iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

…and interdisciplinary people are precisely those who can’t get jobs because “how could you possibly teach intro to X”

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Preregistration was common: 74.6% of articles included at least one preregistered study. Of those, 42 (84%) had at least one deviation from the preregistered plan. And 17 of those 42 disclosed none of their deviations.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We need entry-threshold grant lottery systems with easy-to-estimate and easy-to-write basis - plus a basic-incoming grant basis. The latter will be very efficient in its use, the former will be just as 'good' as the current systems in its decisions, but far less wasteful in writing and reviewing.

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If we have to call them Type 1 / 2 instead of false positive and false negative, use this mnemonic: the boy who cried wolf caused both Type I & Il errors, in that order.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unique behaviour must not occur elsewhere. Evidence mounting for independent innovation of a special feeding technique in dolphins, formerly considered unique.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looks like the firelight niche pathway to language is picking up speed (or fuel) now. Originally proposed by Planer and Sterelny (link: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fireligh...) ... it is now (1/3)

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The Firelight Niche: From Sign to Speech - The MIT Press Reader

If protolanguages began as largely gestural systems, why and how did vocalization become so important?

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🧵 New DP from I4R co-director Lester Lusher, with Sonia Ale, Md Shafiqui Islam, Huda Osman & Jacob Stenstrom (Pitt): "When Samples Shape Significance." What happens when you re-estimate published results using fresh draws of the same data? Some evidence from Google Trends!

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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

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Will Snyder @sahelanthrope.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Official first day of work at the University of Cologne! Still in the process of moving in and setting everything up, but very excited about what's to come! Watch this space for more info soon :)

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 29/08/2026

Cultural evolutionists often talks about the possibility of loss of cultural traits. The walkman could be one: obsoletesony.substack.com/p/why-sony-c...

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Why Sony Can’t Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models

Explained by a former Sony engineer

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

‼️ Here's another great Early Career opportunity within our cluster: ‼️ Come work with us as an Independent Junior Research Group Lead in the field of Archeo- and Paleoproteomics! #paleosky 🏺 uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

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Job advertisment: Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100 %)

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Studies are pushing extra benefits of the new shingles vaccine. And while I'd hope it's all true, there are doubts as to whether it not only helps against shingles, but also other illnesses - see post below; & re:dementia, see bsky.app/profile/mend...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In fact, there are good reasons to believe the groups differ. When Shingrix launched, uptake was very low (2.6% of newly eligible adults in year one) due to supply shortages, higher costs, & a two-dose requirement. The early adopters are likely to be wealthier and more health conscious. 9/10 🧵

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A 2025 Science paper reported that bonobos combine calls to create new meanings. We analyzed its stats and then reanalysed the data. --> The claim did not hold up. Our paper (open access): doi.org/10.7717/peer... With @johanlind.bsky.social @annajonand.bsky.social

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yet ANOTHER great opportunity at our cluster HUMAN ORIGINS: ❗️ We‘re looking for a Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of hominin postcranial evolution ❗️ Apply here till October 15th: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #Paleosky

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Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, E14 TV-L, 100%)

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Congratulations to the team. This suggests once more that know-how copying is needed for the range a d depth of human culture - at least in the sense of a necessary (though on its own insufficient) precondition of things that follow. [[For one cannot have language without know-how copying]]

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The other professor in the house is a solar physicist. So since we were on board a ferry with a West-ish facing cabin and no sun-filter lenses this evening, he turned the entire cabin into a pinhole camera to display the eclipse...

Small reflection of the sub half-wat obscured by the moon, another wall of a ferry cabin, created by a pinhole camera (sheet of cardboard with a small hole in, held with the curtains draped around it.)

Pinhole camera image of the increasingly eclipsed sun, shown in a sheet of paper

Pinhole camera image of the sun almost totally eclipsed (thin crescent of sun visible)

Child 'holding' the semi-eclipsed sun (the pinhole camera image of the sun) in their hand

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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Mid-journey, my next train got fully cancelled [normal now in Germany]. Looking at my train app I notice a (new?) button: "ALTERNATIVES" So I press it. It gives me a connection that: - lays in the past - started-of completely differently - requires me 2b at a different station than I am

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 06/08/2026

In April 2025, David Victorson was polishing several manuscripts for submission when a colleague sent him a link to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice about an indictment for fraud. Victorson couldn’t believe it.

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Decade-long fraud by market survey firm a ‘gut punch’ for researchers

Credit: AndreyPopov/iStock In April 2025, David Victorson, a psychologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, was polishing several manuscripts for submission when a colleague sent him a link to…

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

‼️ Fantastic new opportunity within our Cluster HUMAN ORIGINS ‼️ Full Professorship Early Prehistory at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Tübingen! Deadline for applications: 2nd October 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

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W3-Professorship in Early Prehistory

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As a kid, we always spent summer in southern Italy, in he mountaineous village that my mum was from. Many nights I'd lay awake, windows and eyes wide open, listening to wolves. Howling. It felt nothing less than magical.

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thomas Nagel fuming at this one.

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Erin Wessling @northernlimitpt.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Thrilled to share that I started last month at @idiv-research.bsky.social as Junior Research Group Leader of the new Behavioural Conservation group. Excited to build the team and explore new scientific frontiers! More here: www.idiv.de/new-junior-g...

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New Junior Research Group Leader Erin Wessling | iDiv

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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

9/ In temperate forests, information wins. Birds hold small territories, breed in a short window, and compete hard for mates. The listener is close, so richer, more complex songs pay off.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trial and error only gets you so far in Klondike search spaces. To frog leap in these, it's much much better to go the collective intelligence route. And teaching is the fastest elevator for such leaps. @johanlind.bsky.social

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

From “WILD” to “WILDER”: A proposed extension to the “WILD” framework by Bandini et al www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Comment by Bandini et al in BBS 2026 that "highlight two key implications of adopting the WILD framework (Worldwide samples, study development In situ, focus on Local cultural practices and ethnotheories, and consider development as Diverse) and propose an extended version that addresses these considerations. Our extension (the acronym: “WILDER”) introduces two additional components: the assessment of potential carry-over effects (“Experience”) in small sample populations, where repeated testing of participants may be unavoidable; and testing multiple sub-groups (“Replication”) within each population to capture within-group variation."

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Dr. E Grace Veatch @egveatch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

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Alba Motes Rodrigo @albamotesr.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fresh ant news hot off the press! 🐜 In our new paper @ebiantonygeorge.com and I combined automated behavioural tracking of 660 ants with experimental injuries and infections to find out (1) who cares for open wounds in ant societies and (2) what drives them to do so. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Social and spatial affinity drive wound care in ants | PNAS

In social animals, open wounds pose a risk not only for the injured individual but also for its wider social context, especially when the probabili...

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Congrats! Semantic knowledge "acquired through experience and language" is important for levels of cultural evolution in humans today. Makes sense! Note here that the language route...

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

🎉🍾🥂Congratulations to our two most recent PhDs, Dr. G. Russo and Dr. C. Siali 👩‍🎓 Well done!!! @gabrieleru1.bsky.social

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

How many Andy Clark’s does it take to write a paper?

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance

Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

More on the classic pigeon cumulative culture study: "Cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons" - in models "propagating the best flight through social learning offered no additional advantage" elifesciences.org/articles/108...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

✨New opportunity✨ Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social! Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists

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Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Interesting thread - also, I did not know that Mercado wrote a book on topic(s). Re female song: as Nicole Creanza said in here recent @ces2026.bsky.social talk: female *bird* singing happens often, too (is simply underresearched).

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🚨Deadline approaching🚨 for this fully funded PhD-position at Uni Tübingen! Want to know more? ➡️ Get in touch!

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Charley Wu @thecharleywu.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Rob Boyd tracing the origins of Cultural Evolution as a field #CES2026

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James Winters @replicatedtypo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Back in the office after a fantastic CES-HBES conference. Big thanks to the organisers @matcharbonneau.bsky.social @anthrosarah.bsky.social @edseabright.bsky.social @zhgarfield.com & support team. Came away feeling motivated to get writing and researching! #CES2026 #HBES2026 @ces2026.bsky.social

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Chiara Pertile @chiarapertile.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#CES2026 is over - amazing days exploring new frontiers in animal culture and archaeology with so many talented people. Grateful to be in Rabat and happy to have presented my poster "Mapping Cultural Transmission in Human and Non-Human Primates" Thanks everyone - looking forward to the next CES✨

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What's really clear from today's #CES2026 - #HBES2026 panel is how much we've come to work together, across the evolutionary social & behavioral sciences. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder sums it up: "The gaps between evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, & cultural evolution have narrowed"

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