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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 15h

Melbourne people! We're very lucky to have the one and only Alison Gopnik giving a talk here on November 11th at 6pm. Details below, open to the public, should be fabulous 😊

Space is limited so do be sure register!

alisongopnik.bsky.social
psychunimelb.bsky.social

Alison Gopnik - Three Ages & Three Intelligences: Explore, Exploit, Empower

The Complex Human Data Hub presents Prof Alison Gopnik delivering the 2025 Pip Pattison Oration on her work in learning and development.

www.eventbrite.com.au

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 1d

I'm starting to explore {simDAG}, a nifty #rstats package that has a nice API for specifying DAGs and then simulating data from them: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

Simulate Data from a DAG and Associated Node Information

Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...

robindenz1.github.io

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 3d

Yay Australia, come here it's great—we have beaches, kangaroos, and democracy! 🦘

(I don't want to know what the increase is in people I am competing against for faculty positions in Australia now 😬)

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 6d

In the ~3 months it takes to ship our things from Auckland to Melbourne (a 4 hour flight), of course, the earliest possible delivery date is the day after we fly out of town for 1.5 weeks 🤦

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 8d

Thrilled to see this paper out! It's the culmination of a project begun in the depths of the pandemic with Sabrina Karjack and @zoengo.bsky.social . We continue our exploration of how children generalize when their episodic memory is not yet mature.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The dependence of children’s generalization on episodic memory varies with age and level of abstraction - Nature Communications

Children’s ability to generalize from episodic memories varies by both age and the level of abstraction. Here, the authors show that lower level generalization increasingly depends on episodic memory with age, whereas higher level generalization shows no such relationship.

www.nature.com

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 8d

Otherwise, lots of good food in areas like 'K-road' or Parnell.

Had amazing cocktails at Panacea in the city recently too!

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 8d

Non-fancy thing kiwis do well, and that you can't really find in the US, is (savoury) pies. Many bakeries do them well, but there are also pie awards if you want to find the best, with several winners in Auckland (www.pieawards.nz/winners/pie-...).

Results

www.pieawards.nz

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 10d

Lol that's actually a good idea. Gonna start doing that.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 11d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 10d

Looks cool! Would you mind sending me a pdf as I don't have access through my institution ([email protected]) 🙏

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13d

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 23d

turns out I am people in Philadelphia

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 24d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 25d

"basic cognitive processes underlying explanatory reasoning give rise to a systematic inherence bias among practicing scientists—a tendency to explain phenomena in terms of their inherent properties rather than external factors"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 24d

Yea, it's really about so much more than birds.

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 24d

@carlbergstrom.com you might find this fun

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Courtney Hilton @courtneybhilton.bsky.social · 24d

Hilarious and beautiful (free) film on Youtube. Pokes fun at extreme birdwatching (listing) but is actually more deeply about the joys of birding and being connected to nature ❤

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-w...

LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

YouTube video by owen reiser

www.youtube.com

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Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @ceciliapad.bsky.social · 28d

At @ishe-society.bsky.social, we are looking for someone to review @mgurven.bsky.social new book, "Seven decades" for Human Ethology. It looks terribly interesting! DM/email for details (and to get a hard copy 😊)

@princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Seven Decades

An anthropologist uncovers new evidence for the evolutionary origins of human longevity—and explains why growing old is an opportunity, not a burden

press.princeton.edu

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University of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social · 29d

Hello 👋

We're the official #UniMelb account!

Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

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Stephen Ferrigno @sferrigno.bsky.social · 29d

New work with @samcheyette.bsky.social & Susan Carey testing the memory architecture used when learning/producing center-embedded sequences. Adults don't use Push-Down Stacks as is often assumed, instead they rely on a Queue-like memory architecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do Humans Use Push‐Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center‐Embedded Sequences?

Complex sequences are ubiquitous in human mental life, structuring representations within many different cognitive domains—natural language, music, mathematics, and logic, to name a few. However, the....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · Sep 15

Oxford Biology is growing 📢

We’re appointing 3 Associate Professors in:
🌱 Plant Sciences
🦉 Animal Behaviour
🔬 Molecular Cell Biology

3 fields. 3 opportunities. One new home for Oxford Biology.

Learn more 👉 bit.ly/41S2Tc7
Apply now 👉 bit.ly/488CNW3

Photo showing the inside atrium of the new Life and Mind Building

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · Sep 14

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

academic.oup.com

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · Sep 13

We are delighted to announce that the CES2026 conference website is now live! We invite you to submit your presentation proposals using the link on the webpage, deadline November 16th:
airess.fgses-um6p.ma/ces2026

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference | Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique - FGSES

airess.fgses-um6p.ma

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · Sep 11

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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