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(1/4) Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly We (w Toman Barsbai, Andreas Pondorfer) find that environmental factors constrain humans, other mammals, and birds to similar foraging, reproductive, and social strategies doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

Happened upon this article that nicely explained the difference between cultural evolution and memetics. It took me years to gradually figure this out on my own. doi.org/10.1162/posc_a…

Love the idea behind this book. Great for outreach and people without the funding of an academic institution.

Why train a neural network when a single real neuron is enough to predict crypto price? 😆

Very cool paper analyzed Doctor Who episodes to find a way of increasing creativity: regularly shaking up a team by adding new members with new connections. Switching in team members upped creative quality; going against manager’s desire for stable teams. journals.aom.org/doi/full/10.54…

Supreme Justice Huang Horng-Shya, in Partial Concurring Opinion of Constitutional Interpretation 803: "I like Star Trek more than Star Wars." Proceed to support strong regulation of indigenous hunting, as if never heard of the Prime Directive...

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Videos are up! Hours of great talks to watch!

Checked out the virtual poster session at #CESConf2021 alone when Europeans and Americans were asleep. Less awkward than standing there alone irl lol.

Nice talk by Kevin Hong, which 1) used data from canonical Chinese history to infer why rain making rituals evolve, and 2) has dragons. #CESConf2021

Huh? Twitter now prompts people to read before retweet? Seems like a great idea to combat clickbait, though I wonder: will surviving false information be harder to kill, or perhaps easier because people have more time to fact check and respond before they go viral?

I am starting my new position at Cheng Kung University this week, as an assistant professor.

Does anyone know why these flamingos are feeding fish? Fixed action pattern caused by the fish mouth? Just drinking water to go with the dry food? Bored in the zoo?

Statistical Rethinking 2022 Complete Course is complete. 20 lectures from foundations of causal & Bayesian inference through DAGS, multilevel models & poststratified causal effects to Gaussian processes, Bayesian imputation & ODEs. Theatrical trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=BYUykH…

Why are pedigrees drawn with the ancestors at the top, but phylogenetic trees with ancestors at the bottom?

Really interesting paper by the historian Cora Stuhrmann on why behavioural ecology, rather than sociobiology, is the legitimate heir to ethology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…