We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest.
open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
I agree with a lot of this, worth reading:
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...
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Yep.
27.02.2026 08:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sounds like Russia, Hungary, Turkey: consolidate media via loyal oligarchs, change the rules, squeeze critics. If U.S. billionaires start lining up the same way, that’s not a coincidence — it’s a pattern.
27.02.2026 04:11 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!
Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!
dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...
In my personal newsletter: A resistance Mister Rogers would be proud of.
amandalitman.substack.com/p/mister-rog...
There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
THIS and then start reading Quinn Slobodion (www.quinnslobodian.com)
26.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Murder; political assassination.
25.01.2026 23:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
11.01.2026 01:01 — 👍 10838 🔁 3543 💬 209 📌 98If the vast vast majority of Americans want reasonable gun controls and they can't get passed by the Congress then our democracy is broken. Or to be more accurate, it has been corrupted. The consciences and reason of our DC leaders have been purchased...for a pittance. Stop the $$ to stop the guns.
14.12.2025 01:26 — 👍 2835 🔁 834 💬 106 📌 35
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job
11.12.2025 14:18 — 👍 4737 🔁 711 💬 110 📌 89
“When they come to power for the second time, they feel more ruthless, and they behave as if there are no boundaries any more. I think especially in the leader’s head, that association of ‘me and the country’ [being] the same thing becomes very prominent.”
09.12.2025 12:46 — 👍 246 🔁 102 💬 2 📌 6
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
29.11.2025 16:38 — 👍 19815 🔁 7233 💬 764 📌 435
This is not a plan for peace. It is a plan for Russian victory and Ukrainian capitulation, argues Christian Caryl.
25.11.2025 14:30 — 👍 433 🔁 134 💬 13 📌 4War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism
25.11.2025 18:18 — 👍 756 🔁 314 💬 17 📌 10
Disturbing. Incidentally @rutgerbregman.com has written some interesting books that you might want to read.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
“Despite the Labor government noting last year that research and development has had "a decade of going backwards", successive governments have failed to fix the problem.
The future of Australia's science industry looks grim”
But submarines 🤷🏻♀️
Nothing says I’m objective like “Always know a chart is legit if Mahomes is in the upper right”.
18.11.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
31.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 9317 🔁 3359 💬 376 📌 166
Thank you for this opportunity and I'm excited to learn and actively contribute to science communication as a writing fellow at @molbioevol.bsky.social and @genomebiolevol.bsky.social
Congrats to the other fellows @haorancai.bsky.social and Shady Kuster, looking forward to working together!
SCOOP from me:
I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.
Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵
