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Tim Waring

@twaring.bsky.social

I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. https://timwaring.info/

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250 to 250@250to250.bsky.social · 2w ago

Vermont Representative Becca Balint is a former teacher, state legislator, and the daughter of a working-class mother and immigrant father. Here, Balint talks about the Green Mountain Boys, the Vermont militia known for its heroics during the Revolutionary War. #WeAreAmerica250

Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w ago

NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social · 2w ago

Natural selection videos don't compress well because they tend to be more chaotic and busy.😡 This one is so pretty but got pretty mangled. Maybe I'll do some tighter zooms at slow speeds to go along with these timelapse overviews...

Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social · 2w ago

A consistent issue I've run into through years of tinkering with natural selection is that the world wants to be BIG. It's very important for the evolution of earth life that populations can be isolated from one another. Otherwise its all weeds, wildfires, and pandemics.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Joan Silk@jbsilk.bsky.social · 3w ago

Richard Feynman said: "If you can't explain something to a child, you don't really understand it." And, this is the key to all good scientific writing.

Paul Smaldino@psmaldino.bsky.social · 3w ago

I had a paper accepted and learned that PNAS got rid of their free, “closed access” (preprint ok) option - they now charge at least $3K to publish because they are greedy little pigs who have no shame.

PNAS charges $5575 for immediate access at $3925 for delayed open access, because they are greedy pigs without shame.
Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump is promoting a Michael Savage video calling for democratic socialism to be made a crime and its leaders deported. I’m noting this in case anyone has any doubt that Trump wants to rule as a dictator. We need to take this stuff seriously.

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Elise Cutts@elisecutts.bsky.social · last mo.

Science's sources inside the NSF said the agency might be siphoning off the $$ for a $1.5 billion tech initiative called X-Labs. Here's @policyhound.bsky.social's original article and thread with the details:

Jeffrey Mervis@policyhound.bsky.social · last mo.

Been wondering why NSF isn't spending most of its FY26 appropriation? A $1.5B tech initiative may be the reason. And big cuts to hundreds of research programs could be just the beginning of the bad news. www.science.org/content/arti...

Alex Mesoudi@alexmesoudi.com · last mo.

New paper with Ángel Jiménez, @keith-jensen.bsky.social, Lei Chang and Hui Jing Lu Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans

Abstract. A necessary prerequisite for the accumulation of beneficial knowledge, or ‘cumulative cultural evolution’, is the sharing of information via soci

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Jeanne Bovet@jeannebovet.bsky.social · last mo.

The European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association is planning an online global event in 2028! Fill in the form below if you're interested in getting involved! @ehbea.bsky.social

Puffer Fish Say 'Join Us!'

ALT: Puffer Fish Say 'Join Us!'

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EHBEA@ehbea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

✨🚨 @ehbea.bsky.social IS GOING GLOBAL🚨✨ #EHBEA2028 will be a fully online global event, opening the door for those who have rarely/never been able to attend. We’re looking for volunteers at all career stages and levels of involvement. 👉 forms.office.com/e/vCT8Dqk1Mp Please share widely 🫶

Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺@codfather.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty." France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.

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Cultural Evolution Society@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: Jun14 🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...

Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2026: Nomination Form

Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Executive Committee's open positions. On this page we will ask you for general details. The next pages allow you to choose the position(s) ...

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Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.” Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.