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Joseph Feldblum

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Duke Evolutionary Anthropology Social and reproductive behavior of chimpanzees and others josephfeldblum.weebly.com

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 1

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality

In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · 14d

He has a jazz bar in Addis, apparently you can just walk right in and meet him!

Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · 15d

a great weird song youtu.be/jFzHoWCFAJg

Hiss Golden Messenger - Jesus Shot Me In The Head

YouTube video by HGMVEVO

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Megan Petersdorf @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 New paper! 🚨

🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide.

🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction.

🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs?

🐒 Spoiler: Nope!

Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Female capuchins sits on a branch, looking away from the camera. A young capuchin holds onto her back, looking at the camera. Photo: Nick Chapoy

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18d

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 22d

Rather than seeing this as a political project, I would suggest it's better to see this as a reflection of an economy increasingly centered around the extremely niche emotional needs of people with billions of dollars to spare...

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28d

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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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Sep 9

Roid rage jay bilas

Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Sep 8

Lol

Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Sep 6

the Dems spent all of biden’s presidency triangulating on immigration and look where it got them.

but if you write for the Atlantic you can just write the same “dems need to triangulate” article every week, no problem!

Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social · Sep 5

The biggest problem American liberalism faces is how to maintain high levels of immigration while respecting the democratic will of the public. I have an idea.

www.theargumentmag.com/p/liberals-d...

Liberals don’t have to lose on immigration

“Moderating” on immigration doesn't mean abandoning it

www.theargumentmag.com

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · Sep 3

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
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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"fart" @jonhendren.com · Sep 2

arrested for illegal use of the nba jam big head code

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · Aug 5

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · Aug 6

accidentally doom-scrolled too far Esc Esc Esc EscEscEscEsc

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Aug 5

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 23

They sure did

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 21

So, when this loose behaviour I throw off
And pay the debt I never promisèd,
By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men’s hopes;
And like bright metal on a sullen ground,
My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault,
Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes
Than that which hath no foil to set it off.
I’ll so offend to make offence a skill,
Redeeming time when men think least I will.

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 19

Banger 👇👇👇

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Noah Greifer @noahgreifer.bsky.social · Jul 9

A nice recent article on why you should abandon hazard ratios.

#statssky #episky

How hazard ratios can mislead and why it matters in practice - European Journal of Epidemiology

Hazard ratios are routinely reported as effect measures in clinical trials and observational studies. However, many methodological works have raised concerns about the interpretation of hazard ratios ...

doi.org

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 17

How’s the “show everyone we’re the reasonable ones” strategy working out?

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 1

Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality

In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Katie Cronin, PhD @katieacronin.bsky.social · Jul 4

New study: More socially integrated female #chimps have better offspring survival. Mothers' relationships with females mattered more than relationships with males. By @josephfeldblum.bsky.social & others, from long-term Gombe data. #animalbehavior #parenting #primates

10.1016/j.isci.2025.112863

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Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · Jul 1

Please see this thread about the corresponding pre-print for more info bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Feldblum @josephfeldblum.bsky.social · May 19

New 🧪 preprint from me and many great Gombe colleagues:

Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality

In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring survival remains inconsistent, and is limited to a han...

www.biorxiv.org

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