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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Really, he was writing about health, or organisms in relation to their environment - which defines disability. Which unavoidably has psychological and sociological implications, when we move onto psychiatry and sexology. These being the two most famous concerns of Foucalt; insanity and paraohilia.

Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Presenting a symptom, does not itself define subjective illness.

The impairment must be related to the measure of the individual in reference to itself, as much as it can tolerate changed states, without endangering its holistic function as a living thing.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

At face value it seems irrelevant to biology, to say that the deletriousness of a condition, may only be asessed by the patient. There are certainly problems with the statement. But its certainly relevant to, for example, conceptualising disability.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Canguilhem distinguished the merely non-normal from the truly abnormal, which involves the infraction of the average, in a way impairing its organic functioning. The latter is not merely statistical, but is often tinged by observer assumptions.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

He also pondered much, as a physicisn by training, the definition and of pathology, and its usual (but incorrect) opposition to normalcy. Themes in the thought of Foucalt. We may ask in biology, "Are there genuine sciences of normal and pathological?"

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Canguilhem viewed the function of organisms as a relation to their ambient milieu, this being his legacy to sociology and psychology.

Like Nietzsche he viewed living things, by their survival, as exceeding the sum of their parts, and therefore their very nature exceeds any chemistry or mechanics.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Is anything wrong with the Foucaltian approach? The history of human ideas? Things like psychiatry and sexology, despite the best efforts of sincere researchers in these fields, have scarcely been scientific. Foucalt's focus derives from the physician, Georges Canguilhem, who pondered disease.

Craig Fox 🌖🇨🇦 @neohempelian.bsky.social · Dec 6

Man Sawing Off Arm Meme:
IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
Me: HI, I HAVE A PHD IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE;
Other person: NEAT. I LOVE FOUCAULT.
Me: Sawing off arm

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

It might be true. Not all fictional works, nor fictional genres, are equally descriotive or verbose

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Dec 8

I have an entirely unsupported hypothesis that one reason so people dig huge amounts of description in epic fantasy is that they're part of the population that does not have a lot of mind visualization, so for them all that description is doing an immense amount of heavy lifting for their immersion.

Nickie Charles @nickiecharles.bsky.social · Dec 7

BlueSky people. What’s your level of mind visualization according to this scale? I’m only a 3 or 4 😕

Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Id the ancestor the same as the descendant?

When is the chicken, no longer the egg? (Or however you want to phrase it.)

Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Dec 16

"What makes rock doves special...is their hidden archive of genetic diversity & a historic record written in their DNA that may help scientists ...The wild doves also provide a reserve of genetic diversity that can help the birds ...adapt to changing conditions"🧪#philsci

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Craig Fox 🌖🇨🇦 @neohempelian.bsky.social · Dec 17

Analytic philosophers of science be like...
#philsci

Drake Meme:
Panel one, Drake cringing at "Transcendental Arguments."
Panel two, Drake loving "What must the world be like in order to be well approximated by theory x?"

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Dec 19

Interesting informed proposal for a psychology of science. People who study causal learning, concept acquisition, updating of beliefs are already doing some of this. But this is more specific, including the idea of studying wellbeing in science, which i like a lot (especially if it covers illbeing!)

Balazs Aczel @balazsaczel.bsky.social · Dec 18

You must have of history, philosophy, maybe sociology of science.
What about psychology of science?
Are the inner factors of scientists not an important area to study? I disagree and propose an agenda for psychology of science here: rdcu.be/dtSWj at
@natureportfolio.bsky.social

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Germán Bonilla-Rosso @germusthermophilus.bsky.social · Dec 14

✅ 1. It defines "strains" above 99.99% ANI.
Molecular biologists have traditionally used "strain" interchangeably with "colony" or "clone", and usually imply identical bacterial "individuals", often with completely identical genomes and implied identical phenotypes... 2/n

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Whatever one thinks of Musk, is he wrong to moderate what is, essentially, a website and app that he owns?

Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · Aug 16

The EU must radically put an end to the shameless behaviour of US tech giants that sacrifice ethical values, human rights and users' privacy in their quest to make huge profits. This article says it all about Musk; the European Union will punish him for these smear tactics.

Elon Musk personally ordered the Twitter suspension of activist, report claims

Twitter CEO has overseen effort to punish his critics while cozying up to far-right accounts

www.independent.co.uk

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Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social · Dec 19

Imagine a world in which we get what we deserve: a good death (I wrote the script for this BBC animation) www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos...

Should we be able to choose our own death? - BBC Ideas

This is a video that features philosopher Nigel Warburton's thoughts and opinions on what a future world, where we choose how we die, might look like.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Today I watched a crocodile, playing with his food

Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Sim Earth?

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

As a child I always insisted, on looking inside a book, and not judging the book by its cover

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Dec 16

Sometimes the little things make the biggest difference. I visited a school with a book vending machine. The principal said kids earn tokens for good grades, helping each other, and so on. They can then use a token to get a free book.

She said the kids love choosing their own books!

Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

How Neotropical in nature does the Geisetal-Messel fauna look these days? A new description of a second Geisetal Eoconstrictor species, has this European Eocene genus, the sister to Neotropical boas

academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...

Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Really a lot of traditional taxa used by the paleo-mammalogists are purely typological. Groups like 'cimolestids', 'palaeoryctids', and 'hyopsodontids' may approach members of other arbitrary categories. And the memberships of these taxa, might well compose polyphyletic assemblages.

Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

If you exclude the didelphodontines, which are really basal hyaenodonts (like Wyolestes) then the core palaeoryctids, are generalised eutherians. They might fall into the stem group, yet might be afrotherian, or laurasiatherian and something close to eulipotyphlans.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

On zoogeographical grounds, it seems as though Apternodontidae would be ideal ancestors for Solenodon. Yet the land mammals of the Caribbean are South American, and the Nesophontes + Solenodon LCA was presumably West Indian. So were apternodontids another convergent morph?

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Tooth morphology poorly distinguishes dilambdodont from zalambdodont forms. Both morphs are definitively present, in the well supported West Indian insectivore clade. And derive from a Potamogale-like 'protozalsmbdodont' morph.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

The UCEs have, unexpectedly, found talpids basal to a clade of West Indian 'insectivores', plus a subclade of soricids plus erinaceids.

Whereas I found morphological data to recover Cope's Dilambdodonta, or soricids and talpids + bats. Curiously the Van Valen diagram does not include basal bats.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

I do wonder wether eulipotyphlans really are monophyletic, to the exclusion of supposed non-eulipotyphlans, such as 'palaeoryctids'.

The sort of material usually fossilised and diagnosed to a taxon, can't readily distinguish Afro-Madagascan from Northern Hemisphere Holocene insectivores.

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Joanne Connor @jconnor.bsky.social · Dec 19

Not all these groupings are neccessarily natural, and not all of them are eutherian. Leptictids, zalambdalestids, and (at least) part of the endotherioids, are cases in point. So the bottom left represents the stem and basal placental stock. ('Cimolestans' are perhaps the laurasiathere mainline?

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