- defended my master's thesis👊 - graduated with honours🎓 - officially started my PhD at the Kea Lab @vetmeduni, researching innovation in kea🦜 - moved into the ugliest flat in Vienna (let's go Favoriten!) with the most bizarre design choices (rainbow kitchen🌈) apparently all in one week??

Ze Frank is the best, and "the Goffin's cockatoos make the New Caledonian crows look like Old Caledonian crows" (this it's an actual comment on YouTube!) Don't miss this video about our work at the Goffin Lab (and the Tanimbar Lab!) "I've seen a cockatoo. I've seen a cockatoo 🤘"

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

My first publication is out! doi.org/10.4467/2544... Even though my research has since moved beyond linguistics, I'm still very proud of this work. The full text is only available in Polish, but if you're curious, I'm happy to tell you more about it.

Birds as pride flags, meticulously researched by my wonderful student Griffin ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Rainbow flag: Eastern Rosella 📷 David Irving, eBird