Tim C. Smith

chemsmith.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 21:35

🧪 #chemsky #chemchat

BOO-Petrified Skeleton

mu-peter.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 21:35

💀 Have a good weekend! 🎃 🦇 On this, and every #Halloween... Remember that science saves lives.🧪 🕸️Have fun, play safe.

Greg Priest

gregpriest.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 21:33

His point in that passage was exactly that Malthus was correct. The reason that there are not elephants everywhere is that there is a struggle for existence. Absent the Malthusian checks on population, there would be elephants everywhere.

Justin (楊溢)

nitsuji.xyz

30 Ekim 2026 10:28

Done my teaching for the term! As I’m not paid to do any teaching (I do it for love of the game as my students say), I find it very sweet that my students asked me to teach more content. I made epidemiology “less unbearable” apparently…I’ll take that as a win, I guess?

Greg Priest

gregpriest.bsky.social

30 Ekim 2026 10:22

Darwin was pretty weak at maths, though he loved geometric proofs (ala Euclid) and had a solid intuitive grasp of probability and statistics but with none of the formal armature. He thought Malthus was essentially right though. Called his theory “the doctrine of Malthus”applied to plants and animals