I've finally started reading "The Omnivore's Deception". Normally a speed reader, I am taking time to appreciate every sentence. John is truly a gifted writer. It feels like the #AnimalWelfare jumble in my brain has been perfectly expressed in this book. Reviews and book gifts to follow. #BookSky 📚

John Sanbonmatsu@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social · last yr.

After 12+ years of labor, "The Omnivore's Deception" is out today. I chronicle the rise of the meat industry, show its catastrophic ecological effects, demolish the myth of the "enlightened" omnivore, show why animals are worthy of our respect, and advocate the abolition of the animal food economy.

The title of this cool new paper is accurate (dental evidence c. 25-16k BP). However, routine consumption of ethanol is likely ancient: 1) Wild chimpanzees consume perhaps the equivalent of 1.4 drinks/day from naturally fermenting fruit; 2) ADH genes are widespread🧪🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Betel nut sucking is the earliest recorded evidence for the habitual use of a neuroactive plant drug

The modern custom of chewing betel nuts is practiced by around 1 in 10 people worldwide, yet the earliest beginnings of this widespread drug use habit are unknown. We report rare skeletal remains of t...

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"MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely..." This is the way forward @tcddublin.bsky.social

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 3w ago

MIT has put out an "AI and Education" report summarizing what they've found at their own institution. Seems thoughtful. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

Sharing this fundraising page for an acquaintance's family dealing with a sudden tragedy: givealittle.co.nz/cause/suppor...

Supporting Bhupesh’s Family

Supporting the family of our much-loved friend and colleague Bhupesh following his sudden and tragic death.

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We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

Japanese team have observed directly, for the first time, noctule bats hunting birds The images they provide astonishingly resemble that painted by Brueghel over 400 years ago... maybe he had actually seen the hunt!! Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @ebdonana.bsky.social

Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🐎 Very happy for the opportunity to present a poster and connect with vets and colleagues at the UCVM Equine Practitioner Event 2026 🐴 With an amazing evening program at Spruce Meadows 🎆 @sihorses.bsky.social @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social @ali--wilson.bsky.social #MSCA #MSCAfellow

New paper, co-authored with Justin Wood, in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: The Nativist-Empiricist Debate Is Broken We argue that radical nativism and radical empiricism are compatible and, in some cases, both plausibly true. So something is wrong. 🧵 Author share link here, valid til Oct 31:

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 3d ago

Online Now: The nativist–empiricist debate is broken

Adding this immediately into the opening lecture for my large undergrad class....

Pause AI in BC Schools@aicaution.ca · 4d ago

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

We have a new little paper out: an introduction to the philosophy of comparative psychology. If you're tired of artificial intelligences, you can read about biological ones instead.

Richard Moore@richardmoore.bsky.social · 4d ago

I have a new paper with @susanamonso.com and @kristinandrews.bsky.social. This one is intended to be a short guide for ECRs interested in doing some philosophy of comparative psychology, and wondering how to approach it. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check this out: www.spawn-again.app A fellow animal advocate created this game about the scale of animal suffering. It has gotten over 30,000 plays in the last 48 hours... time to make it more viral. Please check it out & share with friends and family. #vegan

The Lottery of Life

Spawn as a random animal, at the real odds of who is actually born on Earth each year. Almost no one draws a human. The odds are real.

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Got caught by surprise with the award! Thank you @ecbb2026.bsky.social !! Forgot to take a photo of my poster, but here's a glimpse of it featuring the showstopper Paul. ✨😁

ARAA@araa.at · 5d ago

So proud that two of our ARAA folk won awards at #ECBB2026! 🤩🥰 Congrats to @annaek.bsky.social and @awanib.bsky.social 🙌

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

UBC Oceans@ubcoceans.bsky.social · 6d ago

For the first time in over 30 years, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Northern cod stock has been deemed “healthy” by Ottawa. www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/05/i...

Now I'm no mathematician but spending $22 million to win a $1 million prize with a result that might not even be original work seems ... inefficient

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 6d ago

Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them. techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...

So proud of Edina Nemesházi for this fantastic work about the consequences of sex reversal for the reproductive success of wild frogs, which is now out in Science Advances! 🥂💥🥳Congrats to all of the authors 👏 @klivvvienna.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Andrew Saier was a yeoman who referred to 'coming to sea' and being on a ship at the time of making his will. He referred to the 'Moluccas' - the Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia. Birds of paradise, Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Digitised by Smithsonian Libraries.

Like thylacines? Of course you do. A little thread on some recent research I was part of with @weisbeckerbblab.bsky.social here 🧵⤵️ #SciComm #EvoBio #PaleoBio #Evolution #Paleontology 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Skull morphology of the extinct Tasmanian tiger suggests unique biting style - Nature Communications

The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans such as wolves. However, here the authors show that its skull functioned differ...

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Wrote this paper some time ago testing the association between brain size and courtship complexity in birds of paradise. Negative results, but brains were all quite large (also large bodied). Still curious if this enabled more complex displays/finer motor control. academic.oup.com/auk/article/...

Different societies do not necessarily share the same ideas about ownership, value, and responsibility. There are different ways of understanding what it means for something to “belong” to us.

Aline Ghilardi@alinemghilardi.bsky.social · last wk.

I’ve been thinking about why it can be so difficult for some colleagues from the Global North to understand fossil-protection laws in Brazil and in other countries where fossils are treated as part of the national heritage rather than as private property.

everyone is going insane for this but it's a slop machine. the first character i rolled was a child who died in 5th century BCE Iran and the site generated me a picture of "his home" which had drainpipes and telephone wires. fuck this.

Jeff Asher@jeffasher.bsky.social · last wk.

This is so incredibly addictive anyhumanever.com

Help spread the word about the fully funded 4-yr PhD places available at the Max Planck School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for research & advance the understanding of cognition, mentored by a network of world renowned scientists. @maxplanck.de @mps-cognition.bsky.social More info & how to apply:

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Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook

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Collections manager position in the excellent Western Australian Museum in Perth. Deadline 15th September search.jobs.wa.gov.au/jobs/collect...

Collections Manager (Mammalogy and Ornithology) - Perth Metropolitan, Western Australia, Australia

We currently have one (1) x Permanent, Part-time vacancy (0.6FTE or 45 hrs/fortnight) available for immediate filling. A Pool will also run for a period of 18 months. About us The Western Australian M...

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Do you like snailfishes? lumpsuckers? clingfishes? New phylogeny dropped, and to toot our own horn it's really good! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to @drrmiller.bsky.social, who has been awarded a five-year £1.25 million Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a study entitled “Avian Minds: Investigating the Evolution of Executive Function" she'll be based in @uniexecec.bsky.social news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Dr Rachael Miller awarded ERC Starting Grant

Dr Rachael Miller (Harrison) has been awarded a five-year £1.25 million European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for a groundbreaking study into the minds of birds. The project, based at the Cen...

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New #ornithology paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org! We show that female dotterels can move across large distances within a single breeding season in search of mating opportunities, visiting up to five different sites (median: 3) and travelling up to 1000 km between sites (median: 71 km). 1/n

Very excited to see our new paper in @Nature! Conifers introduced to the Southern Hemisphere grew up to 4× faster than in their native ranges and were also more resistant and resilient to drought. I’m honored to have been part of this fantastic international team.

Two macaques had to pull both rope ends at once to get snacks 🐒 With one apparatus available, one male pair monopolised it - 86% of all pulls. With five apparatuses, just 4% and more pulls with others. @zewaldj.bsky.social in doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123632

While you can easily access @andyradford.bsky.social and his science, these pearls of wisdom were the parting gift from his plenary at #ECBB2026!

Another preprint with Amy Carboon and John Endler on light microhabitat use in Victoria’s riflebird using hemispheric canopy photography, display activity data, and sun track simulations. In short, males display in the VERY early morning under dim light. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

🚨 I AM HIRING a 3-year postdoc & 4-year PhD student 🚨 [PLEASE SHARE WIDELY] My Emmy Noether @dfg.de funded Neural Circuit & Systems Evolution lab (🌟) at the @unimainz.bsky.socialÍ wants to start existing. So..., what do we need? WELL... we need you! APPLY UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER.

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