For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
we are low-sociability but highly receptive to instruction. like a doll.
June 16, 2025 at 2:56 AM
we are low-sociability but highly receptive to instruction. like a doll.
My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...
December 14, 2024 at 1:54 PM
My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...
Look more trust and sociability collapse
The battered Internal Revenue Service shed thousands of enforcement employees—and it's spurring a vibe shift across the tax landscape with more taxpayers and tax-shelter promoters appearing eager to cut corners or cheat.
🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/4tOk4qw
🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/4tOk4qw
April 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Look more trust and sociability collapse
New paper on sheep vocal expression of emotions & sociability with A. Villain. Using a genetic line selected for reaction to social separation, we found that vocal expression of sociability prevails over emotions. Thanks to A. Boissy for the collaboration and @carlsbergfondet.dk for funding!
Vocal encoding of heritable sociability prevails over emotions in sheep bleats
Abstract. Vocalizations of animals are good indicators of their emotions. Temperament is known to influence the regulation and expression of emotions. Howe
royalsocietypublishing.org
September 26, 2026 at 9:02 AM
New paper on sheep vocal expression of emotions & sociability with A. Villain. Using a genetic line selected for reaction to social separation, we found that vocal expression of sociability prevails over emotions. Thanks to A. Boissy for the collaboration and @carlsbergfondet.dk for funding!
The arc of human sociability is long, but it bends toward backbiting and the lynch mob
September 27, 2026 at 3:56 AM
The arc of human sociability is long, but it bends toward backbiting and the lynch mob
As it turns out, we're having a male sociability crisis, because the more they talk to each other they more they egg each other on with MGTOW and Tate-isms :P
Make Men Lonelier 2025
Make Men Lonelier 2025
May 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
As it turns out, we're having a male sociability crisis, because the more they talk to each other they more they egg each other on with MGTOW and Tate-isms :P
Make Men Lonelier 2025
Make Men Lonelier 2025
Man who's been fishing chats with his neighbor who spins. Unusual glimpse of male home-based labor & sociability from Quirijn Brekelenkam, 1663.
January 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Man who's been fishing chats with his neighbor who spins. Unusual glimpse of male home-based labor & sociability from Quirijn Brekelenkam, 1663.
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
Sociability & Political life
Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?
Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
AI allows the results of human sociability and collective pursuit of knowledge to be appropriated as private property. That’s the killer app.
February 5, 2026 at 2:37 PM
AI allows the results of human sociability and collective pursuit of knowledge to be appropriated as private property. That’s the killer app.
Man who's been fishing chats with neighbor who spins. Unusual glimpse of male home-based labor & sociability from Quirijn Brekelenkam, 1663.
January 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Man who's been fishing chats with neighbor who spins. Unusual glimpse of male home-based labor & sociability from Quirijn Brekelenkam, 1663.
The problem is that sociability, not to mention political and social influence *also* counterintuitively correlate with phone usage. It’s why it’s a collective action problem that we need govt policy to solve.
Because you're all on your phones 24/7. Even when you go to these places you're on your phones. Everyone reading this and incessantly on Insta/Twitter/Bsky/Facebook is part of the problem.
america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)
July 3, 2026 at 6:05 AM
The problem is that sociability, not to mention political and social influence *also* counterintuitively correlate with phone usage. It’s why it’s a collective action problem that we need govt policy to solve.
There is not any other website that has done more damage to peoples sociability in existence, im pretty sure religious extremists are more functional than these people
March 15, 2026 at 1:35 AM
There is not any other website that has done more damage to peoples sociability in existence, im pretty sure religious extremists are more functional than these people
new oc: Boren
the stoic knight maid raised and trained in combat for whole life, has minimum knowledge on sociability. she almost treats everything like battlefield but has strong will to guard her client/master.
#ocsky
the stoic knight maid raised and trained in combat for whole life, has minimum knowledge on sociability. she almost treats everything like battlefield but has strong will to guard her client/master.
#ocsky
January 21, 2026 at 10:14 AM
new oc: Boren
the stoic knight maid raised and trained in combat for whole life, has minimum knowledge on sociability. she almost treats everything like battlefield but has strong will to guard her client/master.
#ocsky
the stoic knight maid raised and trained in combat for whole life, has minimum knowledge on sociability. she almost treats everything like battlefield but has strong will to guard her client/master.
#ocsky
Combat Prowess, Physical Fitness, Sociability, Feeding, Urge Suppression and UNLEASH. All factors to consider in caring for and training your Wendei :>
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Combat Prowess, Physical Fitness, Sociability, Feeding, Urge Suppression and UNLEASH. All factors to consider in caring for and training your Wendei :>
What kind of sociability do we intend to pass on to future generations??!... ☮️💜
March 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
What kind of sociability do we intend to pass on to future generations??!... ☮️💜
I am going to get the high score in ‘sociability’ which is a normal thing to want.
April 26, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I am going to get the high score in ‘sociability’ which is a normal thing to want.
scopOphilic_micromessaging_1702 - scopOphilic presents its MicroMessaging series. (2010)
#scopOphilic #micromessaging #streetart #graffiti #brooklyn #nyc #photography #ArtistsOnBlueSky #PunksNotDead #IWantYouToStayIllegal #ALEC #WeAreLikeDiamonds #sociability #A.S.V.P. #DogsPeeHere
#scopOphilic #micromessaging #streetart #graffiti #brooklyn #nyc #photography #ArtistsOnBlueSky #PunksNotDead #IWantYouToStayIllegal #ALEC #WeAreLikeDiamonds #sociability #A.S.V.P. #DogsPeeHere
May 27, 2026 at 7:41 PM
scopOphilic_micromessaging_1702 - scopOphilic presents its MicroMessaging series. (2010)
#scopOphilic #micromessaging #streetart #graffiti #brooklyn #nyc #photography #ArtistsOnBlueSky #PunksNotDead #IWantYouToStayIllegal #ALEC #WeAreLikeDiamonds #sociability #A.S.V.P. #DogsPeeHere
#scopOphilic #micromessaging #streetart #graffiti #brooklyn #nyc #photography #ArtistsOnBlueSky #PunksNotDead #IWantYouToStayIllegal #ALEC #WeAreLikeDiamonds #sociability #A.S.V.P. #DogsPeeHere
Our new paper shows how arena size can bias sociability estimates in sticklebacks: bigger tanks = lower sociability, even after adjusting for tank size. Repeatability highest at intermediate size. #methodsmatter! Great work from @mgmci13.bsky.social! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Our new paper shows how arena size can bias sociability estimates in sticklebacks: bigger tanks = lower sociability, even after adjusting for tank size. Repeatability highest at intermediate size. #methodsmatter! Great work from @mgmci13.bsky.social! Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
It seems clear to me that the “weird” line, particularly as delivered by the Harris campaign & surrogates, some of whom are WOC or LGBTQIA+, is powerful in part because its targets are straight white men who for so have symbolized default-normal; “weird” highlights how they break w/basic sociability
July 29, 2024 at 6:08 PM
It seems clear to me that the “weird” line, particularly as delivered by the Harris campaign & surrogates, some of whom are WOC or LGBTQIA+, is powerful in part because its targets are straight white men who for so have symbolized default-normal; “weird” highlights how they break w/basic sociability
The interesting Q for me is why haven't things returned. If most people want more sociability and there are no restrictions on it what it preventing it happening. Money (as Luke says) might be part of it but that doesn't stop people eating their lunch together.
I’ve written for @thespectator1828.bsky.social about people’s stories in focus groups of how they’ve turn inward and become less social since the pandemic and the risk it leaves us lonelier, more isolated less cohesive and less open to new experiences. www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...
April 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The interesting Q for me is why haven't things returned. If most people want more sociability and there are no restrictions on it what it preventing it happening. Money (as Luke says) might be part of it but that doesn't stop people eating their lunch together.
If you want to argue that LAN parties were the pinnacle of gaming sociability that's fine but Haidt is talking about the earlier era
Haidt is trying to argue that solo consoles were more sociable than multiplayer games because *sometimes* you'd hang with your buddies and pass around the controllers, like, yeah, that was Friday night or Saturday afternoon, and how was everybody playing their Ataris every other day of the week?
It finally happened.
I've gotten old enough that an emeritus pundit like Jonathan Haidt (60 years old) can complain about kids today not playing video games in the *healthy way that he did in his youth*.
The generational moral panic cycle is truly incredible.
maxread.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...
I've gotten old enough that an emeritus pundit like Jonathan Haidt (60 years old) can complain about kids today not playing video games in the *healthy way that he did in his youth*.
The generational moral panic cycle is truly incredible.
maxread.substack.com/p/why-do-we-...
April 13, 2024 at 4:19 PM
If you want to argue that LAN parties were the pinnacle of gaming sociability that's fine but Haidt is talking about the earlier era
I guess I should probably mention that this is a joke, and I'm well aware that socialism and sociability aren't the same thing.
March 13, 2026 at 8:09 AM
I guess I should probably mention that this is a joke, and I'm well aware that socialism and sociability aren't the same thing.
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
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#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
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May 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan
Find the paper here (open-access):
academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
The internet and the decay of small-d democratic sociability is a theme l've talked about for a while now. Continuing the thread with some examples.
bsky.app/profile/asel...
bsky.app/profile/asel...
I would like to encourage everyone to opt out of the digital Synanon game www.liberalcurrents.com/the-parasoci...
The Parasocial Style in American Politics
Our screens are two-way but we can easily forget that the people on the other end exist as more than characters for our enjoyment.
www.liberalcurrents.com
July 29, 2026 at 11:48 PM
The internet and the decay of small-d democratic sociability is a theme l've talked about for a while now. Continuing the thread with some examples.
bsky.app/profile/asel...
bsky.app/profile/asel...