Heard of the haplodiploid hypothesis (=¾ relatedness hypothesis)? It’s long been a staple of biology textbooks – you may’ve run into it in Intro Biology, Genetics, Evolution, or Behavior. It’s also been very influential on social evolution theory, yet surprisingly, it long remained untested.🧵

"So purpose cannot be a stand-in for the causal interactions and outputs, nor can it be their sum, even if it seems like “purpose” is the software that allows us to interact with the musculoskeletal ‘hardware’." on "Behavior, Purpose, Teleology" substack.com/home/post/p-...

What Is/Was Cybernetics? (Pt. 1)

Why - and how much - can I trust what I know?

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I reviewed Chris O’Kane’s new book for Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. The short of it is this is important scholarship that sets many Marxist debates on new terrain. Go check out the review to see what you might learn. marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2276...

‘Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination in Marx, Lukács, Adorno, and Lefebvre’ by Chris O’Kane reviewed by Jacob Spenser Wilson

For those steeped in value-form theory, who have read the third section of chapter one so many times they dream in coats and linen, who are acutely aware of the debates concerning value’s necessary fo...

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Today we commemorate the victims of the Strage di Bologna, a grotesque act of neofascist violence committed against the citizens of Bologna on this date in 1980.

Below are various variations on how your email is finding me

Here is my Odyssey review where i am the only brave cultural warrior to have done an explicitly adornite takedown of its ideology so far open.substack.com/pub/zhanpei/...

Friday at last…

Pearl diver, which is cool because I love swimming. Not having goggles will suck tho

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Your philosophy: static, ahistorical, cis My philosophy: dynamic, deeply historical, pluripotent

As a historian of Jodrell Bank, I agree! And the reason it is important is that it has been made to mean different things to different people at different times. Who's up for a mega thread on how and why? (I'm off for lunch now, but I'll do it after. I'll need the energy...)

John Grindrod@grindrod.bsky.social · last wk.

Really one of the most important postwar sites in Britain

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado | PNAS

In avocado and certain wild relatives in Lauraceae, a highly synchronized daily rhythm of floral sex timing promotes cross-pollination between two ...

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God might be real just because it enjoys fucking with me on the level of external fate.

65% of the way there! please i need to get to 100 before next month. im really so sorry im dependent on your generosity still currently. i really am trying to change that

🐈‍⬛️כעלעמער קאַץ@orphanim.bsky.social · 3w ago

sorry to be back to begging again... its been extra rough lately with trying to spend time helping others too. but i think im getting closer to finding something. at least, i hope, but i get rejected even for simple jobs. please, anything helps! thank you so much. gofund.me/cdf35e1c6

I just saw Al-Arabiya talk about Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, and I didn’t think these two domains had any intersection lol

well i’m translating Schelling again (this is from a letter to the Royal Bavarian Academy of the Sciences in 1811) and he is as per usual Going All The Way

Lichens and moss in boreal bog near Keene Valley NY

Pt 2 of our Schelling series, tap in! Had a blast talking with Imogen & Nora about Clara, one of Schelling’s freakiest texts, a philosophical dialogue that doubles as gothic romantic lit! The thesis in short: mourning is collective reconciliation with our irreducible materiality!

Critical Theory Working Group@crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social · 2w ago

EP24 Schelling’s Clara: Conversations on the Absolute. Crane, Imogen, & Nora talk Schelling’s Clara dialogue (ca. 1810) as a work on/of mourning, discussing the resurrection/transmigration of souls, nature-spirit dialectics, & the humanity of beavers!

EP24 Schelling’s Clara: Conversations on the Absolute. Crane, Imogen, & Nora talk Schelling’s Clara dialogue (ca. 1810) as a work on/of mourning, discussing the resurrection/transmigration of souls, nature-spirit dialectics, & the humanity of beavers!

Episode 24: Schelling’s Clara: Conversations on the Absolute. | Critical Theory Working Group

For episode 24 and part 2 in our Schelling series, James is joined by Imogen and Nora to discuss one of Schelling's unfinished works: Clara,

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After a year+ under review (no fault of @philscijournal.bsky.social) I am happy to finally share as forthc my paper "Peirce, Abduction, & Inverse Problems in the Geosciences" doi.org/10.1017/psa.... (2/3 had to be cut to fit word limit, but is part of my ever in-progress book) #HPS #phigeo #philsky

New essay on technical expertise, its occlusion to the majority of the human species, and the contours of its appropriation in any future project of communist construction. Read it online now, or in print in @htwvmag.bsky.social Issue 3 (link in reply below)

don't watch the anime if you haven't read the manga..

new post on the rationality of resistance in the context of the appalachian “hydrogen hub” phases.substack.com/p/decarboniz...

Decarbonization is not its design

On the rationality of resistance to the (now-beleaguered) Appalachian Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub project

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To my eco-Marxists, CTWG editor J. E. Morain released a new substack on Wittfogel and sinology. It is short, and way worth it for you to read. Check it out below! colereandspleen.substack.com/p/k-a-wittfo...

K. A. Wittfogel's Eco-Marxist Sinology

An Introduction and Critique

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For my birthday, I’ll like to ask the cosmos for some good news for a change

I really don’t know what to do and how to feel about Kuwait and the wider Arab peninsula. Calling it repression puts it lightly. We are genuinely so cooked

Adam Hanieh breaks down the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, an annual report on global energy trade, production and usage.

Renewables, ‘Electrostates’, and other Myths of the Green Transition

The start of this month marked the publication of the 75th edition of the Energy Institute’s 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, the flagship publicly available dataset on global energy…

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hope you all liked the most recent Schelling episode we did on the pod, just wrapped recording one on Schelling’s Clara (ca. 1810) as a work on/of mourning!