Michael Jennions
Because there are never enough social media sites to sign up to and then ignore.
Evolutionary ecology | Behavioural Ecology |
http://thejennionslab.weebly.com
- Reposted by Michael JennionsWhy is the human penis longer and thicker than those of other great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas? Read our @aunz.theconversation.com piece to find out! Full paper from @plosbiology.org below! 👇 1/3
- Compared to other great apes, human penises are mysteriously large, hinting they act as a signal to mates and rivals alike. 👉 Read the full article: theconversation.com/why-are...
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- Reposted by Michael JennionsThe final chapter of my thesis has just been published in Ecology and Evolution! @ecol-evol.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Here we find that the social environment, notably vocal and aggressive interactions, are linked to cognitive development in magpie fledglings.
- Reposted by Michael JennionsWhat is sexual selection all about... definitionally and mathematically? A super talented PI, Jussi Lehtonen, is looking for a postdoc to work it all out! Deadline end of this month. ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...
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- Reposted by Michael JennionsWhy did bees become haplodiploid & birds didn't? And why are stick insects perfect just the way they are? This is probably the coolest paper from @koraklein.bsky.social 's PhD thesis (though there's Colias butterfly work in the pipeline which I shouldn't diss...) academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...
- Reposted by Michael JennionsInterested in Postdoc Research here in Oxford? Many projects possible using long-term population studies of birds, field & lab experiments with insect consumers, phenology of trees all in Wytham woods & based in new Biology building marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
- Reposted by Michael JennionsIt's publication day of my first book: The Tree of Life. The tree of life is a time machine that can take us back 4 billion years to meet our most distant ancestor. It is the magic that lets us tell the origin stories, beginning with this ancient relative, of everything from mushrooms to man.
- Reposted by Michael JennionsNature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Great news! I will definitely do this course out when I have time. I’ve already watched one video* and found it useful. * a discussion of the dangers of using LLMs to create lecture content.
- Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com
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- Hi. Thank you to everyone - all 161 people - who signed the letter in support of nominating @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science. The nomination was lodged last night. Keep your fingers crossed for a good outcome for our masked hero.
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- Reposted by Michael JennionsGreat to see @nteuact.bsky.social coming right at this to make it crystal clear that academic freedom is not up for grabs in Australia and at ANU. Happy to talk with anyone about the issue who wants to know more.
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- This year I’m teaching a science writing course. When the course started, I had this exact conversation with the students - Your thoughts are fuzzy phantoms that ping around in your brain. If you want to catch and share those thoughts you need to pin them to the page.
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- Reposted by Michael JennionsThe loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
- Reposted by Michael JennionsI’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
- Come on folk, get off your butts! Let's thank @arc-tracker.bsky.social. 3500+ of you follow their posts about proposed changes in ARC funding & which schemes remain open for now. But only 135 of you have signed up to support their nomination for a Eureka prize. Sign! forms.gle/ie7b32rWcZKK...
- Reposted by Michael Jennions@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.
- We now have 125+ signatures to nominate @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a Eureka Prize. But there should be many more. ARC Tracker has 3000+ followers. Please repost & spread the word. Most signatures are from biologists. Please alert those in the humanities, social sciences, etc to sign. Thank you!
- Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
- A read today’s e-newsletter from our central administration and the heading of one section was ‘Leave management’. I thought ‘Yes, a few of you really should’ but it turns out it was a noun not a verb. My mistake. @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @nteuact.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Michael JennionsJob alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
- A popular account by @cogniivan.bsky.social of our study on sexual selection and intelligence in fish that is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. The journal link is in the article. theconversation.com/smart-is-sex...
- Our paper on #sexualselection and #intelligence / #cognition is now out in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Congrats to @cogniivan.bsky.social, Bec Fox & @kirindy.bsky.social for all their hard work to make this happen. www.anu.edu.au/news/all-new...
- Good news we have now passed the 100 signature mark. But we should have as many signatures as people that follow @arc-tracker.bsky.social (over 3000!) So please keep sending the link to colleagues, spread the word and encourage others to sign. Thank you.
- Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
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- Australian Researchers, If you want to support @arc-tracker.bsky.social being awarded a Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science, sign this letter of support. forms.gle/WxfVjk9JaGpn... Q: "Are they eligible?", A: "Let's find out" Sign, repost & send the link to colleagues. Word of mouth. Do it!
- Aussie Researchers, we need your support if you want this nomination to happen. I’m not tech savvy but I’ll work with colleagues to generate an online letter of support for @arc-tracker.bsky.social being nominated for a Eureka award that you can then sign. Details soon(ish).
- @cosmicpinot.bsky.social any chance you can boost the signal on this? The one thing I do know is that you are not ARC Tracker!
- Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.
- Hi Australian Researchers. I have a plan. Let's thank the amazing @arc-tracker.bsky.social for a decade of selfless work by nominating them for a Eureka Prize (Leadership in science). Are you with me? If so, repost this. Please also reply and state your support for this quest. We can do this people.
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- Some people lobby that scientific figures should always be readable by the colour blind. Is this really a big issue? I just don’t see the problem.
- Nature is art.
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- Reposted by Michael Jennions@puttert.bsky.social and I are organising the ANU Research School of Biology's Ecology and Evolution seminar series for 2025 🌏🗣. Any researchers based in Oz 🇦🇺 and keen to connect with #TeamCanberra should reach out! We have also budget for travel 🛩
