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Obesity & diet
I wouldn't normally share a positive story about the new diet drugs, because I've seen someone get obsessed with them who was at a perfectly acceptable weight *by majority standards* (surprise: every weight is in fact perfectly acceptable by *objective* standards, because every "weight-associated" health risk is its own danger that should be assessed *in individuals*). I think two almost-contradictory things:
1. In a society shuddering under the burden of metastasized fatmisia, there's a very real danger in promoting the new diet drugs because lots of people who really don't need them will be psychologically bullied into using them and suffer from the cost and/or side effects.
2. For many individuals under the assault of our society's fatmisia, "just ignore it" is not a sufficient response, and also for specific people for whom decreasing their weight can address *specific* health risks/conditions that they *want* to address that way, these drugs can be a useful tool.
I know @… to be a trustworthy & considerate person, so I think it's responsible to share this:
#Fat #Diet #Obesity

Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science
Ross H. McKenzie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08548 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08548

Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science
Many systems involve numerous interacting parts and the whole system can have properties that the individual parts do not. I take this novelty as the defining characteristic of an emergent property. Other characteristics associated with emergence discussed include universality, order, complexity, unpredictability, irreducibility, diversity, self-organisation, discontinuities, and singularities. Emergent phenomena are widespread across physics, biology, social sciences, and computing, and are …

The Israeli Sociological Society was suspended from cooperation w/ the International Sociological Association. #ISS #Sociology This sends “a problematic signal by isolating academic organizations under political pressure instead of protecting them.”
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Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons…

If you're advertising (academic) jobs via email/Slack/Zulip/etc and want broad circulation it's really helpful to also have a link to an associated web page to make it easier for folks to share these positions on socials, in other Slacks/Zulips, etc. It doesn't need to be an official job ad, just a page on your website/blog that includes the same information.

🦻 Gossip is good for romance, study finds
#gossip

Gossip is good for romance, study finds
"Spill the Tea, Honey: Gossiping Predicts Well-Being in Same- and Different-Gender Couples" is the name of a new study from UC Riverside psychology researchers that found gossip within couples is associated with greater happiness and better relationships. The paper is published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Es gibt keine Totalverweigerer!! Niemand nutzt das System aus! Ein signifikanter Anteil der Ausgaben fürs Bürgergeld ging an „Aufstocker:innen”, Menschen welche trotz Arbeit nicht genug zum Leben haben! Alle nutzen die existierenden Sozialsysteme so wie sie sollen.
Es gibt keine Studie die belegt das „härtere Strafen” Arbeitslosigkeit verringern, es stärkt nur psychische Probleme und drängt mehr Menschen in die Obdachlosigkeit.
Man merkt wo eine Billionen Euro für Aufrüstung und…

Le responsable de la formation d'assistant·es sociales qui dit le jour de la rentrée : "Si vous m'écrivez, utilisez ChatGPT pour clarifier votre propos et corriger les fautes d'orthographe".
Bordel !
#teamEduc #NoAI

Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons…

Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons…