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Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

¡Esperanzadora victoria en Brasil 🇧🇷! Qué alegría. Que el resto de energúmenos miserables, títeres de EEUU e Israel, sean solo un bache en la emancipación de Latino America.

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! It takes 2 weeks to confirm ocean sea surface temperatures and the long wait is finally over. The first day in recorded history with Nino 3.4 SST at or above 30.0°C is now officially on the record. October 7, 2026: 30.000°C. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_dai...

After the US-backed kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, BP and Shell have moved swiftly to secure lucrative oil and gas deals in Venezuela. buff.ly/smXZDpL

Version 1.3.2 of PearTree released: github.com/artic-networ... Fixes many of the remaining niggling bugs. WebApp updated at peartree.live

Incroyable. La jeunesse veut tout changer.

The fact that almost anyone think of condeming these evil, criminal and unlawful killings by the US says everything about how the lives of the global south, our lives, are considered as almost worthless.

Interpreting Biotic Interactions in the Fossil Record: Evidence and Evolutionary Significance #paleobiology #paleobiology #fossils #ecology #evolution #EarthHistory #biodiversity

Today marks one year since the administration began its unauthorized and unconstitutional boat strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — killing over 200 people. One thing is clear: this military campaign, which continues with the latest strikes just last week, remains illegal and ineffective.

our in memoriam piece, celebrating the academic life and multifaceted, seminal scientific contributions of the great bob ricklefs is now out in the american naturalist www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.

Who is draining Africa? This figure shows net-appropriation of resources from Africa's CFA zone, illustrating two key facts. 1) Eurozone countries are the biggest appropriators, benefitting from the Francafrique system. 2) Contrary to conventional Western narratives, China's appropriation is tiny.

they’re making ai-generated, pro-concentration camp propaganda

Dark times ahead. “After Petro” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Workers from “The West” who have been told to hate communism (and do so) have no idea how much communism did for them.

⭕️ ANALYSIS | Israel Returns to Mass Killings in Gaza After Ben-Gvir Demands 30 to 40 Palestinian Deaths a Night Immediately after Jared Kushner met Netanyahu in Israel, and according to multiple leading Israeli outlets gave the ICC-wanted war crimes fugitive a green light to continue attacks on...

Trump says the quiet part out loud, and debunks the liberal and Democrat narrative that the US has ever cared about humanitarianism, freedom, democracy… x.com/statedept/st...

Piketty shows that this holds true across markets and nations and eras: all other things being equal, the market system produces a class of hereditary aristocrats who command the world's capital and direct its deployment, despite never having *done* anything. 16/

In other words: for Bettencourt, doing *nothing at all* produced more wealth as *founding the most successful corporation in the world* did for Gates. Bettencourt, a person who *owned things*, did better than Gates, a person who *did things*. 13/

“The immeasurable gains #fossifuels gave us over the past century are now being taken away, hundreds of houses, thousands of evacuations, and billions of dollars at a time, leaving mass trauma, ravaged landscapes, impoverished communities, and a tattered social fabric.”

Cool cool cool. Now do: 1. fire departments 2. stadiums 3. police departments 4. ROADS 5. emergency rooms p.s. fuck you.

Ah, just found this essay which says it much better. medium.com/@Granstafer/...

In August 5th, 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested by apartheid police, with support from the CIA, for resisting white minority rule. He was imprisoned for 27 years. US government agencies listed Mandela as a "terrorist" until 2008.

Third edition of my course on understanding phylogenetic comparative models and their inference! From finding the MaxLik, building an MCMC sampler to Markov processes, complex birth-death models and more. All welcome!

Dive Deep into Probabilistic Phylogenetic Comparative Methods 📅 October 5th–16th, 2026 http://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/introduction-to-probabilistic-inference-of-phylogenetic-comparative-methods-pcm-using-julia/ #TScourses #KeepLearning #Phylogenetics #EvolutionaryBiology

Beto Coral was arrested and detained for over a month in an ICE jail after attending a protest against Colombian President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, with Marco Rubio writing, “Coral Garrido has used his presence in the U.S. to conduct political activity in support of the Petro government.”

"The Donroe Doctrine seeks to turn Latin America back into a strategic reserve of land, resources and labour for US power. Under Petro, Colombia has broken too many rules of that order." The 18th PI Briefing of 2026 is online now.

🚨new paper alert🚨 In this review paper including an international team mixing geologists, biologists, and paleontologists, we synthesize current approaches for integrating paleoclimate and paleogeographic data into macroevolutionary models. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... (1/n)

I’m in idiot for wading into this, but I can say in my experience that there’s more democratic-socialist discussion about climate, and certainly about Gaza, on X now than on BlueSky, which trends straight liberal. And it’s not true that climate content is always being suppressed over there.

These are the brave and courageous

💢 THREAD: Iranians form human chains around power plants and bridges as Trump warns “a whole civilization will die tonight” As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, vids circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations & key infrastructure across Iran in acts of solidarity...

Not a single nationwide protest against the war in Iran, from the most “democratic and free” country, while the pedophile leader threatens to erase an entire civilization by using nuclear weapons, as they alone did twice on civilians.

The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

Children in Gaza are increasingly being bitten by rats as Israel continues to deny displaced families proper shelter under the ongoing blockade. Medical workers report bites on bodies & faces, with overcrowding & collapsing sanitation worsening conditions and leaving children especially vulnerable.

US Israel have bombed Iran universities, one by one, including where Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields medal, the first women to do so. Terrorists of humanity. Silence or thinking this means freedom is complicity and idiocy!

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

A website to honor all the Gaza academics and scholars and their legacy murdered by the US-Israeli imperialism. rememberinggazascholars.org

"We're so disgusted with our government's policy of deliberately causing misery for the Cuban people." Read more from Medea Benjamin in Le Monde.

When people choose to not talk about "politics", it is usually because they directly benefit from it.

"Palestine, while in unspeakable pain, should inspire the world to resist the monsters to achieve emancipation, justice, dignity, and equality."

Fundamental documentary by @abbymartin.bsky.social reporting the grave environmental (on top of the already devastating human) cost, of US imperialism.

"Gaza is not an isolated tragedy. It is the epicentre of global politics." In her speech at the People’s Congress for The Hague Group, Yara Hawari examines the brutal reality of Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

By Sony Thang... Americans love to say, "We are better than this." When? During slavery? During Jim Crow? During Vietnam? During coups in Latin America? During Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Palestine? At what exact point was this mythical moral golden age?