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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 8d

The American Society of Naturalists is looking for a new Editor-In-Chief to begin Jan 2027. Info here:
www.amnat.org/announcement...

Call for new Editor-in-Chief (2027–2030)

<p>The ASN is seeking applicants for Editor-in-Chief, to begin in January 2027</p><br/>

www.amnat.org

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Well done!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 11d

Report on Australian Higher Education finds:

🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities

🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms

🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency

🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

One submission said leaders’ salaries could not be “justified by the quality of executive decision-making, nor by the scope of executive duties. The core business of a university – teaching and research – is co-ordinated virtually entirely by ordinary non-executive staff”.

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Got my nose broken by a punch that came out of nowhere in the dark as I walked down the garden path then my face kicked in while I was lying on the ground. In shock so don't think I'll be going to bed tonight, especially as the psycho lives next door.

Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 13d

None of us lives up to John Maynard Smith

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 13d

Hopefully one or two real ones too, especially after the important AI Nature paper!

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely. Why is the media commenting on this as if he made some rational points? It was the ranting of a complete madman. People should be standing up and calling it what it is.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 16d

Cooperation Colloquium this week:

Talbot M. Andrews @talbotmandrews.bsky.social (Cornell):

Overcoming the social dilemma of climate change

Friday, Sep 26, 15:00 UTC+2 Vienna / 9 am NYC

Sign up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Abstract: Mitigating the increasing threat of climate change poses a uniquely challenging cooperative problem. Multiple strategic features of climate change impede coordinating around successful action. For example, there is uncertainty about the timing and dynamics of climate change impacts. Different actors vary in their historic contribution to the problem and vulnerability now. There are many solutions available to mitigate climate change, but they differ in their effectiveness and probability of success. And, compounding all of this, there are asymmetries in information between elite decision-makers and the publics that they govern. In this talk, I argue economic games are well-suited to understand both how these strategic features delay successful climate action and provide insights into how to overcome these problems through public policy. Focusing on the case of governing emerging mitigation technologies, I will present the empirical evidence that people are willing to pay costs to avert climate disaster. While mistrust between the public and policymakers erodes cooperation, I will also present solutions that emerge from these experiments. I conclude by discussing how insights from the lab can inform real-world messaging and policymaking to encourage successful climate change mitigation.

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Zach Garfield @zhgarfield.com · 20d

What Makes a Good Reputation? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ecol...

#BehSci @psychologytoday.com

What Makes a Good Reputation?

Reputations matter everywhere—but not always for the same reasons.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17d

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East

news.sky.com/story/uk-off...

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state

Sir Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East.

news.sky.com

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 17d

Yes, thanks, great weather over the matterhorn, but Italy in cloud! Will try and make the next cooperation colloquia!

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 17d

Ah not heard of that meeting, but I was climbing mountains near the matterhorn a few days ago too!

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 17d

Pink footed geese over the house this morning - it must be autumn

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · 20d

sanderlings are always the highlight, but I may be biassed

Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Sep 8

I would recommend taking in a seabird colony. Isle of May is handy for Edinburgh if you haven't time for the western or northern Isles..

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Sep 6

A wader-fest at E. Chevington, Northumberland for world shorebirds day. White-rumped and pectoral sandpipers, black tailed godwits, ruff, greenshank among the highlights. (Bit distant for my camera though!)

Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wondrous

Joan Silk @jbsilk.bsky.social · Sep 4

#GreatAdaptations Better than science fiction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother

Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Kendal @jeremykendal.bsky.social · Aug 27

Physical copies of this 71-chapter tome now exist. Do encourage your library to buy a copy…also doubles as excellent door stop! Co-edited with Jamie Tehrani and @rachkendal.bsky.social. @oxunipress.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution hard copy

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Aug 24

Absolutely. It's many years since I was gainfully employed...

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Aug 24

You went to the US? ;-)

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · Aug 23

My review of Sex is a Spectrum, by Agustín Fuentes 🧪 #BioAnth blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...

Review of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes – Grasshoppermouse

Blog posts and talk slides

blog.edhagen.net

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Shayoni Lynn @shayonislynn.bsky.social · Aug 23

What is the average effectiveness of choice architecture ('nudge') interventions on behaviour? From Szaszi, B., Goldstein, D.G, @susanmichie.bsky.social & @dilipsoman.bsky.social #BehaviouralScience

Generalizability of choice architecture interventions - Nature Reviews Psychology

Choice architecture interventions (or ‘nudges’) aim to guide behaviour by changing the proximal physical, social or psychological environment. In this Review, Szaszi and colleagues show that the avera...

www.nature.com

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Aug 18

I can see this point of view but having read a couple of high profile papers in recent years where the data appeared to have been dug up to provide tenuous real-world support for a model, I would prefer to see a good modelling paper stand alone

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Jul 21

I don't understand how anyone can think that firing on people trying to get food is in any way defensible. October 7 is not an excuse to commit atrocities, war crimes and genocide. #gaza #palestine #israel

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Gilbert Roberts @gilbertroberts.bsky.social · Jul 21

Oh. I didn't know you were at Newcastle. You sound like you do interesting stuff. I work on cooperation / agent based modelling / morality / human sociality and was a founder member of the CBE in a former life. Let me know if you have time for a chat before you go.

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