Crickets and fireflies astoundingly coordinate their sounds & displays, wrens swiftly alternate their songs; pilot whales join in choruses and alternate songs depending on the contexts. How do all these species so impressively coordinate their communicative signals? We tried to find out for you :-)

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UCS just released a very nice and concise guide for how to stay safe in the public eye -- for scholars and researchers, but also for anyone else concerned about safety during autocratization: www.ucs.org/sites/de...

What is the PhD actually for, especially now that AI can do increasingly more of what we train scientists to do? compbiologist.substack.com/p/what-is-th... A response to @pracheeac.bsky.social's thought-provoking essay "Free the PhD".

Summerschool 13-17 July Multiscale Social Dynamics at MindLabs NL - Sign ups are open!

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

🎉 New Paper 🎉 Congrats to Jingwen Yang on her first published paper as part of the #tools4teams project. We conducted a systematic review showing the existing effects of biofeedback on various team states, processes, and performance.

🚨new preprint🚨 Paper on bursty communication dynamics in multidisciplinary health care teams with M. Janssens, S. C. P. van der Bruggen, and L. Beetroot that will be presented next Thursday (July 17) at the 2025 Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research Conference in Rotterdam.

🚨 New preprint + open pipeline 🚨 CVML-based behavioral observations: osf.io/preprints/ps... Co-led with @wimpouw.bsky.social, alongside @jamestrujillo.bsky.social, @babajideowoyele.bsky.social, @tjwiltshire.bsky.social, F. Hasselman, N. Siekiera, J. Raczaszek-Leonardi. 👀 Take a look & use it!

Papers are one-way conversations. Getting additional info from authors can be hard, so clear reporting from the outset is critical. In our new preprint, we (@annalschubert.bsky.social, Meike Steinhilber & @heeminkang.bsky.social) propose a set of psych reporting guidelines osf.io/preprints/ps...

Biofeedback in Team Settings: A Systematic Review of Applications and Outcomes: https://osf.io/awmb4

First post here on Bluesky. In a recent paper, we show that higher team synchronization of player position in the virtual environment (in certain movement dimensions) , negatively predicts performance in a professional e-sports competition (Dota 2) across consecutive years.