KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

🚨Out TODAY🚨 our #new experimental paper showing that #wild jackdaws ditch old #friends and make new ones if it helps them get rewards... but stick with #family through thick and thin. Work led by #ECRs @Michael53566156 & Josh Arbon Cornish Jackdaws tinyurl.com/yxjare3d

Biden: The only existential threat humanity faces even more frightening than nuclear war is global warming going above 1.5 The US is poised to be the world’s largest expander of oil & gas extraction thru 2050, representing >1/3 of planned global expansion priceofoil.org/2023/09/12/pla…

AND A BOM DIA TO YOU SIR

Climate resilience is built into human nature, including the innovations we design & share. In our special issue out today in Phil Trans B, 14 teams discuss how studying culture brings insight to contemporary climate adaptation: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2023/… Some take-homes: 1/

It’s amazing how good this guy is at this

How does loneliness “get under the skin” to become biologically embedded?tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Whoa!

Online today and open from me and my colleagues Cody Ross Daniel Redhead : "Modelling animal network data in R using STRAND". Social networks, measurement error, generative models, Stan under the hood besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

As we digest the last of our Thanksgiving leftovers, consider how many of our dietary mainstays are fermented: bread, cheese, wine, coffee, chocolate... Our new paper proposes that fermented food may be critical to human evolution: nature.com/articles/s4200… 1/🧵

In just one paragraph, Kate Aronoff points out all of the hypocrisy of the United States lecturing other countries about fossil fuels while they continue to produce more oil and gas than any other country in the world newrepublic.com/article/177183…

Happy to have played a small part in this project, led by Elaine Guevara (not on twitter much anymore) and many great folks in Duke Evolutionary Anthropology and elsewhere: “Getting it right: Teaching undergraduate biology to undermine racial essentialism” academic.oup.com/biomethods/art…

Excited to share our large-scale study comparing social co-feeding tolerance of bonobos and chimpanzees in 16 social groups across zoos and sanctuaries revealing no species-differences. Thanks to all coauthors and to all institutes for hosting us 🙌 doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

For The Baffler, I wrote about Chile since the coup through the lens of the great Patricio Guzmán. His searching documentaries bridge Allende’s moment and our own, capturing urgent arguments in left politics that have echoed ever since thebaffler.com/latest/the-aft…

If you block enough ads on here now you eventually just get the steroid guy telling you to never apologize. A skeleton key to the American id.