Reposted by Thomas PolletJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 106105904532
Reposted by Thomas PolletCultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Fyssen Foundation International Prize is open for nominations, this year on the theme of "Technology and the Social Organisation of Prehistoric Human Groups" . The prize is for 100,000 euros - consider applying if your research is relevant! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...culturalevolutionsociety.orgFyssen Foundation International Prize: Technology and the social organisation of prehistoric human groups - Cultural Evolution Society 0610
Reposted by Thomas PolletLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In other words, a 10 percent contraction in one of Britain’s most successful exports. If it were steel or fish or other infinitely less profitable sectors, people would be having a meltdown. 9397181
Reposted by Thomas Polletsimine vazire @simine.com · 07/10/2026Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...psychologicalscience.orgSpecial Issue Call for Submissions: “Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science”Editors: Tom Beckers and Heather UrryOne way a journal can earn its reputation for quality is to take active steps to vet the articles that appear within its pages after publication. To that end, Psyc... 610160
Reposted by Thomas PolletAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I've stumbled across AI's plan. They're going to make us into pâté. 5437045
Reposted by Thomas PolletRaymond Hames @rayhames.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is terrible: ‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...science.org‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences researchAgency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year 021
Reposted by Thomas PolletKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026Life in the city is sometimes strange and confusing. 5324
Reposted by Thomas PolletKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026I assume this was cut because the administration heard that neutrinos were constantly passing undetected. 1549
Reposted by Thomas PolletDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research 171047208
Reposted by Thomas Pollettoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 191114553118
Reposted by Thomas PolletDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Me: I need to keep this computational environment stable for reproducibility purposes, so I'm just going to switch off automatic system updates for now IT Services: 57310
Reposted by Thomas PolletAntigone @antigoneinthebes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026People don’t realize how serious the situation is. 401515372
Reposted by Thomas PolletSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026⚠️Busy beavers at work⚠️ 6483117
Reposted by Thomas PolletAves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 04/10/2026🇧🇷Polícia-inglesa-do-norte 🌎Leistes militaris Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O polícia-inglesa-do-norte é um Passeriforme da família Icteridae. 📷 Luiz Ribenboim 325828
Reposted by Thomas PolletSan Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance @sandiegozoo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just keep swimming 💧 333764
Reposted by Thomas PolletRoope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 18/09/2026This article wins the data visualisation of the month contest. www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/9/... 45914
Reposted by Thomas PolletMaxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026One week left to apply! 088
Reposted by Thomas PolletMarcos Echevarria-Eirea @marcoseche.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Announcing Round 1 of the 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤 (𝐌𝐏𝐏𝐓𝐢𝐤𝐓𝐨𝐤) dataset! It provides manually collected TikTok handles for MPs and parties in 17 Western democracies (elected as of December 2025). Dataset: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/mp... Preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... 1/3dataverse.harvard.edu 33413
Reposted by Thomas Pollet21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 30/09/2026US student newspapers have real teeth Cornell Daily Sun played big role in exposing gang-rape scandal Stanford freshman’s reporting brought down the university President Journalism with serious scrutiny & consequences Food for thought for UK student journos www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 0127
Reposted by Thomas PolletJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer 39810294
Reposted by Thomas PolletRosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026Butterbutt. An older comic. 233010740
Reposted by Thomas PolletMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026'Sussex has moved away from Turnitin, UEA has indicated that it will, and in private conversations I’ve had with SU colleagues, other universities are signalling that a Southampton-style exit is on the cards.'wonkhe.comA supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essaysSam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question 14925
Reposted by Thomas PolletEthan Landes @ethanlandes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026As an undergrad, I RA'd in a genomics lab working with nematodes. My training could have been ... better. For months I pulled PCR tubes out of lab's central storage boxes with bare hands until a horrified lab technician pointed out that other groups using those tubes sequence human DNA. 183
Reposted by Thomas PolletMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How seeds implant themselves in soil can seem magical. Take some varieties of Erodium: their corkscrew-like stalk unwinds and twists the seed into the soil, where it can take root and be safe from birds. [📹 Carnegie Mellon] Original post 072
Reposted by Thomas PolletJeremy Freese @jeremyfreese.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When it closed, the server was opened to reveal a little man who took a bow. 012316
Reposted by Thomas PolletNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz 113143
Reposted by Thomas PolletJolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🦋 Butterfly wing patterns create motion illusions that protect them from predators! Our new study (8 years in the making) is out in Nature today doi.org/10.1038/s415... @grahancock.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @scienceanna.bsky.social @lauraakelley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social 12262129
Reposted by Thomas PolletGuillaume Noblet @gnoblet.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026How long does a barista work to afford a small cappucino in their own café? Another #TidyTuesday from a few weeks back (week 36) with a detailed walkthrough. Playing with sine and cosine, long time no see, yay! Code: gnoblet.codeberg.page/TidyTuesday/... #ggplot2 #rstats #dataviz 077
Reposted by Thomas PolletRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6594021611830
Reposted by Thomas PolletDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026One of my favourite typos was from the cover page of a student's coursework a few years back 1816923
Reposted by Thomas PolletBPS Cyberpsychology @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨 UPCOMING EVENT! 🧠💻 What is Cyberpsychology? An introductory talk and perspective from an undergraduate student Our very own committee member and undergraduate representative Fraser Carey will be delivering an engaging one-hour introduction to Cyberpsychology! 111
Reposted by Thomas PolletCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What a wonderful face to come home to! Photo from my collection, 1957. 272975199
Reposted by Thomas PolletMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The incredible moment a “zombie” fish continues to swim in water despite having a huge chunk missing from its body. More than other animals, fish can live for a limited amount of time, if the bite is peripheral enough to not interest crucial organs. Original post 4267
Reposted by Thomas Pollet🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123755272
Reposted by Thomas PolletSimon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Possibly longest thread I've ever written. Once again, despite all evidence, some folks, closely related to the 'bus industry' want to blame cycling for slowing down London buses. tl;dr: this is a lie & it's cars wot done it. It is not buses v cycling v walking or wheeling. It's all of us v cars... 45728
Reposted by Thomas PolletJustin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Research finds that just one-third of unmarried men under age 50 used a condom during their recent sexual encounters. At the same time, CDC data indicates that STI rates are about 13% higher than they were a decade ago. www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-lov…womenshealthmag.comWhere Have All the Rubbers Gone? Why Women Are Still Begging Men to Wear CondomsBarrier protection isn’t exactly new. So what’s with guys pushing back on condoms so much? 277
Reposted by Thomas PolletClaudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The scientific impact of gender in behaviour, ecology and evolution: authorship and citation performance @marinapapa.bsky.social & Afruni: 20 years on, male-dominated author teams still prevail and solo female authorship remains rare www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comThe scientific impact of gender in behaviour, ecology and evolution: authorship and citation performanceOver the last few decades, gender bias across scientific disciplines has been revealed in the form of skewed gender ratios among invited speakers in c… 11210
Reposted by Thomas PolletAnimal Behavior Society @animbehsociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026New play behavior just dropped! 122
Reposted by Thomas PolletNico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 21/09/20262023: 8,039 proposals 2024: 10,360 proposals 2025: 17,066 proposals 2026: 21,627 proposals Something's gotta give 210954
Reposted by Thomas PolletThe Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets theonion.com/nsfw-artist-struggling… 9287422231
Reposted by Thomas PolletCommon Dreams @commondreams.org · 21/09/2026It would cost Starbucks less than a single day’s sales to agree to a fair contract that would ensure we’re treated fairly—why wouldn’t the company want that?commondreams.orgWhy You Should Boycott StarbucksUnion baristas have shown that our collective power can win meaningful change, and now we’re calling on organizations, political parties, and elected officials to stand with us and boycott Starbucks until our demands are met. 02418
Reposted by Thomas PolletCharlotte Walker @charlottewalker.bsky.social · 28/10/2023Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky 3596183
Reposted by Thomas Pollet👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Unless he’s raising an army in the Spanish Netherlands and claim the throne for himself with support of France and the Habsburg powers, this should not be leading the BBC headlines for the third day in a row. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukEarl Spencer tells BBC Harry and Meghan's media treatment echoes what happened to DianaPrincess Diana's brother says she was "really brought low by all that criticism" and he saw her in "tears of despair". 2650582
Reposted by Thomas PolletKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well 947288
Reposted by Thomas PolletSiobhán Cully 🇺🇸 🐱🥼🤓🩼 @siobhancully.bsky.social · 20/09/2026New job on evolution of health at U Michigan. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...careers.umich.eduTenure Track Position - Focus on Health Disparities - Evolution of Health Disparities or Anthropology of Mental Health and Health Disparities | U-M Careers 122
Reposted by Thomas PolletMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Baby antelope in looks like a mix between a koala and a deer. Original post 834467