Joseph Feldblum
@josephfeldblum.bsky.social
Duke Evolutionary Anthropology Social and reproductive behavior of chimpanzees and others josephfeldblum.weebly.com
Some glass sponges may be the oldest animals on Earth. Individuals of Monorhaphis chuni are estimated at over 11,000 years old, and they build a single skeletal spike up to 3m long, the largest natural glass structure any animal makes. 🧪 #SpongeThursday #HowToBuildAGiant #marinelife
Check out our new paper (with collaborator Raisa Hernández-Pacheco, and data collection led by Alexis Diaz) on social cognition and reproductive fitness in rhesus monkeys at Cayo Santiago! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Linking social attention to reproductive state and future reproduction in female monkeys - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
The demands of complex social life are thought to drive the evolution of cognition in primates. One important approach to testing this hypothesis is to assess if variation in psychological processes i...
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A Herman Cain republican who left the party after the GOP assassinated him with covid
Nick Kodama 🌳👻@nickkodama.bsky.social · 2w agoHey. If the nyt invited you to be part of a focus group what would you do as a bit?
RIP to Patricio Guzmán, a titan of documentary. La Batalla de Chile is one of the great works of political art. I got to write for the @thebaffler.com a couple years back on memory, nostalgia, and political urgency in his work 50 years on from Chile's coup. Rest easy. thebaffler.com/latest/the-a...
The Afterlife of a Coup | Sammy Feldblum
The films of Patricio Guzmán chronicle fifty years of tumult and memory in Chile.
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always a good chuckle that the aft-most sail on these ships is called a spanker
jam@socialistboat.dad · 3y agoQ: How many lines (rope) are there on a ship? A: Dude. Like. So many
🌟Congratulations🌟 to @josharbon.bsky.social on two great #OpenaAccess papers about pre-emptive behaviour & intergroup conflict from his #NERC funded postdoc out within a month of one another: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... doi.org/10.1038/s415... @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #mammals #birds #cognition
I think a key technical democracy fix is to have power immediately cede to election winners. The NC GOP keeps pulling this shit too, stripping powers from newly-Dem-controlled govt bodies during lame duck sessions. We don’t have to live like this!
brad@bradiscranky.bsky.social · 2mo agodone with the old board a week or two before the new one is seated with deciding votes by people who lost their fucking seats the lawsuit has already been drawn and was waiting, i just hope they get a good judge
2026. Animal Social Network Structures Across the Fast-Slow Continuum onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Animal Social Network Structures Across the Fast‐Slow Continuum
Using a mathematical model, we examine how the rate of demographic replacement (represented by generation time) influences emergent social network structure in natural populations. By considering a r...
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KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor
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Anne Pusey and Mike Wilson have paid tribute to Dr Jane Goodall, celebrating a life that transformed our understanding of chimpanzees and humanity’s place in the natural world She became one of the world’s most influential voices for conservation, animal welfare, with an impact far beyond science
people dislike the super marginal offsides calls not bc they object to the idea of offsides entirely, but bc calling off goals for minor technicalities is against the spirit of the game.
Joseph Feldblum@josephfeldblum.bsky.social · 3mo agoimo we could help w the “offside by a toe” problem by incorporating measurement uncertainty. no way the systems measure as precisely as seen in the digital reconstructions. “it appears his toe was over the line but it’s too close to know for sure” seems more honest and more in the spirit of the game
imo we could help w the “offside by a toe” problem by incorporating measurement uncertainty. no way the systems measure as precisely as seen in the digital reconstructions. “it appears his toe was over the line but it’s too close to know for sure” seems more honest and more in the spirit of the game
Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4mo agothe only important question with the offside rule is where and how should you draw the line *to make the game on the pitch better* would the game be better with a stricter or more lax version of offside? would it be better with a looser definition of who is involved in play?
The Supreme Court believes that there are exactly two forms of racial discrimination that the law must prohibit: Black people going to college, and Black people voting
Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4mo agoCompare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
Great thread on the systematic assault on the humanities in higher ed
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 4mo agoThere actually are extremely well-paying academic jobs in the humanities . . . provided you are willing to become a conservative hack who promotes "viewpoint diversity" rather than peer-reviewed scholarship.
Lifetime fitness (lifetime reproductive success) and annual survival are heritable and genetically correlated in wild female baboons! Moreover, nearly all of the genetic variance in LRS can be attributable to survival to first reproduction. Out at Evolution now: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
Lifetime fitness and annual survival are heritable and highly genetically correlated in a wild primate population
We estimated the additive genetic variance (VA) and heritability of lifetime and time-limited fitness in a wild female baboon population in Kenya. We found
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A deep-sea whale necropolis that has: 1) Far more whale falls than you can imagine, 2) At wild depths, & 2) Whale fossils as old as the Mio/Plio boundary, still on the seafloor?? 🤯 Gets my vote most interesting publication of 2026 (so far). #AcademicSky 🧪⚒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone - Nature
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insi...
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I think one thing that unites the Trump “racist uncle ranting at Thanksgiving“ wing of the Right with the Elon techno-libertarian/ techno-fascist wing is their utter confidence that they can solve any problem by reasoning from first principles
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4mo agoI thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
Is it good for the Democratic brand that voters constantly hear these “loony Left” accusations from *other Democrats*?
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5mo agoYes Barney Frank is bravely coming out as having the exact same opinion as all of his friends and colleagues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
You can either have a democracy or a Republican Party, but you can't have both.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5mo agoBREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.
Ari Berman@ariberman.bsky.social · 5mo agoBreaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
R 4.6.0 bringing the goods (i.e. small time savers) 🤙🤙
