Martin Palecek

Associate Professor, Former Fulbright Scholar (Emory), Philosophy of Social Sciences and Cultural Anthropology, University of Hradec Kralove, CZ-EU

[Martin Palecek @MartinPalecek]

@ChristopherJM @CathyYoung63 King of injustice

[Center for Study of Public Choice @GMU_CSPC]

@VincentGeloso's forthcoming book The Great Enrichment: A New History of American Growth and Inequality, 1865–1945 now has a home online.

Chapter videos and media interviews are on the way.

Explore the arguments and preorder at the new site!

https://t.co/pWJdEHko5a

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

MORE: The Kremlin’s offer to supply diesel to global markets is a cognitive warfare effort that aims to disrupt the momentum of the effective pressure campaign against Russia’s energy sector, writes @nataliabugayova. ⬇️

The design of Russia’s 2026 strategic bombing campaign against Ukraine, coupled with its intensifying attacks against other European states, seeks to in part overshadow Ukraine’s hard-won gains and force Ukraine and its partners into a reactive posture.

Russia’s cognitive warfare effort aims to disrupt the success of Ukraine and its partners’ sustained pressure against Russia’s critical war capability — its energy sector. Russia’s energy sector is vital to the Kremlin’s ability to fund the war.

Ukraine’s sustained strikes and Western economic pressure on Russia’s energy sector have been driving severe fuel shortages in Russia, in turn forcing Putin to make hard choices. The Kremlin, for example, started to buy refined fuel from India, thereby sustaining additional costs. The Russian Ministry of Finance announced its intent to increase its purchase of foreign currency and gold between October 7 and November 6, 2026, amid declining energy export revenues.

It is precisely because the pressure strategy is working that the Kremlin seeks to disrupt it — including by offering to export insignificant quantities of diesel to the global markets in exchange for sanctions relief.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump. Obviously it’s Trump’s war in Iran that is the issue. But Trump can’t accept that.

So now Trump wants to give Putin a lot of money for Russian diesel, which won’t do anything to markets and won’t even help him in the midterms, though I bet Putin told him it would.

But since Russia and Iran are allies, the shift in US policy and any US taxpayer money that Trump gives Putin will help both the Russian war on Ukraine as well as the regime in Iran. Trump got his pocket picked as usual but the money is ours and the deeper price is the visible shift of US policy to support Russia’s war of aggression.

In other words, Trump makes the world more dangerous by extending two wars and gets nothing in return, not even for himself (unless there was a side deal, which can’t be ruled out).

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“A review of 104 studies found little evidence that demographic diversity makes scientific teams more productive or influential: Only 15-28% of reported results clearly supported the idea, while most found no effect or the opposite.”

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[HBES @HumBehEvoSoc]

A long-standing debate in anthropology concerns whether people in other societies wholeheartedly believe that magic is an effective technology. Drawing on recent work in political science and psychology, Levy et al. argue that this debate should consider whether informants’ reports are sincere and accurate. Levy at al. suggest that people in small-scale societies - and those in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies too - may exhibit a range of attitudes to magic: wholehearted belief (and disbelief), a more symbolic attitude, and even no fixed attitude at all.
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[N. Schmid ⚡️☀️💨💧🔋 @N_Schmid]

@ZelenskyyUa

[Maarten Boudry @mboudry]

This is the most disgusting betrayal of Ukraine since Zelensky’s dressing-down in the White House. And that was largely a symbolic humiliation. Here, Trump is actually stabbing Zelensky in the back, cutting deals with Putin for personal gain.

As @davidfrum writes, this will enrich Trump and his corrupt cronies, but it won’t even benefit him politically: it won’t make a dent in diesel prices. It’s simply a huge win for Putin and an unmitigated disaster for Ukraine.

You’re despicable, @realDonaldTrump.

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[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

Gut-wrenching description by @jaynordlinger of what the Trump Administration has done to our Nation's Capital.

Our Nation’s Capital in the Time of Trump https://t.co/Bdl0zkIK0q

[Policie ČR @PolicieCZ]

Senior v ohrožení. Aktuálně na Karlovarsku pátráme po pohřešovaném 76letém seniorovi, který odešel 11. října dopoledne ze zařízení v Radošově. Tímto žádáme veřejnost o pomoc při pátrání. Pokud ho zahlédnete, volejte na linku 158. Více na👉 https://t.co/QlwPEnxeVS #policiekvk

[Martin Palecek @MartinPalecek]

@Gerashchenko_en

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump doesn't want to hide anymore. He is Putin's business partner (a junior one!) and thus an accomplice in Russian crimes against humanity in Ukraine. And a reminder to members of Trump's administration, especially those who are planning to run for their boss's office in 2028—you will not be able to wash the blood of innocent Ukrainians from your hands. We see you and we will not forget, forgive, or let anyone else forget.

[Martin Palecek @MartinPalecek]

@RpsAgainstTrump 🤬

[Martin Palecek @MartinPalecek]

If you need something to make you throw up...

[Vincent Geloso @VincentGeloso]

People ask me what is my aim when I write on inequality (pre-order my book btw). Some expect me to answer that its because I want to show some people (like Zucman, Piketty and Saez) are wrong.

They are wrong to think that. My objective is to speak to those who are interested in listening -- whether they agree with me or not already. In fact, any true social scientist should think that way: the next margin of convincing people that your results are correct.

That means representing the other side right, doing due diligence etc. Its long and its painful. But its the right thing to do. And lets say we go full-selfish here. When you misrepresent people you disagree with and people see you do it, you are hurt. It just means that you have to do more later to have any impact or that for the same effort you get less.

Try to speak to people! Everyone you can who wants to! Not just your crowd!

[Jason B @JasonB1090582]

@Osint613 even @grok says he is lying:
https://t.co/U3AutzgTbX

[American Anthropological Association @AmericanAnthro]

@UNCWilmington's Department of Anthropology seeks a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Forensic Anthropology. #AcademicJobs #ForensicAnthropology

Apply by Oct 26, 2026: https://t.co/cECCNuPUaA

[PAQ Research @paq_research]

Česko je daňovým rájem bohatých. Když po jisté době prodáte akcie nebo firmu, neplatíte z miliardových zisků ani tolik, kolik dělají odvody z práce za minimální mzdu. Ty budou totiž příští rok i více než 12 tisíc měsíčně. Ve funkčních západních systémech by to bylo o tři až čtyři tisíce méně.

Jako jeden ze tří států EU naopak nedaníme převod ani prodej investičních nemovitostí. Jako jeden ze dvou států EU umožňujeme jít v danění pronájmu do minusu a snižovat si další daně. Jako jeden z mála států EU nemáme majetkovou ani dědickou daň...

Kde ušetřit 150 miliard? A kde vybrat 150 dalších miliard – a posílit přitom růst? na obojí Prokop odpovídá: https://t.co/JBoOsUl2VC

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

'Humans are unique in the extent to which behavioural variation due to culture has the potential to impact our biological evolution. This funded PhD will investigate how variation in marriage practice affects genetic and phenotypic variation in three traditional ethnic groups in Madagascar' https://t.co/t5JGNDymVF

[Rob Sica @robsica]

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✨"Yet that opacity is part of the oracle’s authority."
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