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Our World in Data is looking for a writer who can write global issues for a wide audience. You could focus on poverty, inequality, health, demography, or any of the many other topics we cover (or don't yet)! (And the team is awesome.)
ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

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New preprint!
We used reinforcement learning to formally evaluate the way knowledge and experience shape advice giving, and how individual differences and contextual advice consequences modulate this relationship. Lead by Hernan Anllo, with Gil S. Stefano Palminteri Prof Nichola Raihani

New paper 'Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict' with Prof Nichola Raihani and Charlie Pilgrim
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So pleased to have been included in this volume!

I'm sorry but calling the creature with the smallest brain to body size the 'bony-eared assfish' and then writing a paper with a roast like this in the title is just mean.

Another one for the downstairs loo! 🐝 #thesocialinstinct Porto Editora

The Social Instinct is now available in Portuguese. ❤️

Comparative connectomics is proceeding at lightning fast pace. But even with the very latest technology - if I have understood the below table correctly - it would still take 1.8 MILLION YEARS to get a full connectome for the human brain🤯
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You know you want to come to Durham! Registration opens today for CES24 and the Transformation Fund Capstone Conference 👇

I read this for the title alone. It did not disappoint. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Two exciting new papers by Dr Alice Bridges et al and Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen show bumblebees and chimpanzees learn from others what they cannot learn alone. See my take in Nature News & Views nature.com/articles/d4158… Links to the papers in the thread

I LOVED this paper on avian cognition, asking why birds commonly show similar cognitive performance to primates despite vastly smaller brain size. It is also wonderfully written (calling a section 'When pigeons dream' is epic). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New from #RSOS : Exploring #OpenScience practices in behavioural public policy research. Read the full paper: ow.ly/4mHM50QLrE9 Maximilian Maier 🔍 František Bartoš Prof Nichola Raihani EJ Wagenmakers

Our new paper on the composition of hunter-gatherer caregivers are out! Children and unrelated people together contribute the most! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Have we evolved to love our ingroup? Did our ancestors go through an evolutionary process of self-domestication? Is the occasional genocide just an unfortunate by-product of how damn friendly we are? New essay 👇and thread: 1/15 conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-survival…

Just finished reading 'The Social Instinct' by Prof Nichola Raihani. Fascinating exploration of cooperation from genes to societies. Raihani's discussion on the biological role of grandmothers and senescence was particularly surprising.

Nice work by Tobia Spampatti (TSpampatti.bsky.social) et al. exploring the limits of 'psychological inoculation' to combat climate misinformation. Counter some prominent claims, these inoculation efforts really don't seem to shift the dial on susceptibility to misinfo... nature.com/articles/s4156…