Mel Cosentino, PhD

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Mel Cosentino, PhD

Mel Cosentino, PhD

@melanthropics

@PorpoiseLady bioacoustics. fan of the Oxford comma. citizen of the 7 kingdoms. anti BS. coder. @MarineMammalAU @ClydePorpoise #LostTheFight

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Mel Cosentino, PhD
Mel Cosentino, PhD@melanthropics·
Very happy & excited to announce the launching of a new website dedicated to harbour porpoises! Follow @PorpoiseLady for everything porpoise-related and to not miss any updates: There'll be loads of cools facts & interviews with awesome researchers! Let your #PorpoiseLove show🥰
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Porpoise Lady@PorpoiseLady

Off we go! We've launched porpoiselady.org -the site to go to if you can't get enough #PorpoiseLove🥰 Follow this account for updates: we'll posts blogs about cool porpoise facts & interviews w/researchers from around the world. Check it out & send us feedback/suggestions!

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@Impatient_Brian @EricsElectrons "Truth is the most ideologically burdened concept" how so? can you give an example? eg using the scientific method to figure out what's true (objective reality) - where is the ideology there?
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Brian Cooper, ex-producer of small motile gametes
@melanthropics @EricsElectrons You seem to distinguish between people who obey a set of beliefs from people who see the truth. Truth is the most ideologically burdened concept. We all employ an ideological framework to grope tentatively for truth. Some ideologies are repugnant because they endorse bad actions
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@Impatient_Brian @EricsElectrons I think we use diff def of "ideology". I see it as a set of ideas, beliefs, & values that are dogmatic & rank higher than knowledge/truth. Eg. someone identifies as far right; now we know they're Trumpist, pro life, christian, antiimmigration, antiglobalist, pro markets... You?
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Mel Cosentino, PhD@melanthropics·
@Impatient_Brian @EricsElectrons That's what an ideologue would think. Like those who can't believe someone can be a centrist. Having principles and values to guide you is not the same as subscribing to an ideology.
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Steve Stewart-Williams
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill·
Human brain vs. dolphin brain
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Mel Cosentino, PhD@melanthropics·
Soooooo bad on so many levels. Rather speechless right now - and super disgusted 🤢
Elon Musk@elonmusk

Try @Grok Companions. Best possible way to learn quantum mechanics 😘

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Mel Cosentino, PhD@melanthropics·
Except when, you know, they killed everything they found: 72% of megafauna gone in North America, y 82% in Latin America in <3000 years after humans got there. Same Australia. and Eurasia. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Plei…
Conservation Intl@ConservationOrg

Rare species are thriving on Indigenous lands, not merely surviving, thanks to Indigenous Peoples' deep-rooted connections to their land and cultural knowledge. 🦜 conservation.org/blog/why-rare-…

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Peter Boghossian
Peter Boghossian@peterboghossian·
What is your best argument for allowing these individuals to remain in Western society? No strawman’s. No sarcasm. All responses must take them at their word. (Legal arguments are fine, but moral, empirical, social, etc. arguments are far better.) See if you can do it.
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Mike D@mikedennymike·
Romantic love so white. Ppl who propogate this stuff are so "counter-racist'. When they identify Universal human behaviors and phenomenon as "colonialist" they are literally denying the humanity of non-european cultures and societies.
Steve Stewart-Williams@SteveStuWill

“Romantic love is not an invention of Western culture. Instead, the idea that romantic love is an invention of Western culture is itself an invention of Western culture, and a rather implausible one at that.” [Link below.]

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Mel Cosentino, PhD@melanthropics·
"Inspirational quote (with caveats)" Dr Mel Cosentino
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Dr Shane Huntington OAM
Dr Shane Huntington OAM@DrShaneRRR·
Sometimes when the weather is crappy I like to grab some of my images and put them in nice little groups. Here are some of the galaxies I have imaged over the last 9 months. Mostly from Melbourne, a few from Hawaii. All on the Seestar S50 smart telescope.
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Mel Cosentino, PhD@melanthropics·
@DoctorLockwood The government collects taxes & uses it to fund whatever it is it funds (roads, politicians, researchers). whether it does so with old pieces of paper or new ones is irrelevant. not to mention that the majority of transactions are digital now. not sure what he thinks he said
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TIK@TIKhistory·
Karl Marx never bathed and had boils all over his body, was an alcoholic, had an unpaid maid whom he might have r*ped (he certainly got her pregnant, despite what Wikipedia says). He smoked so much it killed one of his babies (which he left in the family bed - the only one they had - because he was too lazy to get a job to afford to bury it), and he made his aristocratic wife depressed and turn to drink. Two of his surviving daughters committed suic*de, and the only child to survive into old age was the boy he fathered to the maid, who didn't live with Marx and was therefore the only sane one. Engels and other family, friends and neighbours had to constantly give Marx money throughout his life because he never did anything productive. He had to beg and borrow, and sent his wife off to do the same. He worked briefly as a article writer for a newspaper, but never had another job and couldn't provide for his family, despite their need, and despite him being more than capable of working. He was constantly in debt, and because he didn't pay his rent the bailiffs took away the family furniture, even the crib. They owed everyone, even the bakers and the milkmen. Yet Marx still refused to work! And to top it off, Marx was wrong about everything. We know this because his fairytale predictions about the future have simply not come true, and were proven to be wrong during his lifetime and not long after his death (e.g. by Eduard Bernstein). His policies have led to misery for billions of people, and death to many tens of millions. Why anyone pines over this monster is beyond me. And if Karl Marx is the best "social theorist" we've ever had, then it's no wonder society is parasitical and anti-life. You should care whether he was wrong or not, but you won't because the socialist faith turns people into sleepwalking NPCs.
Incubator, Baby 🏴☭ @kilkapital.bsky.social@kilkapital

Marx was the best social theorist we've ever had. I don't care if he was wrong about this or that. He gave us the kernel of the truth like no one ever had before.

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