Things just aren't what they used to be. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

What is blueskyism? Silver explains, essentially: (1) Smalltentism (2) Credentialism (3) Catastophism www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl... Truth!

South American Indians developed a technique of color modification of the feathers on living birds, called tapirage 🤯 They took young parrots, plucked their feathers, and smeared the bald spots with frog blood to which "certain other substances were added." The new feathers grew in yellow.

I just checked LibGen and it has 25 of my products. I don't really care about defending intellectual property in this context. I am happy to put my scientific contributions out in the world for all to access for free and am optimistic about AI gleaning information from peer-reviewed pubs.

News is that The University of California system's board of regents has now put an end to the use of such diversity statements at those schools. heard via @robsica.bsky.social but on X

🔁 Please RT & share to help spread the word! @athenaaktipis.bsky.social @jeremykoster.bsky.social @humannature.bsky.social @kenbergerum.bsky.social

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

This is a good read about the role of modern day trackers in wildlife science and conservation: Even as A.I. Technology Races Ahead, the Prehistoric Science of Wildlife Tracking Is Making a Comeback - www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Chimpanzees synchronize urination, suggesting ties to group cohesion and social dynamics. New research highlights this overlooked behavior’s potential evolutionary significance. #Chimpanzees #BehavioralEcology #Primatology #Anthropology

Writing a critical review and again sticking with Dennett's timeless formula www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d... Four steps:

Giving serious consideration to assigning students the task of editing wikipedia. These resources are great:

“Race is not a biological category that naturally produces health disparities because of genetic differences. Race is a political category that has staggering biological consequences because of the impact of social inequality on people’s health.” — Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Intervention (pp 11)

New paper out with insights into kinship, alloparenting, and cooperative breeding! 🧪 Older, closely related kin more often provide costly aid to young Tsimane, while unrelated alloparents provide older youth lower-cost - possible investment in future reciprocal relationships.

The special issue on “Stepfamilies, Adoption, and Other Forms of the Family in Hunter-Gatherers”, led by Barry Hewlett, is finally out in Hunter Gatherer Research! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

After the amazing paper by @kevinhatala.bsky.social & colleagues on locomotor variation in early #hominins, an exciting new study led by George Brill on forms of locomotion in #foragers 'Extensive locomotor versatility across a global sample of hunter–gatherer societies' doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

'Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of reality's fullness.' Ed Yong, An Immense World

Fallen ginko leaves at Chapman University.

The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia? #science #medicine www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I'm interested to learn whether any of these predictors (based on sample of 58 million US citizens) replicate with the NIH funded study of brain aging among the Tsimane. 🧪🧠

"Homo juluensis: Possible new ancient human species uncovered by researchers" ⚱️🧪#paleoanthropology #paleosky

Scientifically speaking: birds are weird little dudes. Let's talk about "anting" & why all the cool birds at school are doing it. The history goes back to ornithologist John James Audubon, who documented young wild turkeys "wallowing" in anthills in 1831.

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

The authors of this paper conclude that, based on evidence they document, Ethiopian wolves "could contribute to pollination". Cool stuff! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Are there any experimental economics or behavioral economics starter packs on here? Reskeet this is you are interested too.

Unexpected gift from a student in my 8:30 am section. It's always interesting to see one's self from another's perspective. 😆

Evolution of probiotic bacteria studied using DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese found in Chinese graves. Samples contained bacteria & fungus, including Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens and Pichia kudriavzevii, both still found in present-day kefir grains used to make cheese from milk.

In The Myth of Man the Hunter, Anderson et al 2023 claimed to discover that women hunt in 79% of hunter-gatherer societies. Did hunter-gatherer researchers get it wrong? In an effort lead by @vivek123.bsky.social, we attempted to reproduce their study. These are the fatal flaws we found🧪 (1/n)

Cultural transmission is essential for the maintenance and development of knowledge and skills. Study with a forager-farmer community by @humannature.bsky.social et al finds kinship, gender, generational seniority, and skill type are key determinants: bit.ly/3RYqn9K

In cultural transmission, who learns what from whom - when, why, and how? Find out in the new HBES blog post about research on this topic among the Tsimane: www.hbes.com/who-learns-w... 🧪

Humans are amazing! People around the world can accurately predict the cooperative behaviors of total strangers – an extension of cognitive adaptations for mind reading.🧠🧪 New open access paper w Timothy Shields in Evolutionary Human Sciences: doi.org/10.1017/ehs.... [1/6]

Our open access paper, “Cultural transmission vectors of essential knowledge and skills among Tsimane forager-farmers” is now out in Evolution and Human Behavior 🧪https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.08.002 [1/7]

In the NHANES sample, greater neighborhood greenspace is associated with slower telomere ageing. When controlling for effects of environmental racism, the greenspace benefits go away. 🍃🌳🧪https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723060795?via%3Dihub

Naturalist foraging for mushrooms in California found an endangered "fire-follower" plant 155 miles south of its known range (likely due to a 2020 wildfire), demonstrating the cryptic reach of genetic diversity that scientists often miss. Fire suppression may contribute to loss of biodiversity.

What's up with all the lazy teenagers? Strikingly similar patterns in the Tsimane and post-industrialized populations suggest that the reduced physical activity and increased sedentary time during adolescence may be an innate feature of the human lifespan. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

It takes a village to raise a child, & though bio kin & in-laws are often part of that village, chosen kin often are too. How do chosen kin benefit kids? Why do parents seek chosen kin support? ...& what do chosen kin get out of it? A thread on our new paper in EHB (osf.io/6wap9/): 1/ #chosenkin

Another great essay from David Pinsoff, "The biggest bullshit story of all is that humans are special: we’re not mere animals, but something grander and otherworldly... This bullshit story helps us act like the worst kind of animals while seeing ourselves as angels." t.co/SqniotHAUN

Really excited that we have now published the latest results of the Beal seed experiment. The experiment was started 144 years ago, when Dr. William Beal put seeds inside bottles and buried them at secret location on the MSU campus. bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

screenshot from When Hobbits Were Real

some Mulatu Astatke helping get me through a load of grading. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJn...

Fungi are so much more than mushrooms! -Björk (narrator) Presented by Merlin Sheldrake Full trailer: youtu.be/YCf7YywIBZ8

1. Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place there? 🧪

Independent age estimates based on seeds, pollen, and quartz resolve the controversy of ancient human footprints: >21,000 years old at White Sands, New Mexico www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pascal Boyer proposes a new evolutionary model explaining ownership & property intuitions, norms, and institutions. Not ad hoc social or cultural norms explanation, but rather based on interaction of two cognitive systems: competitive acquisition + cooperation.🧪 pascalboyer.net/articles/202...

When I wrote 1491, I began by describing the giant, pre-1492 earthworks (geoglyphs) in western Amazonia. Now a 220-person(!) research team has found 20 more all over the river basin and used computer modeling to argue that 10-24k more are still hidden in the forest. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Kraft et al. 2021🧪"Our results further contradict any notion of the “original affluent society”" Subsistence time: farmers≈foragers<apes kcals spent on sub: foragers>farmers>apes kcals produced: farmers>foragers>apes kcals produced: forager males>forager females www.science.org/doi/full/10....

A good way to get to know one another in this new place; here's me based on my abstracts in PubMed using shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/pu... Try it and post what you get!

My first bluesky post, so I thought I'd signal my love for iNaturliast. I've become a huge "iNat" advocate. Its an app that is great for exploring and sharing your observations from the natural world. If you're interested in IDs on iNat, check out this intro: www.inaturalist.org/pages/gettin....