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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sorry, missing the most important isolated group. "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" stands alone, pristine, elegant and undefeated. "I understand only Train Station"

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Michalis Averof @michalis-averof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waddington's epigenetic landscape at the Biennale d'Art Contemporain in Lyon (though not what the artist, Miguel Rothchild, intended to portray ;)

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Jorge Peña 🇵🇸 @jorgeapenas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This calls for reappraising the "leading eight" moral systems first identified by Ohtsuki & Iwasa (2004). All are stable in prisoner's dilemmas, but only L2 and L6 are consistent. Only L2 (contrite discriminator + Consistent Standing) is stable in every dilemma, making it the "leading one". 5/6

Table of cooperation and stability indices with rare errors, shaded darker for lower values. Top: the four consistent discriminating systems all cooperate fully. Consistent CDISC scores 1 (fully stable) in prisoner's dilemmas, snowdrift games and stag hunts. Consistent DISC scores 2/3 in snowdrift games, and consistent ODISC and PDISC score 2/3 in prisoner's dilemmas. Bottom: the leading eight all score 1 in prisoner's dilemmas. Only L2 (CDISC, Consistent Standing) scores 1 everywhere. L6 scores 2/3 in snowdrift games, and the other six score 0 in snowdrift games, stag hunts or both.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Saw great truncated, cut tree ladders in a local culture museum in Greece the other day, which were neat:

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence @humanorigins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📣 New opportunity! Come work with us as Postdoctoral researcher for the Ethics Laboratory, a fully funded position for three years to develop ethical standards and best practices for research in human origins! More: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

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Job advertisment: Postdoctoral researcher for the Ethics Laboratory (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jup the extra light is surely a major factor (human primates have also extremely odd sleep patterns - prob due to this).

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, and I think Planer and Sterelny cite her 2014 paper. It's been a while since I read that paper myself. If (!) I remember correctly it was more about what is talked about near fire, not so much about the evol of language itself.

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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

To me, this fits also with a late evidence of widespread fire use www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... [Quick note: the archaeological data clearly goes against Wrangham's (early) cooking hypothesis] (3/3)

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On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe | PNAS

The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue, with claims for regular fire use by early hominins in Africa at &sim;1.6 million y ag...

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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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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Someone proposed us. But no.

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We once failed to replicate an IgNobel study...

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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

Flexible compositionality is important for language. Finding it in apes would certainly matter for language evolution research. Claims need robust tests & reliable data, theory anchors etc. Did we show that bonobos /other apes never do this? No. Yet, we should be careful b4 concluding that they do.

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

We then reanalysed the original data, using an improved test (permutation plus weighted MCA). Did a combinational call pattern stand out from chance? It did not. We conclude that the original data dooes not provide evidence for compositional meaning.

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

We fed the same MCA pipeline data for which we knew it contained no real signal (randomized data). Yet this returned “significant” patterns in *84.3% of cases*, when we applied the original missing data patterns.

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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

Yes even that happens now not too infrequently. Once i had to transfer from a completely dark train via some kind of impromptu train bridge to another train in the middle of nowhere. I tried to reach my destination via bus today. It was not possible. Flixbus beats trains these days.

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

No problem. Looks like I now have some time, for some reason.

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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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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You should come and look at them, Iain :-)

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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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