Why Boston?

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/why-boston/

"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."

by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab

#beliefs #intellectuals #coloniality #elites #prestige #sociality #status #subcultures #socialStatus #liberals #sociology #NYC #NewYorker #TheNewYorker #Manhattan #racism #negrophobia #Bidoun #islamophobia #media #press #journalism #journalists

The fifth day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#KSCB2025) continues with a #keynote by Edward Hurme on #social #movement in #bats.

#foraging #sociality

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

Why rejoice in the misfortune of others

One way to feel my social status improving is if someone else lowers theirs. And so, when I see someone mess up in ways that cause them to lose face, and thus lose social status, I can feel a burst of satisfaction as my own status is raised, at no cost to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

#joy #resentment #selfEsteem #rivalry #Schadenfreude #humiliation #sociality #normalcy #morals #sociology #philosophy #criticalThinking #psychology #populism #unitarian #unitarianism #communitarianism #farRight #family #patriarchy #tradition #values

“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is the impact achieved by what they do.”

Michel #Foucault in "Histoire de la #folie à l'âge classique" (a history of insanity in the Classical Age)

#sociality #normalcy #medecineHistory #history #madness #quote #quotes #self #mentalHealth #perversion #morals #sociology #philosophy #criticalThinking #psychology #selfPower

Unauthorised AI Bots on Reddit Are Eroding Sociality

https://mssv.net/2025/04/27/unauthorised-ai-bots-on-r-changemyview-are-eroding-sociality/

#HackerNews #Unauthorised #AI #Bots #on #Reddit #Are #Eroding #Sociality #socialmedia #AIbots #Reddit #erodingcommunity #digitalethics

What women want: https://www.earth.com/news/guinea-baboons-prefer-mates-with-skills/ For decades we have studied single-male–multi-female groups of primates in which males used behavioral dominance and size and strength to keep females in line. However some of us always suspected that females did not like males who dominated them physically. Now a study shows that females are looking for males with skills, i.e. good providers! #ecology #sociality #family #primates #femalechoice

How do you show your social value in a way that’s instantly recognizable?

"The meaning ascribed to race in the nightclub setting was related to perceptions of safety. The bouncers (many of whom are Black or Latino) claimed that letting Black or Latino Americans in might jeopardize safety at the club. However, Rivera says she saw fights between white customers frequently."

A field study by Lauren A. Rivera, 2010: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/sizing_up_the_nightlife @sociology

#lineOfColor #whiteSupremacy #clubbing #nightClubs #status #Losers #Clueless #tourists #casuals #sociopaths #subcultures #cool #money #power #reputation #prestige #sociality #goingOut #nightlife #sociology #safety #collectiveSafety #communitySafety #NYC #Manhattan #discrimination #distinction #statusQuo #sorting #bouncers

"The subculture lifecycle is a problem only from a geek perspective. As far as mops [members of the public] are concerned, it provides reliable, low-cost waves of novelty entertainment and casual social relationships. As far as sociopaths are concerned, it generates easily-exploited pools of prestige, sex, power, and money."

David Chapman: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths via @eric

#status #Losers #Clueless #tourists #casuals #geeks #sociopaths #subcultures #cool #money #power #reputation #prestige #avantGarde #trending #fashion #novelty #sociality #meaning #lifecycles #JoyDivision #goingOut #nightlife

Let's mean "Losers in the economic sense: those who have […] traded freedom for a paycheck in short. […] Losers have two ways out, which we’ll get to later: turning Sociopath or turning into bare-minimum performers. The Losers destined for cluelessness do not have a choice."

Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

#workCollectives #workPlace #office #managementTheory #sociality #organisations #management #organizations #firms #workCulture #power #negotiating #VenkateshRao #Rao #quotes #Losers

New NIOO publication: Effect of ecological and anthropogenic factors on #grouping patterns in African #lions across #Kenya. #behavior #biodiversity #groupsize #sociality #fissionfusion
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10982

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🎤✨ Attention, Underdog Ent Presents fans and comedy enthusiasts! Get ready for a night of laughter, because C-Jay!, our very own executive producer and hip-hop recording artist, is stepping into the spotlight for his FIRST stand-up comedy gig! 🚀

#underdogentpresents #comedy #virtualcomedy #sociality #lovestinksletslaugh #quackoflove #romanticcomedy #bigolive #staytunedtv #kansascity #jacksonvillefl #LasVegas #losangeles #biminibahamas #keyandpeele #kevinhart #hartbeat

Delighted to be welcoming Robin Zebrowski for our November seminar next week.

Robin will be presenting her work on "You, Me, Spot and Zoom: Puzzles in Presence and Intercorporeality"

Thurs 2nd Nov @ 1500 UTC (see www.ensoseminars.com for time in your own timezone).

http://www.ensoseminars.com/presentations/past69/

#enaction #embodiment #CognitiveScience #sociality

Puzzlingly, some #animal groups decrease in size when #resources become scarce, while other #groups get larger. Kao et al. identified 6 unique benefits of #sociality and show how shifts in #groupSize under #scarcity depend
on which is the dominant benefit for that #species.

Read for free on the ahead of print page: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/725426

#Sociality - The quality of being social; socialness.

An #ethical #assessment of the use of old and new #methods to study #sociality in #wild #animals

#OpenAccess
@MethodsEcolEvol

"Review of the current trends in field animal #behaviour #research, with a focus on studies on sociality, and investigation of the forms under which such practices can impact animals, with a particular focus on the notions of #disturbance and #invasiveness."

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13988

just realised i haven't done a proper #introduction on here!

i'm a biologist specialising in #evolution #ecology and #behaviour, and will be starting my #phd at the university of #aberdeen this autumn, studying the evolution of #sociality in #subsocial animals, specifically #dubia #cockroaches

you'll usually find me posting about #entomology, #marinebiology, #climatescience, #ukpolitics, and #wales / #welsh-ness

all my posts are tagged #myphotos

trans-inclusive feminist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"Workshops about #anger, saying NO, and mapping one's capacities and desires": https://the.curlybracket.net/2022/03/23/workshops.html
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by @ulrike #Uhlig #workPlace #career #SWOT #community #organising #safety #sociality #organisations

“#Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to #practice.”
― #BrenéBrown, in her #book "I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame" #choice #virtue #morals #sociality #quotes

Let me introduce myself again: I'm Miya. I study #sociality and social #evolution of #birds and small #mammals (Cape ground #squirrels) in South Africa. I'm interested in #conservation and the impacts of #climatechange. I collaborate with @waterman and @griesser. I love being in #nature and doing #fieldwork.