Mark Moffett

@TK_HelpDesk My flight TK0379 was cancelled on 15 October and I received a text offering to put me on TK0377, the only other flight that day, for free--then, when I checked in online, it forced me to pay for the flight and seat...again! How I get a refund?

My conversation with cyber security and terrorism expert Clint Watts, who you've seen in serious TV interviews but here we're just having fun. open.spotify.com/episode/2uZRja…

Quite a few tributes to Ed Wilson have come out this week; most simply give facts about his career. I decided to write something much more fun and personal: skeptic.com/reading_room/r…

What can animals, and early humans, teach us about the success (or failure) of democracies? Here I am in conversation with the political historian Jeremi Suri for the Podcast, This Is Democracy. podcasts.la.utexas.edu/this-is-democr…

My interview with the Cognitive Crucible, a podcast directed broadly at the military and national security communities. I'm their first biologist. information-professionals.org/episode/cognit…

Just out: an invited paper for a major business journal, the Journal of Organization Design, comparing ant colony organizations to human institutions, which was published alongside commentaries by several academic business leaders ... a fun read! jorgdesign.springeropen.com/.../s41469-021…...

QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY: "The Human Swarm is a remarkable intellectual achievement of sustained intensity, to be commended for navigating an important yet difficult area in between biology, psychology, sociology, economics, history, and philosophy." journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Conservationists take note: Mistreatment of nature is connected to racism. skeptic.com/reading_room/r…

Tonight, 7 pm Eastern! I talk with David Livingston Smith about his new book, On Inhumanity. theivybookshop.com/upcomingevent/…

I look beyond the pathologies of our current political situation to ask why patriots and nationalists perspectives are part of all human societies, despite the two not getting along with each other. project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-…

Some have claimed that being forced to wear a mask is a violation of their freedoms, the argument once made against seat belts. The fact is that being part of a society requires some compromises on freedom, even in the U.S. nautil.us/issue/76/langu…

For those of you who had been interested in my interview about societies in The Sun magazine, it's available now without a subscription. Their two prior interviews were with Bill McKibben and Noam Chomsky, so I seem to be in good company! thesunmagazine.org/issues/532/one…

Need a book for "thinking about how we got into this mess"? @AmyTan recommends @DoctorBugs's THE HUMAN SWARM on this week's episode of "Sugar Calling" with @CherylStrayed 📚 ow.ly/JN6e50zmGVq

As a kid, I was fascinated by ants partly because they were doing things I recognized. Ants build highways and infrastructure; they jointly haul back food to their nests. — from "One of Us," @DoctorBugs, interviewed by @MarkLeviton buff.ly/2QPuE0p

Think you have it hard home alone? Pitty the roach. "Cockroaches in isolation showed (i) stronger exploration-avoidance, (ii) reduced foraging activity, (iii) reduced willingness to interact socially (iv) reduced ability to assess mating partner quality." sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What will entertainment look like now that live actors have to stay 6 ft apart? Investment tip: Animation companies.

@DavidLSmith_Iam When you write one, thank goodness. That somehow doesn't seem to be the goal for many academics who write books.

The whole point of writing a book is for people to read it.

Climate science deniers complain we can’t prove human activity is the culprit. Now it seems we are doing the experiment.

When you find similarities between things that are . . . seen as very different, like humans and ants — that’s where the new ideas come from. — from "One Of Us: @DoctorBugs On The Social Behavior Of Humans And Other Animals," an interview by @MarkLeviton buff.ly/2QPuE0p

@psmaldino Much appreciate your words, Paul! Hope to travel out your way for a talk sometime. Eager to have more people think about these issues!

One of the most impressive books I read in the last year was 'The Human Swarm' by @DoctorBugs. It advances & consolidates work on identity, cooperation, intergroup conflict, & the evolution of complex societies more than almost anything in the last decade. basicbooks.com/titles/mark-w-…