Pat Savage

I agree it feels anachronistic

[Please share] Call for Fellowship Applications for Early Career Researchers from the Global South — to attend an international workshop on ‘spectral percepts’ and the Origins of Musicality in The Netherlands.

Deadline : 19 December 2025 (23:59, AoE).

See www.lorentzcenter.nl/index.php?pn...

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

A simple answer is “anti-conformity bias” (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). But what mechanisms specifically drive it here is hard to say! Personally I still love me some Taylor Swift, KPop Demon Hunters etc. alongside my traditional folk songs, but I know many hate things that are too pop.

Figure 3. Stylised figure showing my proposed reading/writing order to maximise efficiency given diminishing marginal returns as you read academic research in greater detail.

I largely agree, but we as educators are also failing to teach students how to efficiently read, write, and think critically. It has never been possible to read every word of assigned readings, and that's OK.
I wrote a reading/writing tutorial that applies in a ChatGPT era: osf.io/p37zj_v3

I largely agree, but we as educators are also failing to teach students how to efficiently read, write, and think critically. It has never been possible to read every word of assigned readings, and that's OK.
I wrote a reading/writing tutorial that applies in a ChatGPT era: osf.io/p37zj_v3

I'm very proud of Nelson's great work on his first paper (with excellent additional mentoring and support by @zixuanjia.bsky.social)! We plan to publish this in Royal Society Open Science once it's completed Stage 2 review at @peercommunityin.bsky.social.

I'm now thrilled to share the 2nd Stage 2 manuscript from our @pci-regreports.bsky.social programmatic protocol, led by Honours student Nelson Shi. In NZ English, we replicated song-speech acoustic differences and explored differences in social bonding effects:
osf.io/mk34q_v1

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Super proud of this paper with @apvelilla.bsky.social and @babeheim.bsky.social, now out in Psych Review.

Non-paywalled version (preprint) here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Do any publishers include abstracts in book chapter PDFs (as is done in journal articles)?
I asked Oxford, but they insist that they only include abstracts in the online version, not print/PDF versions. This seems like a waste given the abstracts are some of the most important/informative parts...

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning Peer Community in Statistics and Machine Learning

PCI Statistics and Machine Learning (@pcistatml.bsky.social) is now open for submissions!!
statml.peercommunityin.org
For an updated list of all the thematic PCIs, visit peercommunityin.org/current-pcis/

NZ continues to shoot itself in the foot with short sighted STEM obsession

Nice to see cultural evolution of music represented!

royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

We're very excited to see the first recommendation by PCI Psych out now in Peer Community Journal! 🎉 Not only can you read the full article for free below, you can see the full peer review history and editorial decisions. It cost the authors $0. This is what scientific publishing should be.

(Is this connected to what you meant here, @musiccognition.bsky.social?)
bsky.app/profile/musi...

In journal club today an astute grad student pointed out that these macaque tapping data look nothing like human beat synchronisation data. Nor, for that matter, like data from vocal learners like Snowball the cockatoo. Doesn't seem like evidence for synchronisation - are we missing something?

This is the conclusion, which I'm pulling out from behind the paywall because it'll probably be a free newsletter or podcast one day. I think the AI era is a reckoning for the tech industry, one where consumers finally realize they're being abused.

I think it's hard to appreciate until you experience for yourself how much better it is to get peer reviews BEFORE collecting data. Completely transforms the review process from having to defend/rationalise your flawed data to reviewers to collaborating with them to get better data!

Preserving musculoskeletal health through resistance training in individuals undergoing Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Therapy: a controlled interrupted time-series analysis (Stage 1 Registe... Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1-RAs) are increasingly prescribed for weight loss and cardiometabolic health but have been evidenced to lead to loss of lean soft tissue mass. Resistanc...

Just had our first set of reviews from @pci-regreports.bsky.social for our proposed study on RT during GLP-1-RA treatment.

Probably the most constructive and useful set of reviews I have ever had... and having them before starting the study makes them even better!

11/10 would recommend!

Picture of front cover of Theme Issue entitled "Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures." The image on the front cover is of a Yao honey hunter in Mozambique holding retrieved honeycomb.

Today sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
@durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking.

Good (albeit depressing and long) analysis of the existential crisis we face in higher education:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

PCI Webinar series #13 - Simine Vazire - Recognizing and responding to a replication crisis

In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!

How experience shapes extraordinary beliefs The ubiquity of extraordinary beliefs across human societies, such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, and supernatural beliefs, is a long-standing…

In a new Review for @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social -- and my first first-authored paper! -- @manvir.bsky.social and I argue that experience shapes the emergence and evolution of seemingly extraordinary beliefs.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I had no trouble reaching my audience on Twitter without using feeds. I am included in several feeds. I have 50K followers. I was hoping for engagement.

bsky.app/profile/elis...

I think this is all the more reason to promote public peer reviews (which are required by @peercommunityin.bsky.social, among others). Won't solve the problem, but transparency makes it easier to identify and address low-quality reviews/reviewers (whether due to AI or other reasons).

And the Lord sayeth, learn to write at a college level.

By coincidence, just after this published my commentary on a different article about the uniqueness of human dance was published ("Toward non-anthropocentric definitions of music and dance").
Looking forward to more cross-species comparative work on this topic in the future!
doi.org/10.1017/tmd....

I agree in principle, but also having been on both sides of this I know authors (incl myself) can take criticism more personally than they/we should. Giving a heads up (eg a few weeks before submitting to journal, posting preprint, etc) can help (though not always).