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There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top.

It is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Wealth creates power; power creates more wealth. It's a vicious cycle.

Here's my new story about guidelines from the National Academy of Sciences for studying human genetic diversity. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/science

Yet more terrible academic news. It would seem that, if you share your drafts with people rather than hiding your work in the cupboards, people can give you feedback to improve the work and result in stronger contributions overall.

Devastating.

#AcademicChatter #PhDChat #PhDLife

RT @EconomicPolicy
Don’t let the name fool you, “right-to-work” laws are designed to diminish workers’ collective bargaining power by making it harder to form unions.

Michigan is ready to make history by becoming the first state in 60 years to repeal the anti-worker law. epi.org/blog/why-right-to-work

Just rename it the State of Fascism.
(And BTW, WaPost, tenure is not a "perk".)

Florida bills would ban gender studies, transgender pronouns, tenure perks washingtonpost.com/education/2

RT @BernieSanders
Here's the crazy situation. Somebody making $10 million in a year is contributing the EXACT SAME AMOUNT into Social Security as somebody making $160,000. Let's raise the cap and expand Social Security benefits, not cut them.

In today's science news: George Santos is reportedly going to serve on the Science, Space and Technology Committee nytimes.com/2023/01/17/nyregio

Do you want to go to the Evolution meeting in 2023? Do you live outside of a high GDP country? Check out @eseb 's conference travel award! eseb.org/prizes-funding/confer

New publication from our lab illustrating the complex case of social attraction in wood warblers. Congratulations to Shannon Luepold to the publication of her first #phd chapter! 👏 With @kokkonut #ornithology #birds #woodwarbler besjournals.onlinelibrary.wile

Job: Theoretical eco-evo postdoc in Mainz (Germany) 

I realize I posted this one back then on a site that wasn't owned by Musk yet; never here so far. Also, the deadline is conveniently a week away (4th Dec to be precise) so a reminder is in place anyway!

My lab is moving to the University of #Mainz. If you're into #LifeHistory #theory/#modelling and would like to interact with whoever visits the future "theory hub" of the #Kokkonuts, read this ad!
evol.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldi

@jobsecoevo

Save the date! We are delighted and honoured to host the next #Behaviour2023 conference, 14-20 August 2023!

Learn more about the conference in www.behaviour2023.com

See you all in Bielefeld!

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