more p5 sketches i should have put online ages ago: this is an interactive viz of the nbda+ewa model with @bjjbarrett.bsky.social Anne Kandler and @lucymaplin.bsky.social. michaelchimento.github.io/p5_githubpag...

EWA-NBDA

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Oilbird movement strategies and differences in flight effort. Happy to share the first publication on the oilbird project: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @kamransafi.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social

Oilbirds performing non-seasonal intra-tropical migrations reduce flight effort compared to individuals that frequently return to the colony roost - Movement Ecology

Individual behavioural variation is a driver of population dynamics and key for the adaptation and persistence of species. In colonial species, individuals share the same ecological niche and aggregat...

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nearly 5 years later, i've finally gotten around to cleaning up the p5.js version of this sim and putting an interactive version online for scicomm reasons. increase trails for a trippier educational experience. michaelchimento.github.io/p5_githubpag...

It's great to see The Biology of Music - Interdisciplinary Insights edited by @andrearavignani.bsky.social out in the wild! I have a co-authored chapter in there on #animalmusicking, with @emilydoolittle.bsky.social and Pralle Kriengwatana. academic.oup.com/book/63102.

I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

This is a ridiculous paper in the category of "computational bestiary" but Fig. 1 is wonderful: fcampelo.github.io/EC-Bestiary/

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

excited about this one: using longitudinal movement data and dyadic models, we show that orangutan moms adjust their ranging patterns so their kids can play with age-mates independent of kinship, at personal costs. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

enough changes have accumulated that I've decided to make a new release of STbayes 🥳 Bunch of improvements, and I've dumped quite a few hours into implementing a relatively painless leave-future-out cross validation (LFO-CV) procedure for model comparison (michaelchimento.github.io/STbayes/news...)

Looking forward to giving an online workshop this coming Thursday on using STbayes to model social transmission. I'll be walking through simulating data, fitting, interpreting and comparing models. Big up to the ESLR for organizing this series!

ESLR@eslr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interested in how social information is transmitted in networks? 🚨Join ESLR Workshop happening this week! 🗓 May 28, 2026 ⏰ 2pm CET Online Introduction to Bayesian Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) with STbayes by @mchimento.bsky.social 🔗 Join at: calendar.app.google/mNSksgpimmrs...

Both @nilomr.bsky.social & @andreaestandia.bsky.social have a superb eye for design of data visualisation coupled with cutting-edge bioinformatic, ML & Bayesian statistical analysis - have a look at their new company website sedum.studio

Sedum Studio | Data Science, Visualization & ML Consulting

Data science, machine learning, and interactive visualization studio. Oxford-based researchers turn complex data into compelling insight. Remote & worldwide.

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Ben Sheldon@sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Many of my group round for dinner last night on a beautiful evening to wish @andreaestandia.bsky.social & @nilomr.bsky.social well as they move back to Spain. Both of them did DPhils here then postdocs & brought so much to Oxford & @egioxford.bsky.social in terms of science, culture & friendship

my favorite bit of criticism from grant reviews this year, "applicant weakness: development impacted by PhD supervisor". is there someone who hasn't been? what's the alternative meant to be? "applicant mercifully unmolested by previous supervisory attempts"

At #CES2026 @mchimento.bsky.social presenting exciting new methods for modeling the visual field of birds to study cultural diffusion in naturalistic settings

Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology at University of Oxford

An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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What is the role of social learning in adopting novel food? Study of urban #cockatoos by @julia-penndorf.bsky.social @clevercockierp.bsky.social &co shows that they rapidly adopt novel food via #SocialLearning, with juveniles showing conformist preferences @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4uq6NVq

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

Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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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

Thom Scott-Phillips@thomscottphillips.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ERC could instead just make indirect costs ineligible That would get a lot of pushback from infrastructure-heavy institutions, but it’s justifiable on it own terms (“we fund the projects themselves, not the costs of running a place”) and it would certainly reduce the number of applications

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/#...

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !

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

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 4mo ago

Click below to see NRO author Andrew McCarthy argue that that Iran doesn't have civilians. www.nationalreview.com/2026/04/the-...

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

🧪 Under CoPilot settings -> Privacy -> Disable Allow #GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to train and improve AI models Disable.

Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Critical for anyone who uses GitHub - if you've used GitHub Copilot at all, Microsoft is about to start putting basically all of your code and the entire trajectory of all actions you took into training. You need to opt out by April 24th. github.blog/news-insight...

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.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 5mo ago

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare. Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

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!

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

Matthew Silk@mattjsilk.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New (competition funded) PhD opportunity with me, @iaciac.bsky.social and @dralgernon.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Higher-order networks and animal communication. Suited to someone keen on network science theory/computational modeling and keen to adapt this to ecology & evolution.

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

cats LOVE this mix | jazzy house and breaks

jazzy house and breaks track ids: JB Riddim - Bakey Amazon Adventure - Azymuth Steeze Flex - Breaka Rezin - Sultan and the greek Stifle - Pearson Sound Good life - Kaori Juno Cafe - Footshooter Lazy

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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 🤩

Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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 👇