Amanda McAlpin-Costa
@grumpygumption.bsky.social
Cats. Scifi. Drums. Photography.
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A compelling and thought-provoking podcast interview with a legend in the field of cultural evolution. Well worth a listen!
Thanks to @kensycoop.bsky.social for this great interview about my book.
We cover domestication syndrome, plasticity-led evolution, soft inheritance, animal traditions, how culture shapes evolution, and more.
Kensy also does a wonderful production job, turning me into a coherent speaker! Thank you
We cover domestication syndrome, plasticity-led evolution, soft inheritance, animal traditions, how culture shapes evolution, and more.
Kensy also does a wonderful production job, turning me into a coherent speaker! Thank you
New episode!! 📣📣
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
A conversation w/ @kevinlala.bsky.social about his new (co-authored) book, ‘Evolution Evolving'!
Ideas about evolution have changed a lot in recent decades. An emerging view—synthesized by Lala et al.—puts developmental processes front and center.
Listen: disi.org/the-developm...
February 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A compelling and thought-provoking podcast interview with a legend in the field of cultural evolution. Well worth a listen!
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February 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Saw my first owl in the wild today. Of course I didn’t have my camera with me 🥲 #greathornedowl
February 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Saw my first owl in the wild today. Of course I didn’t have my camera with me 🥲 #greathornedowl
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There's a post bouncing around about how "any four Republicans could stop this, that should be the big story, not the Democrats." I get the idea, but it's awful framing.
It's like saying "the school shooter should be the real story, not all the Uvalde cops standing around doing nothing."
It's like saying "the school shooter should be the real story, not all the Uvalde cops standing around doing nothing."
February 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
There's a post bouncing around about how "any four Republicans could stop this, that should be the big story, not the Democrats." I get the idea, but it's awful framing.
It's like saying "the school shooter should be the real story, not all the Uvalde cops standing around doing nothing."
It's like saying "the school shooter should be the real story, not all the Uvalde cops standing around doing nothing."
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It's a lot.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
February 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It's a lot.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic.
Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Here are some nice mushrooms
February 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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My therapist seemed genuinely puzzled that I don’t know the difference between fear and anxiety.
February 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My therapist seemed genuinely puzzled that I don’t know the difference between fear and anxiety.
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It’s all about the money. It’s always about the money. Those who care for others want it but are not fixated upon it, will not sell out their morals for it. Those that obsess over it, that can never have enough of it, do not have morals to begin with and will always sell you out to get more of it.
February 4, 2025 at 6:56 AM
It’s all about the money. It’s always about the money. Those who care for others want it but are not fixated upon it, will not sell out their morals for it. Those that obsess over it, that can never have enough of it, do not have morals to begin with and will always sell you out to get more of it.
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Thank goodness we replaced the word "barriers" with the more pompous "impediments" in our recently funded NSF grant.
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Thank goodness we replaced the word "barriers" with the more pompous "impediments" in our recently funded NSF grant.
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So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.
February 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.
So many amazing projects in the responses…Wow. I am so worried for us all
To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.
January 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
So many amazing projects in the responses…Wow. I am so worried for us all
January 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
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That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
January 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
1. Sabotage public institutions.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
2. Claim they don’t work efficiently.
3. Eliminate them.
—
That’s the playbook.
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Reminder to those who need it:
1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here
2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm
3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy
1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here
2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm
3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reminder to those who need it:
1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here
2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm
3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy
1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here
2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm
3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy
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Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.
January 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.
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This afternoon I got out in the water with my beloved Barrow's goldeneyes. I've got far too many frames to sort through, but here's one I was really happy with. 🪶
January 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This afternoon I got out in the water with my beloved Barrow's goldeneyes. I've got far too many frames to sort through, but here's one I was really happy with. 🪶