mj
@malthusjohn.bsky.social
Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity ♾️ AuDhD.
Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm.
Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more..
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Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm.
Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more..
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Explore evidence and practice on co-creating nature-based solutions (NbS) with commonly excluded stakeholders.
Based on empirical insights, the report distils 8 guiding principles to advance inclusive and effective NbS research & implementation.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/X6y9hh
Based on empirical insights, the report distils 8 guiding principles to advance inclusive and effective NbS research & implementation.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/X6y9hh
November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Explore evidence and practice on co-creating nature-based solutions (NbS) with commonly excluded stakeholders.
Based on empirical insights, the report distils 8 guiding principles to advance inclusive and effective NbS research & implementation.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/X6y9hh
Based on empirical insights, the report distils 8 guiding principles to advance inclusive and effective NbS research & implementation.
Read more 🧪 link.europa.eu/X6y9hh
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Historian of science Jim Endersby on "Darwin, Hooker, and Empire" (from 2009): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzb9...
#HPS #histsci
#HPS #histsci
Jim Endersby • Darwin, Hooker, and Empire
YouTube video by Wolf Humanities Center
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Historian of science Jim Endersby on "Darwin, Hooker, and Empire" (from 2009): www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzb9...
#HPS #histsci
#HPS #histsci
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"humanity and the environment cannot be separated." There lots theories on what caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, but a recent study points to the environmental shift that took place around the 3rd century AD. as one of the main factors. Great read.🏺
Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed?
Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so complex that historians are still debating it today, b...
www.nationalgeographic.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"humanity and the environment cannot be separated." There lots theories on what caused the collapse of the Roman Empire, but a recent study points to the environmental shift that took place around the 3rd century AD. as one of the main factors. Great read.🏺
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From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: For his Witchcraft and Magic in American History class, Richard Tomczak developed "an optional public writing assignment...to connect contemporary crises with the psychological tensions that produced witch-hunting." 🗃️
Writing Histories of Witchcraft in a Pandemic – AHA
Students at Stony Brook University used a digital humanities project about times of crisis to connect their work on the Salem Witch Trials to the pandemic era.
www.historians.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
From #AHAPerspectives in 2021: For his Witchcraft and Magic in American History class, Richard Tomczak developed "an optional public writing assignment...to connect contemporary crises with the psychological tensions that produced witch-hunting." 🗃️
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Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other | Lauren Ross & Megan Peters
YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution
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October 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Enjoyed discussing "Why Science & Philosophy Need Each Other" w Megan Peters @meganakpeters.bsky.social
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
We discuss the importance of engagement between science & philosophy, our experience w this & simplified conceptions of science & philosophy 🧠📕
Thanks Tev Naidu! #philsky #philsci #sciencesky
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Philosophy & neuroscience of smell, some of my key refs
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Smellosophy — Harvard University Press
An NRC Handelsblad Book of the Year“Offers rich discussions of olfactory perception, the conscious and subconscious impacts of smell on behavior and emotion.”—ScienceDecades of cognition research have...
www.hup.harvard.edu
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Philosophy & neuroscience of smell, some of my key refs
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(1) Smellosophy (book) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
(2) Smell is spatial link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(3) No odor objects www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
(4) No neural map/representation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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How are auditory features represented across the #AuditoryPathway? @bathellierlab.bsky.social show that #auditory feature tuning emerges through a mix of gradual & stepwise changes, with early representation of simple features & later refinement of complex ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oi0XCY
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
How are auditory features represented across the #AuditoryPathway? @bathellierlab.bsky.social show that #auditory feature tuning emerges through a mix of gradual & stepwise changes, with early representation of simple features & later refinement of complex ones @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4oi0XCY
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Good explanation here of why even some carmakers and oil and gas businesses are opposed to EPA potentially removing the finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
An E.P.A. Plan to Kill a Major Climate Rule Is Worrying Business Leaders
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Good explanation here of why even some carmakers and oil and gas businesses are opposed to EPA potentially removing the finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health. 🧪
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/c...
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“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Latest by my colleague Tim Lewens. Most envious of people who manage to pack in arguments into 3000 words, especially such meaty arguments as this one #philsci #philsky
Values as Evidence in the Sciences
Abstract. Ethical statements can sometimes serve as legitimate evidence for purely descriptive hypotheses. This role for ethical statements need involve ne
academic.oup.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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1335 years ago, on the 16th of October 690, Wu Zetian became empress of the Zhou dynasty. She had held de facto power previously during the reigns of her late husband and two of her sons. She is the only female sovereign in the history of China who is widely regarded as legitimate. #otd #history 🗃️
October 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Pre-Inca civilisations in the Andes, the earliest occupations of Uruguay, and how textiles reveal invisible cultural identities. Explore all this and more in our South American #archaeology collection 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Pre-Inca civilisations in the Andes, the earliest occupations of Uruguay, and how textiles reveal invisible cultural identities. Explore all this and more in our South American #archaeology collection 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Explore archival memory, data loss, and attempts to preserve the past in the digital age at this year’s Annual Digital Lecture.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!
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What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
What is agency? How did it emerge through evolution? Why is it key to understanding complexity? Check out this brilliant Open Access book by my dear colleagues Alvaro Moreno & @julipereto.bsky.social. A deep exploration of a crucial concept. Highly recommended! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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The Epistemology of Logic
"The generalisation ‘All swans are white’ does not explain *why* swans are white; for that, we require a genetic or evolutionary model."
New book by Ben Martin
Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#PhilSci #Epistemology #AcademicSky
"The generalisation ‘All swans are white’ does not explain *why* swans are white; for that, we require a genetic or evolutionary model."
New book by Ben Martin
Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#PhilSci #Epistemology #AcademicSky
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The Epistemology of Logic
"The generalisation ‘All swans are white’ does not explain *why* swans are white; for that, we require a genetic or evolutionary model."
New book by Ben Martin
Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#PhilSci #Epistemology #AcademicSky
"The generalisation ‘All swans are white’ does not explain *why* swans are white; for that, we require a genetic or evolutionary model."
New book by Ben Martin
Open Access: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
#PhilSci #Epistemology #AcademicSky
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New report shows where cancer-causing chemicals are polluting water for over 200 million Americans -- pretty much everywhere. 🌎🌿🧪
www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/new-...
www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/new-...
September 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New report shows where cancer-causing chemicals are polluting water for over 200 million Americans -- pretty much everywhere. 🌎🌿🧪
www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/new-...
www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/new-...
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🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology!
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
September 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
🚨 New paper in PLOS Biology!
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
📉 Women publish up to 45% fewer papers than men
📉 Non-native English speakers: –35%
📉 Triple barrier (woman + non-native English + low-income): –70%
🌍 Language & equity matter in science!
👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#EquityInScience #LanguageMatters #OpenScience
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The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
September 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class
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Retiring the only remaining ship in the US arsenal that was dedicated to research in the Southern Ocean....it hurts my soul to know how badly this will impact the science and all (scientists, students, crew, etc) who have worked so hard to advance our knowledge of all things #Antarctica 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Retiring the only remaining ship in the US arsenal that was dedicated to research in the Southern Ocean....it hurts my soul to know how badly this will impact the science and all (scientists, students, crew, etc) who have worked so hard to advance our knowledge of all things #Antarctica 🧪🌎🦑🇦🇶🐧
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[COMMENTARY]
Conservation faces a storm of crises: ecological decline, weak institutions, disinformation & threats to defenders.
The path forward? Resilient finance, coalitions linking nature & livelihoods, and optimism as a method, says a new op-ed. 🌍💪
The views expressed are author's.
Conservation faces a storm of crises: ecological decline, weak institutions, disinformation & threats to defenders.
The path forward? Resilient finance, coalitions linking nature & livelihoods, and optimism as a method, says a new op-ed. 🌍💪
The views expressed are author's.
Navigating conservation’s crisis (commentary)
Call it a crossroads. Ecological decline is accelerating in too many places at once; institutions that once limited the damage are wobbling; the information channels we rely on to coordinate action…
news.mongabay.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
[COMMENTARY]
Conservation faces a storm of crises: ecological decline, weak institutions, disinformation & threats to defenders.
The path forward? Resilient finance, coalitions linking nature & livelihoods, and optimism as a method, says a new op-ed. 🌍💪
The views expressed are author's.
Conservation faces a storm of crises: ecological decline, weak institutions, disinformation & threats to defenders.
The path forward? Resilient finance, coalitions linking nature & livelihoods, and optimism as a method, says a new op-ed. 🌍💪
The views expressed are author's.
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🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force!
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🎉BREAKING: The High Seas Treaty has reached 60 ratifications — enough to enter into force!
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
This landmark agreement creates a pathway to help protect the high seas — waters beyond any one country’s authority that cover nearly half our planet. https://oceana.ly/3VqpI2Y
Some essential changes are in order.
Treating a nationstate as a business is as lame as treating politicians as corporate executives who've cemented their ride in the #power seat w/ #corrupt use of money & giving them carte blanche to do anything they want for as long as they possibly can.
#limits
Treating a nationstate as a business is as lame as treating politicians as corporate executives who've cemented their ride in the #power seat w/ #corrupt use of money & giving them carte blanche to do anything they want for as long as they possibly can.
#limits
Political parties are the Poster Children of #reductionism taken too far.
Yes, it's true that not everyone will be interested or knowledgeable enough, or simply not have the time to participate in governance, but this does not excuse grandiose, untestable claims & magical overtones
as a baseline.
Yes, it's true that not everyone will be interested or knowledgeable enough, or simply not have the time to participate in governance, but this does not excuse grandiose, untestable claims & magical overtones
as a baseline.
September 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.
Beware the drive to scale technology
When it comes to technology, scalability—its capacity to be standardized and then distributed en masse and across contexts—is the ultimate goal. Scientists and engineers view scalability as the route ...
www.science.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I am a new Expert Voices columnist @science.org and my first article just came out! In it, I argue that scaling technology has a dark side, particularly when it comes to alleviating inequality and injustice. And I suggest what scientists, engineers, and policymakers can do about it.
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🚯 When a major country bans waste imports, where does all the waste go?
📉 A new #JAERE study on China’s 2017 ban finds:
♻️ Low-value waste (plastics) was diverted to lower-income countries.
🌍 Global waste flows fell 8–11%, cutting environmental costs.
📊 #JaereFigureFriday
🌎 #EconSky
📉 A new #JAERE study on China’s 2017 ban finds:
♻️ Low-value waste (plastics) was diverted to lower-income countries.
🌍 Global waste flows fell 8–11%, cutting environmental costs.
📊 #JaereFigureFriday
🌎 #EconSky
September 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚯 When a major country bans waste imports, where does all the waste go?
📉 A new #JAERE study on China’s 2017 ban finds:
♻️ Low-value waste (plastics) was diverted to lower-income countries.
🌍 Global waste flows fell 8–11%, cutting environmental costs.
📊 #JaereFigureFriday
🌎 #EconSky
📉 A new #JAERE study on China’s 2017 ban finds:
♻️ Low-value waste (plastics) was diverted to lower-income countries.
🌍 Global waste flows fell 8–11%, cutting environmental costs.
📊 #JaereFigureFriday
🌎 #EconSky
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The amount of oranges produced in Florida in the past year hit the lowest since the Great Depression, according
USDA data … at 12.2 million boxes of oranges, it is the lowest to come from the state since 1932 #EconSky
USDA data … at 12.2 million boxes of oranges, it is the lowest to come from the state since 1932 #EconSky
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The amount of oranges produced in Florida in the past year hit the lowest since the Great Depression, according
USDA data … at 12.2 million boxes of oranges, it is the lowest to come from the state since 1932 #EconSky
USDA data … at 12.2 million boxes of oranges, it is the lowest to come from the state since 1932 #EconSky