@LRRenner

Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci

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Object manipulation by chacma baboons in Gorongosa National Park varies by age, sex, and habitat type. This study contributes to current discussions about the emergence of habitual tool use across the primate order #AJBA #baboons #tools doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70094

Habitat Use and the Demographics of Object Manipulation by Wild Chacma Baboons

Object manipulation by chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in Gorongosa National Park varies by age, sex, and habitat type, with playful use more common in juveniles and food-focused use in adults,...

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Five thousand one hundred forty! Ah ah ah!
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UCU@ucu16 Apr 2025
Robert Gordon University lecturers go on strike. Reputation damage. Recruitment risk. Redundancies #SaveHE #StopTheCuts bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89g…

Robert Gordon University lecturers go on strike

The action is being taken over redundancies, which the university says comes at an extremely challenging time for the sector.

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Surely you have heard of/ used novel object paradigms to assess animal personality? In this paper we validate exploration behavior through a battery of stimuli in both social and individual conditions and across a longer period of time. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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In 2013, Thomas Piketty had an unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*. 1/
A Gilded Age editorial cartoon of a frowning Uncle Sam giving a blood transfusion to a gargantuan business-man whose waistcoat is labeled 'protected monopolies.' The businessman's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background has been replaced with a halftoned EU flag whose blue field is covered in circuit-board traceries. The floor beneath the figures is an abstract, pinkish pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- EFF https://www.eff.org/files/issues/eu-flag-11_1.png CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

ALT A Gilded Age editorial cartoon of a frowning Uncle Sam giving a blood transfusion to a gargantuan business-man whose waistcoat is labeled 'protected monopolies.' The businessman's head has been replaced with the hostile red eye of HAL 9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.' The background has been replaced with a halftoned EU flag whose blue field is covered in circuit-board traceries. The floor beneath the figures is an abstract, pinkish pattern. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en -- EFF https://www.eff.org/files/issues/eu-flag-11_1.png CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

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Despite a longstanding scientific rumor, girls are not more socially-attuned at birth. Our systematic review and meta‐analyses found no #gender difference in neonates' social perception or discrimination onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Call for Papers: Special Collection on Scientific Racism! EHS is inviting submissions for a special collection examining the historical and contemporary implications of scientific racism. Learn more and submit your work: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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There is some data here timeshighereducation.com/new… "University of Central Lancashire paid £10.5 million to 264 employees". So average payout £40k Just the average, so some higher (p'haps much higher) Looks like range of £20 k to £60k might be usual, depending on job, service

UK universities spend more than £200 million on severance pay

THE analysis reveals higher education sector has already passed feared milestone of axeing more than 10,000 jobs in a single year

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Bruce E. Baker@BruceHistorian17 Feb 2025
Question for UK academics: how much is/was your institution offering for voluntary severance? One claimed "up to nine months gross basic pay for colleagues with two or more years’ service [was] among the most generous in the sector" but I hear another offered 15 months.
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✨My essay in @TheLancet this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗) ‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship. thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Up to 14 days of strike action to hit Newcastle University in March @NewcastleUniUCU says: “The Vice Chancellor has two weeks to protect jobs and resolve this dispute to avoid sustained strike action across campus” Full story: ucu.org.uk/article/13915/Up-…

Up to 14 days of strike action to hit Newcastle University in March

Newcastle University staff will strike for 14 days next month unless management protects jobs.

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This afternoon, @ucu informed the Vice Chancellor that we will be formally balloting for local industrial action at @sheffielduni in relation to proposed cuts to the staffing budget and the threats to staff jobs due to restructuring.
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This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/
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Neil Renic@NC_Renic9 Feb 2025
Co-authors, 3 years into their 3 week project
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Re-upping this. The indirect cost rate cut is step 1 to defund American science. This is not the time for nuance. Steps 2-4 include shelving NIH (via state block grants), defunding unis (tax endowments, remove non profit status). If efficiency was the goal, DoD would be first 🎯
Kishore Kuchibhotla@kishoreneuro21 Nov 2024
Lots of discussion about NIH/NSF funding and ‘fixing’ it - many good ideas. Right now - I think this is somewhat missing the political situation. We are in a fight at the level of ‘values’ - do we as a country value science and innovation? (1/3)
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it's very common for deeply dysfunctional employers to staff extremely young because anyone more experienced will see right through their bullshit
Conner Hafen@Conblob3 Feb 2025
The obvious corruption aside, why are Elon’s cronies all like 20 year old college kids? You’d think the world’s richest man would have a more seasoned pack of henchmen?
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Today has basically been the worst. I hate everything.
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It seems suboptimal that the people who regulate education really hate universities
Kit Yates@Kit_Yates_Maths8 Feb 2025
“Almost three quarters of universities in England will face financial problems next year - despite tuition fees increasing.” The sector is at crisis point. buff.ly/3CvUWzu
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It was a good theory: That calling Elon "President Musk" would get under Trump's famously thin skin, causing division. But it's not working. I have a theory why — and it helps explain why Republicans in Congress are okay with giving up power, too. salon.com/2025/02/07/why-the…

Why Trump's fragile ego isn't threatened by Elon Musk

It's also why Republicans in Congress are letting Musk take over

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Forst foil of the year. Honkiebonkie time
Poppy n the outsidies@poppy_and_co9 Nov 2024
Replying to @Bad_Babette
Poppy experienced her first Easter in 2020. The foil wrappers from Easter eggs became her number one toy. To this date when she hears the sound of foil she will come running. Every Easter we collect a ziplock bag full of wrappers so that we can ration them out for the year.
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Testing yields better memory than studying. Based on three experiments and computational modeling, this study provides evidence that predictive (error-based) learning underpins the testing effect. @chenchen668899 @CathyHauspie @ErgoKate nature.com/articles/s44271-0…

Predictive learning as the basis of the testing effect

Communications Psychology - Testing yields better memory than studying. The origin of this effect is unclear. Based on three experiments and computational modeling, this study provides evidence...

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