Liz Renner
Academic; cats, culture, child development, cultural evolution, social learning; she/her #BiInSci
- This is so well-deserved! Congratulations @tvpollet.bsky.social !
- Reposted by Liz Rennerwhoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero
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- Reposted by Liz RennerIn the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process: *Talk of belt-tightening *Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments) *Travel budgets cut *Promotion freeze (1/4)
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- Reposted by Liz RennerSouthern needle-clawed galagos (Euoticus elegantulus), also called western needle-clawed bushbabies, range across many Central African countries. Most abundant in areas where gum- and resin-producing food trees are common. Widespread throughout their range. Photo: ©bureaubenjamin2/iNaturalist/CC4.0
- Reposted by Liz RennerThe guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets. www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
- Reposted by Liz RennerThe California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
- The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-ch… for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
- This thread 😮
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- Reposted by Liz RennerVery happy to see our ice-fishing paper on the cover of @science.org this week! 🎣🎉 We tracked large groups of Finnish competitive ice-fishers to study how social foragers use social information when searching for resources. 🐟 Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (contact me for open access)
- Reposted by Liz RennerThis hits me in my nerd humor spot.
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- Reposted by Liz RennerMy Centre is a unique place to do a PhD in Philosophy, because you can be in constant contact with experts in veterinary medicine, psychology, zoology and policy and be part of a team united by a shared interest in animal minds. We now have our 1st ever PhD scholarship: www.lse.ac.uk/sentience/phd
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- Reposted by Liz RennerIt was such a privilege to get to work on this amazing material from an incredible site and team - now the earliest handheld wooden tools in the archaeological record, taking evidence back to 430,000 years! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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- Reposted by Liz RennerThis government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.
- Reposted by Liz RennerI was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>>
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- Reposted by Liz Renner1. From lung cancer to climate change, capitalist governments are notoriously slow to recognize and remedy the negative externalities generated by corporate activity. Generative AI is no exception. Large language models are proving a disaster in numerous spheres of public life.
- Reposted by Liz RennerHow many LLMs can be persuasive paper are gonna be published in top journals before we remember that yes, people can be persuaded by text? And where was this thinking amidst all the hot takes that social media and misinfo has no causal effects?
- Fuck yeah! Fuck. Yeah. Just imagining the tears my leaseholder is crying rn... 😊
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- Reposted by Liz RennerOur preprint has evolved! v2 of “Digital Behaviourism” is out now with a new title, new co-authors, and a deeper dive into the behavioural concepts that shape our online lives. It’s time to move beyond “screen time” and focus on function of online behaviours. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- In Mad Men, at one point Don Draper goes to see the doctor, who is like "Don, you're 36." and the audience is supposed to go 😬 the smoking and drinking must have aged people in the 1950s/60s becaue he looks a lot older? this year is about to have the same effect on all of us.
- Christ, it's Monday morning and I'm exhausted. How long is it gonna take til I'm recovered from the January assessment period? My best guess is April.
- Reposted by Liz RennerPlus, MDPI/Frontiers spend big money to convince governments they're not just legit, but leaders. Frontiers just sponsored WEF Davos, MDPI signed a deal with German national science agency. 🇩🇪+MDPI: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/germany... Davos: sciencehouse.frontiersin.org/event/945d08... 2/3
- "Peace isn't what you ask for when the boot is already on someone's neck"
- Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickerin brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee Wi’ murd’ring pattle! 🥃
- Reposted by Liz RennerQuickly telling someone you’ve liked something they’ve done (e.g. telling a writer you like their writing, or a researcher you like their research, or a teacher you like their teaching) has a phenomenally high effort-to-impact ratio.
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- Paranthropus in the Afar region 2.5+ Ma
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- local hill creating its own weather system
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- Reposted by Liz RennerOur new review of beluga sociality and culture just dropped at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! Some of our key conclusions summarized 🧵 doi.org/10.1007/s002... @marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org
- Reposted by Liz RennerIt's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason
- Reposted by Liz RennerThe University of Sheffield has stopped paying staff. Not for striking but for refusing to work unpaid to make up for strike days they were already docked for. This is punishment, not negotiation. And it’s completely reckless. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1438...
- Finally, Jade has the most important realisation. The average Faithful gets less clever over the course of the show, and the average Traitor gets more. #TraitorsUK
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- Verdict: tastes almost exactly like regular Irn Bru [complimentary]
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- Reposted by Liz RennerWhat is wild to me is the defense, BY THE NEURIPS BOARD, that fabricated citations do not mean "the content of the papers themselves [is] necessarily invalidated" It does. It very much does. What do you think citing other work is for? What do you think writing a paper is for? What do you *think*?
- NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
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- Reposted by Liz RennerCalling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
- Reposted by Liz RennerBreaking news and congratulations to the team, Sulawesi preserves evidence for the oldest art yet recorded, and strengthens claims for the early colonisation of Australia. At 68k BP this art is almost 30k years earlier than the accepted record for Europe. Bravo🏺🦣🎨 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Liz RennerNew paper on the social learning of bubble net feeding by humpbacks in British Columbia, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B 🐋 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... #marmam @bcwhales.bsky.social @seamammalresearch.bsky.social @lrendell.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social [1/5]
- Reposted by Liz Renner🐶❄️☀️ We’re studying how dogs are affected by cold and heat stress. If you have a dog, please consider completing our anonymous online questionnaire (15–30 min) or sharing it with others who might be interested. 👉 survey.vetmeduni.ac.at/index.php/83... #DogWelfare #CitizenScience
- This guy is a zipper goblin
- Reposted by Liz RennerI started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?). Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
- Reposted by Liz RennerGary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
- Reposted by Liz RennerCow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social
- Reposted by Liz RennerCOW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
- So, it was just the weekend yesterday, and now it's the week, and I'm just supposed to flip the switch from doing whatever I wanted to working for 8 hours (OK 7.5)? If you say so.
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