Mastodawn

The big news in the Hicks-Juavinett household is that Ashley just started a newsletter 🥰 🥰 🥰

of note that choosing ghost was not a small choice, because every SINGLE popular science author in her network insisted she HAD to be on substack, so she is starting with a serious penalty in not benefitting from her large existing network all on substack who would have promoted this newsletter across their many science reader audiences. I hope we can get it to flourish 🫶

https://graymatter.ghost.io/the-limitations-of-neuroscience/

My first PubMed search and the limitations of neuroscientific explanations

In the case of something as wonderfully complex as who we love, it’s unlikely we’ll find it staring back at us on an MRI, a genome sequence, or our own hands.

Gray Matter

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Dan Sugalski 1d ago

@grimalkina Props to Ashley for resisting the call of substack -- I know it's hard but it's so problematic that I'm glad she opted out.

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Cat Hicks 1d ago

@wordshaper it's really interesting how specific the conversation about the problematic stuff -- not a single person across the science writer groups she's part of seems to have heard of any of it. Substack has really established market dominance

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Dan Sugalski

@grimalkina It's impressive how much they managed both the dominance and the management of their platforming the vile -- not even like Cloudflare's casual acceptance of doing that, but keeping it so most folks apparently don't even know it's a thing they do.