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Same-sex sexual behavior and selection for indiscriminate mating biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I (unofficially) graduated! As a duck and as myself 🙃

It takes 2 to make a 3!

Our symposium on Nest architecture and collective building in social insects organized with Andrea Perna and Christian Jost at EU-IUSSI 2021 will be online on October 26 from 12:00 to 15:00 (UK time). We will have the pleasure to listen 15 talks: eu-iussi2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/…

Behavioral science and nudging haven’t always been among the most popular policy- and management tools. 1 How did we get there? 2 What are the challenges? 3 What is the natural next step? New 📰 with Michael Muthukrishna out in Behavioural Public Policy journal 👉tinyurl.com/z3d7kdrt 🧵1/7

Finishing your masters to start a PhD

Great advisors and incredibly neat dataset to work with 😍

New study in Nature Communications: Zimai Li 荔枝麦, Bhoomika Bhat, Yuko Ulrich et al. report that, given the same genetic makeup, individual behavior alone determines whether or not an individual in a social group will contract a disease. ice.mpg.de/454847/PR_Li2

Now out Nature Communications! rdcu.be/dksKG Lead by Zimai Li 荔枝麦 w/ Bhoomika Erik Frank Arilab Darren J. Parker, F. Azuma, T. Schmitt, T. Oliveira-Honorato, V. Bachmann, work done over 5 institutions Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology D-USYS@ETH DEE UNIL @OIST Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg (and 1 pandemic)

Behaviour drives infection risk in social groups. Li et al. show that depending on behavioural role, genetically identical ants face vastly different risks of parasitic nematode infection. Zimai Li 荔枝麦 Yuko Ulrich Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology nature.com/articles/s4146…

📚 Paul Smaldino’s (Paul Smaldino) new book, “Modeling Social Behavior.” explores the power of computational modeling to understand why misinformation spreads, cooperation falters, and vaccination hesitancy persists. ow.ly/EhJF50QXYme