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Humans aren't animals? Come on Science Magazine

I'd wish this applied to sociologists only.

"Whether our lives incorporate meaningfulness as felt mattering, then, is not up to us" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Quinn Que Yeah, metaethics is so speculative and remote from real-world behavioral consequences that dallying with edgy views, like nihilism, is mostly just a fancy-ass form of bullshitting.

I just became president of a scientific society and my first act was to disagree with one of my heroes...Arie Kruglanski gave a keynote arguing social psychology needs MORE Big Beautiful Theories. I think that's exactly backwards. Here's why...

"the fact that we have juries at all—the fact, for instance, that we entrust fact finding not to experts or to witnesses with first-hand knowledge but to people specifically chosen to have neither—reflects much else besides epistemic propriety" politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/171…

Thanks so much to Academic Edgelords (Academic Edgelords) for having me on their podcast, and for the great discussion. I had a fantastic time!

My review of the The New York Times podcast #Theprotocol. The youth gender medicine debate is even more a mess than we thougt...unfortunately the podcast itself can't rise above this. I listened to it so you don't have to. Link to follow:

Ecstatic to be on Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast) with David Pinsof and David Pietraszewski. A rare chance to talk in depth about my work, especially with such exceptional colleagues. Highly recommend their other episodes too!

yes, it has taken about 4 months of my sabbatical to come up with this 200 word abstract, but I think it is quite a good 200 word abstract.

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The problems posed by LLMs for education are immediate and obvious, and the promised benefits remain untested and uncertain. But I see one way that LLMs may inadvertently improve student thinking. substack.com/inbox/post/167…

"why humility, media literacy, and a competitive internet might be better solutions than censorship" cato.org/multimedia/cat…

Yes: grasshoppermouse.github.io/posts/2020-01-…

Debunking academic nonsense one podcast at a time. Great convo w/Ryan. Spiced w/a bit more methods/stats than many of my recent pods.

"In most species, neither sex clearly dominates over the other." mpg.de/24986976/0630-…

"Rather than being the cause of radicalization, grievances are better understood as secondary elements in the process... radicalized agents often develop extreme beliefs during the latter stages of radicalization" -Michael Moncrieff michaelmoncrieff.com/#h.ov10c7813f93

"the truth is that people who are in broad philosophical agreement with me—while they can and do provide robust criticism—are just less likely to hit me with the toughest and hardest objections" dailynous.com/2025/07/08/the…

"must come to terms with its skeptical & constructivist origins & a contemporary political landscape that has carried right-wing varieties of such critical thought into regulatory agencies, forcefully promoting these agencies’ deconstruction from within" annualreviews.org/content/journa…