Ant supergene reveals surprising twist in evolution of social behavior In the spring, ants are once again hard at work. Beyond their everyday presence, ants are also key model organisms in cutting-edge evolutionary genetics research, helping scientists understand how soc...

Ant supergene reveals surprising twist in evolution of social behavior

phys.org/news/2026-04...

It’s movement all the way down !

www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

The Dialectics of Multi-Level Selection in Evolutionary Biology - Dialectical Systems Introduction Dialectical thinking in biology has famously been put forward by the eponymous book of Levins and Lewontin (1985). Much of the book was dedicated to the interpenetration between organisms...

The dialectical underpinnings of multilevel selection

Evolution isn’t flat: new levels arise through conflict and then reshape the very dynamics that brought them into being

Commentary: Complex Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is Inherently Intersectional

journals.lww.com/jrnldbp/full...

What if mental disorders aren’t just brain problems, but disruptions in how we make sense of the world?

I enjoyed speaking with Professor Sanneke de Haan about her work on the enactive approach to psychiatry in the latest Behind the Stigma episode :)

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1402324/epis...

Beyond Control: Finding the Purpose of Enactive Cognitive Science - Kathryn Nave, 2026 To some, purposiveness is the core of the enactive approach. Others, however, view the notion of purposes as a pre-scientific crutch – one that will eventually ...

Beyond Control: Finding the Purpose of Enactive Cognitive Science

Kathryn Nave

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The American Historical Association Veto Should Terrify Queer People Palestine is a litmus test. If the AHA council refuses to recognize a genocide that has played out live on the internet, that has been condemned in the court of global opinion (and in global courts), ...

The American Historical Association Veto Should Terrify Queer People

Dana M.

www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46518

I suspect both sides of the “profound/severe” autism debate are hoping R. F. Kennedy Jr’s retreat from science is only a temporary blip, and a return to the exchange of melodramatic rhetoric and soundbites will soon be re-established.

New Autism Group to Counter Overhauled Federal Committee This Medical News article discusses the emergence of a new, research-focused independent autism group in the US following recent changes to the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee.

Leading Autism Experts, Advocates Form an Independent Committee in Response to Federal Shifts

Kate Schweitzer

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Autism spectrum disorder in children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1: Case series Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was identified in 37.5% of children with SMA (n = 13). While IQ did not differ significantly between groups, adaptive functioning was reduced in those with co-occurring...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was identified in 37.5% of children with SMA

Autism spectrum disorder in children with spinal muscular atrophy type 1: Case series

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Unveiling Emergence and Holism in Biology: Essential Insights from Self-Organization This study offers unique insights into self-organization, emergence, and holism, supported by examples from biology. It examines these conceptual frameworks to clarify them and make them more relevant...

Unveiling Emergence and Holism in Biology: Essential Insights from Self-Organization

Srdjan Kesić

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Trump signs order fast tracking review of psychedelics for mental health disorders President endorses psilocybin and ibogaine: "Can I have some, please?"

Trump signs order fast tracking review of psychedelics for mental health disorders

Mandalit del Barco

www.nhpr.org/2026-04-18/t...

Man says sausage roll in red kite photo was made by mother-in-law A man believes he has the answer to where a red kite got hold of the savoury snack in Banbury.

'A red kite took my mother-in-law's sausage rolls'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...

In US
‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban

David Forbes

transnews.network/p/it-s-a-nig...

Podcast

Shaun Gallagher
The Future of Action

www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/04/14/b...

For all those looking for a good laugh. Best cat adoption advert I have ever read.

lsd Bicycle Day

blackd.substack.com/p/happy-bicy...
#bicycleday

‘I don’t want to live’: children in distress wait years for diagnoses Viola Thoukydidis-Glaser and Jenny Smith spent years pushing for autism diagnoses for their children. They felt helpless watching them in distress for years. Part two of an investigative series about healthcare in Luxembourg.

In Luxembourg

‘I don’t want to live’: children in distress wait years for diagnoses

www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/i...

“This paper is about doing research with artists with learning disabilities and autism. Artists with learning disabilities or autism need to say yes to doing research.”

Matthew Reason, Kelsie Acton, Daniel Foulds

performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm...

Human Consciousness in a Cybernetic Age Or Why Logos is Not a Loom: My Mind-at-Large Conference Presentation

Interesting take

Human Consciousness in a Cybernetic Age
Or Why Logos is Not a Loom: My Mind-at-Large Conference Presentation

Matthew David Segall

footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/human-cons...

Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

They just dropped a music video/documentary:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

Ian McGilchrist, Part 1: Right-Brain Thinking

Nice to see Ian McGilchrist’s nonsense (especially the left brain/right brain 🐂 💩 ) getting a right kicking here… open.spotify.com/episode/5wC3...

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Spending a quiet moment at St Julian’s Church and Shrine. This is where the anchoress Julian of Norwich wrote Revelations of Divine Love in the 14th century, the first book in English known to be written by a woman.

​"...All manner of thing shall be well." ✨

#JulianofNorwich #Numinous #Mysticism

The Rebel Body: The Subversive Meanings of Illness - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s and Margaret Lock’s (1987) article on the “the mindful body,” in which they introduce their framework of three interconnected bodies (individual, social, and the body politic), ...

The Rebel Body: The Subversive Meanings of Illness

Nancy Scheper‑Hughes, Julia Vorhölter, Amand‑Gabriel Führer

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pharmacological Microcontroversies and Civilizational Grammars Around ADHD in Chile - Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry This article examines pharmacological microcontroversies (PMC) surrounding attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Chile, based on a comparative, multisited ethnography in four educational ...

Pharmacological Microcontroversies and Civilizational Grammars Around ADHD in Chile

Esteban Radiszcz, Hugo Sir, Juan Pablo Pinto

Paywall: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Intertwined Creatures: The Embodied Cognitive Science of Self and Other | Dr. Anthony Chemero YouTube video by The Chasing Leviathan Podcast

One hour interview about my new book Intertwined Creatures. Watch at your own risk. (The main risk is hearing me say dumb shit.)

youtu.be/j8rHowYx3HA

Sofia Jeppsson and I have a new publication: "Mad Philosophy" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies

academic.oup.com/edited-volum...