On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

Great result from INTO Manchester! Strike action and well attended pickets led to the employer coming back to the take with an improved offer, double the original. Smashing work from the reps, members and Regional organizers 💪🏼

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Yes! We have been in the business of discipline-specific pedagogy for years now. A field doesn't get upended over one new technology. Pedagogy isn't fragile!

Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.

YES you will laugh, you will cry, you will wrinkle your nose at the delicious bitter taste of contemporary life

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

Celebrating an incredible coincidence of history today: #OnThisDay in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and 115 years later, to the day, Lucy was found. 🏺

Got the furnace serviced today and the guy asked about carbon monoxide detectors so it’s a good day to share my favorite reason for ensuring your CO detectors are fully functional as the winter approaches:

sometimes cats just wanna hold yr hand @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social

Orangutan youngsters reach the broad diet they need to survive only if they culturally learn what to eat & where to find it -> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <- More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]

Support @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social fight to save their TPS pensions! www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

"‘Which is the best university in the world?’ is not a useful question. ‘Which university might be best for me, given that I care about X and Y?’ is a better question — but one for which current measures are unlikely to provide a good answer" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you are applying for grad school, I recommend you build time into your process to get feedback on your materials from someone with experience evaluating application documents.

Just finished this book (why yes I DID borrow it from an academic library), and really enjoyed the interpretation of teenage behaviour. Asolescents aren't deficient, they are trying to figure things out.

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?

this

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons. share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...

This is the sad impact of grade inflation: "These kids were not doing anything wrong. They were lied to. They were told that they were prepared for classes they were not prepared for. They were told that they were excelling in classes that they were not excelling in. They deserved better."

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Latest paper: Boxgrove is a key European site dating to 480,000 years ago. At GTP17, hominins knapped handaxes and then butchered an adult female horse. A fragment of the horse's scapula appeared to have evidence of impact from a wooden spear..... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY

I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/

Beyond criterion: cognitive flexibility in wild striated caracaras: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Cognition #Ecology

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

The Marsh Palaeoart Award nominations for artwork depicting fossil fauna from Britain and Ireland, close soon. It is your last chance, send artworks in!

Confidence interval discussion time! The perfect opportunity to repost this blog post answering the question you haven’t dared to ask: www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

From my colleague; paper here dropbox.com/scl/fi/55uok...

One thing I wish I could plaster everywhere: none of the other students know how to do this either. If they look like they know, it's because someone taught them in secret. No one knows. But the key to this whole adulting thing is trying. Try to do the assignment. Try to come prepared.

We need to talk about the carbon footprints of the rich.

Update: IUCN has approved a motion to adopt Longevity Conservation. www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...

Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities. It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

just added more glass wreaths to nora.jewelry

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds? Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd! Deadline 23 Jan 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

😰 Feels especially true when an unnamed Employer is trying to force you onto a worse pension.

Where will art come from in 10 or 20 years' time if we don't train and support artists now? www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

🧵1/ Europe is experiencing a hybrid war. Russia is targeting not only military and commercial infrastructure and security systems but our health systems. In our new paper in the European Journal of Public Health, @charlottemar.bsky.social & I spell out the implications @eupha.bsky.social

very funny to read these emails and then remember summers wondering whether the leaky pipeline in stem was because women are inherently bad at math

These numbers are sickening. At a time when UK grant success rates are so low and uni libraries are making cuts, let's dare to dream about how we could change the system. What we could do with that money!

Over the past months (and at least 11 versions!), I was lucky to work with 11 amazing colleagues on a call to action to reform academic publishing. Not another declaration, but an appeal to our powerful friends, research funders & institutions, to Stop the Drain of Scientific Publishing. 1/n

story of my life

What's next? Smoke cigarettes responsibly? Pollute needlessly responsibly? Have indentured labourers responsibly? Abuse people responsibly? Exactly.

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...