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Tom Holding

@verwirrt.bsky.social

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Postdoc at MPI EVA Leipzig, developing agent-based modelling tools for cultural evolution and demography

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Tom Holding @verwirrt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

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Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings

: Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Starting the week strong 💪 we share now the plenary talk of @heidicolleran.bsky.social, which was part of @ehbea2025.bsky.social Here, she talks about the misconceptions and the biases behind the idea of “natural fertility”👶 Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned! youtu.be/8Ch1t7zpW10?...

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Heidi Colleran - EHBEA 2025

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

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Tom Holding @verwirrt.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Humans can see light polarisation! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

Seeing polarization of light with the naked eye

Many readers may know that scores of animal species sense the polarization of light for purposes including navigation, predation, and communication1. …

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Elspeth Ready @elspethready.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Today in the USA, women are TWICE as likely to DIE giving birth than their mothers were a generation ago. And TRUMP's War on Women continues with ending the landmark Women's Health Study: www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

New paper with @lottybrand.bsky.social and @verwirrt.bsky.social. We use some cool modeling to argue for a central role of analogy in the evolution of both language and high-fidelity social learning, using multiple NK landscapes. Feedback welcome. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Tom Holding @verwirrt.bsky.social · 13/05/2024

Campaign for cross-border financial support for safe abortions within the EU www.myvoice-mychoice.org

myvoice-mychoice.org

My Voice, My Choice

Movement for safe and accessible abortion in Europe. Join us and be a part of change for Europe that is free, equal, and just for all. Together we are stronger.

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Heidi Colleran @heidicolleran.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Sigh. ☹️

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Tom Holding @verwirrt.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

As hostile as the internet sometimes seems, I still love that it's full of old articles where someone has spent unreasonable time to explain random things to strangers in great depth. A whirlwind tour of algorithms for sampling discrete probability distributions: keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-c...

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Tom Holding @verwirrt.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Backup career: Ornithomancer! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornitho...

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

New paper on voter fraud conspiracy theories out! We found evidence that the spread of voter fraud tweets during the 2020 US election was boosted by a bias for negative emotion (w/ @albertoacerbi.bsky.social, Morin, Stubbersfield, and Glassman) 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election - ...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election

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Tom Holding @verwirrt.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

@madele.bsky.social

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