Katie Jgln
@katiejgln.bsky.social
Social scientist & writer.
read my work: thenoosphere.substack.com
read my work: thenoosphere.substack.com
The European Parliament voting to support an EU fund that expands access to abortion, allowing women from countries where it’s restricted or banned to obtain care in another member state, free of charge, has to be some of the best news of the year.
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The European Parliament voting to support an EU fund that expands access to abortion, allowing women from countries where it’s restricted or banned to obtain care in another member state, free of charge, has to be some of the best news of the year.
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@katiejgln.bsky.social substack about women's skepticism re AI is great, comparing women's adoption rates of AI to adoption rates of similar tech and citing all my favorite sources about the ways AI tools systematically reinforce bias.
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There's a Reason Women Aren't Swooning Over AI Like Men Are
Or rather, a great many reasons
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December 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
@katiejgln.bsky.social substack about women's skepticism re AI is great, comparing women's adoption rates of AI to adoption rates of similar tech and citing all my favorite sources about the ways AI tools systematically reinforce bias.
open.substack.com/pub/thenoosp...
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Reposted by Katie Jgln
Over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists had been granted access to the recent UN climate summit, COP30, significantly outnumbering almost every single country’s delegation, except the host, Brazil. Why do we keep allowing massive corporations to keep hijacking the climate agenda, over and over again?
Corporations Want to Watch Our World Burn
How the climate agenda keeps being hijacked, over and over again
thenoosphere.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Over 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists had been granted access to the recent UN climate summit, COP30, significantly outnumbering almost every single country’s delegation, except the host, Brazil. Why do we keep allowing massive corporations to keep hijacking the climate agenda, over and over again?
When humans interact with AI labelled as female, they’re more likely to exploit it than when the same system is labelled male, a recent study (Bazazi et al. 2025) finds.
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
When humans interact with AI labelled as female, they’re more likely to exploit it than when the same system is labelled male, a recent study (Bazazi et al. 2025) finds.
The 'man the protector' myth has really only ever meant one thing: men in power protecting other men in power from the consequences of their actions. The Epstein scandal is a clear illustration of that dynamic, too.
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The 'man the protector' myth has really only ever meant one thing: men in power protecting other men in power from the consequences of their actions. The Epstein scandal is a clear illustration of that dynamic, too.
Someone should run a study to find out how many people understand how much a billion (one thousand million) and a trillion (one million million) are, and then make the participants complete some exercises estimating how many lifetimes a person could comfortably live on each of these figures.
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Someone should run a study to find out how many people understand how much a billion (one thousand million) and a trillion (one million million) are, and then make the participants complete some exercises estimating how many lifetimes a person could comfortably live on each of these figures.
Erysichthon, mythical king of Thessaly, once ordered his men to cut down trees sacred to Ceres so he could expand his palace and host larger feasts. His hunger for more eventually led him to devour everything around him and himself.
America has its own Erysichthon now. And he's in the White House.
America has its own Erysichthon now. And he's in the White House.
November 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Erysichthon, mythical king of Thessaly, once ordered his men to cut down trees sacred to Ceres so he could expand his palace and host larger feasts. His hunger for more eventually led him to devour everything around him and himself.
America has its own Erysichthon now. And he's in the White House.
America has its own Erysichthon now. And he's in the White House.
I fear the biggest ‘legacies’ of our era will be plastic waste and chicken bones and AI slop and more plastic waste.
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I fear the biggest ‘legacies’ of our era will be plastic waste and chicken bones and AI slop and more plastic waste.
I still sometimes find it hard to believe that we live in a world run by assholes and idiots and clowns because they managed to convince so many people that the fact that our world seems to be run by assholes and idiots and clowns is not their fault, but those with the least power and money.
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I still sometimes find it hard to believe that we live in a world run by assholes and idiots and clowns because they managed to convince so many people that the fact that our world seems to be run by assholes and idiots and clowns is not their fault, but those with the least power and money.
It wasn’t brute strength or ruthless competition that helped our ancestors survive, even in the most unforgiving conditions. It was caring for one another and sticking together.
How Caring Made Us Human
It’s one of our oldest and most crucial survival strategies
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October 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It wasn’t brute strength or ruthless competition that helped our ancestors survive, even in the most unforgiving conditions. It was caring for one another and sticking together.
‘Fascism hates women just as much as it needs them. And it needs most of them on their knees, scrubbing both factory floors and their own kitchens, and working day and night to birth and feed and raise the next generation so that those in power can spend very little while accumulating a lot .’
Why Fascism Can’t Survive Without the Women It Hates
Systems of oppression often turn their targets into their lifeline
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October 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
‘Fascism hates women just as much as it needs them. And it needs most of them on their knees, scrubbing both factory floors and their own kitchens, and working day and night to birth and feed and raise the next generation so that those in power can spend very little while accumulating a lot .’
So far there are already more men named John than women among this year’s Nobel Prize winners. Considering there was only one female winner last year, I’d say the odds of breaking that pattern are, well, not great.
October 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So far there are already more men named John than women among this year’s Nobel Prize winners. Considering there was only one female winner last year, I’d say the odds of breaking that pattern are, well, not great.
The growing gender gap among young people is political, yes, but it’s also cultural, personal, and rooted in struggles over power. Young women want to have power over their own lives, while some young men still equate power with dominance over others.
What the Gender Gap Among Young People Is Actually About
It goes deeper than just politics
thenoosphere.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The growing gender gap among young people is political, yes, but it’s also cultural, personal, and rooted in struggles over power. Young women want to have power over their own lives, while some young men still equate power with dominance over others.
Jane Goodall was a pioneer, a legend, and a remarkable human being. What a loss. But I'm sure her legacy will endure for generations — including this gem of a quote: 'In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals.'
October 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Jane Goodall was a pioneer, a legend, and a remarkable human being. What a loss. But I'm sure her legacy will endure for generations — including this gem of a quote: 'In many ways the performances of Donald Trump remind me of male chimpanzees and their dominance rituals.'
'Far too many of us today are so enamoured by the rhetoric about "freedom", we don’t realise that unlimited freedom for some actually means very little freedom for the rest of us.'
Extreme Wealth Inequality Is a Choice, Not Our Destiny
But we might be running out of time to change it
thenoosphere.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
'Far too many of us today are so enamoured by the rhetoric about "freedom", we don’t realise that unlimited freedom for some actually means very little freedom for the rest of us.'
A massive new study of nearly 50,000 homes from 1,000 archaeological sites spanning 10,000 years reveals that wealth inequality was neither universal nor an inevitable consequence of population growth or progress.
Extreme Wealth Inequality Is a Choice, Not Our Destiny
But we might be running out of time to change it
thenoosphere.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A massive new study of nearly 50,000 homes from 1,000 archaeological sites spanning 10,000 years reveals that wealth inequality was neither universal nor an inevitable consequence of population growth or progress.
I can’t help but feel that if we didn’t have to keep wasting energy arguing over things that should be common sense by now, we’d probably already be commuting on jetpacks powered by food waste or something.
September 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I can’t help but feel that if we didn’t have to keep wasting energy arguing over things that should be common sense by now, we’d probably already be commuting on jetpacks powered by food waste or something.
Drowning people in constant, enraging noise is the whole point. You never get to step back and reflect and see the bigger picture because you're pulled too far under it all.
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Drowning people in constant, enraging noise is the whole point. You never get to step back and reflect and see the bigger picture because you're pulled too far under it all.
This idea that if you're ‘unproblematic' then you'll 'age well,' so often thrown at public figures (especially female, because, of course), is just a reheated version of the old belief that beauty equals virtue. And just as it was rubbish then, it's rubbish now.
September 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This idea that if you're ‘unproblematic' then you'll 'age well,' so often thrown at public figures (especially female, because, of course), is just a reheated version of the old belief that beauty equals virtue. And just as it was rubbish then, it's rubbish now.
A study of pre-industrial Swiss parish registers (Spa et al., 2025) finds that having older brothers reduced girls' chances of survival, while having older sisters had a positive effect on both girls and boys.
September 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
A study of pre-industrial Swiss parish registers (Spa et al., 2025) finds that having older brothers reduced girls' chances of survival, while having older sisters had a positive effect on both girls and boys.
A recent survey once again claimed that marriage makes people — this time, women — much happier than their unmarried counterparts. But research tells a far less flattering story. Marriage’s impact on happiness is inconsistent, short-lived, and barely distinguishable from cohabitation.
September 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
A recent survey once again claimed that marriage makes people — this time, women — much happier than their unmarried counterparts. But research tells a far less flattering story. Marriage’s impact on happiness is inconsistent, short-lived, and barely distinguishable from cohabitation.
Knitting is a technology, a science, and an art all at once. The same can be said for weaving, quilting, pottery, cooking, and countless other practices.
September 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Knitting is a technology, a science, and an art all at once. The same can be said for weaving, quilting, pottery, cooking, and countless other practices.
It’s predicted that women will soon control 38% of financial wealth in the US, 47% in Europe, and 39% globally, growing at about 8–10% per year. This surge is driven by ’the great wealth transfer’—a massive shift of assets, mostly from men to their surviving female spouses.
How Women’s Growing Wealth Could Change the World
And how it might not
thenoosphere.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It’s predicted that women will soon control 38% of financial wealth in the US, 47% in Europe, and 39% globally, growing at about 8–10% per year. This surge is driven by ’the great wealth transfer’—a massive shift of assets, mostly from men to their surviving female spouses.
One of the key reasons people in high-income countries often forget how deeply interconnected we all are—with each other, the planet, every living thing—is because modern convenience keeps us largely insulated from reality.
September 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
One of the key reasons people in high-income countries often forget how deeply interconnected we all are—with each other, the planet, every living thing—is because modern convenience keeps us largely insulated from reality.