#socialdynamics — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialdynamics, aggregated by home.social.
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I'm watching a time travel / past life / alternate timeline story (I'm being fuzzy on identifying details because I don't want to spoil it for anyone), and I've finally hit the beat where the female lead explains to the male romantic lead why she knows what she knows...
...AND HE BELIEVES HER. 🔥
This is truly one of my favourite tropes and one of the hottest scifi/fantasy + romance tropes of all time.
Is this because women and other marginalized people are so rarely believed and supported by cis men / members of dominant cultural groups? Yes, it is: we are hungry to be seen and believed.
Want to knock the socks off of marginalized people (or at least this girl)? Listen to us, believe us, and trust our authority and expertise regarding our lived experiences (vs mansplaining, gaslighting, ignoring, etc.)
This is truly top tier hotness and sexiness. 💋
*If you want to share your recommendations for stories with these kinds of dynamics in the mentions, please put them under a CW so there are no spoilers for people who want to leave that as a surprise. Ta! 😘
#Movies #Bookstodon #Romance #TimeTravel #Fantasy #SciFi #Kyriarchy #Intersectionality #SocialDynamics #Relationships
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I'm watching a time travel / past life / alternate timeline story (I'm being fuzzy on identifying details because I don't want to spoil it for anyone), and I've finally hit the beat where the female lead explains to the male romantic lead why she knows what she knows...
...AND HE BELIEVES HER. 🔥
This is truly one of my favourite tropes and one of the hottest scifi/fantasy + romance tropes of all time.
Is this because women and other marginalized people are so rarely believed and supported by cis men / members of dominant cultural groups? Yes, it is: we are hungry to be seen and believed.
Want to knock the socks off of marginalized people (or at least this girl)? Listen to us, believe us, and trust our authority and expertise regarding our lived experiences (vs mansplaining, gaslighting, ignoring, etc.)
This is truly top tier hotness and sexiness. 💋
*If you want to share your recommendations for stories with these kinds of dynamics in the mentions, please put them under a CW so there are no spoilers for people who want to leave that as a surprise. Ta! 😘
#Movies #Bookstodon #Romance #TimeTravel #Fantasy #SciFi #Kyriarchy #Intersectionality #SocialDynamics #Relationships
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I'm watching a time travel / past life / alternate timeline story (I'm being fuzzy on identifying details because I don't want to spoil it for anyone), and I've finally hit the beat where the female lead explains to the male romantic lead why she knows what she knows...
...AND HE BELIEVES HER. 🔥
This is truly one of my favourite tropes and one of the hottest scifi/fantasy + romance tropes of all time.
Is this because women and other marginalized people are so rarely believed and supported by cis men / members of dominant cultural groups? Yes, it is: we are hungry to be seen and believed.
Want to knock the socks off of marginalized people (or at least this girl)? Listen to us, believe us, and trust our authority and expertise regarding our lived experiences (vs mansplaining, gaslighting, ignoring, etc.)
This is truly top tier hotness and sexiness. 💋
*If you want to share your recommendations for stories with these kinds of dynamics in the mentions, please put them under a CW so there are no spoilers for people who want to leave that as a surprise. Ta! 😘
#Movies #Bookstodon #Romance #TimeTravel #Fantasy #SciFi #Kyriarchy #Intersectionality #SocialDynamics #Relationships
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I'm watching a time travel / past life / alternate timeline story (I'm being fuzzy on identifying details because I don't want to spoil it for anyone), and I've finally hit the beat where the female lead explains to the male romantic lead why she knows what she knows...
...AND HE BELIEVES HER. 🔥
This is truly one of my favourite tropes and one of the hottest scifi/fantasy + romance tropes of all time.
Is this because women and other marginalized people are so rarely believed and supported by cis men / members of dominant cultural groups? Yes, it is: we are hungry to be seen and believed.
Want to knock the socks off of marginalized people (or at least this girl)? Listen to us, believe us, and trust our authority and expertise regarding our lived experiences (vs mansplaining, gaslighting, ignoring, etc.)
This is truly top tier hotness and sexiness. 💋
*If you want to share your recommendations for stories with these kinds of dynamics in the mentions, please put them under a CW so there are no spoilers for people who want to leave that as a surprise. Ta! 😘
#Movies #Bookstodon #Romance #TimeTravel #Fantasy #SciFi #Kyriarchy #Intersectionality #SocialDynamics #Relationships
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I'm watching a time travel / past life / alternate timeline story (I'm being fuzzy on identifying details because I don't want to spoil it for anyone), and I've finally hit the beat where the female lead explains to the male romantic lead why she knows what she knows...
...AND HE BELIEVES HER. 🔥
This is truly one of my favourite tropes and one of the hottest scifi/fantasy + romance tropes of all time.
Is this because women and other marginalized people are so rarely believed and supported by cis men / members of dominant cultural groups? Yes, it is: we are hungry to be seen and believed.
Want to knock the socks off of marginalized people (or at least this girl)? Listen to us, believe us, and trust our authority and expertise regarding our lived experiences (vs mansplaining, gaslighting, ignoring, etc.)
This is truly top tier hotness and sexiness. 💋
*If you want to share your recommendations for stories with these kinds of dynamics in the mentions, please put them under a CW so there are no spoilers for people who want to leave that as a surprise. Ta! 😘
#Movies #Bookstodon #Romance #TimeTravel #Fantasy #SciFi #Kyriarchy #Intersectionality #SocialDynamics #Relationships
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I’d love to hear your thoughts. Are we seeing "exploitation," or are we seeing a desperate reaction to a system that fails to prioritize the vulnerable?
#SocialDynamics #TamilNadu #PublicPolicy #Parenting #Infrastructure #Chennai #Sociology
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Talkative guide disrupts romantic nature walk, prompting advice on handling future encounters
📰 Original title: Asking Eric: Talkative guide intrudes on nature walk date
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅ -
Talkative guide disrupts romantic nature walk, prompting advice on handling future encounters
📰 Original title: Asking Eric: Talkative guide intrudes on nature walk date
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅ -
Talkative guide disrupts romantic nature walk, prompting advice on handling future encounters
📰 Original title: Asking Eric: Talkative guide intrudes on nature walk date
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅ -
Talkative guide disrupts romantic nature walk, prompting advice on handling future encounters
📰 Original title: Asking Eric: Talkative guide intrudes on nature walk date
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅ -
RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116625052489615080
This post highlights a striking social reality regarding safety and public perception. The strategy of manufacturing a male companion to avoid harassment demonstrates that systemic respect is still frequently tied to a woman's perceived relationship status rather than her individual autonomy. It is a vital conversation on modern safety dynamics.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116625052489615080
This post highlights a striking social reality regarding safety and public perception. The strategy of manufacturing a male companion to avoid harassment demonstrates that systemic respect is still frequently tied to a woman's perceived relationship status rather than her individual autonomy. It is a vital conversation on modern safety dynamics.
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When cute turns yuck: Inside the sudden ‘ick’ reaction https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/psychology-of-the-ick-social-discomfort-lh4cdm91?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheIck #Psychology #HumanBehaviour #ModernLife #SocialDynamics
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When cute turns yuck: Inside the sudden ‘ick’ reaction https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/psychology-of-the-ick-social-discomfort-lh4cdm91?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheIck #Psychology #HumanBehaviour #ModernLife #SocialDynamics
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When cute turns yuck: Inside the sudden ‘ick’ reaction https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/psychology-of-the-ick-social-discomfort-lh4cdm91?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheIck #Psychology #HumanBehaviour #ModernLife #SocialDynamics
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When cute turns yuck: Inside the sudden ‘ick’ reaction https://english.mathrubhumi.com/lifestyle/psychology-of-the-ick-social-discomfort-lh4cdm91?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TheIck #Psychology #HumanBehaviour #ModernLife #SocialDynamics
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🚨 ALERT 🚨: Tim Bray just discovered that wealth inequality exists! 💥 Groundbreaking insights like "War is bad" and "Don't start one" will surely revolutionize our understanding of social dynamics. For more dazzling revelations, check out Wikipedia because apparently, that's where the real #journalism lives now. 📉😴
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime #wealthinequality #groundbreakinginsights #socialdynamics #TimBray #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 ALERT 🚨: Tim Bray just discovered that wealth inequality exists! 💥 Groundbreaking insights like "War is bad" and "Don't start one" will surely revolutionize our understanding of social dynamics. For more dazzling revelations, check out Wikipedia because apparently, that's where the real #journalism lives now. 📉😴
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime #wealthinequality #groundbreakinginsights #socialdynamics #TimBray #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 ALERT 🚨: Tim Bray just discovered that wealth inequality exists! 💥 Groundbreaking insights like "War is bad" and "Don't start one" will surely revolutionize our understanding of social dynamics. For more dazzling revelations, check out Wikipedia because apparently, that's where the real #journalism lives now. 📉😴
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime #wealthinequality #groundbreakinginsights #socialdynamics #TimBray #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 ALERT 🚨: Tim Bray just discovered that wealth inequality exists! 💥 Groundbreaking insights like "War is bad" and "Don't start one" will surely revolutionize our understanding of social dynamics. For more dazzling revelations, check out Wikipedia because apparently, that's where the real #journalism lives now. 📉😴
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime #wealthinequality #groundbreakinginsights #socialdynamics #TimBray #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 ALERT 🚨: Tim Bray just discovered that wealth inequality exists! 💥 Groundbreaking insights like "War is bad" and "Don't start one" will surely revolutionize our understanding of social dynamics. For more dazzling revelations, check out Wikipedia because apparently, that's where the real #journalism lives now. 📉😴
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime #wealthinequality #groundbreakinginsights #socialdynamics #TimBray #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that apps are not unlike high school cliques, orbiting around their "popular" nucleus nouns. Because, as we all know, what the world needed was a linguistic hierarchy for its beloved apps. 🚀🔬
https://ben-mini.com/2026/nucleus-nouns #appHierarchy #appCulture #socialDynamics #techTrends #linguisticInsights #highSchoolCliques #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that apps are not unlike high school cliques, orbiting around their "popular" nucleus nouns. Because, as we all know, what the world needed was a linguistic hierarchy for its beloved apps. 🚀🔬
https://ben-mini.com/2026/nucleus-nouns #appHierarchy #appCulture #socialDynamics #techTrends #linguisticInsights #highSchoolCliques #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that apps are not unlike high school cliques, orbiting around their "popular" nucleus nouns. Because, as we all know, what the world needed was a linguistic hierarchy for its beloved apps. 🚀🔬
https://ben-mini.com/2026/nucleus-nouns #appHierarchy #appCulture #socialDynamics #techTrends #linguisticInsights #highSchoolCliques #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that apps are not unlike high school cliques, orbiting around their "popular" nucleus nouns. Because, as we all know, what the world needed was a linguistic hierarchy for its beloved apps. 🚀🔬
https://ben-mini.com/2026/nucleus-nouns #appHierarchy #appCulture #socialDynamics #techTrends #linguisticInsights #highSchoolCliques #HackerNews #ngated -
🤔 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that apps are not unlike high school cliques, orbiting around their "popular" nucleus nouns. Because, as we all know, what the world needed was a linguistic hierarchy for its beloved apps. 🚀🔬
https://ben-mini.com/2026/nucleus-nouns #appHierarchy #appCulture #socialDynamics #techTrends #linguisticInsights #highSchoolCliques #HackerNews #ngated -
AI Systems Probe Social Dynamics, Map Everyday Interactions
Researchers are using advanced AI to map 20,000 types of daily social interactions, revealing how situations affect people. Findings help understand behavior.
#AISocialScience, #LLMResearch, #HumanBehavior, #SocialDynamics, #TechInnovation
https://newsletter.tf/ai-maps-20000-social-interactions-using-llms/
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AI can now identify about 20,000 different social situations, which is a huge step from earlier AI that could only understand a few. This helps us understand how we act around others.
#AISocialScience, #LLMResearch, #HumanBehavior, #SocialDynamics, #TechInnovation
https://newsletter.tf/ai-maps-20000-social-interactions-using-llms/ -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
I can’t show people how I do it — I just have to be the guy who does it.
#SelfMastery #HumanNature #SocialDynamics #StaySilent #InnerPower -
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…
To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…
Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.
It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…
[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]
… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.
A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.
For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.
And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“
* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)
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As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.
As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.
#culture #Darwin #evolution #evolutionaryBiology #history #humanBehavior #LudwigBüchner #LudwigBuchner #Materialism #ParentalInvestment #ParentalOffspringConflict #Psychology #ReciprocalAlturism #RobertTrivers #Science #scientificMaterialism #SelfDeception #socialDynamics #sociobiology #theoryOfEvolution -
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…
To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…
Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.
It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…
[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]
… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.
A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.
For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.
And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“
* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)
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As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.
As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.
#culture #Darwin #evolution #evolutionaryBiology #history #humanBehavior #LudwigBüchner #LudwigBuchner #Materialism #ParentalInvestment #ParentalOffspringConflict #Psychology #ReciprocalAlturism #RobertTrivers #Science #scientificMaterialism #SelfDeception #socialDynamics #sociobiology #theoryOfEvolution -
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…
To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…
Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.
It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…
[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]
… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.
A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.
For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.
And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“
* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)
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As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.
As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.
#culture #Darwin #evolution #evolutionaryBiology #history #humanBehavior #LudwigBüchner #LudwigBuchner #Materialism #ParentalInvestment #ParentalOffspringConflict #Psychology #ReciprocalAlturism #RobertTrivers #Science #scientificMaterialism #SelfDeception #socialDynamics #sociobiology #theoryOfEvolution -
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…
To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…
Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.
It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…
[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]
… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.
A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.
For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.
And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“
* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)
###
As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.
As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.
#culture #Darwin #evolution #evolutionaryBiology #history #humanBehavior #LudwigBüchner #LudwigBuchner #Materialism #ParentalInvestment #ParentalOffspringConflict #Psychology #ReciprocalAlturism #RobertTrivers #Science #scientificMaterialism #SelfDeception #socialDynamics #sociobiology #theoryOfEvolution -
“Unhappy is the land that needs a hero”*…
To the extent that evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist Robert Trivers has been in the news over the last decade, it has been for his entanglement with and highly-questionable defense of Jeffrey Epstein. But as Lionel Page reminds us, two decades before that– well before he could have known the execrable “financier”– Trivers made hugely important contributions to his field…
Steve Stewart-Williams announced… that Robert Trivers passed away.
Trivers was one of the most—perhaps the most—influential evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. His work should be much more widely known in social and behavioural sciences, in particular in economics, as Trivers’ intellectual approach is very much in line with a game theoretic understanding of social interactions.
It is hard to overstate the importance of his work. Einstein famously published four groundbreaking papers in 1905, a year often referred to as his “Annus mirabilis”, during which he revolutionised physics. Trivers might be said to have had a “Quinquennium Mirabile” for the five years between 1971 and 1976, during which he produced a series of ideas that revolutionised evolutionary biology…
[Page unpacks four of those contributions: Reciprocal Alturism, Parental Investment, Parental Offspring Conflict, and Self-Deception, each fascinating…]
… Trivers has been one of the most influential evolutionary biologists, and his papers are still worth reading today. His insights, published more than 50 years ago, are fascinating. They often align very well with economic theories of behaviour, and it is therefore regrettable that his ideas are not more well-known in economics, and in particular in behavioural economics.
A key feature of Trivers’ take across these contributions was to see that beneath the world of social interactions we observe, there are deep structures in terms of incentives that shape the game we play. Understanding these games and their structures helps us make sense of the seemingly endless complexity of human psychology and social dynamics. In several key contributions, Trivers helped lift the veil on the underlying logic of human behaviour…
From cooperation to conflict: the evolutionary grammar of social interactions: “The fascinating insights of Robert Trivers” from @lionelpage.bsky.social.
For more on Trivers and the controversies in his life (Epstein, but also the Black Panthers and a Rutgers set-to), all of which followed the burst of productivity described above, see here.
And for some thoughts on how one might reconcile appreciation for a scientist’s work with abhorence of his later sins, see “Ghosts of Science Past Still Haunt Us. We Can Put Them to Rest.“
* Bertolt Brecht (through the mouth of Galileo, in The Life of Galileo)
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As we linger over legacies, we might send material birthday greetings to a man who helped lay the groundwork for the field to which Trivers contributed, Ludwig Büchner; he was born on this date in 1824. A philosopher, physiologist, and physician, he became one of the leading exponents of 19th-century scientific materialism. Büchner was an early champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution, endorsing it within a decade of its first issuance, then did much to spread it by citing and building on it in his own books.
As far as we know, Büchner’s life was free of the scandal and conflict that plagued Trivers. He taught at the University of Tübingen and published dozens of books and papers. Later in his life he founded he “German Freethinkers League” (“Deutsche Freidenkerbund”) and served as a member of the second chamber of the Landstände of the Grand Duchy of Hesse as a representative of the German Free-minded Party from 1884 to 1890. He was the younger brother of Georg Büchner, a famous revolutionary playwright, and Luise Büchner, a women’s rights advocate; and he was the uncle of Ernst Büchner, inventor of the Büchner flask.
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Some rituals test whether you belong.
Sometimes it’s a joke.
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Some rituals test whether you belong.
Sometimes it’s a joke.
Sometimes it’s a label.The Cost of Folded Paper.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/02/the-cost-of-folded-paper/
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Some rituals test whether you belong.
Sometimes it’s a joke.
Sometimes it’s a label.The Cost of Folded Paper.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/02/the-cost-of-folded-paper/
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Some rituals test whether you belong.
Sometimes it’s a joke.
Sometimes it’s a label.The Cost of Folded Paper.
https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/02/the-cost-of-folded-paper/
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