The indigenous Mollo women of West Timor use their looms to both spiritually and literally block mining companies in environmental protests to protect their natural surroundings. During protests, hundreds of women reportedly occupied mining sites for months on end More […] [Original post on c.im]

Tl;dr = No. www.science.org/content/blog...

'The Desperation of Causal Inference in Ecology' "What’s the solution? If you ask me, be less gaga over any statistical method and teach everyone basic biological models, simulate data from it and then fit their statistical model to it." […]

#academic #job Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science at London School of Economics https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5265/0/457122/15539/assistant-professor-in-computational-social-science for more details, see:

Who’s got the power? Studies of male and female primates show it’s not simple https://theconversation.com/whos-got-the-power-studies-of-male-and-female-primates-show-its-not-simple-263292

I'm really pleased that one of the projects I've been working on over the last year is now public: https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/christian.perfect/accessibility-checklist-for-events/index.html I and two colleagues at Newcastle, Elaine Lopez and Jennifer Deane, have put together a set of […]

"How does information infrastructure shape long-term cultural evolution?" for the game of Go, "the influence of AI has produced only a modest, short-lived disruption in the distribution of opening moves"

🇪🇺When Germany's leading network of support centers for victims of violence warns against #chatcontrol, governments should listen. 📢 Their verdict: It fails to protect children but endangers the confidential counseling that victims rely on! […]

The Earth’s protective ozone layer is healing and the ozone hole in 2024 was smaller than in recent years „This achievement reminds us that when nations heed the warnings of science, progress is possible“ […]

Me talking about democracy as the clearest path to legitimate governance, in a bar in Berlin https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7373359457394847744/ cc @20percentberlin #berlin

"Overall, the message from this survey is positive– #evolutionary #biologists are readily employable outside of #academia, generally well-prepared for those jobs, and report high levels of satisfaction in their non-academic #careers" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1

Skill knowledge is shared directionally with few individuals, while information of immediate use is shared widely and reciprocally

"careers in academia are often unpredictable and challenging. This makes it all the more important to build networks that allow for shared success, mutual learning, and collective support"

The majority of animals do show various forms of hierarchy - but is the concept of ‚alpha‘ relevant or even real? https://www.livescience.com/animals/are-alpha-males-real

Includes a set of reflective questions aimed at minimising plausible biases in research, which looks useful for all researchers, not just biologists onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Good morning from Chicago! We will start Day 3 (last day) of the 10th International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication. @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social peerreviewcongress.org/peer-review-... #PRC10 <--- This hashtag will give you all the posts!

Time to share another #WeekInVegan post? After a classic Danish lunch of smørrebrød (open rye bread sandwiches with different [vegan in our case] toppings) and a day of chores, we've reached afternoon tea break time with earl grey and a dash of soya milk and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Personal appearance recently among the highest rating "problems or challenges" on campus, and anxiety now clearly among the most prevalent mental health issues of students.

Free self-paced Introduction to Rewilding course created by Rewilding Europe

The highly commended entries in this year's #wildlife Photographer of the Year competition: https://bbc.com/news/articles/c70r7plrdndo The photo below by Lakshitha Karunarathna documents a lone Asian elephant navigating a waste disposal site.

Great example of a study actually assessing common assumptions (here for animal behavior): "benefits of between-group competitive ability offset within group costs"

Opportunities for scientists to have art students design a comic about their research

The Cultural Evolution Society is offering Teaching Innovation Awards to foster the growth as an academic field

JOB: come work with me @uni-konstanz.de ! We have a junior professorship to fill from 1 April 2026 (6 years, non-tenured, as funding comes from the Centre for Cultural Inquiry). The denomination is very timely: Environmental #Anthropology! Details ⬇️ stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2... #academia

#Vogelarten: Erkundungsfreude & geringere Sesshaftigkeit treiben schnelle Ausbreitung in neue Gebiete voran. 🐦‍⬛ Zwei neue Studien @peercomjournal.bsky.social von einem intl. Team um Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy & Kelsey McCune. #TheGrackleProject www.mpg.de/25181118/081...

#Bird species: Exploration & dispersal are key traits driving grackles' rapid expansion into new areas. 🐦‍⬛ New studies @peercomjournal.bsky.social led by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy & Kelsey McCune. tinyurl.com/mu6k78m3 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

New paper out: What little red riding hood can teach us about reading science. This is not a Nature advice column, but results from experimental research on how to teach to read scientific literature. Open Access. https://uplopen.com/chapters/e/10.1515/9783110782844-010

Another fun one from xkcd: "Various experts answer the question: where do babies come from?" https://xkcd.com/3127/

🚨 New, short article by myself, Clark Barrett and @kevinlala.bsky.social on the legacy of Wilson's 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis', which was published 50 years ago. @science.org #ehbea #histbiol #evobio #psyscisky Revisiting the human sociobiology debate |Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Female mountain gorillas can outrank males twice their size... ...and exhibit priority of access to resources over these males Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225008723 Press release: https://www.mpg.de/25119311/0730-evan-it-s-not-just-about-size-150495-x

„behavioral flexibility, while helpful in allowing birds to adapt to new environments, is not the primary facilitator for range expansion“ https://news.ucsb.edu/2025/021980/both-flexibility-and-persistence-make-some-birds-successful-human-made-environments #thegrackleproject

New manuscript "to help bridge the gap between behavioural ecologists and the broader social network analysis community"

Super interesting paper modelling #tsimane women's networks and the interactive effects of their reproductive fitness on increased cooperation 'we demonstrate that density- and frequency-dependent indirect genetic effects on fitness promote the evolution of cooperation among neighboring women […]

Sad news for the evolutionary behavioural sciences. In my (relatively few) interactions with Jane, she was never anything but supportive and kind; a true role model as an influential woman in my discipline

Fantastic new paper by @reeserichardson.bsky.social et al. An enormous amount of work showing the extent of coordinated scientific fraud and involvement of some editors. The number of fraudulent publications grows at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Which #animals do we gender, and why? A data analysis of animal gender in children’s books” https://pudding.cool/2025/07/kids-books/

“Discredited ideas on race, genetics and IQ have become staple topics of far-right online discourse” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Why you are not as selfish as you think” ‘altruism appears to be something that does us good’ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250725-should-you-put-yourself-or-others-first And if you want to go broader, explore “how important #cooperation has been in generating life as we know it on […]

Katzenvideos machen für die Forschung: https://news.rub.de/wissenschaft/2025-07-28-citizen-science-projekt-katzenvideos-machen-fuer-die-forschung #citizenscience Projekt, mit der Bitte kurze Videos zu filmen, weil sich #katzen 🐈 leider nur schwer in der Uni studieren lassen

I think this thread might be the most fascinating read on Bluesky right now!

Campop blog #59: Some say rises in lone motherhood since c.1950 indicate breakdown of the nuclear family & call for returns to Victorian values. But 19C levels of lone parenthood & reconstituted families were similar to today's ... @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/07...

Excellent talk by @rebeccasear.bsky.social at @ishpssb2025.bsky.social on maintenance of scientific racism in contemporary academic literature. Academic journals play a role in platforming scientific racism (eg failure to retract articles using fradulent 'national IQ dataset'). #ishpssb2025 #ehbea

Do #germanphdhats have their own hashtag? We totally need one!

Erfolgsrezept urbaner #Vogelarten: Flexibilität und Beharrlichkeit. Neue spannende Studien zu #Grackeln von einem intl. Forschungsteam um Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy & Kelsey McCune in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject www.mpg.de/25003256/070...

Urban #bird species' key to success: flexibility & persistence. New studies on #grackles by Corina Logan, @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy‬, Kelsey McCune & colleagues in @peercomjournal.bsky.social. #TheGrackleProject tinyurl.com/yh5ruyr8 & doi.org/10.24072/pcj... & doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

This is an excellent talk on the subject from leading #primatologist Carel van Schaik https://youtu.be/3KWj3JxsXes?si=rx0MPZv60WvLn1CY

Meine erste inhaltliche Aufgabe heute: Ein Buchkapitel überarbeiten. Zusammen mit einem Kollegen ist ein Beitrag zu Replikationsforschung entstanden. Es geht um Forschung, die versucht, zuvor gezeigte Effekte noch mal zu finden, indem das Experiment wiederholt wird.

"academic culture, which prioritises and celebrates relentless productivity and competitiveness, creates barriers that prevent full participation of those who cannot consistently adhere to these narrow standards"