Large cutting tools persisting into the MSA… not surprising if some of them were indeed axes

This means more curve-based grading. I’ve had students complain when grades are curved about “being forced to compete”, at which point the etymology of the word “excellent” (to rise above) is relevant. And of course, the ubiquity of competition.

Yeah, even with a healthy background in computer science, reading Stan code makes me angry. AI is really changing things for the better in niches like this (and of course posing other risks).

Feeling blue? Here are the named ggplot2 colors in the blue part of the spectrum.

Have you yet seen the emails Trivers sent thanking him for tens of thousands of dollars? That is how.

… or 3) step away from the lever and take pictures of the oncoming trolley while chaos unfolds?

Noam Chomsky telling a billionaire to do his homework

2/2 randomly searching "bees" I discover Noam Chomsky putting Epstein's pseudo-profound bullshit in check

1/2 My lord, the new searchable Jeffrey Epstein library is a voyeuristic treasure trove for historians, cultural critiques, psychologists, and sociologists of science. Search your keyword of choice here and behold www.justice.gov/epstein.

Interesting topic, and publication, but the title of this post needs work. Parenting skills are a stand-alone question of phenotype, and do not entail any particular model of inheritance.

Native stingless honey bees have reportedly been given legal rights in parts of Peru. bit.ly/3Yur3Hs. Important "legal first" or a performative fools errand? How will they be legally represented? What level of bee-harming honey-harvesting by people is considered just? Who decides, who enforces?

Thank you! I've sadly dropped long form writing at the moment, and moved to in-class writing (paper response essays) and in class exams. I don't want the college essay to die, however, so I have mixed feelings about only assigning short-form writing in class. I haven't tried oral exams yet.

Curious what instructions regarding AI use you give to students writing papers.

The criteria for accommodations should be narrowed, ADHD and anxiety and depression should be the first to be reviewed. What else could be done?

Dear Professor, Can I please look at my midterm one more time?

Robot behaviorism. H1: "teleoperator taking off VR goggles" gesture. Makes hilarious sense. But the shaking head of the robot as it falls? H2: A (failed) "double fisting beverages" gesture, without teleoperation.

The "constitute" part would be, let's just say, a challenge.

Your question assumes a false dichotomy. Tests are usually designed both to assess learning, and the ability of a student to focus and finish a task within a certain amount of time.

Accommodation Nation America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.

"At Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Amherst, that figure is 34 percent." Accommodation Nation:
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Great bit of historical context.

Sex differences in health burdens across the lifespan in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) AbstractBackground and Objectives. Understanding health and aging in one of our closest relatives, wild chimpanzees, provides key insights into the evoluti

This study provides fundamental insights into aging, health burdens and sex differences of such in chimpanzees. Invaluable for understanding how humans evolved such long lives. health burdens across the lifespan in wild chimpanzees @apesemory.bsky.social academic.oup.com/emph/article...

Jolie, an adult female chimpanzee of the Ngogo community in Kibale National Park, Uganda, with sleeping infant son, Zawinul. CREDIT: Kevin Langergraber

After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY

Going straight into my in-development “Cannibalism” lecture, warfare lectures, thank you

Yes. A split by half is a great idea. I've taught three seminars based on your book and for a variety of reasons, it was necessary to scale back approximately like this.

Female fertility and infant survivorship increase following lethal intergroup aggression and territorial expansion in wild chimpanzees | PNAS Lethal coalitionary intergroup aggression is a conspicuous aspect of wild chimpanzee behavior. Evidence indicates that such violence can lead to te...

In 2008, after killing many of their neighbors, Ngogo chimpanzees expanded their territory. Female fertility then doubled, and infant mortality plummeted. Adaptive violence in our ape cousins, documented in this new paper. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Nice post, uncle!

AI broke the college essay, and in-class writing is the new (old) way to go. Thus, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is key for grading student writing. I just compared the OCR output of the venerable Adobe Acrobat product to that of Gemini. Adobe is AWFUL. LLM problem, LLM solution.

RIP Jane Goodall. Two of the most inspirational books I've ever read are her works: "In the Shadow of Man" and "Chimpanzees of Gombe". Now teaching at UCLA, I honor her, her work, and what she stood for. Thank you Jane for a life so well lived, and for your example.

Maybe just maybe consider controlling for age? There are a host of other potential confounders and unmeasured factors to consider, in keeping with good scientific practice in #Sociology and the study of #Population

What an interesting study! Can’t wait to read it.

Well done Luke!