🐦📢 very pleased to share our freshly published cultural diffusion experiment w/ @AlarconNietoG and @LucyMAplin in @PLOSBiology that explored decision-making of immigrant great tits after moving into a new social group: https://t.co/0TYIgCEfPU @CBehav @MPI_animalbehav @UZH_en

time is a flat circle, really nice thread

In the Kingdom of Eswatini🇸🇿, young cattle-herders team up with honeyguide birds to find wild honey as a sweet snack. We studied how this recreational human-bird cooperation works, and why it’s still thriving. New paper: https://t.co/XhkvLjkWGw

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much.

3D-SOCS now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!! Fully raspi based synchronized camera system in the wild for 3D posture tracking 🤗 check out paper below! https://t.co/ZWZD4KGC9m

if you'd like to use it, please get in contact and do let me know if you run into bugs. I have tested it extensively, but I'm sure I haven't thought of everything!

The package has some key extensions, including time-varying transmission weights, support for complex transmission, a kind of new numerically stable parameterization for frequency-dependence, inclusion of edge uncertainty from STRAND and bisonR models, and other stuff

been a long time coming, there's now a preprint along with Will Hoppitt describing our new R package for creating, fitting and interpreting bayesian NBDA models (STBayes). https://t.co/yN5D9Z2B3O Documentation is here https://t.co/CUnZjtHDb8

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song. @CurrentBiology https://t.co/Rq75yViFng

2/ Olympiad problems are qualitatively different from GSM8K/MATH: - Multi-step, idea-driven proofs - Require abstraction and planning - Answers alone are not informative Despite high MATH accuracy, models fail dramatically when reasoning is evaluated directly.

Which of these new jobs will Americans be most excited to apply for?

If you have not checked it yet, check out the newest study from my group @IntBioPhysics The study develops an analytically tractable model for how social hierarchy shapes foraging decisions. Curious about the details , check it out here :

new mix who dis? trying out some more involved blends https://t.co/eK3Bglcuef

The Culture Conference 2025 is (already) finished after 2 days of amazing discussions! Thank you all for attending and presenting, either online or in person! We hope you spent 2 wonderful and exciting days in Utrecht, full of (social) learning and fascinating science 🥳

I know it might be a long shot but do I know anyone here who worked with Tinder or OkCupid data . if so, can you please send me a message. Plz share around

"post-docs at the centre for sustainable employment"

Nice illustration to go along w our study 😊

Finding that coordinated responses can drive bin opening SCC to new areas, and potentially accelerate the learning of how to defeat high efficacy protections such as locks.

We find spatial correlation of bin protections, and characterize the knowledge of local SCC (several can open locks!). We also construct a spatially explicit simulation model of two pops of learners to better understand policy effects of coordinated actions to address the problem

📣 preprint klaxon: New study with Edwin Dalmaijer @DrBarbaraKlump @LucyMAplin where we take a closer look at the innovation arms race between cockatoos and residents of Sydney https://t.co/euIHvq6R0E

Paper now out in @MethodsEcolEvol!! Looking forward to seeing how the community applies this method. Since the preprint, I updated the documentation and even made a video tutorial. Do check it out! [paper] https://t.co/vKy9Df2svd [documentation]