As a kid, we always spent summer in southern Italy, in he mountaineous village that my mum was from. Many nights I'd lay awake, windows and eyes wide open, listening to wolves. Howling. It felt nothing less than magical.

Science Magazine@science.org · 4d ago

Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4a9BfLS

Thomas Nagel fuming at this one.

MU-Peter Shimon 🀄@mu-peter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Humans Can Learn to Echolocate Neuroscience has begun to look at capacity of sensory areas exhibiting a striking degree of plasticity Changes in primary visual and auditory cortex of blind and sighted adults following 10 weeks of click-based echolocation training🧪 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Thrilled to share that I started last month at @idiv-research.bsky.social as Junior Research Group Leader of the new Behavioural Conservation group. Excited to build the team and explore new scientific frontiers! More here: www.idiv.de/new-junior-g...

New Junior Research Group Leader Erin Wessling | iDiv

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9/ In temperate forests, information wins. Birds hold small territories, breed in a short window, and compete hard for mates. The listener is close, so richer, more complex songs pay off.

Trial and error only gets you so far in Klondike search spaces. To frog leap in these, it's much much better to go the collective intelligence route. And teaching is the fastest elevator for such leaps. @johanlind.bsky.social

Thomas Talhelm@thomastalhelm.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lessons are more effective than practice, according to a new study of 40,000 chess players on Chess.com. @psychscience.bsky.social

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

From “WILD” to “WILDER”: A proposed extension to the “WILD” framework by Bandini et al www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🐘 check out our newest paper from Liang Bua! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Did H. floresiensis hunt Stegodon? 🔪 Did they also had control use of fire? 🔥 We tested these early claims of complex behavior using taphonomy, experimental archaeology, and zooarchaeology of the Stegodon assemblage.

Fresh ant news hot off the press! 🐜 In our new paper @ebiantonygeorge.com and I combined automated behavioural tracking of 660 ants with experimental injuries and infections to find out (1) who cares for open wounds in ant societies and (2) what drives them to do so. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Social and spatial affinity drive wound care in ants | PNAS

In social animals, open wounds pose a risk not only for the injured individual but also for its wider social context, especially when the probabili...

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Congrats! Semantic knowledge "acquired through experience and language" is important for levels of cultural evolution in humans today. Makes sense! Note here that the language route...

Björn Lindström@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!

🎉🍾🥂Congratulations to our two most recent PhDs, Dr. G. Russo and Dr. C. Siali 👩‍🎓 Well done!!! @gabrieleru1.bsky.social

How many Andy Clark’s does it take to write a paper?

New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Observation methods in animal behaviour: a simulation study of performance

Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…

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More on the classic pigeon cumulative culture study: "Cognitive simplicity drives collective route improvements in homing pigeons" - in models "propagating the best flight through social learning offered no additional advantage" elifesciences.org/articles/108...

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

✨New opportunity✨ Fully funded PhD position in our Experimental Archaeology Lab lead by @egveatch.bsky.social! Find all necessary information on our website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... #HumanOrigins #EarlyCareerArchaeologists

Interesting thread - also, I did not know that Mercado wrote a book on topic(s). Re female song: as Nicole Creanza said in here recent @ces2026.bsky.social talk: female *bird* singing happens often, too (is simply underresearched).

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒@marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

However, Mercado does a great job of explaining why the evidence doesn’t support it. Sometimes female humpback whale sing, and there’s observations of singing among foraging humpbacks. (5/12)

🚨Deadline approaching🚨 for this fully funded PhD-position at Uni Tübingen! Want to know more? ➡️ Get in touch!

HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨Fully funded PhD-position🚨 in our Genotype-Phenotype Evolution in Space (GPS) Lab. Interested in the question on how climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations? Come work with us in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

Debunking power posing is back

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Rob Boyd tracing the origins of Cultural Evolution as a field #CES2026

Back in the office after a fantastic CES-HBES conference. Big thanks to the organisers @matcharbonneau.bsky.social @anthrosarah.bsky.social @edseabright.bsky.social @zhgarfield.com & support team. Came away feeling motivated to get writing and researching! #CES2026 #HBES2026 @ces2026.bsky.social

#CES2026 is over - amazing days exploring new frontiers in animal culture and archaeology with so many talented people. Grateful to be in Rabat and happy to have presented my poster "Mapping Cultural Transmission in Human and Non-Human Primates" Thanks everyone - looking forward to the next CES✨

What's really clear from today's #CES2026 - #HBES2026 panel is how much we've come to work together, across the evolutionary social & behavioral sciences. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder sums it up: "The gaps between evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, & cultural evolution have narrowed"

Rob Boyd reflects on his and Pete Richerson's early work on cultural evolution

Phenomenal plenary at CES 2026 by Nicole Creanza on the links between birdsong and human language

Here's @maximederex.bsky.social on the role of causal reasoning in cumulative cultural evolution

📣 Lecture announcement 📣 The next lecture in our series ASHE meets HUMAN ORIGINS is already this Friday! Meet our new Independent Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Jaap Saers, and learn about his work. Attendance is open for everyone, via Zoom: lnkd.in/dU58FCvr, Passcode: 386251.

#ces2026 speaker: schuppli Very nice graphic

Just out: Recently discovered chimp gene-tool-culture are more likely due to permanent population splitting & expansion (i.e. "demic diffusion") than to female dispersal. *free* pdf link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1n3XqAlZXf... #ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social #hbes2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social