Adam Tomasovych

paleobiology, biogeography, macroevolution, Slovak Academy of Sciences

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Gary wasn’t stupid. He was just on a failed dead end mission of intellectual suicide. He was shrewd, creative and wildly wrong about human beings at levels that are difficult to convey.

And so it fell to him to tell the ultimate academic lie on behalf of his profession of economics: all humans have stable unchanging tastes.

So dumb. So unethical. Such an intellectually pathetic move. But then he was refereeing the same game within which he was flagrantly cheating.

He was easy to beat in any argument not judged by ideologues. But in Chicago and elsewhere they pretended this was genius rather than a flagrant attempt at patching the vulnerabilities that will sink Neo Classixal economic imperialism.

He lived, and died, in a protected world, not unlike an academic Hermit Kingdom. An intellectual North Korea where people were always bowing before him if they wanted to survive and needed his favor.

But the vulnerability is real. And believe me, he and I both knew it. It was tense as hell dealing with him for a reason:

The fiction of Stable Tastes is THE analog of rhe exhaust vent on the Death Star of NeoClassical Economjc Imperialism. His life’s work.

I look forward to showing you just how that little exhaust vent works.

[CambUP Earth and Environmental Science @CambUP_EarthSci]

Paleobiology is flipping to #OpenAccess!

All content published in the journal from January 2025 will be freely available to read, download and share around the world 🌎

Find out more at: https://t.co/n0ojLOGzAw

[CPEG & CPB Symposium 2025 @CPEG_CPB25]

🚨 Exciting news! The second circular for the upcoming CPEG meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium in summer 2025 is out!
Details on keynote speakers, abstract submissions, registrations, fees, workshops, and more:
https://t.co/QmNu3RyUfu
See you in Zurich!🇨🇭 #CPEGCPB25

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

Happy to see our newest iteration on the complex and fascinating world of the hierarchical punctuated evolution published in "Palaeontology" 😃
cc: @niles_eldredge , @CoelhoPre
Thank you @svalver for excellently organizing all our work!

[Bryony Caswell @PastOceans]

Happy to see our food for thought in ices journal, we explore how #palaeontology #history #archaeology can help understand #marinefunctionalconnectivity #wghist @ICES_ASC @OUPAcademic @ruththurstan @kagiadi @Q_MAREwg @SeaUnicorn2020 @odealab @ADarnaude https://t.co/bvaInQMGwX

[Niklas Hohmann @[email protected] @HohmannNiklas]

🚨hot off the press🚨
Maximum hiatus duration, not incompleteness impacts our ability to recover the mode of evolution from fossil data, which favors the recognition of both stasis and complex modes #stratigraphy #paleontology
https://t.co/5zu6ROt8Il

[Niles Eldredge @niles_eldredge]

Just got advanced copies of our new book, ⁦@Trilolight⁩ !!!!

[Nick Matzke @NickJMatzke]

Thanks to @ScienceMag for publishing a Policy Forum back-and-forth on indigenous knowledge in science education. My contribution was: Matzke, Nicholas J. (2024). Vitalism in New Zealand science education. Science, 385(6705), 152. July 12, 2024. https://t.co/UResUsq5Bd (1/6)

[Adam Tomasovych @ATomasovych]

Abundance–diversity relationship as a unique signature of temporal scaling in the fossil record - Tomasovych et al. 2024 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/VXPWdmBoqh

[Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rlmcelreath]

This story is technical, but the moral lessons are generalizable to practically all research. Researchers learn that shoddy work is acceptable as long as it makes big claims. So they do shoddy work that makes big claims. We need peer *review* instead of peer *vibes*.

[John Huntley @RealHuntley]

Check out our new paper on the simplification of trophic webs and collapse of parasitism over the last few thousand years in coastal Italy!

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

Just learned about the debate of late George McGhee with Stuart Kauffman at the Konrad Lorenz Institute (KLI) about the nature of evolution: if it is bounded, structured and deeply predictable or is it open ended and lawless (Kauffman).
https://t.co/XqLXYfZbXt
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[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Having AI servants will make everything easier for adults.

Having AI servants will make everything easier for children too, who will then not learn to do anything hard.

Tech that helps adults may be harmful to children.
Let them get through puberty in the real world first.

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

I'm glad to share our most recent article with @LovejoyShaun in the @PaleoSoc journal "Paleobiology" presenting so called Fractional MacroEvolution Model (FMEM), which reflects key features of macroevolution - scaling and long memory
https://t.co/4zmCUNbxDn
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[Prof. Jeff Ollerton - @[email protected] @JeffOllerton]

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts https://t.co/bhQfTPV1ut via @DynamicEcology

[Andrej Spiridonov @AndrejSpiridon4]

A very stimulating paper by @simpson_carl and colleagues, which I've had a chance to review, on the expansion of the notion of fitness to so called "expansion fitness" concept which can be applied to multiple levels of the genealogical hierarchy.
https://t.co/UJ3L26XQLk

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

NEW PODCAST EPISODE

Sam Harris speaks with Cal Newport about our use of information technology and the cult of productivity.
https://t.co/TkMNfimnQG

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

There is no golden path to discovery. One of my problems with all the focus on p-hacking, preregistration, harking, etc. is that I fear that it is giving the impression that all will be fine if researchers just avoid “questionable research practices.”
https://t.co/zrQqqeFY6J

[Andrew Gelman et al. @StatModeling]

Hey! Here’s a study where all the preregistered analyses yielded null results but it was presented in PNAS as being wholly positive.
https://t.co/vkjrCNLdpF