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Nic Thompson González

@nic-tg.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. Integrative Anthropological Sciences @ UCSB Sociality - Life history - Health - Primates. Co-Director Kakamega Monkey Project Dre's mom. She/They www.nicolethompsongonzalez.com

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Xavier Bonilla @xavierbonilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I am happy to share the conversation I had with @mgurven.bsky.social about the evolutionary aspects of humans living seven decades. Hope everyone enjoys! @princetonupress.bsky.social convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/449-living...
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#449 - Living for Seven Decades: A Dialogue with Michael Gurven
Listen now | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Michael Gurven about humans living for seven decades.
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26
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DrZP @zarahpattison.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Improving university policies and risk assessment to support inclusive fieldwork in environmental sciences
Among 90 UK higher education institutions, there was patchy mention of protected and other identity-related characteristics in fieldwork policy and risk assessments, and very limited consideration of....
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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Just one week away until SEVEN DECADES is born. Not too late to preorder (code PUP30 for discount): tinyurl.com/efpaxtex I hear from friends that the preorders are already arriving! @princetonupress.bsky.social
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences. Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are we great yet?
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 01/05/2025
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Trump v. Trump

A screengrab of Trump’s post from January 29, 2024: “THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP — EVERYTHING ELSE IS TERRIBLE (WATCH THE MIDDLE EAST!), AND RECORD SETTING INFLATION HAS ALREADY TAKEN ITS TOLL.
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”

A screengrab of Trump’s post from April 30, 2025: “This is Biden's Stock Market, not Trump's. I didn't take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden "Overhang." This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!”
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NEW: An NIH policy coming in the next week will target — and at least temporarily stop — funding outside the US, threatening thousands of projects and collaborations on topics like infectious diseases and cancer. Some NIH staff have already been told to hold all subaward funds for foreign labs.
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Exclusive: NIH to suspend funds for research abroad as it overhauls policy
Move by US biomedical agency threatens thousands of projects on infectious diseases, cancer and more.
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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵
The NSF building, photo courtesy of Duke University
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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity
We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.


We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. 


We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA


WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.


These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 New pub 🚨 On the energetics 🔋 of cellular immune activity 🦠 in juvenile arboreal primates 🐒 (not toads and snakes) and its costs 💸 in terms of growth 📈 in lean body mass 💪. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Costs and constraints of cellular immune activity during development in an arboreal primate | Royal Society Open Science
Evolutionary life history theory predicts that, during development, investment in immunity must be balanced with the demands of growth. How, and at what time scales, this balance is negotiated is unclear. In this study, we examined the potential energetic ...
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 08/04/2025
how good is your Rhythm Radar? 🥁 one of our honours cogsci students, Maxx Shearod, is keen to find out if metrical perception, the hierarchical processing of rhythms, is consistent across listeners globally help him find out at www.themusiclab.org/quizzes/down... [this game is in beta!]
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The Music Lab
We do citizen science to learn how the human mind creates and perceives music.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.
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Joseph Kilgallen @josephkilgallen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 “You Are Married by the Woman” explores how men’s support for women’s empowerment is understood in a fast-urbanizing Tanzanian community. If you're interested in gender, masculinity, and social change, check it out!
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“You are Married by the Woman”: Divergent Understandings of Men’s Support for Women’s Empowerment in Northwestern Tanzania - Joseph A. Kilgallen, Alexander M. Ishungisa, Pius Charles, Theresia Marco C...
Engaging men in women’s empowerment is a global priority, yet there is still limited understanding of how men’s support for women’s empowerment is conceptualize...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Letter from 21 legacy US Digital Service staff who resigned, saying they can no longer work for DOGE. "We will not use use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize American's sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services."
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This seems like a good time to re-up this take down of another recent attempt to tech-dredge words like “diversity” for political purposes. This kind of text-mining is very hard and they are very bad at it (sledgehammer, etc). academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Fundamental errors of data collection and validation undermine claims of ideological intensification in STEM
Efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at universities in the United States have emerged as another contentious issue in an increasingly
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.
Screenshot of a Washington Post article headline stating, 'Whole Foods says Trump’s actions make union win moot"
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/02/2025
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US
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HHMI kills program aimed at boosting inclusivity in STEM education
“Inclusive excellence” program had committed $60 million to 104 institutions
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 05/02/2025
35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority. (via @schatz.bsky.social)
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 04/02/2025
This is a clear case of work NSF scientists should refuse to do. Skip the meeting, call in sick, lose the email. Do not make a list of grants flagged because they mention "women" or "people of color." Don't. It's unethical.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"leadership [has nothing] to do with charisma...instead [it is] focused on substance and relationships, and [is] ultimately about building mutual trust and respect"
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/02/2025
TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
If you can, do something, speak up and act up. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”
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Michael Gurven @mgurven.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Well-being trajectories of older adults look different in absence of retirement, institutionalized income & social security. For source paper, see: tinyurl.com/3u5cc5nv
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Subjective well-being across the life course among non-industrialized populations
Subjective well-being in small-scale subsistence-oriented societies shows variable trajectories over adulthood.
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Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Congrats, Baptiste!!!
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Phyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪🐒
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A Friendlier “Kinda” Social System: Male Kinda Baboons Invest in Long‐Term Social Bonds With Females
Objectives Certain group-living mammals—including many primates—exhibit affiliative relationships between sexes that persist past copulation. Relationships between females and males in baboons (Papi.....
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Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Damnit.
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Sofia Carrera @sccarrera.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive @jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social
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Stress responsiveness in a wild primate predicts survival across an extreme El Niño drought
White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/01/2025
I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled. Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security. This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.
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Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE)
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Primate Behavioral Ecology @primbehavecol.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Timing matters for maternal effects on offspring HPA-axis in wild macaque. New paper out from the Assamese macaque Project at Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary! link here 👇👇 tinyurl.com/yc6k5dvf @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @unigoettingen.bsky.social @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de
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Franklin Leonard @franklinleonard.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Permanent mood.
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
My academic grandmother.
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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
SANTA FE INSTITUTE RESIDENT FACULTY SEARCH CALL FOR APPLICATIONS santafe.edu/about/jobs/r...
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sfiscience
SFI seeks applications for full-time, 12-month resident faculty positions at all academic levels.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I wrote the latest cover story for The Atlantic. It's about the far-ranging implications of one simple statistic: Americans have never spent so much time alone, and surging solitude is warping our society. I'm really proud of it, and I hope you read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Nic Thompson González @nic-tg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
For folks on the market in social sciences.
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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I'm looking for guest speakers (paid, awaiting funding) for my Primate Behavior class. I'm hoping to find a couple people who work with primates in different settings (zoo, lab, field). Preference for in-country (field), historically excluded, & student/early career primatologists. Please reach out!
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Terrific illustration of Simpson’s paradox, a not uncommon stumbling block in data analysis, via @tah-sci.bsky.social In the whole dataset, the relationship between X and Y is negative, but the relationship between X and Y is actually positive, once proper subsets of the data are considered.
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"analyses indicate that monogamous marriage is not consistently associated with better outcomes for children...challenging prevailing assumptions about monogamy & offering insights into diverse ways in which children’s welfare is supported across sociocultural settings" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Little evidence that nonmonogamous family structures are detrimental to children’s well-being in Mpimbwe, Tanzania | PNAS
Nuclear family structures are often thought to be essential for the well-being of children. Divorce, the loss of either biological parent, the pres...
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Birds have complex social lives; they pair-up, divorce and repair, but we know very little about when and how these relationships form. New work from Daisy Abraham & Josh Firth on Wytham Woods Great Tits shows that divorce happens early - probably soon after breeding www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pairing events analysed in a wild population of Great Tits by Abraham et al. (2024). Figure shows the different ways that pairs of birds associate between years for faithful, divorcing, newly pairing adults and newly pairing juveniles. Figure showing seasonal change in association rates in wild population of Great Tits studied by Abraham et al. (2024). Figure shows the different seasonal patterns of association for faithful, divorcing, newly pairing adults and newly pairing juveniles.
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