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I built a little Shiny app that shows how often various words were used in 20 prominent philosophy journals from 1980-2019. bweatherson.shinyapps.io/t20-graphs/

Excited to read this

Evan Thompson@evanthompson.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper, "Enaction as the bringing forth of worlds," by yours truly. Behind a paywall but email me if you'd like a copy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Principles of Biological Autonomy

Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how...

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Our new research reveals major differences across unions in 2024 — 33% of Teamsters backed VP Harris, compared to 77% of NEA members: “treating union members as a unified bloc can obscure…variation across different [groups] within organized labor.” clje.law.harvard.edu?p=6248

The Varied Voice of Labor: Unpacking the Political Engagement of Labor in the 2024 Election - Center for Labor and a Just Economy

“The Varied Voice of Labor: Unpacking the Political Engagement of Labor in the 2024 Election,” focuses on unions’ role in…

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Aww thank you, B!! ☺️

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Substantially reworked version Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value osf.io/preprints/os... #complexity

YES! The amount of times people have tried to explain this to me as “if you eat your cake then you don’t have it.” But you do have it! You have it in your belly!

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · last yr.

“You can’t have your cake and eat it too” is such a damn stupid phrase…I don’t want to own a cake for, like, display purposes. Is that a thing people want?? A /liability/?? No, I want to put it in my god damned mouth.

Today, for some reason, I’m reminded of James Kwak’s book Economisim in which he describes how politicians use overly simplistic “economics 101” claims to support their stupid policy agendas that real working economists would never endorse. Yep, no reason at all. Just came to mind…

This report was a passion project of mine, knowing how much future generations will struggle to retire. I consider how DB and DC pensions could use technology to increase accessibility, equity, and overall retirement preparedness.👇 rpc.cfainstitute.org/research/rep... #AI #pension #401k #retirement