Daniel Kelly

"Solar energy is anticipated to be the world’s main source of energy by 2050" hell yeah

How to Lose Loudly: What the Left can Learn from the NRA Episode 2577: Michael Brownstein on how anyone can create social change

Aside from having to record it in my overheated closet, this was a really fun interview with Andrew Keen. Appreciated the hard questions--like whether there can be a science of social change--and occasional pushback.
@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

Revisiting the human sociobiology debate What have we learned 50 years on?

🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago.

@science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky

Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What to read on International Day of Non-Violence Several books on peace and reformation for International Day of Non-Violence.

mitpress.mit.edu/what-to-read...

How Social Norms Emerge: The Interindividual Actor–Critic Download Citation | How Social Norms Emerge: The Interindividual Actor–Critic | Social norms shape a vast range of human behaviors, from everyday interactions to major life choices. Yet, existing theo...

Very cool new RL-based approach to modeling the emergence of social norms
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I certainly would not use such a mascot to vividly and effectively illustrate to my students the idea of the uncanny valley

Just in case you find yourself near Wayne, PA on Fri Oct 10th, stop by Main Point Books to ask @madva.bsky.social all the hard questions about making social change!

@dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

www.eventbrite.com/e/somebody-s...

Chicagoland Friends! Two weeks from today I'll be in town at The Seminary Coop to talk about social change and my new book. It would be great to see you! It's from 4-5pm Thursday 10/16, and I will probably be thirsty afterwards.

www.semcoop.com/event/daniel...

The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one. Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.

The Dems’ shutdown strategy is a microcosm of the party’s struggle to figure out how to resist MAGA authoritarianism. @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social analysis here is spot on.

Logrolling trigger warning: he makes excellent use of @madva.bsky.social, @dryan149.bsky.social, and my recent research. 🧵

Purdue grad student Samantha Ooley will be workshopping a talk titled 'Experience, Community, and Moral Development: Games-based Pedagogy as a Deweyan Model' at the CAIC workshop this Friday! ✏️🎲

"One way to recruit people, despite a lack of immediate prospects, is a tactic called 'losing loudly': making a spectacle of a battle they know they can’t win, one that motivates others to take action."

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Somebody Should Do Something A new book about how individual people, working together, can create systemic social change Where to find it... MIT Press Penguin Bookshop Amazon Porchlight Books Greenlight Books Montclair Book ...

sites.google.com/view/somebod...

The Democrats’ shutdown strategy is terrible. Here’s a better one. Talk less about health care, more about authoritarianism.

In their recent book, Brownstein, Madva, and Kelly argue that people don’t necessarily join causes because they think they’re going to win in the short term … yet their decision to participate during a seemingly hopeless period creates the conditions for ultimate victory

www.vox.com/politics/463...

Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Big Game Hunting With 'One Battle After Another' | Defector To call One Battle After Another the most ambitious film of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s career would be a disservice to his filmography. All of his work is marked by ambition, both in the producti...

"There's so much love and care all over this movie full of anguish, explosions, and weed jokes."

defector.com/paul-thomas-...

Purdue is doing something about books! Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, & Dan Kelly combine compelling stories with science to explore how personal choices, when linked with collective action, can drive the big structural change needed to tackle systemic issues. 📖 🥳

-Cristina Farmus, VP of Purdue

Yay @dryan149.bsky.social! 🥳

Putting ChatGPT on the Couch When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

A room full of philosophers philosophizing about the emerging science of AI

Another full house

Somebody Should Do Something A new book about how individual people, working together, can create systemic social change Where to find it... MIT Press Penguin Bookshop Amazon Porchlight Books Greenlight Books Montclair Book ...

sites.google.com/view/somebod...

Shopping Differently Won't Solve the Climate Crisis | Common Dreams Large companies like BP have taught us to track what we buy, and take responsibility for what we do with the stuff we buy, so that they won’t have to stop making and selling the stuff we buy from them...

Here’s an excerpt from our book about carbon footprints and how the dark arts of corporate PR appropriate ideas about individual choice and personal responsibility www.commondreams.org/opinion/cons...

Common Ground Initiative: 'Somebody Should Do Something' With Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly Learn how social change happens with authors Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly at this Common Ground event at The Westport Library.

Not too far from Westport CT and itching for something to do next Monday night 10.6? Hanging out with Alex Madva and me at the Westport Public Library wouldn't be your worst option. @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

westportlibrary.org/event/common...

This Friday Kristian Gonzalez Barman (University of Ghent) and Stuart Glennan (Butler University) will join the Mind & Cognition Research Group in the philosophy department to present their work 'The New Science of Artificial Intelligence' 🤖 Read the abstract below:

Kailey Tse-Harlow's post on LinkedIn of the book Somebody Should Do Something in Porter Square books

Sighting of our book in Porter Square, which we'll be visiting on 10/15!

Love the placement here...

"If anyone builds it, everyone dies: Why superhuman AI would kill us all"

"Somebody should do something!"

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Tune into Sirius XM Progress this morning to hear my coauthor my @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social and me! (You can also catch up later on the Sirius XM app -- which comes with a 90 day free trial if you download!)

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Hey #Greensky: if you don't already subscribe to Volts.wtf pod, get yourself over there & subscribe now. @volts.wtf is the pt. of overlap in the Venn diagram of #climate policy wonks, activists, energy, tech & business: he helps set the conversation across all of them. 🧵 below of some highlights.

@sarahrobins.bsky.social and Kathryn Maxson Jones are heading to the gulf for DSPN ☀️🌴 Sarah will be talking about deciding & remembering and Kathryn will be talking about the giant squid axon as the history of neuroscience keynote! 🦑

NJ friends: come by the Montclair Book Center tomorrow at 2p to talk about social change!

www.montclairbookcenter.com/pages/events...

@madva.bsky.social @dryan149.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #booksky

The audience at Greenlight Bookstore

Still glowing after last night's event at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social, talking about social change with a big, brilliant group of people. Special thanks to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for great questions. This was the first stop for the Somebody Should Do Something book tour. More info below!

Grateful for opportunity on @profdolske.bsky.social and Rudy Salo's podcast! bit.ly/good-deets

Longer form gave us breathing room to get deeper into the philosophy and social science

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New Publication! @evanwestra.bsky.social's paper
'Belief in Social Cognition' is forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief 🥳 Evan argues that belief plays a modest role, rather than a central role, in everyday social cognition. Abstract here: philpapers.org/rec/WESBIS