Sean A. S. Anderson 🍉

One million starved children and no shortage of food

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

Canada: "We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide" OTTAWA – Two months after issuing one statement promising “concrete actions” if Israel did not stop intentionally starving Palestinians in Gaza, Canada has joined with 24 other nations to issue a new ...

Canada: “We are prepared to issue as many empty statements as necessary to stop this genocide”

William F. Buckley's Bill Never Came Due | Defector Perhaps the highest praise I can offer a book that took 27 years to complete and runs over 1,000 pages is that I can see why, and that it doesn’t feel like it. Sam Tanenhaus’s extremely long and anxio...

for Bills Week I decided to read the new 1000 page Buckley biography

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

James Stroud - Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Working with lizards to better understand how species adapt and evolve, James Stroud studies natural selection in the field and explores how ecological and

Hugely honoured, surprised, excited, and all the other emotions to receive a Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Field Biology!

www.maxwell-hanrahan.org/award/james-...

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lmaoo

Have seen the movie a hundred times and never noticed that lol

Dynamics of infection and immunity over 50 years as marine stickleback adapt to freshwater Abstract. When a species colonizes a new environment, it may encounter new parasites to which its immune system is poorly adapted. After an initial spike i

New paper in Evolution Letters @evolletters.bsky.social by an undergrad in my lab!
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We modeled eco-evo dynamics of infection & immunity and then analyzed 50 years of data from stickleback & tapeworms (thanks to museum samples!)

That sounds wonderful

The Plight Of The White Male Novelist | Defector In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was s...

real analysis >>> breathless concern

One could argue that the real cop figure -- abusing authority to preserve an unjust status quo -- is the mayor?

Solid line

"All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an unanticipated phenomenon occurs again & again–finally turning into an expectation–then theories are overturned." - Stephen Jay Gould

This is wonderful

Check that, 5pm #Evol2025

If you’re keen on comparative studies in speciation, and want to hear about a new tool for conducting them, come by and check out my talk this afternoon at 4:45 in Athens A #Evol2025

The New York Times is terrified by the idea of a mayor who wouldn't invite their editor to dinner party

I’d hope you don’t leave out what relatedness means among extant species and how to read a tree

AI trains on wikipedia, wikipedia uses AI for summaries, God creates Man, Man destroys God, Man creates dinosaurs

The Washington Post, which silenced its Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and reduced its opinion pages to a defense of “free markets and democracy” alone, would like to lecture other people on the importance of a free and full exchange of all ideas.

The quarters I’ve spent at kinko’s xerox could have bought one, perhaps two diet cokes

And yet you never respond to mine

Lapham’s Quarterly had a great issue on this not long ago, might find some good things in there

The jacket is fire

Fantastic photos

Sam Neill is a guy who can convincingly act with a great sense of arrogance and pretension and cruelty and in real life is the world’s chillest nicest guy who spends every day drinking wine with his pigs

Anecdote from an English lake country farmer

Reminder that SSE members in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, India, and 152 low-income countries around the world can still get FREE registration for the virtual Evolution meeting! Please share with your colleagues: www.evolutionsociety.org/index.php?mo...

I'm reviewing applicants later this week and will continue to accept new applications until the position is filled

you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer

but you would be wrong

new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw

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