Do you work in the Global South? @biologists.bsky.social is seeking Workshop proposals for their 2028 programme from researchers based in Global South countries. The Company is looking for an exciting proposal to bring a Workshop to your region. Find out more at
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Last chance to apply to join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist working on our #ClimateChange research portfolio! Apply online at www.bto.org/jobs
📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April.
📝 £44,637 per annum. #Ornithology
Here's a novel idea: why don't the major journal publishers use some of their vast profits to expand their research ethics and integrity teams, and speed up handling the vast numbers of problematic studies piling up? pubpeer.com
2026. Viability selection on coat spot patterns correlates with temperature anomalies in Masai giraffes. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Scientific Reports, Plos One, Royal Society Open Science, & PeerJ - what does AI advise? ⬇️
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📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
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#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds
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🎙️ New Meet the P.I. podcast episode with Anna Stöckl @anna-stoeckl.bsky.social is out!
From vision to interdisciplinary science, navigating new fields, dealing with rejection, and finding your own path ✨
🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1DGh...
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemB...
📆 Tuesday 28th April 2026 at 2pm GMT
📍 Live on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oioL...
💡 Free & open to all – no registration needed!
📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2026 📣
Our first seminar of the year is coming up fast! 🐜🐝
🎥 Check out this teaser! Come listen to Dr. Anna Dornhaus ( @dornhaus.bsky.social ) to hear about “What we learned about the world from studying collective behavior: algorithms, replicators, and strong inference”
For an explanation of our results and a video of the experiment you can have a look at this news article: www.uu.nl/en/news/in-o...
Happy to see the last empirical chapter of my PhD in print. We used eye-tracking to investigate whether orang-utans showed an attentional bias towards pictures of flanged males. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
Really happy to see this paper out. Read Emile's thread for some background on our study ☺️
Bonobos bully as much as chimpanzees—but their victims differ by sex, according to new #ScienceAdvances research. https://scim.ag/4sgXciX
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NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them.
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www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...
I’ve known Lebanon for three decades. What’s happening now is an invasion.
This is Gaza 2.0 – and the world is barely paying attention.
@CaroleCadwalladr for the Nerve
Link 🔽
It builds on Alice’s great deep dive for @goodlawproject.org on how Orban’s thinktanks funded by Russian oil pay vast sums to Roger Scuton Legacy Foundation (whose directors include Michael Gove & James Orr) + £10k/month to Britain’s favourite AI-enhanced failed politician MattGPT
Could MattGPT face scrutiny under the UK’s ‘proceeds of crime’ law? The British right is awash with money from Orban thinktanks…which Hungary’s new PM says was stolen.
Brilliant deep dive into Orban’s vast UK network by @McCoolingtons
for @thenerve_news. 👏
You need to read this.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game.
V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice.
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This one just runs and runs….
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Still, if RSLF does lose its Hungarian cash, it's not short of rich and powerful friends it could call instead. Palantir founder Peter Thiel spoke at its Oakeshott (formerly Scruton) lecture series at Oxford University in 2023 about his book The Diversity Myth, in which he compared equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives to the Chinese Communist party.
And then there’s Vance’s personal friend James Orr, who has been director of MCC’s de facto operation in the UK for the past five years, RSLF. Orr is an anti-abortion Cambridge theologian who was also recently promoted to head of policy at Reform, and is the UK representative of the group which organises the National Conservatism Conference, a global rightwing knees-up that will take place in Jerusalem this year.
The Scruton/Orbán love affair was a long one. In the late 80s, a young Orbán befriended Scruton when he was living in the UK during a brief stint at Oxford. Now, in addition to the cafe on the MCC campus, there are at least nine (yes, nine!) other cafes named after the philosopher in Hungary.
As I recently uncovered for Good Law Project, since 2023 the foundation has received over 90% of its funding – £512,500 – from the Russian-oil-backed MCC, which it has used to host events platforming British rightwing politicians and media, Trump-aligned US tech bros, and “anti-woke” commentators. Spectator editor and former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, and Reform’s new head of policy, James Orr, are among its directors, though according to accounts they are unpaid.
On the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation...
NEW Hungary’s new PM has described Viktor Orbán’s funding of propaganda bodies as criminal and vowed to investigate.
Bad news for ultraconservatives in the UK!
Alice McCool's deep dive into Orban, his propaganda college MCC – and its links to the British right ⏬
www.thenerve.news/p/viktor-orb...
As a gay man living in Hungary, Orbán’s defeat has changed my life. By Krisztián Marton. Picture of the author in a blue and black jumper
“It was electrifying to experience something we thought would never come, together with strangers, sharing the joy of relief”: novelist Krisztián Marton on Orbán’s election defeat
www.thenerve.news/p/krisztian-...
