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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is tomorrow! I'm very excited to present my new work explaining why loneliness is on the rise @pintofscience.uk in Newcastle! There are a couple of tickets left - hope to see you there!

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I am excited to be speaking at Pint of Science in Newcastle on May 20th! I will be giving a public talk on my recent work, looking at how changes in human culture over time have contributed to the loneliness epidemic. Details below. I'd love to see you there! pintofscience.co.uk/event/losing...

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Losing Connection: Shrinking Social Networks and Closing Pubs

From shrinking social networks to the rapid decline of UK pubs, these talks uncover how our communities are changing — and why it matters.

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

COME AND JOIN OUR MEET & GREET! 📽️❤️‍🔥 Before #EHBEA2026, @amrotella.bsky.social talks to us about herself, her role as treasurer of @ehbea.bsky.social , and her work on the new website🤓 🙌 💯 Have a look and #MeetTheBoard 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/F3Jv0...

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Treasurer of EHBEA - Amanda Rotella #MeetTheBoard

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This looks like a really cool opportunity! ➡️Postdoc studying interdependence @ ASU Check it out below

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

EHBEA has a shiny new website and it looks lovely 😃 Many thanks to @amrotella.bsky.social for leading EHBEA through this change, with assistance from @pablovarase.bsky.social and @jeannebovet.bsky.social 🙏

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

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Björn E. Hommel @bjoernhommel.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

🚨 SynthNet is out 🚨 Researchers propose new constructs and measures faster than anyone can track. We (@anniria.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci) built a search engine to check what already exists and help identify redundancies; indexing 74,000 scales from ~31,500 instruments in APA PsycTests. 🧵1/3

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

EHBEA is looking for new PRESIDENT and SECRETARY for 2026-2029! 👀 If you know of anybody who could represent EHBEA, nominate them as president! If you know with good organisational skills, nominate them as secretary! DEADLINE: 16/12/2026 HERE IS THE FORM 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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EHBEA Committee 2026-2029: Nomination Form The EHBEA Steering Committee is calling for nominations for the following open committee positions for 2026-2029. You are invited to nominate one or more c...

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Very excited to see this published!

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

🚨Job alert in Psyc! 🚨 Northumbria is hiring ⭐Vice Chancellor Fellows ⭐! - Assistant Profs, with 3 years for research focus - then transition to regular role Check out it out here: work4.northumbria.ac.uk#en/sites/CX_...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

“The moral licensing literature is highly heterogeneous, therefore interpreting the overall effect without accounting for methodological moderators may not be meaningful (i.e., comparing apples and oranges).”

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing (doing a good thing, then a less good thing) really exist?? ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test 🧵👇 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #SocialPsychology #Bayesian #Theory

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

2/ Shout out to the extraordinary organizing team for #EHBEA2025 ✒️🐧📝 @tvpollet.bsky.social @jeannebovet.bsky.social @francescadp.bsky.social @amrotella.bsky.social @gillianpepper.bsky.social @mdconstable.bsky.social @lrrenner.bsky.social Martin Tovee Connor Leslie Tamsin Saxton & Kris McCarty

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Gillian Pepper looks at #risk in high/low volcano risk areas in Sicily! 🌋 ➡️ people weren't more like to help in or out group members 🇮🇹 ➡️ but! Less likely to wear seat belts in high risk areas! 🚗 @gillianpepper.bsky.social #ehbea2025 #volcano

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

How to align individual & group interests?? 🤔 ➡️ Gilbert Roberts models how honest signaling of cooperative intent can do this in a public goods game! ➡️ signallers are chosen as partners #cooperation #pgg #ehbea2025 @gilbertroberts.bsky.social

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Starting off the #cooperation session, Julia Phelps talks about the relationship between #kinship & reciprocity ➡️ Finds that people react better to nonreciprocation from other households, from past reciprocators who are close kin 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 #ehbea2025

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What an excellent final plenary at #EHBEA2025!! 👩‍🏫 Prof Christine Caldwell shared research on #CulturalTransmission 🧠 Adults & childre can transmit subsets of info, that perform as well as if they transmitted full info! 🗣 #CulturalEvolution #InformationSharing #EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

8/ It’s been an incredible week of evolutionary human science. 🧑🏻‍🔬🧪🍻 👉🏻 Let’s finish strong, make new connections, and celebrate all we've learned! See you out there! 🎓🌍 #EHBEA2025 #EvolutionaryScience #Scientists #Networks #Collabs #HumanBehaviour #Research

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

7/ 🏆 Finally, wrap up at 16:50 with the Conference Awards and AGM! Don't miss celebrating the top talks and highlights! 🍷🍴 Lastly - Our big dinner bash at the Biscuit Factory! 🎨 Gorgeous art + social + science + excellentfood == the best conference #farewell you can ask for! 🍽️💃 #EHBEA2025

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

2/ 🧠 Kicking us off at 09:00 is Christine Caldwell with a plenary on cognitive challenges in human cumulative cultural evolution. A big brain start to Day 4! #EHBEA2025 #Cognition #CulturalEvolution #CumulativeCulture

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

1/ 🎉 It’s the FINAL DAY of #EHBEA2025 and it’s packed with mind-blowing science and big ideas! Let’s dive into today’s highlights 🧵👇

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Looking forward to an exciting day!! Some really cool talks coming up. Check it out 👇🏻😁 #EHBEA2025

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Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

#EHBEA2025 kicks off with pre-conference panel on large scale collaborations Great to hear about some of the often unspoken aspects of large-scale collaborations @ehbea2025.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @thorabjorns.bsky.social @shona-d.bsky.social @amrotella.bsky.social

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Great start to #EHBEA2025 with our preconference panel on Big Team Science! Big thanks to @thorabjorns.bsky.social, @shona-d.bsky.social, Harry Clelland, @amrotella.bsky.social, and our fantastic host @francescadp.bsky.social! Great discussion & insights about managing big teams in science 👏 👍

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Give us a follow! Really cool researchers on this list! #EvolutionaryScience #Research 👇

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Today is the day!! #EHBEA2025 is now here!! 😁🎉 Come find us at registration, which opens at 2pm! Then: - Pre-conference panel on big team science, 2-3pm - Conference opening @330pm - Plenary by Russell Hill @4pm - Reception @5pm Can't wait to see you all today! @ehbea.bsky.social

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

✨️Guess what?!?✨️ We're putting together a starter pack to make it easy to follow EHBEA 2025 presenters and attendees!! 🔥👩‍🔬 Want to be added? Drop a comment below! 👇 #EHBEA2025 #Evolution #HumanBehaviour @ehbea.bsky.social

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Excited to be a part of this - should be a great panel

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🎉 It's almost time— #EHBEA2025 kicks off this Monday!! We're very excited to welcome you to Newcastle! ✨ Check your inboxes—an important email just went out with everything you need to know. 📩 Here’s a quick thread with the essentials [1/10] 🧵👇

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

🚨 Last call! Registration for #EHBEA2025 closes TOMORROW!! 🚨 If you haven’t signed up yet, now’s the time—deadlines wait for no primate! 🦧🧑🏻‍🔬👀 Conference highlights below! 👇🏻 Reg + programme: 👉 www.ehbea2025.com Hope to see you there! #DeadlinePanic #EvolutionaryScience @ehbea.bsky.social

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Dr Nadiah Kristensen @nadiah.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I’m happy to announce our J Theor Biol paper about kin selection in group games in now available online www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A net plot the dynamics between four strategies: Unconditional Cooperators, Liars, Unconditional Defectors, and Coordinating Cooperators. There are arrows showing the direction of evolution, and dots representing stable and unstable steady states. There’s a lot of info in there, but it’s more intended as decorative in this context.

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

#EHBEA2025 is coming up fast! Lots of exciting things planned. ⏬️ check them out! So excited for this!

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

7 days left. That’s all. 👉 Register for #EHBEA2025 by April 1st or risk watching the academic fun unfold from afar! 💔 👉 Talks! Posters! Weirdly intense coffee chats! 👉 Register Here: www.ehbea2025.com #EvolutionaryScience #ConferenceBanter #ScienceAndPints @ehbea.bsky.social

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

🍻 On April 16, join us for the #EHBEA2025 post-conference social! Where? - Donzoko Brewing Co. – a super cool new local brewery right here in Newcastle! Crackin’ beer 🍺 + top-tier science🧪 = Perfect combo!! #ScienceAndPints 📍 www.donzoko.org @ehbea.bsky.social [1/2]

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I'm increasingly uncomfortable with publishing my work open access using a CC-BY licence, as required by many goverment funders. Unlike CC-BY-NC, this permits the work to be fed into thieving large language models for commercial gain. Am I the only one who's unhappy with this? #AcademicChatter

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🌉 In Newcastle spirit, we’ll be speakin’ a bit Geordie from time to time—so divvint fret if ye need a translation now and then! Onto the poll.. You lot voted for extra scran [food] & coffee—and that’s what ye’ll get! Can’t dee science on an empty belly, like. Canny conference fuel incoming! ☕🍅

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

✨Heads up, EHBEA folks! ✨ The #EHBEA2025 schedule is continuing to evolve, so don’t treat it like it is set in stone just yet! 🪦 👀Check it out—and check back weekly for updates! 📅 tvpollet.github.io/ehbea_2025_s... @ehbea.bsky.social

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

me: “I’ll register later” also me: realizes there are only 11 days left 🫠🫠😨 Don’t be that person. Register for #EHBEA2025 before the deadline ghosts you 👻

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Between the US having been the powerhouse for academic conferences and research (with funding), and financial struggles of so many institutions across boarders (UK/Canada ++) the research landscape will not be the same. What will it look like going forward??

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

When life gives you data, make memes 😍

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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Great stuff @ukri.org @jessicacorner.bsky.social A plea for a simple extra: a visible statement from UKRI that confirms panels want realistic costs not the cheapest costs. It would help shift applicant behaviour which currently removes real costs due to fear that panels prefer low cost applications

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

"From the moment I arrived, I begged every officer I saw to let me pay for my own ticket home. To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks."

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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Very happy to be representing @manyprimates.bsky.social. Join us to discuss all things Big Team Science!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

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Amanda Rotella @amrotella.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I rarely share my art projects... but here is a pic of my dining room mural in progress. 🍃 Still lots to do, although it is coming along! Feeling very peaceful this morning ☕️ 🌄 😊

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