Julien Sorel

Sociologist (Luhmann). Parasite (Serres). Don't Be a Hypocrite.

[i/o @avidseries]

This is inarguable. Rightoids are now the most lying and obnoxious people on Twitter, and have been for a few years. They are not as certifiably insane as the denizens of Bluesky, but they make up for that by being more retarded and blitheringly meme-impaired.

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

It’s very cool that I can’t use AI to locate quotes from ancient historians because Google doesn’t like the content of those quotes. Look at the thinking process. It finds the quote perfectly fine, but then pretends it can’t. AI is censoring Roman history.

[A 🌸 @AThinksAloud]

The interview ends with Piers asking Russell if Oct 7 was a terrorist attack, and Russell evading the question for three full minutes. During his ramble he says “Russell Brand might be a Vegan one minute and a cannibal the next.” Uuuuhhhhhh…what?

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

An extremely rare case of someone dropping a fashionable opinion, and adopting an unfashionable one instead, because there's better evidence in favour of the latter.
The world would be an infinitely better place if people did this more often.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

If this site cared about the slop cleanup, it would ban or demonetize people for posting stupid nonsense like this.

Because it's the purest of slop.

[Tom Nuttall @tom_nuttall]

Just when you think you're getting the hang of Germany, @derspiegel puts duzen on its cover at the precise moment a security, diplomatic, energy and economic crisis heads Germany's way.

[The Missing Data Depot @data_depot]

Replication of 110 top political science & economics papers finds:

▪️Only 85% of results are reproducible despite mandatory data & code sharing

▪️Only 72% of statistically sig results remain sig when reanalyzing w/ other modeling decisions

▪️Coding errors in ~25% of papers

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

I totally reject the notion that Mahr's response to my paper represents a legitimate, equal alternative to my view that many aspects of reality are mind-independent.

We are not merely "talking past each other" from different epistemological starting points. Mahr's view is actually incoherent and at odds with everything we know about material reality. And the fact that I even have to respond to such thorough nonsense is truly shocking.

These ideas have no place in academia because they have no guardrails whatsoever. There is no limiting principle or empirical anchor that makes them self-correcting over a long enough timescale like the sciences. This means that, over time, these fields actually get more, not less, disconnected from reality. And then they start infecting legitimate fields like biology and try to tear down legitimate knowledge.

These fields rooted in Critical Theory are totally fraudulent. They have no place in academia and do not deserve to be supported with taxpayer dollars.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

The subtle academic passive aggressiveness of citing papers from the 1500s. 💅

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

🚨NEW: Last year I published a paper detailing the gamete-based definition of the sexes and debunking common activist objections to it.

This year, the journal published a critique of it rooted in "feminist epistemology."

They invited me to respond. It's now published.

The final paragraph of my response (not shown in the screenshots) is:

"The renowned geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky wrote that 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,' highlighting evolution as the unifying framework that makes life’s diversity, complexity, and interconnectedness comprehensible. I contend that a parallel statement applies similarly to reproductive biology: Nothing in the biology of the sexes makes sense except in the light of gametes."

LINKS
Mahr's critique of my paper:https://t.co/EgT5o1q8k4
My response to Mahr:https://t.co/AyvtjDJq9t

[Alex Byrne @byrne_a]

I was invited to review an @OxUniPress book on gender identity for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. You’ll never guess what happened next. 👇

[Julien Sorel @funktionalist]

@theoriebarbaren Das setzt voraus, dass Evolution etwas will. Das ist Hegel. Hegel ist schön. Aber er hilft nicht.

[liel leibovitz @liel]

This is basically like Bane taking over Gotham in The Dark Knight Rises.

[Julien Sorel @funktionalist]

Trrg"„MEINUNGSFREIHEIT“ – mit Béla Anda, Mary Abdelaziz-Ditzow und Morten Freidel" https://t.co/dAKlayxVCk

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.

[The Persian Jewess @persianjewess]

Spike Lee thinks the terrorist with an AK-47 dragging a wounded innocent Jewish girl out of a bomb shelter to rape and murder her is the “oppressed resistance fighter.”

Spike Lee is a worthless piece of trash.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

I’ve spent the last year working on a story about the Mellon Foundation, the mega-wealthy private nonprofit that has a monopoly on humanities funding in America. The article, about how Mellon has held the humanities hostage to its progressive political ideology, is out today. 🧵

[Carsten Brennecke @RABrennecke]

Die Lügen-Kampagne, die gerade von führenden Mitgliedern meiner #Grünen, aber auch der #SPD und der #Linken mit irreführenden Darstellungen und Falschbehauptungen gegen die #CDU geführt wird, ist bemerkenswert: Es wird die Falschbehauptung verbreitet, die @CDU wolle #Frauen, die Kinder erziehen wollen oder müssen, den #Teilzeitanspruch aberkennen. Das ist glatt gelogen, da die CDU ausdrücklich mitteilt, dass der Anspruch auf #Teilzeit in diesen Fällen unberührt bleiben soll.

Ich finde es bedenklich, dass meine @Die_Gruenen, die SPD und @dieLinke, die alle immer wieder auch in Richtung der #AfD argumentieren, der politische Diskurs habe sich durch Populismus und Falschbehauptungen negativ entwickelt, eine solche unseriöse Kampagne fahren.

Mir sind z.B. negativ aufgefallen: #Dröge @katdro, #Lauterbach @Karl_Lauterbach, #DeMasi @FabioDeMasi, #Audretsch @AnAudretsch, #Haßelmann @BriHasselmann