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Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 8d

Yeah they did PR when they pre-printed it too, nothing's changed, just now they finally managed to get it into an allegedly peer reviewed journal - RIP that journal's reputation 🤣

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 8d

Nice! I think it's always interesting to get a broader community response, thanks for sharing that...

Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 11d

Make Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence Again!

(Just a thought for journal editors, peer reviewers, journalists... 😉)

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 12d

Don't just take my word for it ... @stephanielking.bsky.social and Denise Herzing provide insightful comments in this piece: www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-n...

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 14d

No, they really haven't. Calling spectral peaks vowels is as inane as saying that because my washing up gloves are also yellow, they have the same nutritional content as a banana. Zero evidence of vowel-like function. It's pure clickbait, and a new low in irresponsible claims from this group 🙄🐳🦑🧪

Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social · 14d

CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc

By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske

Project CETI @projectceti.bsky.social · 14d

CETI scientists have discovered vowel and diphthong-like patterns in sperm whale communication! Read: bit.ly/3WSn9rc

By: @begus.bsky.social, Ronald Sprouse, Andrej Leban, Miles Silva & Shane Gero.
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, @umich.edu, @carleton.ca, @csail.mit.edu
Animation: Meghan Fenske

ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 20d

Meet our plenary speaker Felicity Muth!

Assistant professor at the University of California Davis, her lab group are broadly interested in cognition, especially aspects of learning and memory that have a clear function in the natural world, focusing on captive and wild bumblebees.

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · 27d

Great albeit exhausting fun representing @seamammalresearch.bsky.social on the Developing Young Workforce/Hope the Whale roadshow this with colleagues from WDC. 3 days, 3 schools, ~900 students ... aaaaand breath...🤣🐳

me talking about SMRU research to a class of high school pupils

me standing in front of a life sized inflatable humpback whale called Hope

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · Oct 21

Super chuffed that @mikemwebster.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social and I had our course 'The question of culture in animals' among this list! 🐳🧪

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Oct 10

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.

We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

anaeg.bsky.social @anaeg.bsky.social · Oct 21

Super happy to share our new preprint on inferring Galapagos sperm whale sex and age-class using drone photogrammetry 🐳 📏 along with the wonderful @cmk-clarke.bsky.social, David Gaspard, and Hal Whitehead www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Inferring sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) sex and developmental stage using aerial photogrammetry

Demographic data (i.e. sex and age) are fundamental for analyzing behaviour patterns and evaluating the reproductive potential of a population. However, determining these traits in the wild can be cha...

www.biorxiv.org

Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Oct 10

We're pleased to announce and congratulate the winners of the Advancing Cultural Evolution Course Design Awards! This competition recognises leading educators in the field of cultural evolution and their existing efforts to advance its teaching.

We have 7 winners and 2 runners up (listed below):

Melissa Ramsay @melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social · Aug 28

After almost a year(!!) of my PhD, I am excited to start my 3-month placement at @rothamsted.bsky.social 🌱 I shall miss this lovely group at St Andrews @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social @mikemwebster.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social but I'm sure I'll be back to the sea before I know it! 🌊🐟🦀

Five members of "team fish" in our waders and woolly hats in front of the main rockpool, with a grey sky behind us.

Three members of "team fish" wading into a large rockpool carrying rigs and floats for data collection, with a blue sky and fluffy white clouds

Luke Rendell @lrendell.bsky.social · Aug 27

File under "no s**t Sherlock" 🙄

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 26

University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.

The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News

Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 26

University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds.

The administrative burden in Australian universities is most keenly felt by teaching and research staff, according to a study from the University of Melbourne’s faculty of education.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-aust...

University efficiency drives may have opposite effect, study finds - Research Professional News

Teaching and research staff say reforms mean more red tape for them, Australian survey reports

www.researchprofessionalnews.com