Çağlar Akçay
@caglarakcay.bsky.social
Animal social behaviour and cognition.
https://caglarakcay.wordpress.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ4qvtwAAAAJ&hl=en
https://caglarakcay.wordpress.com/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sZ4qvtwAAAAJ&hl=en
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Alternative take: Universities (and all institutions really) are terrible at predicting job market changes over a timescale of 5 to 10 years. Thus, turning them into clout chasing vocational training centers is a stupid bet when the original Humboldtian mission showed surprising resilience.
Opinion | Stop Blaming AI. Start Preparing Students for Work
AI isn’t taking jobs, but it is changing them. Colleges should listen to calls for more work-based learning to set students up for success in an unpredictable job market. https://bit.ly/4iTQc7J
AI isn’t taking jobs, but it is changing them. Colleges should listen to calls for more work-based learning to set students up for success in an unpredictable job market. https://bit.ly/4iTQc7J
December 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Alternative take: Universities (and all institutions really) are terrible at predicting job market changes over a timescale of 5 to 10 years. Thus, turning them into clout chasing vocational training centers is a stupid bet when the original Humboldtian mission showed surprising resilience.
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Line up! Slither up! Crawl up! Climb up! No matter how you're moving or on how many legs, it's time to find out our first ECBB 2026 plenary speaker.
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
December 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Line up! Slither up! Crawl up! Climb up! No matter how you're moving or on how many legs, it's time to find out our first ECBB 2026 plenary speaker.
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
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It's the incredible @ljnbrent.bsky.social!
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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3 great words on a Monday morning: Accepted for publication! Our paper "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals" is coming to Animal Behaviour. 🤫🎶🐦 By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, and me. [📷: J. Foote] @animbehsociety.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
3 great words on a Monday morning: Accepted for publication! Our paper "Hushed disputes between noisy neighbours: Ovenbirds vary song amplitude during conflicts with territorial rivals" is coming to Animal Behaviour. 🤫🎶🐦 By Connor Acorn, Jenn Foote, and me. [📷: J. Foote] @animbehsociety.bsky.social
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Yep, still very much an accurate description of eugenics 👇
@rebeccasear.bsky.social gives a great quote from Alfred Russell Wallace: eugenics was “simply the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft”.
Still very much spot on.
Still very much spot on.
December 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Yep, still very much an accurate description of eugenics 👇
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@rebeccasear.bsky.social gives a great quote from Alfred Russell Wallace: eugenics was “simply the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft”.
Still very much spot on.
Still very much spot on.
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
@rebeccasear.bsky.social gives a great quote from Alfred Russell Wallace: eugenics was “simply the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft”.
Still very much spot on.
Still very much spot on.
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Peter C. Mower et al | #ornithology 🪶
Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Peter C. Mower et al | #ornithology 🪶
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Peter C. Mower et al | #ornithology 🪶
Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Peter C. Mower et al | #ornithology 🪶
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Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
December 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Have you ever wondered what you would find if you could keep your eyes on a bee for more than a few meters? Us, too!
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
preprint (with videos!) + thread 🧵
Precise, individualized foraging flights in honey #bees 🐝 revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/9
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Job alert! Fully funded PhD position on the link between curiosity and cognition in lemurs at our long-term field site Kirindy Forest in Madagascar @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This project is part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Job alert! Fully funded PhD position on the link between curiosity and cognition in lemurs at our long-term field site Kirindy Forest in Madagascar @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This project is part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Apply here: www.dpz.eu
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Pick your fucking baby?!? JFC! They’re not fucking puppies.
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pick your fucking baby?!? JFC! They’re not fucking puppies.
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Filling this out as individual. Telling them that if I had to wait for ten years to apply for indefinite leave to remain I would not have thrown myself into my community as I did. I’d be aloof and shorttermist w/ little to none affective commitment to the U.K.
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Filling this out as individual. Telling them that if I had to wait for ten years to apply for indefinite leave to remain I would not have thrown myself into my community as I did. I’d be aloof and shorttermist w/ little to none affective commitment to the U.K.
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New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - How Memory Evolves: Integrating Cognitive Ecology, Neuroscience, and Experimental Evolution in Drosophila at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
New PhD position available! For applicants keen to combine evolutionary ecology, neuroscience and animal cognition. Based at UCL with me, @maxreuter.bsky.social, @fcamus.bsky.social and Tamara Boto (Bristol). Directly funded, see here for details and eligibility: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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This bird’s greed delights me
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This bird’s greed delights me
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a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity
Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!)
7th January
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!)
7th January
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity
Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!)
7th January
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!)
7th January
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
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Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Dear Biology professors, prep for this if you teach Evolution.
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Dear Biology professors, prep for this if you teach Evolution.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
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Our data show that seet calls are given to terrestrial predators approaching active nests, especially when offspring are most vulnerable. Tegtman et al. find that fairy-wrens are less likely to flee and more likely to increase vigilance to seet vs aerial alarms.
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our data show that seet calls are given to terrestrial predators approaching active nests, especially when offspring are most vulnerable. Tegtman et al. find that fairy-wrens are less likely to flee and more likely to increase vigilance to seet vs aerial alarms.
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New paper led by Lauren Common on the “seet” alarm calls of superb fairy-wrens is out today: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
New paper led by Lauren Common on the “seet” alarm calls of superb fairy-wrens is out today: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
Interestingly, this is the second paper this week on these previously undescribed calls (see below)! I think the two studies complement each other really well.
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The Oxford University social media team getting some well-deserved clapback after neglecting to mention the Indonesian biologists who were also involved in documenting the flowering of Rafflesia hasseltii. Instagram doesn't charge you by the word, so maybe at least do the bare minimum?
Oxford Uni Criticised for Overlooking Indonesian Researchers
Their exclusion betrays decades of field knowledge and dedication, without which none of this would have been possible in the first place.
juiceonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The Oxford University social media team getting some well-deserved clapback after neglecting to mention the Indonesian biologists who were also involved in documenting the flowering of Rafflesia hasseltii. Instagram doesn't charge you by the word, so maybe at least do the bare minimum?
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This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1