Archeologists Find 'Gold Tongues' and a Piece of the Trojan War in the Egyptian Desert We've got some exciting news out of Egypt. LBV Magazine reports that a Spanish archeological team from the University of Barcelona and the Institute of the Ancient Near East unearthed astonishing disc...

Fascinating!🫂💙🦋
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Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…

the fact that people are allowed to repeat that 70IQ thing without a giant air horn going off directly in their ear is evidence that the PC cancel culture mobs were not nearly ruthless enough

retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...

He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars The far-right influencer Nick Fuentes has pocketed roughly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025. Some superfans see him as part of their families.

Washington Post: Nick Fuentes spreads hate online. He's pocketed nearly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Join The Baffler at Montez Press Radio on Friday, 4/24, at 7pm for a panel discussion on what it takes to afford a literary career. With Bertrand Cooper, Bud Smith, May Syeda, and Baffler Deputy Editor Wes Enzinna.
radio.montezpress.com#/show/3967

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...

@grepgupf.bsky.social Upcoming GrEPG Seminar at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The seminar will be on-site, although an online connection will also be available:
upf-edu.zoom.us/j/9473552994...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

This is a dance off, if you see this repost a dance

(Usha Jey and her troupe bring pure joy to Uproar)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Saj6...

European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp Governments want to move away from “platforms over which we have no control,” says Dutch minister.

🚨🚨Welcome news: European governments are getting #WhatsApp and #Signal out of their system in a move which is part of Europe's search for alternatives to American technology, sparked by fears of being strategically dependent on Washington. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

"Remarkably, the same societal tastes predict both profound moral issues (like euthanasia) and mundane behaviours (e.g. whether it is okay to sing on a bus)."

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Invitation to launch of volume" Bernhard Stolz, Un boem la București Reportaje dintr‑o lume în tranziție. Cu scrisori inedite de la Dora Stolz și surorile ei (1840–1845), traduse, editate și comentate de Alex Drace-Francis (Editura Humanitas), with speakers Ioana Parvulescu, Alina Pavelescu, Dennis Deletant. Wed 22 April, 7pm, Humanitas Bookshop Cismigiu, Bucharest

Bucharesters - if you're in town on Weds 22 April, I will be presenting the book "A Bohemian in Bucharest" at 7pm at Humanitas Bookshop Cișmigiu. Huge thanks in advance to Ioana Pârvulescu, Alina Pavelescu and Dennis Deletant for agreeing to speak about it. All welcome!
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I’m also excited to introduce students to our redesigned Philosophy of Mind MA (www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...) and Cognitive Science MSc programmes (www.ucd.ie/philosophy/s...). Both include a wide range of philosophy and interdisciplinary options and intro modules. #PhilMind #PhilCogSci #CogSci

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

There are more of us than them and we are going to win.

These excellent essays about the increasing impossibility of making a living through writing should be read in conjunction with Josh Kline's account of the distorting effects of real estate speculation on American art direct.mit.edu/octo/article...

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

The kids are all right Surprising studies show young people are doing better than previous generations in many ways

This is excellent
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

new paper out in the journal of the APA: Social Construction of Emotions 3.0.
i believe our first draft dates back to 2018 🙃
#philsky #philosophy

Update: Kihana is now on Bluesky, so you can follow here here too! 🎉

➡️ @the-astro-stud.bsky.social ⬅️

Heritability and Malleability in Individuals and Groups Heritability and Malleability

The discussion yesterday led me to fix the links to this piece. If thinking about Cofnas has you thinking about so-called racial differences in behavior, you might be interested. The same argument in spelled out at greater length in Chapter 9 of my book. @ptrbck.bsky.social

On the front lines, Russian soldiers pay officers to stay alive Russian soldiers describe a system of extortion on Ukraine's front lines, where officers demand bribes for survival and use troops as sources of enrichment.

In the Russian army, soldiers pay officers in order to stay alive

www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

In THE LIFE YOU WANT, Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed by the idea of our lives being ones we want and enjoy rather than merely endure, tolerate, or make the most of. bit.ly/483ISCi

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Arson: “At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely”

Here's the second big Consortium on Moral Decision-Making event -- and this one is sooner, April 19-20. It's "Moral Fragmentation and Boundaries", & builds on the Fragmentations theme at @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
this year, bridging @rockethics.bsky.social @ssripennstate.bsky.social
#socialpsych

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

A sign on the fence of a graveyard. It reads "No use of geiger counters on church property."

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

Several French far-right mayors take down EU flags Several recently elected far-right mayors have taken down European Union flags from the facades of their town halls, in a move the French government denounced as "populism".

Working on a project about the paradiplomacy of far-right mayors/local leaders. Brussels has unsurprisingly been a target of far-right paradiplomacy. It appears Ukraine now may be, as well, after a mayor removed Ukraine's flag from city hall (france24.com/en/live-news...).

Germany: Study finds a quarter of foreigners wish to leave – except asylum seekers A recent poll suggests that more than a quarter of immigrants in Germany are actively considering leaving the country again in the future. Among their main concerns cited were bureaucratic hurdles, a ...

Diving into the digest of the latest study on the migration shift out of Germany. Thinking of how a local colleague once said to me that few people want to come to Germany by choice “and so we rely on wars and conflicts and channel people to low-wage industries”

www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6511...

Poster reads "AI and Social Research: Empathic AI, Metascience, and Methodology." The QR code links to the webinar registration. Sponsors are listed at bottom. Wed June 3 and Thurs June 4, Penn State Innovation Hub. Image shows a pair of eyes looking out at the user amidst various graphical images.

I'm excited to announce one of the two big Consortium on Moral Decision-Making conferences for spring 2026. In June, we're collaborating with Penn State Center for Social Data Analytics to host "AI and Social Research: Empathic AI, Metascience, and Methodology" here on campus and hybrid on Zoom.