Claudio Tennie
Group Leader, Uni Tübingen | Humans, hominins, and apes | Evolution of human cultural evolution
-> When and how did we get from ape-like cultures to deep, broad & open-ended cultural evolution?
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- Many thanks also to @elena-moos.bsky.social, who just joined bsky. Elena was the master knapper in the new study who made the application of the new method possible. Follow Elena, and I am sure you'll see amazing stone tools (and even dice!) made by her.
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- Naive humans can reinvent knapping techniques - but can they also reinvent strategies to make early handaxe shapes? Turns out, yes, they can! Check out Nolan's new study (open access) and I recommend to follow him, too. He is going places.
- Reposted by Claudio TennieSo TL;DR, it costs us 1.5 cents per 3D printed whistle (approximately) in filament and electric costs, compared to about 6 for drop shipping; we're more nimble with a distributed network, and also, they can't just seize our whistles off the ship and stop the whole thing; and we pay less in shipping.
- Reposted by Claudio TennieRFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet
- Sounds also like the voice of La Linea?
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- Reposted by Claudio TennieOk, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )
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- Machine learning in archaeology (open access) doi.org/10.5334/jcaa...
- Reposted by Claudio TennieWant to make nice graphs with me, starting next year? I'm hiring for a position at the University of Witten/Herdecke. uni-wh.softgarden.io/job/61280592...
- 14 2y postdoc positions to rescue you from the US: Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026 uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...
- This is part of a thread on a paper in a predatory journal. But this absolutely happens in non-predatory journals, too. I have noticed *several* examples already.
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- Reposted by Claudio TennieI am pleased to announce that from Jan 1 2026 I take over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Theory. My first act, with the support of the editorial team, is to bring the journal to BlueSky from X. Please follow us @biologicaltheory.bsky.social. We will be posting about all our articles.
- Currently spreading in Tübingen...
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- Just saw this in my inbox. It seems to make a claim for biologically predisposed (due to natural selection) anatomy for nutcracking using hammers with power grips in west African chimpanzees. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Claudio TennieThere were 18/167 Influenza A infections in the intervention and 31/167 in the control. There were 39/167 influenza B infections in intervention and 28/167 in the control. Overall lab-confirmed influenza was 57/167 vs 59/167. About as null an effect as you can imagine.
- Reposted by Claudio TennieWe’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP. Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶 Interested? Get in touch with me.
- I had not seen this before. Very interesting, by Jane Goodall - taken from the transcipt of this interview: freakonomics.com/podcast/jane...
- Orangutan youngsters reach the broad diet they need to survive only if they culturally learn what to eat & where to find it -> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <- More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]
- Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
- Reposted by Claudio TennieAfter the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
- A very interesting twist to a thing that just went up and down bsky. Looks like the AI part here was more like thin icing on a human artist's cake:
- Reposted by Claudio TennieIf you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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- Reposted by Claudio TennieWe did a thing. 😬
- The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
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- Strong response to recent critiques of the sequence-struggle hypothesis. Chapeau!
- Reposted by Claudio TennieA Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫
- Teaching this on Monday
- There is a tiny little sign here in Tübingen at the castle, signposting the old laboratory and this finding.
- Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA. Stop saying that they discovered DNA! This was done by another guy you probably haven't heard of! And therein lies a story. academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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- Is the psychology replication crisis (at last) catching up with animal cognition? "Our results indicate low statistical power and inflated effect sizes in both primary studies and meta-analyses." Preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
- I wish this data analysis would have been available when we wrote this: www.cambridge.org/core/books/a... Note: the link from the first post is still a preprint at this stage.
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- Just out - "Art Beyond Cognition: Reframing Neanderthal art through social connectivity and cultural transmission" by Straffon & Tennie
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- Reposted by Claudio TennieMonty Python understood p-hacking
- Wanted to make a joke that the 99.7 percent accuracy might include your main take-home message being reversed by AI-insertion of the word "not". But the real joke in all this is much better even.
- Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
- Reposted by Claudio Tennie🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social
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- Watched it a few years ago. Still recovering.
