This reads exactly like an ODB lyric

Esther before Ahasuerus, by Paolo Veronese, 1585-88, 📸 by Nell Redmond

I had fun chatting with @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social about this cool new paper by my @chriskrupenye.bsky.social 👇

me and the peer reviewer i suggested

Good primer here. No doubt Foushee is a dedicated public servant, but when I call her office and ask, amidst an escalating crisis of democracy, what Foushee is doing *differently* now from what she did during Biden, they offer nothing, and in fact get extremely defensive.

This incredibly cool new research shows that the first really big large organism on land was not a giant fungus, as many gave hypothesized. It was so chemically different from fungi that the authors propose "this enigmatic organism is best assigned to an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage."

You just never know these days

We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

Am I the only guy whose quail proposal *wasn‘t* funded??? 😩😩

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's primary season, y'all. When our politicians fail us, it's time to fire them and find new ones. That's why Carolina Forward is very proud to announce our endorsements in the 2026 primary election for the North Carolina General Assembly.

My brother wrote a beautiful reflection on my dad‘s life playing, watching, coaching, and living basketball in the Triangle

at the cork board stringing red yarn between one pin labeled “TED speakers” and another labeled “everything wrong today”

Endless assumptions of good faith for the powerful, endless skepticism for those who challenge power

Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover! We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.

me every single day

a great weird song youtu.be/jFzHoWCFAJg

🚨 New paper! 🚨 🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide. 🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction. 🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs? 🐒 Spoiler: Nope! Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Rather than seeing this as a political project, I would suggest it's better to see this as a reflection of an economy increasingly centered around the extremely niche emotional needs of people with billions of dollars to spare...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

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the Dems spent all of biden’s presidency triangulating on immigration and look where it got them. but if you write for the Atlantic you can just write the same “dems need to triangulate” article every week, no problem!

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

arrested for illegal use of the nba jam big head code

I reviewed Sam Tanenhaus' biography of William F. Buckley for The New York Review of Books. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

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Banger 👇👇👇

A nice recent article on why you should abandon hazard ratios. #statssky #episky

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study: More socially integrated female #chimps have better offspring survival. Mothers' relationships with females mattered more than relationships with males. By @josephfeldblum.bsky.social & others, from long-term Gombe data. #animalbehavior #parenting #primates 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112863

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality: paper by @josephfeldblum.bsky.social et al #chimpanzees #primates #primatology #anthropology 🧪

incredible Brian Wilson self-edit here:

New 🧪 preprint from me and many great Gombe colleagues: Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cool study!! Doesn’t bode well for us loner moms 😅 jk

New 🧪 preprint from me and many great Gombe colleagues: Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Everytime I this video of surface rupture/offset from the recent Myanmar #earthquake it’s 🤯 and now a peek athe rupture up close from thr otber side if the fence - so cool! 🧪⚒️ Link to original video: youtu.be/77ubC4bcgRM

“The researchers found themselves led to non-bee targets four times—three times to poisonous snakes and the fourth to a dead primate known as a galago” phys.org/news/2025-05...

Join us in the evolution tri-societies Week of Action for NSF! Call/write congress, engage with colleagues, friends and family about the importance of NSF funding! Scan the QR code on the attached image for instructions and scripts. We must make noise! Pls RT!!!! #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF

I am so tired of the idea that Universities are debate clubs. Universities are learned communities dedicated to using rigorous standards of evidence and expression. They gain nothing by bringing those who lack such dedication in for “debate.”

One of those rare books where starting to read it feels like getting shot out of a cannon

Trump to the American people: