The line-up for 2025's Channel 4 South Asian Film Season has just been announced. Highlights include Guru Dutt's MR AND MRS '55 (1955) and JOYLAND (Saim Sadiq, 2022). Nasreen Munni Kabir has been programming the season since the 80s. It's a remarkable achievement www.channel4.com/4viewers/blo...

We are thrilled to announce that the data gathered during the Bisle Frog Watch from 2012 till 2025 has been published on @gbif.org The Global Biodiversity Information Facility! Thanks to @vijaybarve.bsky.social for making this happen & Bharata for organising it all. See www.gbif.org/dataset/db53...

Selection Shapes Animal Minds: More completely free videos of talks from our Royal Society Discussion meeting last year. Today's highlighted talk: Dr Zegni Triki (Neuchatel) @zegnitriki.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social youtu.be/WQLjnfhSyD4?...

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Oh this is BAD. The new TOC from academia dot edu. You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…

The city’s longest-running open mic. Free for both audience and performers. I’m hosting tomorrow. Registration starts on the spot at around 6:45: show up and put your name on the board. The first 20 people are guaranteed a slot. Event starts 7:00 p.m. . Come! Bring friends. Tell others. #BomSky

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

This play is so brilliant and moving! Go see it if you can!

🚨New paper out by Harrap et al. in @jexpbiol.bsky.social " #Bumblebees learn to use antennal and tarsal taste to predict the presence of nectar rewards in flowers" ↘️ journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/... ↙️ #gustation #insects #cognition

Two weeks are left to apply for a 5 year Postdoc position in #neuroscience, #behavior, #neuroethology in collaboration with @puh23.bsky.social from Flinders University. 🇦🇺🇩🇪🐝 👀

I'll wait until it happens but good!

It is me!

🚨 35 hours to help trapped siblings and their mom 🚨 I'm posting hourly for our beloved @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social who needs to get his younger siblings and mom out of the line of fire. This isn't an exaggeration. Oh, if only. Anything helps—whether $1, $10, or $100. 758/3000 by Wednesday

Whether you're new to playwriting or have a few drafts tucked away, our FREE 10 Wk Live Playwriting Course is designed to guide, inspire and support you in discovering your voice and shaping your stories for live performance. Find out more & apply by Fri 26 Sep 2025 at www.live.org.uk/td/playwriting

Our new magazine @equatormag.bsky.social is officially out in the world. Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event: www.equator.org.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

We are delighted that our Winter Meeting 2025 in Leuven 🇧🇪 is approaching! Abstract submissions now open: www.iussi-nweurope.org/meetings Date: December 18-19 Abstract deadline: October 15 Host: Laboratory of Socioecology and Social Evolution at KU Leuven Plenary: Ido Pen & @rmash.bsky.social

No I did not want to know what a groyper was just like I was happy not knowing about trads and raitas. Sigh

Reminder that today (Sept 12) is the (extended) deadline for submitting abstracts to #ASABWinter2025 ! 🚨 Submit here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/ Also don’t forget the deadline for travel grants for the winter meeting is coming up on October 1 🚂

Balanced and considered account of scientific racism in the evolutionary sciences and what academics can do to counter it:

A thread of Inuit art that you didn't know you needed, starting with one of my favourites 🧵

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

My story "DISRUPTION" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, out from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social on December 2nd. Thanks to Sareena Kamath at Saga! preorder!

A solid analysis of UK immigration policy -which even (gasp) talks about the importance of respect for immigrants.

We want robust, enormous research that is SUCH good research, you already know how important and right and insightful it is before you even start it. We want research so predeterminedly world-changing that there is hardly any point actually doing the research at all.

I wrote my upcoming verse novel Hekate inspired by ancient Greek poet and playwright Euripides’ structure. I loved writing this book and was bereft when I finished it. It’s one of those stories that lingers - an intimating goddess of necromancy telling us her origins.

Spring Pond (2022) Art Print: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ryot...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

In the still of the night

New from @empirepoduk.bsky.social LORD OF THE DANCE: THE RISE OF THE CHOLA EMPIRE- MEDIEVAL INDIA'S GAME OF THRONES With Anirudh @akanisetti.bsky.social linktr.ee/empirepoduk

I'm delighted to share that, together with @crowbrain.bsky.social our paper on time estimation in crows is now published in @natcomms.nature.com We found that crows not only keep track of time, but individual neurons prefer different time durations 🐦⏱️🧠 Check it out: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm just glad somebody in the ruling party is saying this!

But sure, tell me again about liberal "cancel culture" and how it's bad... not that pointing out hypocrisy does anything at all any more (did it ever?).

Wow. And this is the kind of study that will likely lose funding in our current moment. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

New paper (first work from Bristol!) 'Sulfoxaflor impairs bumblebee memory across moderate and extreme temperatures' @bristolbiosci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do you have a passion for communication AND animal behavior? Well then we have the job for you! Join our Communications Committee and help drive the sci comm of our society! Help us post on IG, publish a podcast, write to our reps and newspapers! email: [email protected]

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...

One share can change the direction of our story.🧡 One donation can turn struggle into hope and keep my family fed. gofund.me/6f2ca285

Would thoroughly recommend The Sentence. Enjoyed the afterword discussing the inspirations - so I'm looking forward to listening to this podcast. Also there's a sequel? Yay! 🥳

Little baby learning English so she can talk to you

I have a story in this book! If you want to read an ecological horror story with footnotes (!) and sentient plants, please back this incredible project. 👁️ 🌿 But also, back it anyway, because @blaft.bsky.social consistently puts out some of the best, most compelling books I've read anywhere 🖤

Yep, insects only get weirder the more you find out about them! What a killer opening to the paper: "Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring. Here, we report a shift from this norm"

Happy publication day to the Two Roberts! Welcome back to the world, which loved you then almost forgot you and is now turning towards you again. My novel is a celebration of them and their bravery and brilliance, as artists, lovers, outsiders. 🖼️ 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🧑‍🎨 🧑‍🎨 📕 buythebook.online/the-two-robe...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Our findings on bees' photoreceptors are now officially published in Biology Letters of the Royal Society Publishing!! Thanks again for a productive collaboration @jjfosterlab.bsky.social and @gregoeur.bsky.social !! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...