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How do we organize the contents of our consciousness? Check the new map of human feeling space in @PNASNews (open access)! Another nice one with @aivoaalto and @eglerean! pnas.org/content/early/…
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Lauri Nummenmaa
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Lauri Nummenmaa
@LNummenmaa
Molecular neuroscientist. PET Shop Boy and emotion researcher. CEO for Nummenmaa Oy. Professional science writer and speaker. Porsche aficionado. Trumpet geek.
Finland Katılım Mayıs 2013
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In the times of industrial revolution even socialists and workers praised the abolishment of the hard manual labour & long working hours and 7-day workweeks. How come such a grind has abruptly become desirable and fashionable?
Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots. Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries. Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.
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Another fruit of capitalism: High-income countries produce practically zero plastic waste 👇
Robert Anderson@ProfRobAnderson
Any news article about pollution from plastic bags or other plastic products that does not point out that the US produces essentially zero per capita plastic pollution is ridiculously misleading. You can't even see the US here because it's basically on the x-axis. In a lot of countries, people literally just throw all their trash in the river. That's the plastic problem.
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Medical Research Is Hopelessly Caught in Red Tape. Part of the blame goes to "bioethics," which I've long argued is highly unethical. open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…
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Excellent point - we also need to remember that a substantial proportion of research findings are significant yet meaningfully null, and even larger portion are *practically* null (i.e. completely useless in any practical sense)
Daniël Lakens@lakens
Some people think that 'the null is never true' is a killer argument against p values. It isn't. Just test against a meaningful null - e.g., r > 0.1, instead of r > 0. Moving to range predictions is a big improvement - also if you like p values. doi.org/10.1177/174569…
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An old joke, newly relevant:
A Finn and a Russian are fishing on opposite sides of a river along the border between their countries. The Finn pulls fish after fish out of the water, to the Russian's growing frustration. Finally, the Russian can't bear it any more and bursts out: "How come you're getting all the fish?" The Finn replies calmly: "It's because the fish on your side are too afraid to open their mouths."
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Our cordial thanks to @SigridJuselius stiftelse for funding our spearhead project on brain-body axis on ketamine treatment for depression - some world-class @TurkuPETCentre science coming up soon! from emotion.utu.fi !
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A “healthy economy” is when a typical 90 IQ man can hold down a job earning enough to fund a modest lifestyle with his wife & kids.
This only works when 130 IQ men are free to build great things as they see fit, with minimal friction from 110 IQ administrators.
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Every time I hear someone say "you cannot lose weight by dieting" I fondly recall the @ScienceMagazine Minnesota Experiment showing that you *will* inevitably lose body weight if calorie intake is restricted, and this usually does not happen when dieting: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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Greta Thunberg in 2023: If we don't end fossil fuels, it will be a "death sentence."
Greta Thunberg in 2026: President Trump must allow oil imports to Cuba.
I guess the "climate crisis" has negotiable deadlines.
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This would be a travesty
iamyesyouareno@iamyesyouareno
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth” — George Orwell
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It is very strange to publish an article on the gender dynamics of mass shooters and not mention that the two "female" shooters used as flagship examples here were biologically male. Males commit more than 90% of violent crimes.
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Poliitikoille automaattisesti tarjottavat (ilman osaamista, koulutusta ja meriittejä) + kymmenien tuhansien eurojen arvoiset luottamustehtävät ovat yksiselitteisesti osa poliitikoille rakennettua laajaa rakenteellista korruptiota.
#rappio #korruptio
hs.fi/politiikka/art…
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Astonishing that it takes an entire book to explain what everyone has known for many millennia, but that's where we are in history today. So @SteveStuWill forthcoming book is a must read:
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“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”
— Thomas Sowell
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Tarkennus: Kaikki paitsi puhtaasti vapaaehtoistyönä annettava koulutus on *aina* maksullista. Eroja on siinä, maksaako laskun se, joka koulutuksesta de facto hyötyy (=opiskelija itse), vai kokonaan joku muu taho jolta ei välttämättä edes kysytä halukkuutta laskunmaksuun.
Tapio Määttä@tapiomaatta
Hallitus valmistelee Suomeen maksullisia korkeakoulututkintoja avoimeen yliopistoon. Onko niille tarvetta ja löytyykö maksajia? Hallituksen suunnitelmat ovat monella tavoin ongelmallisia, todetaan 7 järjestön yhteisessä kannanotossa: unifi.fi/jarjestot-avoi…
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Inequality and poverty do not cause crime. Criminals' choices and willingness to commit crimes is what causes it, while unwillingness to *target* crime keeps criminality a feasible option 👇
Charlie Smirkley@charliesmirkley
The inequality causes crime narrative is activist science. 43 studies. 1,341 estimates. Half the data never published. Corrected effect: near zero. Inequality doesn’t drive crime.
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Before Uber arrived, taxi commissions were textbook regulatory capture in action. In New York, medallion prices hit $1.3 million in 2013 — for a piece of metal that gave you permission to drive people around. The Taxi & Limousine Commission wasn't regulating taxis, it was running a cartel that artificially restricted supply to enrich medallion owners.
And these weren't mom-and-pop drivers getting rich. Most medallions were owned by fleet companies and investors who leased them back to drivers for $100+ per day. The drivers — often immigrants working 12-hour shifts — barely scraped by while the medallion holders collected economic rents backed by government force.
The whole system was built on the fiction that customers needed "protection" from competition. But what customers actually got was expensive rides, surly service, and cabs that mysteriously broke down when you wanted to go to certain neighborhoods. The real protection was for medallion values, not consumers.
When Uber bypassed this racket entirely, the taxi industry screamed about "unfair competition" and "safety." The same regulators who had ignored decades of poor service suddenly discovered concerns about consumer welfare. Amazing how quickly regulatory priorities shift when the regulated industry's profits are threatened.
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Antisemitism in Europe is rising. Action must be taken.
Belgium: Military personnel are being deployed to support security for Jewish communities. The state must guarantee the safety of every citizen, without exception.
Hatred against Jews has no place in our society, our institutions, or our streets. We will not look away. We will not step back. We must stand firm, always.
Theo Francken@FranckenTheo
To protect our Jewish community, we are deploying military personnel to support security on our streets. The safety of every citizen must be guaranteed. Antisemitism and hatred against Jews will never be tolerated. We will stand firm against it, always.
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It’s actually substantially worse than this tweet makes it out to be:
The study in question claimed that black babies died more when cared for by white doctors.
Not only was that finding spurious and disappeared when controlling for low birthweight infants, it DID find that white babies died more when cared for by black doctors.
They were well aware of this, and an audit of the original manuscript showed a comment where they intentionally chose to downplay this because it “did not fit the narrative.”
Wokeness went through academia like a fucking freight train and produced some of the most god-awful bullshit since the inception of the scientific method.
Much of it has never been corrected in the public consciousness.
This paper, for example, was cited by everyone’s favorite low IQ Supreme Court justice.
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill
A famous study found that Black babies have higher survival rates if attended by Black than White doctors. But a re-analysis of the data shows the effect disappears after accounting for the fact that low birth weight babies more often see White doctors. [Link below.]
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This is absolutely bollocks as science is about truth-seeking. No matter how inconvenient the truth might be for some groups, truth always helps is to make better decisions. @AnttiLatvala where did you get this nonsensical review from?
Antti Latvala@AnttiLatvala
The sad state of academia. Our proposal had as one of its aims the empirical study of rising levels of antisocial behavior among youth with immigrant background in Finland. It was criticized not on scientific grounds, but on possible stigmatization. 🤷♂️ Rejected, obviously.
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