I just found out that beatboxer Beardyman is the brother of comedian Jay Foreman, of Map Men, and god. That makes so much sense. Both of them are absolutely brilliant

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We have the knowledge on the climate and nature emergencies, but it is not catalysing the action we need So what else can scientists do? Interesting new perspective in Nature Ecology & Evolution makes clear that academics all need to be doing more www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New from Dr Candice Howarth at @granthamlse.bsky.social and me, our Nature Climate Change commentary. Adaptation & mitigation designed & implemented in isolation is generally not cost effective, can lead to a range of social barriers, & may result in maladaptation & unintended consequences.

Very clear, thank you. From my experience in the social sciences, if pressed, most colleagues would be materialists about the processes they study.

Thanks also from me. Are there any sciences that are not restricted? All sciences have domains, methods, and exclusions.

today I found out philosophy calls psychology one of the "special sciences", i.e., not reducible to physics www.sav.sk/journals/upl...

Even Sanjay Srivastava left academia? I take that a bit hard

Thanks, this was useful