#antagonism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antagonism, aggregated by home.social.
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PS, I'll present recent work from Felix Jäger, PhD student in my group. The talk is entitled "Between Friends and Foes - Evolutionary #Diversification in Mutualistic-Antagonistic Networks" and based on our joint #preprint.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712075v1
#ecoevo #mutualism #antagonism #EcologicalNetworks #AdaptiveDynamics #EcologicalModelling #theoreticalEcology
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PS, I'll present recent work from Felix Jäger, PhD student in my group. The talk is entitled "Between Friends and Foes - Evolutionary #Diversification in Mutualistic-Antagonistic Networks" and based on our joint #preprint.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712075v1
#ecoevo #mutualism #antagonism #EcologicalNetworks #AdaptiveDynamics #EcologicalModelling #theoreticalEcology
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PS, I'll present recent work from Felix Jäger, PhD student in my group. The talk is entitled "Between Friends and Foes - Evolutionary #Diversification in Mutualistic-Antagonistic Networks" and based on our joint #preprint.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712075v1
#ecoevo #mutualism #antagonism #EcologicalNetworks #AdaptiveDynamics #EcologicalModelling #theoreticalEcology
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PS, I'll present recent work from Felix Jäger, PhD student in my group. The talk is entitled "Between Friends and Foes - Evolutionary #Diversification in Mutualistic-Antagonistic Networks" and based on our joint #preprint.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712075v1
#ecoevo #mutualism #antagonism #EcologicalNetworks #AdaptiveDynamics #EcologicalModelling #theoreticalEcology
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The Wanderer, James Gleeson
really like this, reminds me of something like the honor in stubborn willfulness or maybe hopeless struggle. Not especially hopeful resistance. The thing resisted is weird and the atmosphere is weird 😁
#art #weird #eerie #fish #push #pushback #stubborn #kicker #slime #mutation #human #love #self-improvement #empowered #antagonism
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Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶
"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians
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Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶
"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians
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Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶
"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians
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Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶
"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians
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Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶
"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig#materialism #beliefs #subjugation #radicality #EstelleSays #materialistFeminism #naturalism #appropriation #sexism #heteroSexuality #saphism #heteroNormativity #feminisms #history #MoniqueWittig #Wittig #literature #homosexuality #lesbianism #feminism #internationalism #patriarchy #linguistics #writing #minorityStudies #universalism #queer #constructivism #antagonism #culturalHistory #lesbians
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🚨 new paper online 🚨
From friend to foe and back: coevolutionary transitions in the mutualism–antagonism continuum
1st author Felix Jäger studied the dynamic nature of biotic interactions and identified an evolutionary #TippingPoint: a gradual change in environmental conditions may lead to an abrupt breakdown of #mutualism to #antagonism, which can‘t be reversed by restoring the initial conditions. 🤯
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModellinghttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2326
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
CALVIN: Enmity sells.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
CALVIN: Enmity sells.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
CALVIN: Enmity sells.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
CALVIN: Enmity sells.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!
HOBBES: How cynically unconstructive.
CALVIN: Enmity sells.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/77538…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #anger #antagonism #compromise #culturewar #demagoguery #demonization #donations #enmity #fundraising #hatred #politicalmovement #politicalpower #politicalpressure #politics #usvsthem #values
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A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/1442/
#quote #quotes #quotation #antagonism #belief #binary #honesty #opinion #oversimplification #partisan #partypolitics #politics #principles #takesides #virtue
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Finally, Felix‘ #ecoevo paper is back from #PeerReview:
"…this manuscript is an important contribution that almost uniquely explores the evolutionary transitions between #mutualism through #commensalism and on to #antagonism, and vice versa. […] Not only are the results strong, but some of them are surprising, and in interesting ways that will be worth exploring in future years"
Thank you! 🤩
The #preprint is available here: -
More #TheoreticalEcology today @sfe2_2024 !
Felix Jaeger will talk about evolutionary transitions from #antagonism to #mutualism and back (11:15 in room Rhône 3B) and Franziska Koch will talk about the structure-stability relation of #competition #networks (15:15, also in room Rhône 3B).
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The Republican turn against democracy begins with racism
Support for authoritarian ideas in America is closely tied to the country’s long-running racial conflicts.
A September 2020 paper by Vanderbilt professor Larry Bartels, shows a statistical analysis of a survey of Republican voters -- analyzing the link between respondents’ score on a measure of “#ethnic #antagonism”
and their support for four anti-democratic statements
(e.g., “the traditional American way of life is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it”).Their data show a clear finding:
💥The higher a voter scores on the ethnic antagonism scale,
the more likely they are to support anti-democratic ideas.This held true even when Bartels used regression analyses to compare racial attitudes to other predictors, like support for Trump.
“The strongest predictor by far of these antidemocratic attitudes is ethnic antagonism,” he writes.
For students of American history, this shouldn’t be a surprise.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act cemented Democrats as the party of racial equality,
causing racially resentful Democrats in the South and elsewhere to defect to the Republican Party.⚠️This sorting process, which took place over the next few decades, is the key reason America is so polarized.
It also explains why Republicans are increasingly willing to endorse anti-democratic political tactics and ideas.
In the past, restrictions on the franchise served to protect white political power in a changing country
🔥Today, as demographic change threatens to further undermine the central place of white Americans, many are becoming comfortable with an updated version of the Jim Crow South’s #authoritarian #tradition.
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🚨 New #preprint online! 🚨
From friend to foe and back - Coevolutionary transitions in the mutualism-antagonism continuum
1st author Felix Jäger studied the dynamic nature of biotic interactions and identified an evolutionary #TippingPoint: a gradual change in environmental conditions may lead to an abrupt breakdown of #mutualism to #antagonism, which can‘t be reversed by restoring the initial conditions. 🤯
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« He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. »
― Edmund Burke
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/722412286057332736/he-that-wrestles-with-us-strengthens-our-nerves
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#Gays reveal the #silliest #reasons they’ve been #dumped & it’s so #relatable to anyone on the #apps.
From a blizzard of #unrealisticexpectations to #antiAndroid #antagonism to #astrological #biases, here are the #silly reasons #relationships have #ended (with responses tidied up for #brevity, #grammar, and #readability).
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexualOrientation #Sexuality #OnlineDating #Representation #Culture
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#Gays reveal the #silliest #reasons they’ve been #dumped & it’s so #relatable to anyone on the #apps.
From a blizzard of #unrealisticexpectations to #antiAndroid #antagonism to #astrological #biases, here are the #silly reasons #relationships have #ended (with responses tidied up for #brevity, #grammar, and #readability).
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexualOrientation #Sexuality #OnlineDating #Representation #Culture
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#Gays reveal the #silliest #reasons they’ve been #dumped & it’s so #relatable to anyone on the #apps.
From a blizzard of #unrealisticexpectations to #antiAndroid #antagonism to #astrological #biases, here are the #silly reasons #relationships have #ended (with responses tidied up for #brevity, #grammar, and #readability).
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexualOrientation #Sexuality #OnlineDating #Representation #Culture
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Now available ahead of print: "The Role of Indirect Effects in Coevolution along the Mutualism-Antagonism Continuum" by Pedraza et al. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727472
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Big news! Felix Jäger will soon join the #ecoevo #modelling group at @unihohenheim as a doctoral researcher funded by the Studienstiftung! Hooray! He will study transitions from #mutualism to #antagonism and vice versa within #networks of interacting species.
(Btw, he received the good news just one day after I insisted on having him on the new group picture, even though he was not yet an official group member. So maybe I found the recipe for funding success?)
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Oh, that was fantastic! Thanks, Virginia, for sharing your cool results on how tripartite interaction #networks are structured and how their structure links to #robustness. Traditionally, ecologists have studied networks that contain only one single type of interaction, such as food webs or pollination webs. Your work points towards the future by looking at 2 interaction types in concert! I'm impressed!
#Preprint recommendation:
shorturl.at/eD068
