New - my first piece for @science.org !

Absolutely crazy footage of rat behaviour in Germany.

Rats filmed snatching bats from air for first time | Science | AAAS share.google/WAsAIQ8j0MKp...

Researchers have known for decades that chimpanzees drum, but two new studies show that the animals drum to a distinct beat—which varies across their societies.

Learn more: scim.ag/3YJ7R9r

Macaques on Japan's Shodoshima Island enjoy leaving chalk marks on stones.

They have no symbolic purpose, but recognisable geometric features (parallelism, intersections, repetitions).

(paper) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-024-01176-y

Behavioural context of call production in humpback whale calves: identification of potential begging calls in a mysticetes species | Proc B 2024 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Discovery of cumulative culture in chimps
m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2YA...

Hi Science Community!

We made a starter pack of research software (& research software developers). Please make suggestions & re-post.

If you are a developer & want to be added,
please reply, link to your software,
& mention the discipline(s) it caters to.

🧪 📊 #PsychSciSky

go.bsky.app/3brP43N

Surfing when #sharks patrol these waters?

A new counter illumination set-up protects form shark bites. Cool new field study by Laura Ryan and team in CB! 🧪
www.cell.com/current-biol...

If you need a break from US election coverage, you can read my piece on a dispute between scientists over Maasai cattle herding in Kenya’s Mara reserve news.mongabay.com/2024/11/can-...

If you're teaching R, or statistics, and you want your students to get more practice of data wrangling with "messy" data, you can use the {messy} package to turn the clean data you currently use for examples into more realistic looking data!

#RStats #StatsEd