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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

www.nature.com

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 1d

Otherwise, lots of good food in areas like 'K-road' or Parnell.

Had amazing cocktails at Panacea in the city recently too!

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 1d

Non-fancy thing kiwis do well, and that you can't really find in the US, is (savoury) pies. Many bakeries do them well, but there are also pie awards if you want to find the best, with several winners in Auckland (www.pieawards.nz/winners/pie-...).

Results

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 3d

Lol that's actually a good idea. Gonna start doing that.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 4d

Looks cool! Would you mind sending me a pdf as I don't have access through my institution ([email protected]) 🙏

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 16d

turns out I am people in Philadelphia

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 17d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 18d

"basic cognitive processes underlying explanatory reasoning give rise to a systematic inherence bias among practicing scientists—a tendency to explain phenomena in terms of their inherent properties rather than external factors"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 17d

Yea, it's really about so much more than birds.

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 18d

@carlbergstrom.com you might find this fun

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 18d

Hilarious and beautiful (free) film on Youtube. Pokes fun at extreme birdwatching (listing) but is actually more deeply about the joys of birding and being connected to nature ❤

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

www.youtube.com

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 21d

At @ishe-society.bsky.social, we are looking for someone to review @mgurven.bsky.social new book, "Seven decades" for Human Ethology. It looks terribly interesting! DM/email for details (and to get a hard copy 😊)

@princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Seven Decades

An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden

press.princeton.edu

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University of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social · 22d

Hello 👋

We're the official #UniMelb account!

Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

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Stephen Ferrigno @sferrigno.bsky.social · 23d

New work with @samcheyette.bsky.social & Susan Carey testing the memory architecture used when learning/producing center-embedded sequences. Adults don't use Push-Down Stacks as is often assumed, instead they rely on a Queue-like memory architecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do Humans Use Push‐Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center‐Embedded Sequences?

Complex sequences are ubiquitous in human mental life, structuring representations within many different cognitive domains—natural language, music, mathematics, and logic, to name a few. However, the....

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · 23d

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 24d

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 25d

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 27d

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

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CSIRO Publishing @csiropublishing.bsky.social · 27d

Australia is home to approx 24,000 species of native plants 🌿

This #BiodiversityMonth, we’re celebrating the beauty and diversity of native flora — from orchids to mistletoes.

Our guide books are your companions for exploring them: www.publish.csiro.au/PlantsAndFun...

The orchid Prasophyllum candidum, photographed by Lachlan Copeland, from the book Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT. The flowers are arranged in an alternating pattern along a straight, vertical stem. The flowers are a gentle pink colour with yellow centres and rust-coloured outer petals.

The mistletoe Amyema linophlla, photographed by Kevin Thiele, from the book Mistletoes of Western Australia. The plant has long pendent like protrusions covered in a soft grey-green fuzz.

The seeds of the Macaranga tanarius, photographed Hugh Nicholson, from the book Australian Rainforest Seeds. The seeds are dark, almost black, with light green spikey exteriors protecting them.

Blossoms from the wattle Acacia genistifolia, photographed by Alan Gibb, from the book Wattles of Victoria and Tasmania. The flowers have white filaments with yellow anther, and long spear-like green phyllodes growing from the stem.

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Fernanda Ferreira @fernandaedi.bsky.social · Sep 8

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · Sep 3

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).

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Isabelle Hoxha @isabellehoxha.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ever wondered why you keep going to that restaurant with stale fries? Is it because you went often in the past (perseveration) or because you remember past good experiences better (positivity bias)? Our study out in PNAS investigates the normative basis for these biases www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evolving choice hysteresis in reinforcement learning: Comparing the adaptive value of positivity bias and gradual perseveration | PNAS

The tendency to repeat past choices more often than expected from the history of outcomes has been repeatedly empirically observed in reinforcement...

www.pnas.org

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