Sean Carroll
@seanmcarroll
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Physics, philosophy, complexity. @JohnsHopkins & @SFIscience. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @JenLucPiquant. Increasingly at Bluesky rather than here.
Joined February 2009
Most of my social-media activity is elsewhere, but I've been hanging around X to advertise the podcast and occasionally make a political point. But it's become too unpleasant, I have better ways to spend my time. And ultimately I do agree with this sentiment.
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Next Thursday 5/29, 7:00pm at Johns Hopkins: Alison Gopnik @AlisonGopnik gives the Distinguished Lecture in Natural Philosophy on "The Evolution of Human Intelligences: Exploit, Explore, Empower." Open to all!.
naturalphilosophyhopkins.org
Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley 7:00pm, Glass Pavilion, Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus The Evolution of Human Intelligences: Exploit, Explore, Empower A common model of AI suggests that there is a single...
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RT @TheAtlantic: American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on….
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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RT @bechamilton: It is important to be very clear. The people you see in this photo have not had any due process whatsoever between being u….
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This is not business as usual; it's a time of existential threat to democracy, science, and our way of life. Have to start acting that way.
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The self-proclaimed free-speech warriors were always running a con. Amazing how many people fell for it.
The trump administration has banned the use of hundreds of words. These include "woman," "sex," "LGBT," and "antiracism" - NYT. The list of 200 undesirable words was published by the New York Times. They included: "woman," "man," "antiracism," "discrimination," "feminism,"
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What a pointless betrayal of some of our brightest young scholars.
we just cut off the funds of Fulbright scholars overseas? .
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There are going to be Stand Up for Science events this Friday in DC and around the country. Gotta do what we can to be heard.
Scientists are now organizing events, called Stand Up for Science, on 7 March in Washington, D.C., and state capitals. @NewsfromScience.
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Anyone with the slightest interest should check out Kevin's book, Cocktail Theory: A Sensory Approach to Transcendent Cocktails.
sfumatofragrances.com
For details about Kevin's talk at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans July 21-25 Dr. Kevin Peterson, co-founder of Sfumato, explores cocktails from the perspectives of an engineer, a perfumer, and a...
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Mindscape 307 | Kevin Peterson on the Theory of Cocktails. (The principles of balance and substitution apply more widely!) #MindscapePodcast.
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Helen's recent book (with slightly different titles in US & UK) is The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works.
amazon.com
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Lily's 2018 book is relevant here: Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.
amazon.com
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown...
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Mindscape 305 | Lilliana Mason on Polarization and Political Psychology. Possibly of some contemporary relevance. #MindscapePodcast.
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Mindscape Bonus Episode | Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter. I try to lay things out in a way that would be informative to partisans on both sides of the spectrum (with my own views perfectly evident). #MindscapePodcast.
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