Essay: “Leaving the Nest Late—Why Evolution Never Trained Us for Planet‑Scale Survival.”

We’re primates trying to run an 8‑billion‑node civilisation while juggling nukes, CRISPR, AGI & a heating planet.

We sketch a realist, actionable agenda:
• De‑alert nuclear arsenals
• Universal DNA‑screening
• Frontier‑AI regs
• Tax the outrage feed
…and more.

Read & boost if it resonates

https://open.substack.com/pub/10billion/p/leaving-the-nest-late-why-evolution?r=2063al&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I Like Electric Cars. 700-Mile Range EVs and Wireless Charging Would Make Me Love Them.

[S]olid-state batteries have can get 600 to 700 miles per single charge, instead of the current 250 to 400 or so. That is farther than most traditional cars can go on a single tank of gasoline.

@WSJ @amyjaffeenergy

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/ev-technology-innovation-4e25c1d5?st=586FCs&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Here is a list with all our Vimeo recordings for last term (Jan-Mar 2025)
Enjoy!

Perspectives on human origins: language, body art, hunting, architecture

Jan 14 Chris Knight and Jerome Lewis 'When Eve Laughed'
https://vimeo.com/1047955270

Jan 21 Camilla Power 'Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the ‘Human Revolution’'
https://vimeo.com/1050011589

Jan 28 Annemieke Milks
'Hunting lessons: how forager kids learn(ed) to hunt'
https://vimeo.com/1053040279?share=copy

Feb 4 Paulina Michnowska 'Notes from the forest – storytelling with the Penan of Borneo'
https://vimeo.com/1055179553

Feb 11 Sasha Farnsworth 'Architecture meets anthropology: Womb temple – Lunar rebirth'
https://vimeo.com/1057043706?share=copy#t=0

Feb 18 Chris Knight 'How we got stuck: the hunter Monmaneki and his wives teach Graeber and Wengrow a lesson'
https://vimeo.com/1061208125?utm_source=email&utm_medium=vimeo-email&utm_campaign=44349

Feb 25 Erica Lagalisse and Chris Knight in conversation 'On anarchist anthropology'
https://vimeo.com/1063172694?share=copy

Mar 4 Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: a red RAG to patriarchy'
https://vimeo.com/1074465398

Mar 11 Chris Knight 'On Women and Jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'
https://vimeo.com/1073597720

Mar 18 Kit Opie 'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'
https://vimeo.com/1075096840

Mar 25 Ivan Tacey 'Serpentine cosmopolitics: a cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'
https://vimeo.com/1075098313

We’ve just released our Annual Report 2024: “Sustainable Engineering for Lasting Change.”

Explore how EWB-SWE and our partners have worked across borders and sectors to create lasting impact — from clean water and sanitation to access to higher education.

Flip through the full report here:

https://online.fliphtml5.com/mollm/kpru/#p=1

Question for people who study #neutrinos :

Do you have a preferred funny nickname for neutrinos? If not, here are some ideas:

- Neuts (newts)
- Rinos (ree-noes)
- Trinos (tree-noes)
- Nuterinos (like Ned Flanders would say)
- Neu-nues (new news)
- Neu-nos (new noes)
- Tri-tris (tree trees)

I would make a poll, but their are too many choices.

Tech moves fast—but understanding it shouldn’t be so hard.

Professor Alberto Segre joins us to unpack AI, internet history, and quantum computing in clear, accessible terms.

Full episode here: https://youtu.be/RqSkKahvlPA
#theinternetiscrack #podcast #FediScience #TechPodcast #DigitalLiteracy #AI #QuantumComputing

Ever feel like tech is evolving faster than we can understand it?

In our latest podcast, Professor Alberto Segre (Chair of @uiowa’s CS Department) joins us to unpack AI, the internet’s origins, and quantum computing—in plain, thoughtful language.

No jargon. Just clarity.

Listen or watch: https://youtu.be/RqSkKahvlPA
#AI #QuantumComputing #InternetHistory #DigitalLiteracy #TechPodcast #FediScience #STEM #OpenEducation

Join us on Zoom for a
Research Symposium on Theorising Care: Political Economy, Vulnerability, Rights, and Responsibilities

Wednesday 2nd April 2025, from 2:00pm until 5:00pm. (Dublin Time)

At University of Galway and on Zoom:
https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/92920434911

Talks by Professors Diane Elson, Kathleen Lynch and Martha Fineman & time for discussion
All are welcome, just turn up!
DM me for more information

@academicchatter
#fediScience #care #PoliticalEconomy #Politics #politicalTheory #SocialTheory

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

Tues Mar 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Ivan Tacey on
'Serpentine Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural analysis of the Rainbow Serpent'

From Amazonia to Australia, rainbow snakes coil at the heart of the cosmologies of Indigenous peoples, embodying forces of creation, destruction, and renewal. Known variously as nagas, dragons, or rainbow serpents, these chthonic entities are intimately entangled with water, blood, women, and untamed power. Among Batek hunter-gatherers of Malaysia, as well as other Southeast Asian Indigenous communities, the violation of taboos—especially those linked to blood—is believed to incite the wrath of these beings who are said to unleash catastrophic floods capable of annihilating entire settlements.

Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, Ivan Tacey examines the roles of rainbow serpents in Batek creation myths, rituals, and cosmological landscapes, comparing these traditions with similar narratives and practices from Amazonia and Australia. Offering a cosmopolitical analysis, Ivan critiques the limitations of New Animist approaches, proposing instead that the global prevalence of rainbow snakes in Indigenous cosmologies reflects a 'time-resistant syntax of myth and ritual,' as theorized in Knight, Power, and Watts’ model of human origins.

Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, Ivan will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

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TONIGHT
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Tues Mar 18, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Kit Opie on
'Primate mating systems and the evolution of language'

Cheap signals, such as language, can only emerge from an alliance where trust has already been built. The coalition that enabled the evolution of language in modern humans was built to deal with the problem of some males trying to get the benefits of mating without the costs of provisioning.

In this talk Kit Opie draws on research on mating systems across primates to investigate the details of the problem that early modern human females faced and suggest that a coalition was their only way to solve it. The coalition that females built had a ratchet effect of supporting the males who cooperated, while undermining the males who cheated.

Kit Opie is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Bristol.His research interests are in the evolution of social systems in humans and other primates.

Kit will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

Hi #fediscience!

Last month for the doctoral thesis here.

What advice do you have for the final phase of a #phd?

Für euch getestet:

selbst wenn man mit einem Tretroller auf einem Flughafen-Rollfeld so schnell wie möglich über die Startbahn fährt, hebt man nicht ab. D:

Weitere Untersuchungen sind erforderlich.

Réveillons nous! Appelons un chat un chat! Résistons! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/quotaclimat_nayons-pas-peur-des-mots-ce-d%C3%A9bat-diffus%C3%A9-activity-7304084285517410304-E4zo?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAcma9gBtKU4ioX8_xw2XBI3-o9HkYSOR5M #QuotatClimat #ValérieMassonDelmotte #Fediscience #StandUpForScience #DontLookUp #résistance

A leading #French #university , #Université #Aix #Marseille ,is inviting #scientists in the #USA who fear their #research might be censored by #Trump ’s administration to do their #work in #France. The program is called ‘safe place for science,’ and will provide 15 million #Euros in funding for some 15 researchers over a 3-year period. It targets, but is not limited to, #climate and #environment, #health, and #human and #socialsciences.

#Fediscience

https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

TONIGHT
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

Tues Mar 11, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Chris Knight on
'On women and jaguars: why perspectivism got it so wrong'

Across Amazonia, myths hold that in early times it was the jaguars, parrots, tapirs and other animals who first invented bows and arrows, cooking fire, ceremonial buildings, religious ceremonies and other complex cultural accomplishments. Then humans stole these things from the animals, elevating themselves above all other creatures – but at the cost of losing their former ability to engage in easy conversation with the animal world. This mythic view of our origins is the reverse of the Darwinian narrative which our own culture holds up as science.

In this talk, #ChrisKnight will introduce a recent trend in social anthropology – known as ‘perspectivism’ – and discuss whether such radically different ways of perceiving our origins and place in nature can be made to converge.

Chris will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#neuhier
Wir sind die Forschungsgruppe Human Computer Interaction also Mensch Computer Interaktion! An der TU Wien, als Teil des Instituts für Informatik, forschen wir daran wie Technologien unser Leben und unsere Umwelt besser, gerechter und nachhaltiger machen können. Ausserdem gestalten wir einen wichtigen Teil der Lehre, der unsere Verantwortung als Techniker*innen reflektiert. In unserem Physical Design Lab basteln und bauen wir mit Studierenden an der Zukunft.

Unsere Forschung ist großteils in englischer Sprache, wir versuchen hier aber im Sinne der Wissenschaftskommunikation hauptsächlich deutschsprachigen zu posten.

Also, hallo, wir freuen uns auf spannende Gespräche

Die Agentur @kingconsult hat einen wunderbaren Vergleich der Kurznachrichtendienste erstellt (Idee: @frebelt). Sehr hilfreich für #FediScience und Behörden:

Über Mastodon:

Worauf ist der Dienst optimiert? unabhängige, selbstbestimmte öffentliche Kommunikation

Vertrauenswürdigkeit der Betreibenden?
je nach Instanz bis sehr hoch

Abhängigkeit von Dritten?
niedrig

Vereinbarkeit mit demokratischen Werten? sehr hoch

Komplette Übersicht: https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de/

FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!

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THIS EVENING!!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

RAG International Women’s Week special lecture
Tues March 4, 6:30pm (London UTC)
Christine Binnie
'Neonaturist body painting: A red RAG to patriarchy'

Christine will talk about the evolution of her art practice including #bodypainting, #performance #art, #anthropology, experimental #archaeology, #menstrual blood, red #ochre, #protest and pottery.
In 1986 Christine discovered the Radical Anthropology Group. Although she didn’t know it, she was was already part of a female cosmetic coalition, The Neo Naturists, body painted performance artists. This is the illustrated story of her journey, via different disciplines, including the classes, and how they influenced her art and life.

Christine will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak