🌏🎶 New episode of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with @norijacoby.bsky.social covers Hebrew music from Israel performed by him and his friends like Victoria Hanna and Tafillalt: from 1,000-year-old songs to contemporary rap and everything in between. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS39...

🌏🎶 New episode of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with @norijacoby.bsky.social covers Hebrew music from Israel performed by him and his friends like Victoria Hanna and Tafillalt: from 1,000-year-old songs to contemporary rap and everything in between. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS39...

Much has been written about The Selfish Gene, and few books have been both as influential and as persistently contested. To commemorate its 50th anniversary, here are some brief thoughts in the latest issue of @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Absolutely this. Holden is consistently thoughtful and measured, and precisely for those reasons his editorial here must be heeded.

The entire editorial board has resigned from Springer Nature's Natural Language Semantics (NLS) to launch a diamond OA journal, Semantics of Natural Languages www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

🎶 From gentle lullabies to driving rhythms, music is the heartbeat of human life. Do you want to know if music is truly universal and shared across cultures? 🎤 Assistant Professor @norijacoby.bsky.social of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social is helping uncover what makes music unique and universal.

🚨 ACE Seminar We’re excited to host Dr. Patrick Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social in our upcoming ACE Seminar! 🗓 Tuesday, Jun 16, 2026 🕖 2:00 PM JST (UTC+9) 💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 To receive the Zoom link, please send a blank email to [email protected]

PSA - if you aren’t working for King’s Birthday … don’t forget to unset your alarm.

And finally it was published! Massive thanks to my coauthors, the editor and reviewers, and the institutions that supported our research. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🌏🎶 New episode of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with Mark Lenini Parselelo covers Maasai and Swahili music from his homeland of Kenya, from traditional lullabies and adumu jumping dances of moran warriors to contemporary Afropop (Izzo Kores): www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3LK...

Testing the evolution of song complexity of >1,200 bird species in 6 social and ecological contexts, we found song complexity does NOT increase with sexual selection (more polygynous mating systems), but instead with higher social competition (more territorial behaviours).

For anyone who wants to buy a physical copy of my book, I just received this 30% discount code you can use (AUFLY30). As always, you can legally download the PDF for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353

Great to see Nature publish their first Registered Report!

Registered Reports improve the credibility of scientific claims by rewarding big questions, sound methods and solid analyses. They need to become a standard tool in research. go.nature.com/4dP1rwk

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Teaching about the STAP stem cell fraud, and it's crazy to me how many Japanese students today who weren't even teenagers when this happened have vivid memories of this controversy. Hard to overstate how much this damaged Japan's international science credibility retractionwatch.com/2016/02/26/s...

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

Anyone have any good books about cats to recommend for my 12-year-old daughter? Here are books (and a movie) she's already enjoyed, she's looking for an even deeper cut (particularly wants to know all about different breeds). TIA!

Absolutely unacceptable and shameful

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid instead to a tech giant in California or Seattle’ newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/21/b...

🌏🎶 Episode #3 of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with @danya-pav.bsky.social covers traditional Māori waiata, metal fusion (Alien Weaponry), haka for peace as well as war, and how Danya combines Indigenous knowledge and science in her PhD research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mpb...

🌏🎶 Episode #3 of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with @danya-pav.bsky.social covers traditional Māori waiata, metal fusion (Alien Weaponry), haka for peace as well as war, and how Danya combines Indigenous knowledge and science in her PhD research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mpb...

My piece in @theconversation.com - on the study of arts engagement & aging - was heavily delayed to give the authors a 'right to reply'! Their rebuttal (see pic) appears directly below my piece. I didn't know this would happen & was not given a chance to respond, so I will respond here! 1/10 🧵

🌏🎶 Episode #3 of @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast with @danya-pav.bsky.social covers traditional Māori waiata, metal fusion (Alien Weaponry), haka for peace as well as war, and how Danya combines Indigenous knowledge and science in her PhD research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mpb...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Planning to assign this article in my "(Un)ethical science" course. Really curious to hear my students' thoughts... already we discuss AI a lot and their feelings tend to be pretty diverse and nuanced...

Nice! Just randomly came across and listened on a lunch break, and was pleasantly surprised to hear it was mostly a conversation with the always fascinating @babeheim.bsky.social. Maybe worth flagging in the title? I bet more would want to listen if they knew!

God I hate AI. It doesn't even correctly convert time zones (8:30pm EDT is 12:30pm NZST, not 1:30pm). Stop polluting our lives with these hallucinations and lies, tech companies!

Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained go.nature.com/3RiE5HN

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

🍂 Ever watched an insect climbing a stem in complete silence and wondered what’s happening? 🎤 In our latest episode, Ass. Prof. Rachele Nieri from the University of Trento introduces us to biotremology: how insects communicate through substrate vibrations—tiny signals like miniature earthquakes.

Doesn't feel too out there to say that every hour of work "saved" by AI just becomes someone else's hour of work.

Yikes!!! “we’ve crossed into the realm where, on average, researchers and institutions will be spending as much or more on applying than comes back in funding” 😢

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Zeng et al. (2026, Science) reported an intriguing study of rhythmic pattern discrimination in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris). Yet the claim that ‘[they] form robust abstract rhythm representations’ may be premature. See doi.org/10.31234/osf....

It's right that lists are a bit silly, but they're great for sparking discussion. Like: Jane Eyre above Pride & Prejudice? I liked both, but that's a bit anti-canonical. No Slaughterhouse Five? No The Blue Flower? etc. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

New @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast episode up with national Tsugaru shamisen champion Dr @gchiba.bsky.social. Come for the traditional folk songs, stay for Latin (Minyo Crusaders) and metal (BABYMETAL) fusion, and Gakuto's thoughts on combining research and performance. youtu.be/aVp8atK8xDE

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Really enjoyed recording this @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast episode with @psycheloui.bsky.social (@musicperception.bsky.social President)! Come for the Cantonese songs of her Hong Kong youth, stay for a teaser of her forthcoming book, "Strange Scales"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ax...

There's either a new fund not yet announced or we're seeing another swingeing cut to science funding. Either way the lack of clarity, given the current stress throughout the system, is...unhelpful.

New genetic evidence for admixture of Denisovans and Homo erectus. Ancient proteins extracted from the teeth of six H. erectus individuals that lived in China 400,000 years ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01532-6?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=61859179

Really enjoyed recording this @manyvoices.bsky.social podcast episode with @psycheloui.bsky.social (@musicperception.bsky.social President)! Come for the Cantonese songs of her Hong Kong youth, stay for a teaser of her forthcoming book, "Strange Scales"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2ax...

30 experts from a range of disciplines have responded in print to a Science study published in March that questioned the 14.5kyo date of Monte Verde in Chile. 🏺🧪

An honours student is looking for a suitable measure of attention to compare participants’ performance before and after an auditory stimulus intervention. She attempted to access the adaptive Stroop task used by Draheim et al. (doi.org/10.1037/xge0...).