1/7. We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.
Fair enough, but I was defending this paper against someone dismissing it out of hand — not attacking Gombe. Wrong tree.
Also, if you think that my comment is splitting hairs; try enduring three peer reviewers combing through a paper you and your colleagues have spent years taking from idea, planning, gathering data, analyzing writing, rewriting and then submitting
Mike’s ‘it’ ≠ this ‘it’, Qs different too. To yours — not my field (lizard ecologist, social complexity tops out at head-bobs 🦎), but intuitively any provisioning shifts resource dynamics, which makes isolating social causes harder — no slight to JG’s foundational work intended!
No, not quite. JGs group showed inter-group killing and was confounded by the researchers food provisioning; this paper shows former affiliates killing each other after group identity reorganizes under more natural conditions.
The #editorschoice for this month's issue is:
Evolutionary rescue by adaptive specialization in rapidly changing environments
by Jermey Draghi @virginiatech.bsky.social
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False. The underlying kernel of truth is that some Japanese rail operators are transitioning to renewable energy, but the scale, technology, and framing in this post are fabricated. Stop posting BS it undermines our/your credibility.
“Jared Kushner makes up for his flaws as an investor by being a wildly corrupt appendage of his father-in-law’s wildly corrupt administration. The guy is literally on the payroll of the Saudi government and trying to take even more of their money while simultaneously hijacking U.S. foreign policy with his shadow State Department. The U.S. becomes less safe and more corrupt every day Jared Kushner remains involved in our political system,” said Senator Wyden.
Oof.
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Renewable Energy is cheaper than oil.
Renewable Energy is more securely available than oil.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.
"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"
New research from the the University of Wollongong assessing how #coastalwetlands respond to fire disturbance! 🔥🚒
Read more in @theillawarraflame.bsky.social
We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
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Yep.
Sounds like Russia, Hungary, Turkey: consolidate media via loyal oligarchs, change the rules, squeeze critics. If U.S. billionaires start lining up the same way, that’s not a coincidence — it’s a pattern.
Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!
Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...
In my personal newsletter: A resistance Mister Rogers would be proud of.
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There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
THIS and then start reading Quinn Slobodion (www.quinnslobodian.com)
Murder; political assassination.
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
