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Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

this could be partially addressed by solving of the perennial absurdities of academia: the blatant double dipping by publishers. they get paid to publish content, and again by institutions to access that content. if this model were broken, it would free up funds for other costs, indirect & otherwise

just learned about this a few days ago, and have watched the signature count shoot from 600k to over 900k in no time. At 1m signatures, the petition is brought to Brussels. Also v proud to see Ireland over-represented in the breakdown 🇮🇪

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

for my followers who hold EU citizenship (and a conscience) to consider signing. "Democratic" isn't really the first adjective that comes to mind when I think of the EU, but this is one of the few democratic levers that we can pull to effect change. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Very good one

Whenever someone says "there are no civilians in [country]," they are making an argument for genocide.

Some reports say over 500 schools, 55 libraries, & 25 universities hit.
You can debate the numbers, but hitting Sharif University & Beheshti is like hitting MIT & Stanford. I keep wondering: How would the scientific community respond differently if it was those universities? What’s the difference?

New preprint alert!! Accepted to CVPR 2026, we present the CHIRP dataset, a task-diverse computer vision dataset on Siberian jays. arxiv.org/abs/2603.25524
@cbehav.bsky.social

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Under CoPilot settings -> Privacy -> Disable

Allow #GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to train and improve AI models

Disable.

Absolutely massive

Workshop on Animal Social Evolution! July 13th-15th, Heraklion (Greece)

We are inviting early-career researchers from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean to a hands-on, three-day workshop dedicated to methods and tools in social behaviour and evolution

marinapapa.github.io/TRASEworksho...

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

What a pre-conference workshop on Bayesian statistical methods—a powerful toolkit for our community! 📊

Many thanks to Daniel Redhead and Ramona Roller for guiding us through STRAND and to Michael Chimento for the introduction to STbayes.

And thank you to all participants for their energy! 🙌

due to a frustration at a lack of what could be described as a "bodybuilding forum for information science professionals" i decided to make a discord. then everyone clowned on me and told me to make an oldschool bbs. so i did. presenting scope and content:
scopeandcontent.com/forum/
join + share!

great can't wait to tao lin my r package on your boards

Animal social network inference and permutations for ecologists in R using asnipe The sampling of animals for the purpose of measuring associations and interactions between individuals has led to the development of several statistical methods to deal with biases inherent in the...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... i always used Damien's asnipe library for the GMMs, described here. the GMM could be rewritten and customized for your use case in stan or otherwise

And if you had an automated method for classifying vocalization types, you could make a group by individual (groups being temporal clusters, individuals being call types) matrix to estimate co-occurrence rates of call types

Not acoustic data, but could be generalized: We use GMMs to identify flocking events from fixed RFID readers that poll several times per second. Could apply the same to onset events to cluster vocalizations, adjusting priors to dial in the correct timescale resolution.

Just over a week left to apply for this PhD project (unfortunately UK students only). If you're interested then please get in touch!

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soundcloud.com/tek_cashay/c... deep cutz for a lazy saturday

it could be that too, the email was so vaguely worded. i didn't reply, don't need another rabbit hole. but it was sus

i got this as well, in collaboration with sussex. seems like they're trying to farm content to train a model to evaluate grants? not quite sure

Very happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉

We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟

Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)

Want to gain hands-on experience using STBayes?

Join our pre-conference workshop on 25/02, led by @mchimento.bsky.social 🤩

Studying social transmission using STbayes Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

New blog post!!🚨

Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪

Read the blog here 👇

The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr

"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Want to socialise ahead of the conference? Join the Early Career Researchers drinks on the evening of 25th/02! 🍻 An excellent opportunity to meet fellow researchers in a relaxed way. Contact us to join.

Reminder: conference and workshop registration is still open (forms on our website) 🔎

There is still some time to submit for our Special Collection on social cognition and anthropogenic environments! We are looking forward to hear from you! link.springer.com/collections/... Please do get in touch if you have any questions.
#openaccess #socialcognition

Happy New Year from the Culture Conference organisers 🎉 We wish you a year filled with kindness, curiosity, and fruitful research.

We still have a few spots available for presentations. Feel free to send us your abstract if you’d like to share your work with us in February!