Our paper is out now! 🎉📝 We describe how we work to address barriers faced by students and early-career researchs in the animal behaviour field, through our mentorships and microgrants. We hope that this can inspire and provide practical resources for others hoping to do the same!

The animal behaviour collective: building confidence and breaking barriers through community

Despite increasing efforts to diversify the field of animal behaviour, systemic barriers continue to limit access and inclusion for researchers from h…

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In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

All the demeaning ways Home Office expects LGBTQ+ migrants to 'prove' themselves

With comments suggesting LGBTQ+ asylum seekers are pretending to be gay, how do you successfully prove your sexuality to the UK Home Office?

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The Sun 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25764

Inspired by André Gorz, 1973: "...the car wastes more time than it saves and creates more distance than it overcomes. Of course, you can get yourself to work doing 60 mph, but that’s because you live 30 miles from your job and are willing to give half an hour to the last 6 miles."

The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth

by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...

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Stefan Zajic@zajic.com · 4mo ago

Happy "cars create distance" day to all who celebrate April 7, 1977, Philadelphia Inquirer @thewaroncars.bsky.social libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item...

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7mo ago

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

I keep coming back to this

Kashmir Hill@kashhill.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

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We believe that diversity & inclusion are a must for good science. This is why we support students from historically excluded groups, including LGBTQIA+ students. With this year's anti-LGBTQIA+ and specifically anti-trans measures, we feel it's more important than ever to state this.

‘I just want bread’ This elderly Palestinian man, Sameer, broke down in tears from extreme hunger caused by Israel’s blockade in Gaza. At least 1 in 5 Palestinians faces starvation in Gaza as Israel continues attacks.

One thing that is irksome about the “actually the island of strangers is about social isolation” line is okay, how does doubling the permanent residency requirement *help* with this?

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · last yr.

The doubling of the period for migrants to qualify for permanent residency is something the online hard right has been ranting and raving about because - let's be blunt - they don't like foreigners and they're worried these foreigners might end up voting Labour

The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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sometimes people say "___ is a bubble" and mean that ___ is an environment that exceptionally distorts and disfigures people's perceptions of what the world is like, and sometimes people say "___ is a bubble" and mean that ___ doesn't contain statistically representative samples of every Type of Guy

75 people at the New York Times arguing over whether to call the plan to build Trump hotels in Gaza “audacious,” “bold,” or “visionary”

Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · 2y ago

Copy desks are good! Having people argue over headlines and adjectives before publication is a good thing! Getting it right and being 30 seconds slower is better than off-kilter and being 30 seconds faster.

While I work on this year's valentine, here's last year's.

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

A cicada: ‘What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memory’ | Helen Sullivan

A cicada: ‘What cicadas leave behind is a kind of crystallised memory’ | Helen Sullivan

Part of their body is hollow, this amplifies the sound. The longer you listen to their sound, the more they seem to sync up Of all the languages’ words for cicada, Croatian’s might be the best: cvrčak, pronounced: tvr-chak. The sound it makes is “tvr-chi…

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Lucy Grossmith, Mumurations over Fields

Fumi Yanagimoto

Girl with Cat. Ca. 1940 - 1952. portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb...

Do you know what rating you’ll give after reading the intro? Are your confidence scores 4 or higher? Do you not respond in rebuttal phases? Are you worried how it will look if your rating is the only 8 among 3’s? This thread is for you.

Happy Christmas Eve. Every year I inflict this upon you, one of my least popular comics ever. Enjoy!

New from me, in the New Yorker: In 2015, I co-discovered a population of non-native Italian wall lizards dwelling in my hometown. Their origins, though, remained a mystery—until this spring, when I learned of a rogue biologist with a shocking secret... #longreads www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

The Lizard King of Long Island

Jon Sperling secretly spread a non-native species across the Northeast. “It’s insane what this guy was doing,” a biologist said.

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In case you missed it, our mini grants application opens up on January 6th, 2025. This program is designed for our members to apply for funding for research, travel, personal expenses, etc.

Once more on Crick and the Central Dogma! press.asimov.com/articles/crick

Francis Crick Was Misunderstood

The Central Dogma is not a

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Today (Dec. 1) is World AIDS Day. Spare a thought for all those who perished. 🌈🏳️‍🌈 www.instagram.com/p/DDC6vPzPj5...

Is it p-hacking if I ate only the biggest fruit flies