andy royle
@andyroyle_pwrc
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Unemployed ninja. Mycologist, herpetologist, box turtle theorist, Misinformation expert. Views my own. Get off my lawn!
Joined November 2015
Fishing is a disease of pathologically optimistic and gullible suckers. I love fishing. Caught this fish in Juneau on Saturday. 16 hours of fly hurling this weekend. It was worth it.
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More reports of this lovely side effect seen in newly phone-free schools: Big increases in students coming into the library and ... checking out books! A report from Oklahoma: https://t.co/P1Duin08dt and one from Kentucky: https://t.co/JJf8Y3FmVP
washingtonpost.com
After Ballard High School banned phones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books.
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How is it possible to justify work visas with numbers like this?
58% of students who graduated within the past year are still looking for a job, per FORTUNE
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We're back! The next International Statistical Ecology Conference will take place on January 8-15, 2027, in Mérida, México. Calls for workshop proposals and roundtables now open, deadline Nov 15, 2025 (anywhere on earth). Visit https://t.co/I4cwswnqw7 for more information.
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Utah Valley University was committed to teaching constructive dialogue. They, and all universities, should keep going. Programs like @CDI_America reduce affective polarization, which reduces dehumanization. My latest, with Caroline Mehl, in @chronicle: https://t.co/rAXadL0HYH
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The solution to violence isn’t less speech — it’s better dialogue.
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The dominant response among trans activist accounts on BlueSky to the murder of Charlie Kirk was to cheer the murder of Kirk and call for the next murder. Some named Matt Walsh. Others named JK Rowling. This post gives some background on the new culture in which this is the
In 2018 I self-published the first of a number of circumspect, polite essays suggesting we should question whether transwomen were really women, pointing to wider harms of a positive answer. There were a number of deranged responses from fellow philosophers in my field, but one
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I wrote about the sudden open embrace of textbook cancel culture on the right—something they used to decry.
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It’s only Dubai chocolate if it comes from the Dubai region of Hershey, PA.
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This has been a thing for a while. Not just on the left, either
@mtaibbi “rising belief that certain kinds of speech should be outlawed.” Where’d that coming from now? Not the Twitter Files.
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"Speech is violence so now I get to kill you." It will take some time to remove this line of code.
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We must repudiate the idea that "speech can be violence" once and for all. @glukianoff and I wrote about the dangers of promoting this idea on college campuses back in 2017, in @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/BkFKx2d1Y6
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The shooting of Charlie Kirk is an atrocity that should shock and anger all of us, everywhere on the political spectrum. This sort of violence is wicked, immoral, and un-American.
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crazy times
Rutgers study reveals assassination culture. Among Americans identifying themselves as left-of-center: 48.6% say that murdering Elon Musk is justified. 55.2% say that murdering President Trump is justified. https://t.co/k5UORBLY0y
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A DC resident shared this photo she took at Union Station yesterday. Looks like a scene from The Lord of the Rings, but no, just another day of Trump's militarization of DC right now. #UnderSauronsEye
A DC resident shared this photo she took at Union Station yesterday. Looks like a scene from the Handmaid's Tale, but no, just another day of Trump's militarization of DC right now. #UnderHisEye
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"The day the paper was published should have been a moment of pride. Instead, it felt like a quiet erasure." #ScienceWorkingLife
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everyone's been asking me for the soundtrack so thanks to my son I finally have it for your enjoyment (this is the box turtle eating a worm...)
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