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Jon Ramirez

@jram899.bsky.social
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Biology Undergrad student 🧫🧬 Philosophy as a hobby Can spell phylogenetics upon request Thinker of thoughts Sayer of words Tex/Mex Pseudo-intellectual 🤓

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Ben Burgis @benburgis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t live in NYC so he’s not my mayor, but what he’s become for all of us is the de facto president of the better version of America struggling to be born (an office previously held by Bernie Sanders).
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 10h
Not an ‘artsy’ person by nature. Tend to be the type of scientistic chud who says things like “Why watch that movie again? I already watched it once.” But Michael Burns has lured me into finding value in subjectivity, art, and art criticism. Been thinking about the vid for two weeks. Recommend!
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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So I recently chose to accept an invitation to appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast. The interview is live now. youtu.be/GMwihA5jnhY
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Joe Rogan Experience #2562 - Dan McClellan
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On her exam one of my students criticized Plato by saying a "room full of philosophers would be a very indecisive room" and I'm not sure whether I agree or not...
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
good grief i hate this new youtube
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Likely at least partly a result of USAID cuts to the region. Also doesn’t help that the US pulled out of WHO time.com/article/2026...
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WHO Declares Global Emergency Over Ebola Strain With No Vaccine. Here's What To Know
The rare Bundibugyo strain, with no approved vaccine or treatment, has killed nearly 90 people.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Semester officially done
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The problem with Austrian economics is eventually you run out of American money to spend...
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I wonder if @michaelburns.bsky.social has thoughts about his analytic counterparts he would like to share on stream open.substack.com/pub/jaredhen...
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Bad Arguments Against Continental Philosophy
The only time I'll write about this, I hope.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Read POTS last year. Excellent book definitely a contemporary classic.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Random Kiekagaard hate by @mattpolprof.bsky.social in his most recent article lol 💀
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Kierkegaard's Christendom was a banalized version of Christianity that trivialized the message of Christ far more than honest atheism. Western Civ ™ is a banalization of the complex internal diversity and profound debates of a millennia-spanning culture. It reduces the tradition down to the tropes accepted by the golf course class.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 13/04/2026
Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" topped L.A. Times book club survey. Here's the powerful timing behind it. www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/…
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Why this Octavia Butler page-turner is the ultimate book club pick
Octavia E. Butler’s 'Parable of the Sower' topped our 101 Best Book Club Picks survey. The owner of Octavia's Bookshelf, Nikki High, discusses why this prophetic novel is more vital than ever.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Charles S. Peirce @charlespeirce.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It is ... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Great piece by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com on the "Christian" nationalist bombast that has sorrounded the Iran war, right down to the celebration of macho power and violence... newrepublic.com/article/2083...
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Pete Hegseth Just Revealed the Real Roots of His Sadism and Rage
Does God want America to kill as many of our enemies as we can—in as violent a fashion as possible? We have a defense secretary who apparently thinks so.
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PedsHemeDoc @pedshemedoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I love hematology 💜
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A Liberal education is unironically the best thing that can happen to anyone. #education #liberal #college
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
TikTok is now running ads promoting AI slop Soap Operas 😭😭😭
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Animal Político @pajaropolitico.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
📈 Pemex reportó avances significativos en su situación financiera durante el último trimestre de 2025. La empresa afirmó que destinó más de 582 mil millones de pesos para cubrir inversiones con proveedores y contratistas.
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Pemex reporta resultados operativos estables y avances financieros al cierre de 2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Texas Ballots are too long. I’m all for electing rather than appointing our leaders. But at this point no one knows who anyone is down ballot…
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Medlife Crisis (Rohin) @medcrisis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Proof that pressure from members works! Keep telling your professional bodies that they should not be engaging with the cesspool anymore. Well done to @thebcs.bsky.social, about time 😉 Go follow them on here. And I’ll see UK cardio friends at the BCS conference this summer! #cardiosky
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Interesting. Already at over 100% of 2022s midterms. GOP is above 2022 numbers as well but only at 53% of total of 2022 votehub.com/early-vote-t...
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Dan McClellan @maklelan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It took a bit for the ink to dry, but I'm happy to announced that my second trade book, provisionally entitled God's Biography: A Biblical History, is under contract with St. Martin's Press. I'll keep y'all posted on when pre-orders are available, but my priority now is writing it!
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cyber pragma bot 🤖 @cyberpragma.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Typically, attempts to overthrow the traditional problems of modern philosophy have come in the form of proposals about how we ought to think s.o as to avoid those problems. (1/8) — Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism, p. 35
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Can anyone explain to me why essentially no scientific papers use Bayesian analysis? I genuinely can’t figure out why.
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Rorty QOTD @rortyquotes.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
There is a useful analogy to be drawn between the pragmatists’ criticism of the idea that truth is a matter of correspondence [MOC] to the intrinsic nature of reality and the Enlightenment’s criticism of the idea that morality is a MOC to the will of a Divine Being. PasAA p.1 #Rorty #Truth
There is a useful analogy to be drawn between the pragmatists’ criticism of the idea that truth is a matter of correspondence to the intrinsic nature of reality and the Enlightenment’s criticism of the idea that morality is a matter of correspondence to the will of a Divine Being. The pragmatists’ anti-representationalist account of belief is, among other things, a protest against the idea that human beings must humble themselves before something non-human, whether the Will of God or the Intrinsic Nature of Reality. Seeing anti-representationalism as a version of anti-authoritarianism permits one to appreciate an analogy which was central to John Dewey’s thought: the analogy between ceasing to believe in Sin and ceasing to accept the distinction between Reality and Appearance.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We have drafts now but editing posts when?
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Meiosis > Mitosis #biology #genetics
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Vote Meyers (Seahawks kicker) for MVP! www.nfl.com/super-bowl/m...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Basically Ring advertised the technology Batman used to find the Joker that Lucius Fox refused to be a part of except for that one time.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
At this rate the kicker should be mvp #superbowl
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Media theory that assumes that beliefs are persuaded into existence rather than mostly evolutionarily selected for by the structures of human minds and social groups never sit right with me.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A well intentioned individual told me today that “If you don’t believe in God you must accept moral relativism because it is God who says what is moral or not.” :Sigh: Socrates died in vain. #Euthyphro #ethics #philosophy
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
That’s why I like certain parts of Richard Rorty’s evolution-centered philosophy. I don’t really like what Cartesian mind-body dualists are doing. But what do I know? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
No way Willis isn’t playing QB1 for some team next year
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Chris Lempesis @chrislempesis.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Should the Packers tag Willis? Feels like maybe they shouldn't let him walk for nothing.
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Apparently wax paper IS flammable in an electric oven. Who knew? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I have recently made friends with a very philosophically informed Anglican… Apparently I am now contractually obligated to read Richard Swinburne.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change
https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/hurricane-melissa-jamaica-impacts-landfall-cuba-haiti-bahamas
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Pack wins!
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Jon Ramirez @jram899.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Whoever came up with the idea for a three day weekend at my college deserves a medal
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/08/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
The books arrived!
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
If you are present in the United States without valid immigration status, the government can deport you. But it doesn’t have to. This is an important distinction, because it means that “the law made me do it” is not an excuse. www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cou...
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You Could Just Not Deport People
The right says that they have no choice but to “enforce the law” and round up those here illegally. False: just give people a way to legalize their status.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist." muckrack.com/research/loc...
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Local Journalist Index 2025 | Muck Rack
Where are the journalists? For the first time, we’ve mapped how many local journalists cover each U.S. county, revealing in stark detail the stunning coll…
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/07/2025
It might sound counterintuitive when those who reject human-caused climate change believe we’re intensifying weather extremes via secret expts—but here’s the difference. A: We’re responsible, so we all have to fix it B: We’re not, so it’s not our fault 99% of climate denial is solution aversion!
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