on...
⭕️ ANALYSIS | Israel Returns to Mass Killings in Gaza After Ben-Gvir Demands 30 to 40 Palestinian Deaths a Night

Immediately after Jared Kushner met Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, and according to multiple leading Israeli outlets gave the ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive a green light to continue attacks on Gaza, Israeli strikes have killed at least 17 Palestinians across Tuesday evening and Wednesday, including eight police officers and two children. 

A few days earlier, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir openly demanded Israel carry out nightly killings of Palestinians, “30 to 40 every night,” explicitly stating that targets should include those who pose no threat to Israel.

“There are people there who are not worthy of life,” Ben-Gvir said. “They’re not even people.”

Some western leaders and governments condemned his remarks; France called them “unacceptable and inhuman.” But ahead of national elections on October 27, with Israeli PM Netanyahu seeking to appeal to an increasingly far-right and openly genocidal populace, Israel is ratcheting up the cruelty and mass death in Gaza — with the blessing of President Trump and his son-in-law and top Middle East advisor Jared Kushner.

(Note: Ben-Gvir’s proposed nightly killing quota is below what Israel already achieved during the first two years of its assault: more than 72,000 Palestinians killed, an average of roughly 99 every day, overwhelming majority of them civilians. Israel never articulated a military rationale for its revenge-driven genocidal assault that killed Palestinians at that scale day after day.)
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 12/08/2026
This video exposes a really important point that my LATAM followers know all to well. Trump really does just tweet it out. What the Liberal think tankers, pundits and Democrats sold as a fight for human rights is nothing more than good old US imperialist domination of the region.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump says the quiet part out loud, and debunks the liberal and Democrat narrative that the US has ever cared about humanitarianism, freedom, democracy… x.com/statedept/st...
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Department of State (@StateDept) on X
The Monroe Doctrine has shaped U.S. foreign policy for over two centuries. 🇺🇸 American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
Piketty shows that this holds true across markets and nations and eras: all other things being equal, the market system produces a class of hereditary aristocrats who command the world's capital and direct its deployment, despite never having *done* anything. 16/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
In other words: for Bettencourt, doing *nothing at all* produced more wealth as *founding the most successful corporation in the world* did for Gates. Bettencourt, a person who *owned things*, did better than Gates, a person who *did things*. 13/
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“The immeasurable gains #fossifuels gave us over the past century are now being taken away, hundreds of houses, thousands of evacuations, and billions of dollars at a time, leaving mass trauma, ravaged landscapes, impoverished communities, and a tattered social fabric.”
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 05/08/2026
Cool cool cool. Now do: 1. fire departments 2. stadiums 3. police departments 4. ROADS 5. emergency rooms p.s. fuck you.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Ah, just found this essay which says it much better. medium.com/@Granstafer/...
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What Odysseus Leaves Behind
Offering beautiful imagery and idols, Nolan takes the trickster’s role.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In August 5th, 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested by apartheid police, with support from the CIA, for resisting white minority rule. He was imprisoned for 27 years. US government agencies listed Mandela as a "terrorist" until 2008.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I was, perhaps expectedly, disappointed by Nolan's Odyssey. Not because of adapting the source material to a modern audience (unfortunately done in a cynical and US G.I. Joe manner), nor by instilling (out-of-place) Christian morality, nor by an uninspiring Odysseys. But... 1/4
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Third edition of my course on understanding phylogenetic comparative models and their inference! From finding the MaxLik, building an MCMC sampler to Markov processes, complex birth-death models and more. All welcome!
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Transmitting Science @tscourses.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods 📅 October 5th–16th, 2026 www.transmittingscience.com/courses… #TScourses #KeepLearning #Phylogenetics #EvolutionaryBiology
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/07/2026
Beto Coral was arrested and detained for over a month in an ICE jail after attending a protest against Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, with Marco Rubio writing, “Coral Garrido has used his presence in the U.S. to conduct political activity in support of the Petro government.”
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This Activist Was Targeted by ICE for Criticizing Colombia’s President-Elect
Beto Coral was arrested and returned to Colombia for exercising free speech in criticizing Abelardo de la Espriella.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"The Donroe Doctrine seeks to turn Latin America back into a strategic reserve of land, resources and labour for US power. Under Petro, Colombia has broken too many rules of that order." The 18th PI Briefing of 2026 is online now.
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PI Briefing | No. 18 | Colombia’s Sovereignty on the Ballot
The Pacto Histórico opened a path beyond war, extraction and submission. On Sunday, Colombians vote under the pressure of an empire determined to close it.
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Alexis Licht @alexislicht.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨new paper alert🚨 In this review paper including an international team mixing geologists, biologists, and paleontologists, we synthesize current approaches for integrating paleoclimate and paleogeographic data into macroevolutionary models. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... (1/n)
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Redirecting
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I’m in idiot for wading into this, but I can say in my experience that there’s more democratic-socialist discussion about climate, and certainly about Gaza, on X now than on BlueSky, which trends straight liberal. And it’s not true that climate content is always being suppressed over there.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
These are the brave and courageous
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 07/04/2026
💢 THREAD: Iranians form human chains around power plants and bridges as Trump warns “a whole civilization will die tonight” As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, vids circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations & key infrastructure across Iran in acts of solidarity...
💢 THREAD: Iranians form human chains around power plants and bridges as Donald Trump warns “a whole civilization will die tonight”

As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, videos circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations and key infrastructure across Iran in acts of solidarity ahead of his 8 PM deadline.

🎥 Kazerun Combined Cycle Power Plant (southern Iran)
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Not a single nationwide protest against the war in Iran, from the most “democratic and free” country, while the pedophile leader threatens to erase an entire civilization by using nuclear weapons, as they alone did twice on civilians.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/04/2026
The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 06/04/2026
Children in Gaza are increasingly being bitten by rats as Israel continues to deny displaced families proper shelter under the ongoing blockade. Medical workers report bites on bodies & faces, with overcrowding & collapsing sanitation worsening conditions and leaving children especially vulnerable.
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Rat infestations are spreading through Gaza’s displacement camps, where trash, sewage, and collapsing conditions are leading to rodent attacks. 

Al Jazeera’s 
@TareqAzzoum
 reports on the worsening public health crisis.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
US Israel have bombed Iran universities, one by one, including where Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields medal, the first women to do so. Terrorists of humanity. Silence or thinking this means freedom is complicity and idiocy!
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A website to honor all the Gaza academics and scholars and their legacy murdered by the US-Israeli imperialism. rememberinggazascholars.org
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Palestine Scholars
Fatima Ali Abu Owdah, How Alone You Were (2025) Poetry in cover art excerpted from Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem “Madīḥ al-ẓẓil al-‘ālī” (“In Praise of the High Shadow”): Son of mor...
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"We're so disgusted with our government's policy of deliberately causing misery for the Cuban people." Read more from Medea Benjamin in Le Monde.
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International aid convoy reaches Cuba amid humanitarian crisis
More than 500 worldwide activists have arrived in Havana to deliver to the Cuban authorities roughly 20 metric tons of food supplies, medical equipment.
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
When people choose to not talk about "politics", it is usually because they directly benefit from it.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Palestine, while in unspeakable pain, should inspire the world to resist the monsters to achieve emancipation, justice, dignity, and equality."
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“We can prevail. We shall prevail.”
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Omar Barghouti, Co-founder of the BDS movement for Palestinian rights, explained why Palestine serves as both the testing ground for a new era of…
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fundamental documentary by @abbymartin.bsky.social reporting the grave environmental (on top of the already devastating human) cost, of US imperialism.
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics." In her speech at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Yara Hawari examines the brutal reality of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics."
At the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, PI Council Member Yara Hawari reflects on how the ongoing genocide in Gaza serves as a testing ground for weapons, surveillance, and repression that will…
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
By Sony Thang... Americans love to say, "We are better than this." When? During slavery? During Jim Crow? During Vietnam? During coups in Latin America? During Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Palestine? At what exact point was this mythical moral golden age?
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Where is the outrage from scientists said to defend science?
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Pierre van de Weghe @pvandeweghe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Le doyen de la faculté des sciences de l’Université libanaise, à Hadath, Hussein Bazzi, ainsi que Mortada Srour, un professeur sont décédés suite à une frappe israélienne d’un drone a visé le bâtiment universitaire. Hussein Bazzi : ul.edu.lb/en/teachers/... #ESR
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Frappe israélienne sur l’Université libanaise à Hadath : un directeur et un professeur tués
Une frappe de drone de l’armée israélienne a touché jeudi la Faculté des sciences de l’Université libanaise (UL), à Hadath, dans la banlieue sud de Beyrouth, tuant le directeur de la faculté,...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And another massacre post-My Lai: in 1988 the US fired two missiles at the civilian flight Iran Air 655, while it was transmitting civilian identification codes, killing all 290 occupants, including 65 children.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Someone corrected me and pointed out that the Minab massacre follows the Amiriyah massacre in Iraq in 1991, when the US massacred over 400 civilians taking refuge in a shelter.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”
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Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
please read books
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Rachel Warnock @rachelwarnock.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I’m looking for a post doc (up to five years) interested in phylogenetics and earth systems - please spread the word!
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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The US-Israeli criminal pedo-military complex now killed several scientists by targeting the Faculty of Science in the Lebanese University.
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