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ignacio quintero
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CNRS Researcher at the Institut de Biologie de l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Studying evolutionary processes using stochastic phylogenetic models.

Failed reincarnation of Montaigne.

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · Oct 17
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
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com

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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 16h
so is it a common experience that the same dudes who were super into crypto like 7 years ago are the same dudes that are super into ai hype now?

is it just the same group of guys getting scammed over and over while they lecture us normies about how we are missing out because we are stupid?

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psbaker10.bsky.social @psbaker10.bsky.social · 4d
"Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation."
Unbelievably stupid.
theintercept.com/2023/10/29/w...
When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.
theintercept.com

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Clémence Guetté @clemenceguette.bsky.social · 10d
C'est une catastrophe sanitaire et écologique.

Si rien n'est fait, le coût des polluants éternels atteindra 1 700 milliards d'euros d'ici à 2050.

Les PFAS doivent être interdits. Il y a urgence.

www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Les PFAS pourraient fortement contaminer plus de 75 millions d’Européens et coûter jusqu’à 1 700 milliards d’euros à l’UE
Une étude commandée par la Commission européenne évalue le fardeau pour les sociétés européennes en fonction de l’évolution de la réglementation et de la diffusion des polluants éternels dans l’enviro...
www.lemonde.fr

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 15d
Same story over and over. These larpers - Kirkegard, Pesta et al - pumping out the same effluence with their strategy - exposed by @harryshukman.bsky.social + @hopenothate.org.uk - to normalise and spread scientific racism. They KNOW it's bullshit too.

Read this:
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · 19d
Interesting! thanks for sharing. Top you think this continues to be relevant today? it would explain some rants I've received in place of reviews.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21d
Gaza's children have been abandoned. But you can give them food, shelter, and water.

Please donate anything you can to this verified Palestinian charity.

chuffed.org/project/1640...

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · Jan 5
Big Oil has a long history of interference in Latin America.

Documents reveal that "Exxon funded rightwing thinktanks to spread climate change denial," invest in "market-oriented public policies" and ensure "continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.” 😑
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · Jan 4
A very long and important THREAD -

The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.

And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.

Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jan 3
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Jan 3
Time to update the list of US military interventions in Latin America.
A map with all the US military interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 3
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · Jan 3
BTW: the brainwashed population includes my colleagues at Ivy League Universities

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Jan 3
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...

US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · Jan 3
The US empire continues killing and pillaging without remorse or accountability, with most of its brainwashed population believing they are the moral ones.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Jan 3
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Jan 3
NEW: A mass propaganda event is about to engulf the US news cycle and what, if anything, survives it will be a lesson for our times.

But it’s what the rest of the world does now that’s key. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · Jan 3
I like your work, but do not make it about Biden/Harris vs Trump (of course Trump would be pro-war, as all the ones before). Look at history, it’s US policy.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Jan 3
Remember that the US *does not care* about the people of Venezuela. It is not about "narcotrafficking", or "democracy", or whatever propaganda they have going. It is *explicitly* about US control over oil, capital accumulation, and geopolitical power.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · Jan 3
From Iran to Chile to Venezuela, US regime change isn’t history—it’s policy, writes Barbara Koeppel. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
The United States’ Hidden History of Regime Change—Revisited
The truculent trio—Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio—do Venezuela.
www.thenation.com

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · Jan 3
Utterly shocking that the country that invaded Iraq for oil and suffered zero consequences internally or externally is doing it again.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · Jan 3
Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Jan 3
The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
www.theguardian.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Dec 27
Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Dec 26
Absolutely this.
“The worst slavery is that of heavily indoctrinated happy morons who adore their chains and cannot wait to thank their masters for the joy of their subservience.”

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ignacio quintero @ignacioq.bsky.social · Dec 24
“A brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian - where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone - is presented to us as ideal”
- Badiou

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Dec 21
Neo-liberalism has killed off imagination and creativity.
"In politics it used to be actually possible to think big. To think about things like: the U.N, space programmes, the welfare state and so on. Nowadays, no Govts are thinking on anything like that scale and seem to be completely incapable of doing so. Statesmen seem to have given up on the idea that they can create anything fundamentally new or bold." . - David Graeber

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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 20
Come and join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology, #LundUniversity in #sweden! We have am open position as Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity.

Apply here no later than February 11 2026:

https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:848749/type:job/where:4/apply:1
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Biodiversity
The Department of Biology was established in 2010 through the merger of the Departments of Ecology, Cell and Organism Biology, Biological Undergraduate Education, and the Biological Museums. The depar
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Dec 20
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Dec 19
A fourth child has frozen to death in Gaza in just 10 days—two of them babies—as Israel continues blocking tents and winter shelter aid, despite UN supplies pre-positioned at the border that could immediately shelter more than 1.3 million displaced Palestinians.
See new posts Conversation Maha Hussaini @MahaGaza This is Saeed Abdeen. He was less than a month old. He froze to death this morning in a displacement camp in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as Israel continues to block the entry of caravans and reconstruction materials. Saeed’s name in Arabic means "happy"