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The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) does the trick. Support it in your state.

"EV car fleets are displacing oil demand, saving oil importers $20 billion since the start of the Hormuz energy crisis. In the six months from March to August 2026, China saved an estimated $14 billion, with EU countries saving $3.1 billion." EVs are the smart economic choice. So EVs will dominate.

🚨 Applied Cultural Evolution Brownbag TODAY! 🚨 What is (uniquely) applied cultural evolution? Caroline Graf, U. Zurich Oct 7 11 am EDT, 3 pm GMT, 5 pm CEST On Zoom: osu.zoom.us/j/9249567024...

🚨 Applied Cultural Evolution Brownbag Series 🚨 Two inaugural discussions: Oct 7 What is (uniquely) applied cultural evolution? Caroline Graf, U. Zurich Dec 9 What can cultural evolution offer climate adaptation practitioners? Christine Lindell, World Vision Australia tinyurl.com/3st6zy79

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But no part was hit as hard as SBE, which went from an average of 800 new grants to just 91, a precipitous, 90% decline. SBE spent just 95 million on new grants, far less than its average of 247 million.

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

Norway plans temporary ban on smart glasses in some public places

Side-option, though for a much narrower audience, is Drunk Across the Disciplines, where you have people from different fields go off at one another. Like Swarthmore’s Lifeboat Debate, but with cocktails.

We have put in a bid to hold the next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social conference in Auckland 🇳🇿 from Feb 17-19 2028! We could really use your input in this survey to help us plan for if/how this conference is held (particularly re: in-person vs online participation): us.list-manage.com/xEOnWEahXJf?...

Listen below to a podcast I did about how to help create social change amongst your circle of influence for important issues like animals, the environment, and social justice 🌱🌿🌳🐣🦥🐳

Congrats to Somebody Should Do Something by @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social! It is shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes

Counterpoint: lol no

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself. @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Not a surprise. But neat to see.

Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research

Got disinvited today because the media involved decided that "everything had already been said" about the race science topic and that they would rather focus on "the broader question" of "culture wars" and "academic freedom". Which of course is the framing that the race scientists want

I don't even understand what I'm thinking until I write it out.

EXCLUSIVE: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe told Democracy Docket that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.

ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...

Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.

Yuuuuup…

I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.

Cybernetics is really useful for saying things like "cybernetics talks about this" without providing further insight

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”

someone give Oops All Paperclips a compute cluster and 10 million dollars

talking about vertebrates like how people talk about invertebrates: I saw a blue jay today! This beautiful bird is native to North America. While its bite is painful, it is nonvenomous & harmless to humans. Unlike most tetrapods, the gray squirrel broods its young internally and gives live birth!

New paper in our special collection on scientific racism: Hereditarians consistently fail to engage with academic research, not just in genetics but also social science. @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social explains how they largely ignore the social brain hypothesis for the evolution of intelligence

The smaller human in this photo (photographed here in 2009) just got the A levels she needs to study paleontology. She’s been through *a lot* but her love of ancient dead things turned to stone never wavered. Below is part of the tiny museum she made when she was 10. My heart’s bursting a bit rn. ❤️🐚

"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."

Government destroys very successful export market, just to appease ignorant racists. As ever.

Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...

CPBA’s @trinitytran.bsky.social breaks it down. CA is the world’s 4th-largest economy, yet we pay billions in interest & fees to Wall Street banks and private investors. North Dakota’s economy is just 1/50th our size. Its public bank returned $335M to the state last year. Imagine our potential!

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