Prof Nichola Raihani

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their best and brightest.

I appear to have spoken to a reporter who took seriously the gravity of NZ's science crisis

does anybody have a newsroom pro subscription so that I can learn what other choice phrases I used on the record?

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Gift link: nyti.ms/48FOuUn

In general I think it's hard to combat scientific misinformation when some of the best research is locked behind an academic paywall, while lots of nonsense gets published free for everyone to read in predatory journals.

The first draft is DONE.

I wonder how things would be if the mining bosses and government officials had to raise *their* kids in these lead-poisoned environments.

Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show Documents tabled in NSW parliament show state agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online ‘quietly’ but EPA says it was released to community earlier

This is a complete dereliction of responsibility from all involved. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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

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...

Harvard Sues Ex-HBS Professor Gino for Defamation, Accusing Her of Falsifying Evidence

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

So excited - Domination is number 3 in the Sunday Times bestseller list!
And it seems I can’t get away from medieval cities and monasteries on a rainy Sunday afternoon!

Massive congrats Alice! Can’t wait to read it.

WTF - this is so random

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

📖 Our letter of reply to 'pseudosocial' cognition is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Led by the talented @srazavi.bsky.social + written with @vaughanbell.bsky.social, Peter Dayan, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, Michael Moutoussis

#NeuroPsychSky

Pseudo-approaches lead to pseudo-explanations: reply to Corlett et al.

Our response to Corlett & co on what they call 'pseudo-social' paranoia is now online in TICS. We hope this clarifies some persistent misunderstandings of our work and approach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lecturer in Social Psychology - Faculty of Science Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the largest and most highly ranke...

University of Auckland is hiring a lecturer in social psychology. smrtr.io/tfSY-

Please share with your networks.

Lecturer in Social Psychology - Faculty of Science Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandKo te whare Pūtaiao | The Faculty of Science at the University of Auckland is the largest and most highly ranke...

University of Auckland is hiring a lecturer in social psychology. smrtr.io/tfSY-

Please share with your networks.

This is heartbreaking and will happen again if nothing is done to restrict AI and social media

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!!
📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025
💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam
🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond
🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

So true. We’ve all heard from ‘that’ guy. (And yes, weirdly, it is always a guy)

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain This is a public lecture hosted by Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore .

An exciting event for Aucklanders in November; pls share

Talk: Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain 👩‍🎓 Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
📍University of Auckland
📆 Tues 11/11/25| 1815
Free but ticketed.
www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/inventing-...

@sjblakemore.bsky.social

Yes got a nice big section on brood parasites in another chapter (FAKE NEWS)

no but that is suitably nasty

ducks, dolphins, bedbugs (I assume we are talking about the same genre of nastiness)

they're already in there - in another chapter 😆

Hive mind: I'm writing a book chapter called Utter Bastards – intended to showcase the ways in which animals (yes, incl. us) can be 'nasty'. I've got lots of the obvious candidates e.g. siblicide, infanticide, sexual coercion etc. anything *unusual* you think should be in there?

your gain, our loss big time!

😂

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Re-evaluating the relationship between female social bonds and infant survival in wild baboons Over the past few decades studies have provided strong evidence that the robust links between the social environment, health, and survival found in humans also extend to non-human social animals. A nu...

New data on friendship in baboons & infant survival upends a classic result. For years, we've thought that more social females had more surviving offspring, but this suggests that the result stemmed from reverse causality: females with infants become more social. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...