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Paddy Tkaczynski

@paddytkaczynski.bsky.social
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Behavioural ecologist at LJMU, UK. Studying how non-human primates grow up, how they make friends & their plasticity to the goings on of human primates (plasticprimateslab.com)

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 16h
📰Published📰Activity patterns of roe deer mothers is linked to their reproductive success across habitats and conditions🦌 buff.ly/zwIpz9w 🧪🌍️
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Activity patterns of roe deer mothers is linked to their reproductive success across habitats and conditions
L. Monica Trondrud, Jean-Michel Gaillard, Nadège C. Bonnot, Nicolas Morellet, Yannick Chaval, Arnaud Bonnet, Bruno Lourtet, A. J. Mark Hewison This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecolo…
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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maternity Cover role in Environmental Anthropology at UCL, within our Biological Anthropology section. We are a nice bunch - Apply by 7th October! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
29th September 2026, Forrest Rogers, Princeton University, USA Title: Agouti integrates environmental cues to regulate male parental behavior in African striped mice www.youtube.com/channel/UClX... wits-za.zoom.us/j/9621610834...
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Wild Animal Initiative @wildanimals.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📣 Call for proposals! Wild Animal Initiative funds research that advances the field of wild animal welfare science. We're now accepting EOIs for grants ranging from $30k to $200k, plus applications for our Fellowship Program. Learn more about project criteria and submit your EOI by October 31:
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Grants — Wild Animal Initiative
Our Research Grants and Fellowship Program are changing. Details will be announced mid-September. Sign up here to receive an email when the changes are announced.
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Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨Master’s project position available 🚨 Train gibbons to use touch screens as part of comparative and affective neuroscience research
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Nora Slania @noraslania.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‼️Field work position ‼️ We are looking for a research assistant for chimpanzee field work in Cote d'Ivoire, starting November. 🐵🌳📹 Have field experience, speak French, and want to study chimps with us? Take a look and reach out!
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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.
Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"
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Dr Lia Betti @liabetti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come and join our team at UCL Anthropology! Part-time (80%) fixed-term teaching post in Environmental Anthropology, December 2026-March 2028. Deadline 7 October!
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Job: Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology at @ucdavis.bsky.social. Great department. Great university. Great students. Really great colleagues. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07904
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Wales Ecology & Evolution Network is advertising its annual WEEN conference, featuring PSGB's own @alexvgeorgiev.bsky.social as a Keynote speaker! Don't miss your chance to register!
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Get your pencils and paintbrushes ready because it’s time for the PSGB T-Shirt Contest! 🎨 Are you skilled with watercolours or experienced with digital art? Want to contribute to the conservation, research, and captive care of primate species? This is your chance! (See 🧵)
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are delighted to announce that Sir Stephen Fry is the new patron for the Primate Society of Great Britain! 🎉
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Dominik Deffner @dominikdeffner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now published in @natcomms.nature.com! Using a 3D immersive-reality group experiment, we show how people integrate dynamically changing personal and social cues in realistic environments, resulting in either collective intelligence or maladaptive behavior! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Camille Troisi @camilletroisi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Super mega stocked to share this ⭐new review ⭐ on the impact of urbanisation on social learning. tinyurl.com/2pt6s6zs
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Client Challenge
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Mikko Tuomi @mustapipa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity @anthropocenebio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're looking for a postdoc to work on biodiversity and land use modelling. You will adapt and develop an existing land use and food system modelling and decision-support tool to incorporate biodiversity and land use. Find out more and apply by 14 Oct: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
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Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm so excited to finally see the special issue "Addressing Biases in Animal Behaviour" fully published: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu.... Huge thanks to my brilliant co-editors @viveknityananda.bsky.social & @nicolakoyama.bsky.social. Special issue grew from @asab.org's 2024 Winter Meeting 🧵
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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How does seasonal scarcity shape cooperation & defection in the use of natural resources? New study from #Pemba shows how seasonal fluctuations lead to illegal resource extraction, shedding light on the enduring human challenge of managing the commons. tinyurl.com/3k79uccd & doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
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Seasonal scarcity and the challenge of preserving natural resources
New study shows how predictable income shortfalls can put shared forests under pressure
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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks.
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 18/09/2026
🐦‍⬛🎥 Check out this teaser! Join Dr. Thomas Bugnyar (uni. of Vienna, Austria) for a fascinating talk on:💬 “Testing social cognition in birds: lessons from ravens” 📆 Tuesday 29 Sept. 2026 at 2:00 PM GMT 📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQoB... 💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Andy J. Green @drandygreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We have a 4 year PhD position available @ebdonana.bsky.social in our project “Connecting key wetland sites through waterbirds: implications for plant populations”. We seek candidates with interest in plant ecology, waterbirds and/or movement ecology. Details attached @sibecol.bsky.social
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own. Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think. We must not give away that gift. doi.org/10.1002/fee....
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Thinking like a mountain in the age of AI
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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Human habitat makes foxes move more! Wait, what? But I thought that mammals move less with increased human footprint. Well, it is probably a matter of scale - a thread about our new publication in @ecol-evol.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/NMFBDQ... @odedberger-tal.bsky.social 🐾🧪🌎
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Use of Human Habitat in an Extreme Desert by the Generalist Red Fox: Risk and Energy Considerations
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Natasha Gillies @tashgillies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New paper in @animalecology.bsky.social!📝http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70350 Coordination is thought to be key to the success of biparental care, but we don’t know how this varies with species’ ecology 🍃 We explore: how important is partner coordination & does this depend on environment? 🏞️
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Jay Gallagher @jay-gallagher.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🐟🚨 New paper! 🚨🐟 Where do behavioral differences come from? Early life environment clearly matters... ...or not? Early environment affected behavior, but NOT how different individuals became from each other. Those differences were seeded before birth through factors OTHER than genetic variation 🤯
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Born This Way: Individuality Is Seeded Before Birth and Robust to Ecological Stress
We reared and recorded behaviours of clonal Amazon mollies in standardized environments, with and without predation stress, from birth through week four of life, to understand how the developmental e...
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Paddy Tkaczynski @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🦍🚨 Happy to see this paper out!: "Variation in the timing of developmental milestones in Gorilla does not support the ecological risk aversion hypothesis": tinyurl.com/3y4k93zs It is my 1st collab with the Gorilla Group at MPI (tinyurl.com/4vsry4f9) and was a lot of fun to work with some 🦍 data!
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Annette Fayet @annettefayet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#Puffin chicks from different colonies have different gut microbes, but these differences disappear by adulthood—suggesting the environment is important in shaping the gut #microbiome early in life. New paper led by @eveliinahanski.bsky.social Link: tinyurl.com/4t7senvx #seabirds #ornithology
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ASAB @asab.org · 15/09/2026
Don't forget that grant applications (attendance, accessibility, childcare) for the joint #ASABWinter2026 meeting with PSGB 🐒 @asabpsgb2026.bsky.social are due in 2 weeks (⏰ October 1!) 🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰🏃💰 More info: www.asab.org/conference-g...
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Conference Attendance Grants — ASAB
Conference Attendance Grants help PhD students and others with limited funds to attend ASAB conferences and workshops
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 PhD position in human, nonhuman primate, and/or dog cognition! I am thrilled to be reviewing applicants this year for a new PhD student to join the Social & Cognitive Origins Group in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins @jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social 1/
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Richard Moore @richardmoore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The call for papers for the 2027 PAMBA meeting at the University of Warwick is now live. We will update our own website with more information in the coming days, but in the meantime here is the PhilEvents page. philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Call for Papers - PAMBA 2027
CALL FOR PAPERSThe Philosophy of Animal Minds and Behaviour Association (PAMBA) invites submissions of abstracts for its 2027 biennial meeting, which will be held at the University of Warwick on April...
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ACE Research Grant Alert 🚨! CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support early career research projects in cultural evolution. The award is open to applicants worldwide, with an application deadline of October 9th 2026, 9:00 AM AoE. Applications: forms.gle/dsLdKQuNBH4W...
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ACE Early Career Research Grants
CES will give out two awards of up to $3000 each to support research projects in cultural evolution. To learn more about the Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) initiative, see here. Deadline: Appli...
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Big job opportunity in Johannesburg - Director of the Evolutionary Studies Institute at Wits University: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
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UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG
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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 07/09/2026
Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!
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Call for expressions of interest: PhD position
The Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation is about to publish a call for pre-doctoral scholarships (FPI) adhered to scientific projects that have been approved for funding in 2026. We invite …
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 03/09/2026
Call for proposals! Journal of Applied Ecology (@jappliedecology.bsky.social), People and Nature (@peopleandnature.bsky.social), and Journal of Animal Ecology (@animalecology.bsky.social) have just launched a new cross-journal Special Feature 🦠
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ASAB @asab.org · 07/09/2026
ICYMI at #ECBB2026... it has been announced that #ECBB2028 will be in Dublin Ireland🇮🇪 and the conference dinner will be at the Guinness Storehouse!🤩🤯 What about 2027? ECBB alternates every other year with Behaviour (which will be next summer in Vienna, follow @behaviour2027.bsky.social for details)
Slide reading "conference dinner location: Guinness storehouse." Photo collage of Guinness storehouse from outside, shiny glass inside, barrels stacked, city view.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/09/2026
2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
2026. Animal Social Network Structures Across the Fast-Slow Continuum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Animal Social Network Structures Across the Fast‐Slow Continuum
Using a mathematical model, we examine how the rate of demographic replacement (represented by generation time) influences emergent social network structure in natural populations. By considering a r...
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Avery Maune @averymaune.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social
Three common wall lizards basking next to each other on a stone wall in an urban habitat in Croatia.
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Klementyna Gawecka @klementynag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Habitat loss and fragmentation reshape host-parasite eco-evolutionary dynamics Intact landscapes dilute parasites and homogenise coevolutionary trajectories Fragmented landscapes promote divergent coevolutionary dynamics, raising the risk of new parasite variants emerging doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
More evidence from ancient DNA for matriliny, this time from northeast England www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal organisation and recurrent unions between dominant matrilines in Iron Age Britain
Kinship practices underpin all traditional societies, forming the basis for socially sanctioned reproductive unions, residence patterns and the inheritance of rights and property[1][1],[2][2]. Althoug...
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All four books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use: - Bayesian Workflow at avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... Links to other three books are in the quoted post 👇 (too many books to fit in one post!)
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Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book
Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Prof Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🚨New post🚨 Three brain myths that need to die nicholaraihani.substack.com/p/three-brai...
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Three brain myths that need to die
Did you know that your blood passes through your kidneys roughly 300 times per day?
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Big congrats to @morfjoe.bsky.social on this exciting new paper in Science Advances! We provide evidence that larger flocks of migratory birds navigate more accurately toward their target direction than smaller ones
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Two postdoc positions at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna in the research area of human-animal interactions: www.vetmeduni.ac.at/fileadmin/v/...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
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Angela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
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Alexei Maklakov @alexeimaklakov.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Trade-offs Between Intergenerational and Transgenerational Effects: experimental data and demographic simulation model of multigenerational trade-offs in evolution: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects
Abstract. Intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects can shape evolutionary processes. Theoretically, however, intergenerational and transgene
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