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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Kann bitte jemand mit Reichweite diese beschissene Faustregel töten!

Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ich spreche nicht von einigen, wenigen Ausnahmen, die die Regel kompromittieren. HF, BF3, SiF4, PF3 sind nur ein paar Beispiele für Molekülle mit ΔEN > 1,7. Umgekehrt sind LiI, Na2S, CaI2 und MgS nur einge Ionenverbindungen mit ΔEN < 1,7. Eine Faustregel mit so vielen Ausnahmen ist unbrauchbar!!!

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@maithinkx.bsky.social Betrifft dein musstewissen Video "Was ist Elektronegativität?" ΔEN(Fluorwasserstoff) = 1,9; trotzdem Moleküle. ΔEN(Kupfer(I)-iodid) = 0,6; trotzdem Ionenverbindung etc. Es gibt zu viele Ausnahmen von der Regel + polare Atombindungen reichen nicht aus für Dipolmolekül.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A fortress (defendable nest) seems to be pre-requisite for the evolution of eusociality. In aphids, only species with galls are eusocial, in crustaceans, only species living in sponges, ...

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Unklike Haikus, High-coos have 5-5-4 syllables.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

High-coo: In the Isle of Skye, Cows stand in the breeze, and have some hay.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Compare Orff's "Gassenhauer" with Zimmer's "You're so Cool" www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9_... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aRD...

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Carl Orff - Gassenhauer

YouTube video by Quaid Damage

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Do apologize for a delay in the landing of your joke!

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sorry for disagreeing, but the quote "a pseudoproblem invented by nature-philosophers to give biology an air of profundity" yields no result referable to Medawar in a standard search engines (like Google), at all. Arvid Argen can give us a proper ref, I'm sure, he now must!, why not from the start?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

He cannot really have addressed Michael Ruse with "you" in this snippet, for Ruse was no proponent of Gaia, I think.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The name is Rorschach, right?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Don't attribute it to yourself. It's them.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

#ein_tag_im_september Sorry, but when I hear about De Gaulle & Adenauer or Mitterand & Kohl forming personal bonds and that being a boon to democracy and freedon, I immediatly think of Trump, Putin, Xi or Kim forming personal bonds. It's not the personal bonds but the ideas of the bodning people.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

You have the gift of telling a captivating narrative, bolstered by facts, and that's an advantage in history of science.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Life hack #47c: Heat the moka pot in such a way, that the handle does not get too hot and melts off.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

AFAIK, the biggest idiot in the "history of biology" was Dr. Pangloss.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Do you agree that W.D. Hamilton used "selfish gene" differently from Dawkins? For Hamilton, a selfish gene was a chunk of DNA that coded for selfish behaviour of the organism (vehicle or interactor). For Dawkins it was "selfishness", even against the vehicle, if that promoted replication.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Whatever it is, the therapy is to deflate it.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just saying, Falk saved twice as many penalties. #ec2025

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

4. Write an autobiography telling that you are all selfmade?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Congrats! I gather that the principle of divergence is a minor topic (from not being in the conclusion). Would your writing have suffered from citing some of the publications on that principle (e.g., Kohn, Tammone). Is your interpretation so new that discussing theirs would have led into arcania?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Probably smooth. Just quickly checked my adaptationists (e.g. Maynard Smith) for claimed vilification, but only found a citation of Huxley in Williams. Wish Gould’s sentence would’ve been shorter but with references.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Huxley (1953) defined progress as "improvement wich permints further improvement" and said it is "difficult to prophesy the detailed course it will have", but, "once we can look back on the facts we reallize that it could have happened in no other way."

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The gist of this long sentence: Deep homologies, like Hox genes, forced historical and structural constraints into evolutionary theory. The panglossian to beat here is Julian Huxley (1953, Evolution in Action), I guess. Can't be GC Williams and Dawkins had written his chap. 3 in Extended Phenotype.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

It has such a definite form for an amoeba, how come?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Sorry, but I have to reject your decision tree. I thinkt that science education should enable the learners to judge any scientific publication on its own merits. That requires an understanding and judgement of its actual content. Your decision tree doesn't require engagement with the actual content.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Das Schmierblättchen landete heute in meinem Briefkasten (Schwalbach am Taunus) uns somit wohl auch in der weiteren Nachbarschaft. Ist echt schlimm...

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This skeet does not belong into the "HP Bio" feed. The emojis 🌱🐋 just so happen to occur next to each other in it. By chance, Greg Priest made them the signature emoji combination for the HP Bio feed.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If you miss the dash, the answer reads: "No evidence for evolution is overwhelming." That will make evolutionists click as well as anti-evolutionists. I call that well-crafted.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The question so primes the brain to overlook the dash. And that so triggers the finger to... Well crafted click-bait.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just keep the phrase: "my theory, which is mine" and proceed from there... ;-)

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Then, the more interesting question is: Who could instead have deciphered the DNA-structure and won the prize?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

If he had been female, would she have deciphered the DNA-structure and, if so, won the nobel prize? Is that your counterfactual question?

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

Looks like it was inspired by Dali or so.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

It's raining cats and dogs an, yet, PAris is showing the world what an Opening of the Olympic games is meant to beb like. 5 Stars.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

An unrecognized genetic predisposition for sperm competition in aphids. doi.org/10.32942/X2F... #EcoEvoRxiv #EcoEvo

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An unrecognized genetic predisposition for sperm competition in aphids

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

The authors think they could use Ifigenia males to control Anopheles gambiae populations. As I see it, they would either pass the gene for the Cas9 on with one of their chromosomes 2 or the gene for the Cas9 guiding-RNA with the other. Unless they deposit Cas9 in their sperm, it should not work.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

#malaria #crispr Why should this to work in the wild? doi.org/10.1126/scia.... ♀️ gFLE/+ seem to die, because their Cas9/+ mothers deposit endonuclease Cas in eggs and their fathers inherit the gene for guiding-RNA. Yet Ifigenia males are heterozygous with gFLE on one chr 2 and CAS9 on the other.

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A confinable female-lethal population suppression system in the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae

Ifegenia is a GM vector control system for female killing and genetic sexing of the African malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

It's not irredeemable. Their literary example from Mrs Dalloway does not show multiple conflicting perspectives either, but consilient perspectives. If they swapped terms, here, and served up around ten exampels from experimental reports of consilient perspectives being given, I mith be swayed.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

They note that the authors of the experimental report shift between their actions and nature's answers. That are not two perspectives to me, but a "we-said-she-said" narrative (one perspective). Eve if I let it pass as two perspectives, they'd not be contraictory but corresponding, IMHO.

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Joachim L. Dagg @jdagg.bsky.social · 24/06/2024

I also liked the idea of analysing research papers as narratives. Yet, "presenting data from multiple conflicting perspectives" seems a patently self-defeating strategy vis-à-vis peer reviewers. Also, their one example from an experimental report does not seem to warrant the claim. 1/2

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