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15.01.2026 03:47
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Absolutely devastating account of the CSU's $17 million capitulation to ChatGPT, from a fellow faculty member watching it happen www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Thrilled that @shreyadimri.bsky.social & I will be part of #LoveMethods26!
We'll present on "How to avoid common problems in #SystematicReviews & #MetaAnalyses"
📅 Jan 19–23, 2026 | FREE | All online
Everyone's invited to join the entire week of workshops!
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A while ago @caritalindstedt.bsky.social asked me “would you puke to save the group?” Well not me personally, there's real science about the evolution of cooperation here. With the help of talented student @abhay-gupta.bsky.social, we now have answers! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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@belette-runner.bsky.social and @fredericddb.bsky.social built a game to study predator-prey interactions. Find out more here 👇
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I know I'm spamming you all with the world's largest flower this week but look at THIS! A rare glimpse inside Rafflesia arnoldi!
Fringe-lipped bat mid-flight, eavesdropping on the calls of male túngara frogs, which it uses to find its prey. Photo by Christian Ziegler.
🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨
Variation in sexual signals and defensive strategies elicits receiver-dependent shifts in attractiveness
*Open Access!* in @jexpbiol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
w/ Dineilys Aparicio, Hoover Pantoja-Sánchez, Rachel Page, & @xebernal.bsky.social
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Photo by Christian Ziegler
Publication alert! ✨ Our recent paper in Ecology & Evolution addresses how to make conferences more inclusive. We collected observational and experimental data during Q&A sessions at the Behaviour 2023 congress hosted by Bielefeld University, and circulated a survey among conference attendees [1/4]
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Here are some results:
Springer: 4080
Wiley: 3301
Elsevier: "over 2,900"
Wolters Kluwer (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins): "over 300"
Taylor & Francis: 2599 (including business & other academic)
OUP: 571 (including a few law, social science, and arts journals)
Cambridge UP: 51 (mainly non-science)./2
OK, so having established that Springer has over 4000 scientific journals (see other post), of which 215 are Nature family journals, I wondered about other "mainstream" publishers. 1
@financialtimes.com
Suggestion box: can we extend pro-bono membership in our scientific societies to folks who have lost their government or academic positions recently?
@sse-evolution.bsky.social
@asn-amnat.bsky.social
@animbehsociety.bsky.social
To be clear: The virtual event is free for anyone in a low or middle income country.
It's also rather inexpensive even if you're not. ($10/$20/$30 for student/postdoc/professional members of the societies; +$10 if a non member)
😍 Thank you, Maja, for the wonderful summary of our research. I would like to add that this is not all—another batch of crazy bird scarecrows will be coming soon. Stay tuned 🤩🪶🦅🧪
@ckecz.bsky.social
#BirdCognition #Ornithology
More shots fired in the #causalInference #ecology literature! 🌍
Identical twins, but only one has multiple sclerosis (MS): A new study of 81 twin pairs helped to identify gut bacteria that trigger the disease.
Find out more: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2025-05...
Scientific publication: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Art by @somedonkey.bsky.social 🧪
$500 million is… less than 1.25% of the NIH’s 2024 budget.
When I say there is no capacity to absorb the shock, I mean it.
I’m a bit late, but new paper out led by Thomas Aubier on the evolution of altruism by the greenbeard effect! (1/6) academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!
Google Calendar has wiped out Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hispanic Heritage, Indigenous People Month .. from its global default settings.
“the growing number of cultural events was not ‘sustainable’” - Google spokesperson
Fuck GOOGLE EVERY DAY!
Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT
Exciting News! 🎉 Behaviour 2025 symposia are finalized! 🌍🐾
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Just donated to the AP
Thank you!
I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.
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