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Tim Waring

@twaring.bsky.social
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I study the evolution of human culture with a focus on environmental behaviors and institutions and an eye toward helping these become more sustainable on a single, limited planet. timwaring.info

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Lottie Gasparini @lottiegasp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Listen below to a podcast I did about how to help create social change amongst your circle of influence for important issues like animals, the environment, and social justice 🌱🌿🌳🐣🦥🐳
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Goddard Riverside @goddardriverside.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congrats to Somebody Should Do Something by @michaelbrownstein.bsky.social, @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social! It is shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. #GoddardBookPrizes
The book cover plus the words Announcing the 2026 Shortlist
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 25/09/2026
Counterpoint: lol no
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The more young people use AI, the more they hate it
Caught between fears of job loss and social stigma, Gen Z’s opinions of AI are hitting new lows.
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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨 Applied Cultural Evolution Brownbag Series 🚨 Two inaugural discussions: Oct 7 What is (uniquely) applied cultural evolution? Caroline Graf, U. Zurich Dec 9 What can cultural evolution offer climate adaptation practitioners? Christine Lindell, World Vision Australia tinyurl.com/3st6zy79
A black and white image of a tattoo design featuring a human brain with wings pierced by two diagonal arrows over a flying banner that reads "Applied Cultural Evolutionists"
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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself. @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Call for papers
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not a surprise. But neat to see.
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laserhedvig @laserhedvig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interdisciplinary research is great and necessary, and also has consistently lower funding success www.nature.com/articles/nat... #academiclabourmarket #academia #research
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Got disinvited today because the media involved decided that "everything had already been said" about the race science topic and that they would rather focus on "the broader question" of "culture wars" and "academic freedom". Which of course is the framing that the race scientists want
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Nathan Douglas @tenesm.us · 05/08/2026
I don't even understand what I'm thinking until I write it out.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe told Democracy Docket that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/09/2026
There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.
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Susan Collins Casts Major Anti-Abortion Vote 6 Weeks Out From Election
The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.
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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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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Roope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 11/09/2026
Apply to be my boss at @hcas.bsky.social: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
😂 That's exactly how I feel
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/09/2026
Cybernetics is really useful for saying things like "cybernetics talks about this" without providing further insight
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 17,180 cases across 48 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,700 measles cases (including 2 recent deaths) — a 35 year high. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
someone give Oops All Paperclips a compute cluster and 10 million dollars
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Tony Colletti @tonyc007.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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invertebrate @crevicedwelling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
talking about vertebrates like how people talk about invertebrates: I saw a blue jay today! This beautiful bird is native to North America. While its bite is painful, it is nonvenomous & harmless to humans. Unlike most tetrapods, the gray squirrel broods its young internally and gives live birth!
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New paper in our special collection on scientific racism: Hereditarians consistently fail to engage with academic research, not just in genetics but also social science. @jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social explains how they largely ignore the social brain hypothesis for the evolution of intelligence
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How the social brain hypothesis undermines hereditarianism | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
How the social brain hypothesis undermines hereditarianism
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The smaller human in this photo (photographed here in 2009) just got the A levels she needs to study paleontology. She’s been through *a lot* but her love of ancient dead things turned to stone never wavered. Below is part of the tiny museum she made when she was 10. My heart’s bursting a bit rn. ❤️🐚
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Government destroys very successful export market, just to appease ignorant racists. As ever.
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us through the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship in EEB! Conduct your own research, mentored by 2+ EEB faculty. $65k salary + research/moving $. All areas of EEB welcome. Apply by 11/1 I co-chair this search and am happy to field questions Spread the word! eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship - Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
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Steffen Rayburn-Maarup @rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
A town sign seen through a train window.
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charlesefferson.bsky.social @charlesefferson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This fall, the Dept of Ecology and Evolution @ the Univ of Lausanne will be looking for an associate professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution. If that sounds like you, please apply. CH is an outstanding place to live and work. ⛰️🚄🔥 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...
Postdoc and PhD positions at MPIAE in Frankfurt
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California Public Banking Alliance @capublicbanking.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
CPBA’s @trinitytran.bsky.social breaks it down. CA is the world’s 4th-largest economy, yet we pay billions in interest & fees to Wall Street banks and private investors. North Dakota’s economy is just 1/50th our size. Its public bank returned $335M to the state last year. Imagine our potential!
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Vermont Representative Becca Balint is a former teacher, state legislator, and the daughter of a working-class mother and immigrant father. Here, Balint talks about the Green Mountain Boys, the Vermont militia known for its heroics during the Revolutionary War. #WeAreAmerica250
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026
NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Oops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Natural selection videos don't compress well because they tend to be more chaotic and busy.😡 This one is so pretty but got pretty mangled. Maybe I'll do some tighter zooms at slow speeds to go along with these timelapse overviews...
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Richard Feynman said: "If you can't explain something to a child, you don't really understand it." And, this is the key to all good scientific writing.
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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I had a paper accepted and learned that PNAS got rid of their free, “closed access” (preprint ok) option - they now charge at least $3K to publish because they are greedy little pigs who have no shame.
PNAS charges $5575 for immediate access at $3925 for delayed open access, because they are greedy pigs without shame.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump is promoting a Michael Savage video calling for democratic socialism to be made a crime and its leaders deported. I’m noting this in case anyone has any doubt that Trump wants to rule as a dictator. We need to take this stuff seriously.
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Stanford AAUP @stanfordaaup.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
New NSF policy essential bans all collaboration with Chinese scientists. This is another disaster for science. www.science.org/content/arti...
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New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists
Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions
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Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🚨 Fully funded PhD position in Berlin 🚨 Come investigate levelling behaviors in 🐟🐥🐒 will involve conducting experiments on real and robotic fish as well as analyzing long-term databases on birds and mammals. More info here: www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit...
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Smiling Puffer Fish in the Ocean
ALT: Smiling Puffer Fish in the Ocean
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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!
Job announcement of two positions at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt: postdoc (Macroevolution of European Literature) and PhD student (Computational Literary Studies). Successful candidates will be affiliated with the research group Cultural Evolution of the Arts.
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Science's sources inside the NSF said the agency might be siphoning off the $$ for a $1.5 billion tech initiative called X-Labs. Here's @policyhound.bsky.social's original article and thread with the details:
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Charles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Last chance to apply !
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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 24/06/2026
New paper with Ángel Jiménez, @keith-jensen.bsky.social, Lei Chang and Hui Jing Lu Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Limited evidence that reputation-based partner choice facilitates information sharing in humans
Abstract. A necessary prerequisite for the accumulation of beneficial knowledge, or ‘cumulative cultural evolution’, is the sharing of information via soci
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Jeanne Bovet @jeannebovet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association is planning an online global event in 2028! Fill in the form below if you're interested in getting involved! @ehbea.bsky.social
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Puffer Fish Say 'Join Us!'
ALT: Puffer Fish Say 'Join Us!'
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 14/06/2026
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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our latest episode of Transmissions is out! This one features Prof. Dr. Lucy Aplin, a leading cognitive ecologist from the University of Zurich and Australian National University. This marks our very first episode dedicated entirely to understanding animal culture! youtu.be/M7qCTKRNVuA?...
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Transmissions Episode 6 with Dr Lucy Aplin
YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society
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