Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Have you been working out or something? Reading heavy books? 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026What a fine mind Blaffer Hrdy has A joy to listen to. 001
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026You're not being very clear. Can you give an example? Who and what are you talking about? The original post is about sex across species. You seem to have some political dispute in mind. 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes sex matters in many contexts. It has many material consequences. Gender matters in other contexts. Both sex and gender in many more. 100
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026You're wrong. We need sex as a scientific classification for many good reasons and your ideology is preventing you from looking at the issue objectively. 100
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Species do not have strategies. Anisogamy means reproduction based on the fusion of large and small gametes. In that context male refers to small gametes and the reproductive system organised to produce them. 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026They all existed before 1800. The meaning of male and female has changed as scientific knowledge has progressed. Lay/folk understandings are a different thing. 100
Reposted by Dónal Ó DuinnDublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Have you tested your smoke alarm lately? We recommend testing them once a week and you should have one installed per floor of your home. 712975771
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I may not be explaining myself well. How many types of chromosome setups are there? A lot more than 2. So what words would you use for sex categories in that domain? Male and female could not cover it. Not bimodal or binary. 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Sure there are spectrums in all kinds of traits. Why would you frame them as one category? 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Your reasoning is circular. You are assuming there is a thing called biological sex. What do you mean when you say that? 200
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Sex and gender are different things. The article under discussion is looking at biology across millions of species. It explains gender is a different thing applicable to humans. 210
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The article makes the distinction between sex and gender. Many trans people accept this distinction also. We can recognise identities and allow people to express themselves as they wish. We don't need to deny the reality of biological sex to do that. 200
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026How is the existence of male and female sexes a threat to trans people? 300
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The authors distinguish between sex and gender. If attempting to describe reality scientifically is problematic, we are not in a good place. 110
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026The terms male and female quickly become meaningless when used for all these different things, many of which have more than two dimensions. What would you be pointing to? 310
Reposted by Dónal Ó DuinnCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026On my way, Clacton. 579152753460
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Who would you trust to say what you can't read? The 1st amendment is a good default. We have a right to hear awful ideas and make our own mid up. 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I had the same thoughts. Wrangham's work is dark but I hadn't thought about applying it to recent history. 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026From research-repository.griffith.edu.au/server/api/c...research-repository.griffith.edu.au 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I think they switched to coins by the time I got there. They devalued by 10 percent one day, something to do with ERM I think. 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026They used to do 1000 lira classic books when I was in Italy doing TEFL. Svevo, Calvino. About 50p at the time (1992) 100
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I didn't know they worked on Sundays. Did Minister Carroll MacNeill organise that? 000
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Strictly speaking socialism abolishes private employment relationships. That program runs up against liberal norms, as well as being unlikely to win democratic support, or deliver prosperity. 010
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I'm baffled as to why US academics cling to the 'socialism' label. In Europe liberal socialism is called 'Social Democracy'. Even parties with Socialist in their name don't really emphasize it, except as a kind homage to historical origins. 120
Reposted by Dónal Ó DuinnMatt @dystopianrelic.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I’m guessing Kid B did the card on the left? 131
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Streeting and Burnham should agree to a plan at a nice restaurant. 021
Reposted by Dónal Ó DuinnSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 12/06/2026New post! @nikomccarty.bsky.social and I have been writing regular round ups for a little while now, but so much has happened recently that this month’s post feels like it contains a year’s worth of breakthroughs. Read it here!worksinprogress.newsWhat’s new in biology: June 2026The most effective weight-loss drug so far, cancer breakthroughs, gene editing for cholesterol, ancestral CRISPR systems, and more. 13717
Reposted by Dónal Ó DuinnDan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA 136126972787
Dónal Ó Duinn @oduinn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Assonance and alliteration, you could have been a poet for the nation. But we new that already 100
