Good reminder of how not interacting with far right accounts/bots, it's the right choice to fight the spread of propaganda It's funny to speculate whoever built the sm algorithms, did it under the corrupted blood incident data. The only way to not spread the debuff is avoiding the infected/carriers

Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED@calligiovanini.bsky.social · yesterday

The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

if you want to follow ANYTHING from what elected Lula here in brazil, this is the most important lesson and change of mindset that happened here just don't give them the attention they want. let them speak amongst themselves and let us win by silencing them with our voices

Calli Giovanini COMMS CLOSED@calligiovanini.bsky.social · yesterday

The online part was important too, of course. We collectively decided to not interact with any right wing post or comment ever. Trolls and bots lost their power. This is a good lesson.

PSA from your friendly neighborhood eco-nerd: Fake Halloween spiderwebs are horrifically bad for wildlife. Insects, small animals, and birds get caught in them and die. Wildlife rehab centers see spikes in birds caught in the webs around Halloween. If you MUST use them, use them indoors ONLY.

This paper is why I hate evolutionary psychology so much. Male aggression in the present is inevitable, because in the deep past, manly men with beards fought each other to win the prize - that's right, it's us! The manosphere loves this shit; but if you have a different view, it's 'ideology' .... 🧪

As Rep. Max Miller campaigns for a third term, a trove of court and police records obtained by Mother Jones details allegations of physical abuse, drug use, and misogyny raised during a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife.

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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A denizen of the Indonesian islands of Bangka, Sumatra, and Borneo, the googly-eyed herbivore was last documented in 1937 and feared extinct — until now. The Bangka slow loris, belongs to the world’s only group of venom-packing primates. nypost.com/2026/10/23/s...

World’s only venomous primate lost to science for 90 years resurfaces in unbelievable place

Don’t call it a comeback, it’s been here for years.

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Further those cartoony-type illustrations are what adults think kids want in a patronising sort of way. Research shows that kids learn better from realistic illustrations and prefer them for fact-based information such as "What does an archaeologist do?" - i.e. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Less is More: How manipulative features affect children’s learning from picture books

Picture books are ubiquitous in young children’s lives and are assumed to support children’s acquisition of information about the world. Given their importance, relatively little research has directly...

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Trans youth health care is already illegal in Missouri under a law enacted in 2023. But you wouldn’t know that from Amendment 3’s marketing.

Missouri’s GOP has a new strategy to ban abortion—attack trans kids

Doctors in the state are fighting a deceptive ballot measure that imperils both abortion and trans rights.

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Short answer: no

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

Are trans sports bans about protecting women's sports? Survey says: "Among the least sexist respondents, 28% supported banning transgender people from sports matching their gender identity; among the most sexist, 79% did." The Conversation | 10/20/2026 theconversation.com/are-transgen...

Pregnancy and poat-partum are THE most nutritionally taxing times of your life. Guess who they studied the nutritional recommendations on? Men. MEN #MatriarchyNow

It really is striking how pushers of AI insist its overarching value is to liberate us from tedious work so we can spend time on life’s meaningful things only for rich tech people to repeatedly share how they use AI to outsource the work of bonding with their kids.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

On my lunch break I'll be joining the @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social Wikipedia editing session because that's what Wikipedians do. When they find something wrong they get stuck in and fix it. #WCCwiki wikimedia.org.uk/2026/10/clos...

Everyone has a role to play in closing Wikipedia’s gender gap. - Wikimedia UK

Wikimedia UK welcomes all initiatives that bring overlooked knowledge to light Women’s lives, achievements, and expertise belong at the heart … Continue reading "Everyone has a role to play in closing...

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Even though I don't live in Brazil, my heart is with them. It is a relief that they rejected fascism once again. May the world continue to reject fascism.

Did you know that hunting and the consumption of large animals played a role in human evolution? Jessica Thompson will discuss the archaeological evidence, animal-bone analyses, and environmental changes that researchers use to understand "The human predatory pattern" at CARTA's Oct 30 symposium.

This makes me think of all the comments I’ve heard from Fongoli researchers about how the Fongoli chimps/western chimpanzees are more bonobo-like. Of course, the question I’ve had for a while is if it’s a regional difference between chimp subspecies, or a difference between researchers.

John Hawks@johnhawks.net · 3d ago

Anthropologists have often assumed hunting was a male activity for hominin relatives. New research adds strong statistical support to the data for female hunting dominance in bonobos. Is this a better model than the male-dominated chimpanzees for ancient hominins? www.johnhawks.net/p/woman-the-...

In a world where you can be anything, be a person who votes in midterm elections! 💚🙏✊

Which sex does most of the hunting differs between chimps and bonobos, who are skeletally similar. Seems like skeletal anatomy cannot predict whether/how sex relates to hunting in our closest living relatives. Remind me why we think we can predict sex based hunting behaviors in fossil hominins?

John Hawks@johnhawks.net · 3d ago

Anthropologists have often assumed hunting was a male activity for hominin relatives. New research adds strong statistical support to the data for female hunting dominance in bonobos. Is this a better model than the male-dominated chimpanzees for ancient hominins? www.johnhawks.net/p/woman-the-...

And this is why they are exploitive tools... we need to demand railways to ensure they are tools for the benefit of humanity. One step to ensure that is to have more women, non binary people, people with (dis)abilities, and people of color involved in the process

Amy Diehl, Ph.D.@amydiehl.bsky.social · 3d ago

2025 study: Of 102 California AI companies that had raised at least $50M, women held just 15% of board seats. 43% had no women directors at all. Among companies with $50M to $99M in funding, nearly 2/3 had all-male boards. www.forbes.com/councils/for...

Why does everyone want you to vote early? And what makes it different from voting on election day? We break it down for you ⬇️

We had power?! I must have missed that memo 🙁

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 3d ago

"This technology disrupts humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters, and makes their economic power less, and increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, voters." Also, how come none of these newly disempowered cat ladies want to give us the children we need

Anthropologists have often assumed hunting was a male activity for hominin relatives. New research adds strong statistical support to the data for female hunting dominance in bonobos. Is this a better model than the male-dominated chimpanzees for ancient hominins? www.johnhawks.net/p/woman-the-...

Woman the hunter, bonobo style

Females lead bonobo hunts, raising interesting questions for hominin hunting

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Hey you. Do you live in Philly & enjoy taking walks? Join the #SaveTheAcademy street team We need people to hang posters in business windows, home windows, street poles, and anywhere else. We want reopening the museum to feel inevitable. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

this is why we did a ton of polling on winning messages and what we found is that cracking down on corruption is really, really important for any cost-of-living argument because people straight up don't believe any of your promises if you don't show you're serious about accountability

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 3d ago

If Democrats actually win big because people want a check on Trump corruption I expect every move to do so will be covered in the corporate media as being risky to their 2028 position.

Enormous news. A melanoma vaccine, one of the most deadly cancers out there. Science is good and helpful and there should be more of it. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Breakthrough vaccine for the deadliest skin cancer cut risk by almost half

The skin cancer vaccine is based on mRNA technology that helped end the coronavirus pandemic.

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Heads up. A Senate bill being sold as “permitting reform” could seriously weaken protections for our public lands, clean water, historic places, and sacred Tribal sites. S. 5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, would narrow environmental reviews and

Don’t forget: - Early voting lasts from October 24th to November 1st. - Your last chance to vote is on Election Day: Tuesday, November 3rd. - Voting is your fundamental right and no one — especially not the government — should stand in the way of you exercising it.

Happy first day of early voting, New York!