New study by Sofia Pereira, Julia Ostner, Oliver Schülke & colleagues (@primbehavecol.bsky.social): Wild Assamese macaques pay selective attention to social interactions in their groups. The team spent 10 months in Thailand’s Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary, analyzing ~1,000 spontaneous social scenes.

📣 We're #Hiring! #ERC Consolidator Project BOTLEG at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting: - 1 PostDoc ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/9... - 2 PhDs ➡️ jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/c... 📅 Deadline: 25 May 2026 #PhDSky #HistSci #PhilSci #HPBio #EnvHist #DigitalHumanities #AcademicSky

Hey all, it’s publishing day for my book “How to Sell a Genocide,” which is a data-driven account of centrist and liberal media’s role in creating the conditions of mass death in Gaza. 100% of royalties go to @mecaforpeace.bsky.social. > www.plutobooks.com/product/how-... > a.co/d/00CQcElr

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

„The only remaining way to mitigate this situation is to reduce the number of applications.“ They’ve tried nothing and are all out of ideas? Whether this is good or bad, it is unjustified. There is no impact analysis, no engagement with research on funding procedures. Government by vibes

PLS RT📣 Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms (Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green) 🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2... 🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

The paper's framing: Human violent conflict has been explained by different theories in different places and times, including cultural identities. Chimps have violence but don't have cultural identity, so maybe cultural identity isn't so important to human conflict! Illogical Darwinist slop.

Bright red-coloured maps gain a lot of traction during summers. In and of themselves, these maps say little because summers are a thing, as are tropical countries. This time, there are maps marked "close to 40°C" for India. Because the actual numbers do not meet personal scare tactic thresholds?

In the interest of science communication that is both accurate and useful: Heatwaves are defined by temperature anomalies. Only an abnormal 35-40°C is a heatwave. Outdoor/factory workers suffer from heat stress and therefore need support, regardless of whether it is a heatwave or not

1/ Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date. Over a hundred strikes in ten minutes - carnage in Beirut, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people are sheltering. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Conclusion is cool: "Mother-offspring conflict peaks during rest periods, not during feeding as observed in more active species. This finding suggests that conflict concentrates whenever maternal activities are most critical to the mother's own well-being." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This project (with Stacy Rosenbaum and Nick Grebe) began in the dark days of Covid, and is finally ready to share. We've built a living database of primate paternity data (52 species, 3000 paternities) and completed first wave of analyses of paternity distribution. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Do you love animal behavior & want to share that joy with younger folks? Write a short article on animal behavior for Frontiers for Young Minds (ages 8–15), co-authored with an undergrad! Part of an international ABS collection. Expression of interest due April 30. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Call for a PhD position in Cognitively inspired natural language processing with Lisa Beinborn and me. Part of the new SPP "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology” (LaSTing). huds.uni-goettingen.de/assets/Call_...

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today they voted to bring it back — exclusively for Palestinians.

More than 100 Palestinian detainees have already died in Israeli custody since October 2023. Dozens are still disappeared. Over 9,300 Palestinians sit in Israeli detention right now, including 350 children. Hundreds could face execution under this law.

BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees. Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out. It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.

These colobus monkey males might look like harmless, adorable teddy bears, but think again…👺 😨 Read about how male coercion and reproductive strategies stress out females in our new article: rdcu.be/favqS @intjprimatol.bsky.social 🧪🏺 #Primates #AcademicSky #AnimalBehavior

Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

So, like, we’re going to start having mass protests at some point, right? Against this horrific US-Israeli war of unfathomable consequence? I mean, that’s on the agenda, right?

Some shrews crawling around. Work in progress. I love shrews! #sciart #wip #art #mammals

Israel wouldn't have a reason to invade, bomb and occupy countries in West Asia, and the US wouldn't have a reason to support Israel if the world were not reliant on fossil fuels? The problem with such analyses is that they sidestep fundamental questions about imperialism which have a long history

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Funny how Springer Nature never gets mentioned in the "predatory publishers" debates (MDPI, Frontiers...). Maybe it's different if you're the top predator. Also Nature journals' customer service sucks, review times are eternal, and they just racked in insane profits (and expect more growth):

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece) We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.

Young magpies learn to combine calls into "sentences" much like human toddlers: through listening to family and friends! Now available to read at @royalsocietypublishing.org @mandyridley.bsky.social @stephanielking.bsky.social @ceb-uwa.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

🚨 ACE Seminar We’re excited to host Dr. VPS Ritwika in our upcoming ACE Seminar! 🗓 Tuesday, Mar 17, 2026 🕖 7:00 PM JST (UTC+9) 💻 Online via Zoom 🔗 To receive the Zoom link, please send a blank email to [email protected]

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

Anyone who is an expert in #gutmicrobiome research is interested in collaborating with us to study #free-rangingdogs in India? Please get in touch!

British PM Starmer says that U.K. bases will only be used for ’defensive’ operations and not ‘offensive’ ops. But how can that be so when they are being used by the aggressor? Great discussion here with Milanovic, @adhaque.bsky.social @janinadill.bsky.social www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/u...

“India’s silence on the blatantly illegal assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not the foreign policy volte-face that it seems to be at first sight. It is the natural and predictable outcome of the path that Indian foreign policy has been on for the last decade.” m.thewire.in/article/dipl...

The Davos speech was redundant for those of us in the 'Third World', a world that was built on non-aligned principles. Now it's evidently clear that the speech was also just words without real intent. Unfortunately, pointing out Western hypocrisies has also become redundant

Western hypocrisy remains strong even while the West crumbles under the weight of its own hypocrisy

The US and Israel have, in fact, begun an illegal war with Iran. The US lured Iran into talks and seemingly reached an agreement that Iran would end its uranium enrichment. As of 8:00 AM, Israel and the US launched a surprise attack on Iran with the intent of assassinating its leadership

Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not. The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals doi.org/10.1371/jour...

2. For me, the final section is the most provocative and interesting. We address how it can be that our minds are capable of apprehending the very processes of evolution by which they came to be. It need not be so, but it is.

1. I’m quite happy with this popular piece that Lee Dugatkin and I wrote recently. For the next two weeks it’s free to read on the American Scientist website.

🚨 The application deadline has been extended to 27 Feb 2026. Apply at this link: forms.gle/wbUG5WfTRSvh...

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Who gets to tell the world’s most urgent environmental stories? Mongabay’s Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship is expanding in 2026. 🌍 ✨ Deadline extended to Feb 14. Paid, remote. 11 fellows. Six published stories. Apply NOW: buff.ly/pTCVXXB Learn more: buff.ly/ZZCG7M2.

Elefantenbabys knüpfen früh soziale Bindungen! 🐘💞 Revathe & Vidya zeigen, dass asiatische Elefantenkälber bereits früh differenzierte Beziehungen aufbauen: Sie interagieren eng mit Mutter und „Begleitkühen“, die allomaternale Fürsorge leisten, meiden jedoch meist andere Weibchen. #Sozialverhalten

🧪 ETHOLOGY: Baby elephants build social bonds early! 🐘💞 Revathe & Vidya show that Asian elephant calves form differentiated relationships early on: they interact closely with mothers and “escorts” who provide allomaternal care, while largely avoiding other females. Read: doi.org/10.1111/eth....

The 12th season of FINE starts the 24th of February with an exciting program. To register for weekly reminders and the video link email [email protected]

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.