97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that!
This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time.
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Ayesha Ali as Sekhmet the Egyptian lioness of war and healing π¦π₯π©Έ
@aiyanakoka.bsky.social as Inanna the Sumerian goddess of love/war and fertility πΉπ‘οΈβ¨
@michelleakline.bsky.social as Brigid the poet & smith π οΈπ
@loraadair.bsky.social as Hekate, the Greek goddess of magic, crossroads & the night πποΈ
The Spirits and Sources folks attended the Goddess Conference last week π§ββοΈπͺ¬π§
lots of fieldwork ποΈπ, participant observation and ethnography π§βπ€βπ§πποΈ, and community building ππ€ποΈ as well as embodied experience πππ
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edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social
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New 2 year post-doc position on cultural adaptation in complex environmental management.
FAST COMPANY Article: While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro- retirements involve taking a one to two- week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z:
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
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And of course there are essays that seem like AI to me but the references are real, so there's nothing I can do. Once students learn to proofread the references π€·ββοΈ
At my uni I can and have reported it as fabrication. It's very difficult to prove misuse of AI but pretty easy to show that the essay relies on references that are fake. I don't know yet what the outcomes will be though!
This weekend I was at a doula training and found myself explaining this about LLMs. They will write you a pretty sentence full of imaginary facts.
I keep coming up on this with student essays. The refs are made up, or it cites real papers for things that have nothing to do with the evidence in the papers.
Title: Motorβenvironment exploration in the human developmental niche Absract: In real behavioral ecologies, adaptive learning requires simultaneous exploration of both motor control and environmental task structure ("world model"), each presenting its own form of open-ended search complexity. We know much about each of these learning domains, but relatively little about their joint exploration space. I propose that this dual motorβenvironment exploration is crucial for understanding the human evolutionary niche. Human agency prolifically shapes environments that in turn shape our learning trajectories, presumably yielding a reciprocal (niche-constructive) feedback loop that couples mental structures to environmental structures and vice versa. Dual motorβenvironment exploration helps illuminate the exploreβexploit landscape of this deeply collective, near-eusocial epigenetic milieu. It also offers unique computational and teleological perspectives on phenomena like cultural learning, social cognition, and behavioral creativity β complementing the population-level stochastic mechanisms proposed by cultural evolutionary theories.
γπ¨ACE Seminar Alertπ¨γWe're excited to have Dr Ryutaro @uchiyama.bsky.social joining from Singapore on Tuesday 29th July at 7pm in Tokyo (6pm in Singapore/12am in Berlin)!
You can sign up for the mailing list to get the zoom link by sending a blank email to ace-seminar+subscribe@googlegroups.com
It follows an anecdote of a person who had recovered from fever after the local woman healer opened all the windows to air out the sick room - after the Dr had closed the windows and had them stay in a feather bed on a hot summer day. They claimed the fever left in minutes after the woman intervened
This quote is fire
(male practice in the 1840s = medical doctors, as contrasted with local female healers)
Are you working at the intersection of the humanities/social sciences and the natural/technological sciences?
Apply now for the NLTG 26/27 β a unique 5 month residency for interdisciplinary research teams at NIAS and organize a workshop at the Lorentz Center. nias-lorentz.nl/nltg-theme-g...
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
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The title is "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code", I believe the author is Will Gervais. I'm hoping for one quote about how snowboarding is like coding, and one batch of code to draw a halfpipe in ggplot() Certainly! Here's a quote that captures the essence of how snowboarding relates to coding: > βSnowboarding is like coding: you start with a plan, but the real joy comes from adapting to the terrain as you go.β This reflects the dynamic and adaptive nature of both activities. Additionally, to draw a halfpipe using `ggplot2` in R, you can use the following code: ```r library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Create data for the halfpipe halfpipe_data <- tibble( x = rep(seq(0, 100, length.out = 100), 2), y = c(sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100)), -sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100))), group = rep(c("Top", "Bottom"), each = 100) ) # Plot the halfpipe ggplot(halfpipe_data, aes(x = x, y = y, group = group)) + geom_line() + coord_flip() + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Halfpipe Design", x = "Length", y = "Height") ``` This code creates a simple representation of a halfpipe using sine functions to simulate the curved shape. You can adjust the parameters to refine the design further.
ggplot graph showing a wasp-shaped figure 8, labeled "Halfpipe Design" y-axis is length, x-axis is height
I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais.
It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe.
Thanks, chatGPT!
The second is a FIVE YEAR fellowship! DEADLINE SEPT 4, details here: royalsociety.org/grants/royal... come hang out with us @brunelcce.bsky.social !!!
Come visit our FANTASTIC group @brunelcce.bsky.social with one of two Wolfson fellowships.
The first is a 1y (or flex visits over 2y) fellowship *including relocation costs for scholar + family* DEADLINE SEPT 4: royalsociety.org/grants/royal...
My reading treat for this work week...
Scholarship for Durham University Students
Β£15,000 for a full-time student from the North East of England and from a lower income household to study full-time for a STEM taught Masters degree for the year 2025-26.
Durham people please spread the word!
Application form π
Someone told me once that they read my dissertation and I screamed "NOOOO!" hahahahaha
Wow all those people reading his dissertation must have been super honest π«Ά
My friend Claire deserves to be able to go about her day to day life in peace. We *all* do. There is *nothing* feminist, and *nothing* good in this obsessive transphobic cult.
According to a 2021 report, the University of California system:
β’ generated $82B in economic activity in California
β’ supported 529K jobs in the state
β’ generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received
Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.
Yeah it's a bummer.
Update: Prolific has refunded my account for the participants, whom I'd already paid before my AI check (beginner's mistake I suppose!).
Screenshot of a paper titled Arctic Instincts? The late Pleistocene Arctic origins of East Asian Psychology by David Sun, published in Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
The widely discussed sociocultural problems bottlenecking the flourishing of East Asian civilization (excessive levels of conformity, self-suppression, emotional repression, maladaptive introversion, brutal grinding work culture, harsh upbringing methods, social rigidity, social judgment, image obsession, risk aversion, high anxiety, tense urgency, lower Openness, stifled creativity, etc.) that have historically been misattributed to Confucianism or rice farming, are highly likely to be primarily aspects of paleolithic Arcticism that became maladaptive/mismatched in non-Arctic Holocene environments and the modern world, and were present in the population long before Confucius or the adoption of agriculture. It is worth exploring if ancestral ecological/climatic adaptation and modern maladaptation also negatively affect other societies around the world, as this may be the missing causal factor behind underdevelopment and longstanding sociocultural challenges in many nations.
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences just published a paper which argues that East Asian psychology evolved to cope with cold winters, and that ancestral climate may have "plausibly stunted" the development of East Asian & other populations around the globe. Sounds vaguely familiar, for some reason...?
π’ CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! π $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content.
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