Adam Bode

RIP Robert Trivers - the Einstein of evolutionary biology and one the greatest thinkers of our age. Among other things, Trivers came up with parental investment theory, reciprocal altruism theory, and parent-offspring conflict theory.

@BenPhillips_ANU I've only been to one - the Canberra one that sent ACT Squash broke. SO good!

Oz squash open semi finals tonight at Brisbane, South Bank Piazza. Some of the world’s best m/f players on display. Check it out!

Fascinating!

@SteveStuWill This sample was all single. That's part of the reason they are single. The real average would be notably higher (romantic love researcher here...)

Most people fall in love only once or twice in their lives. [Link below.]

@ZacGross Thoughts @BenPhillips_ANU

$90 billion for capital costs alone. That is $4.3b just to pay the *interest* on debt each year. No principal paid back, no running costs. 10% of Newcastle commutes to Sydney, 2 twice a week, 48 weeks a year. Still >$2000 per return commute!!! afr.com/companies/infr…

Chris Williamson's brutal wake-up call in 46 seconds: “Adults don't exist.” He runs down the list: - Steve Jobs delayed pancreatic cancer treatment for carrot juice and acupuncture. - Mozart drowned in debt, constantly begging friends for money. - Nietzsche caught syphilis in a brothel and sold only 300 copies of his work in his lifetime. - Martin Luther King had affairs with over 40 women and spent his last night with two of them. - Isaac Newton wasted 30 years on alchemy pseudoscience his heirs hid out of embarrassment. The point lands hard: Don't put any adult on a pedestal. Kill your gurus. The adults aren't going to save you — they don't even exist. Raw, unflinching, and impossible to unhear. Which "hero" or guru did you once idolize… until you learned the messy truth behind them?

@BenPhillips_ANU You should read the literature on what people say they want in a mate and what they actually respond to...

What people say and what people do are often very different matters. Many may say they will but most wont and employment and income opportunities are generally much higher in bigger cities #Echobox=1771280514-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">afr.com/property/resid…

2026 is 10% complete.

🇳🇱 In the early 2000s, Dutch supermodel Karen Mulder became a tragic figure of the "whistleblower's curse" long before the world was ready to listen. At the height of her fame, Mulder broke the industry’s code of silence during a French television appearance, making explosive allegations of systemic abuse, blackmail, and sexual exploitation involving high-level elites including figures now famously linked to the Epstein network. The retaliation was swift and devastating. Her claims were immediately dismissed as a mental breakdown, leading to her being forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital. The fashion industry and media painted her as "unstable," effectively ending one of the most successful modeling careers in history. While she was silenced and marginalized, the networks she attempted to expose continued to operate in the shadows for nearly two more decades. Today, Mulder’s story serves as a haunting reminder of how the powerful use the "madness" narrative to bury inconvenient truths. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

Trigger warnings don’t help people emotionally prepare for distressing material, or lead them to avoid it – the two things they’re intended to do. Their main effect seems to be to make people more anxious about encountering the material. [Link below - no paywall.]

@briandavidearp I don't agree with everything you say, but I value your way of thinking ABOUT things.

I am happy to share this is now fully open access: “On Whether Sex Is Binary” - Archives of Sexual Behavior link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@JustinLehmiller Limerence is just intense romantic love. Be careful, Justin, of people who write authoritatively about limerence but who haven't read the literature on romantic love.

Limerence can be an incredible feeling...until it's not. So when does limerence become a problem, and what can you do about it? Neuroscience researcher Dr. Tom Bellamy is on the show to break it down for us. sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/e…

@GGBAR3DD @parnellpalme I've honestly been contemplating term deposits recently...

@AdamBode4 @parnellpalme Regulatory risk and change in law is higher than ever for property

Unpopular maybe, but perfectly valid. Smart money buys shares, as they have higher returns than rentals.

Your regular friendly reminder: These four datasets all have the same mean, median, and variance. Moral of the story: Always visualize your data! [Link below.]

Me adding references of the reviewers

@sciencegirl getting their nails done.

@dsznycer Work of art!

@ManeYakoubian @Marta7Kowal

People who grew up in harsher or unpredictable childhood environments tend to invest more effort in seeking new partners as adults, and this increased “mating effort” is linked to lower romantic relationship satisfaction and more conflict. psypost.org/study-links-un…

@TheDissenterYT @Marta7Kowal

New episode (1202), with Dr. Valerie Tiberius. We talk about the #Philosophy and #Psychology of well-being. YouTube: youtu.be/CxITwO0zHKM Podcast: bit.ly/49A6fTV