🇨🇦 Chris Sturdy 🇨🇦

Alberta overhauls election laws to allow corporate donations, change referendum thresholds | CBC News The Alberta government wants to bring back corporate and union political donations, eliminate vouching for a voter’s identity at election polling stations, and lower the threshold for recalls and refe...

A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics.

This is not normal.

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First author should be Smeltz! (Sarah M.L.) -- thank you @cbsturdy.bsky.social for correcting that

Thank you for your interest in our research. The first author’s last name is Smeltz.

Individual Discrimination Within, but Not Between, Two Vocalization Types of the Black‐Capped Chickadee Black-capped chickadees' chick-a-dee calls and fee-bee songs are individually distinct. We used an operant conditioning Go/No-go paradigm to train chickadees to discriminate among four individuals' c...

Caller ID: Meltz et al. (@cbsturdy.bsky.social) show black-capped chickadees learn to discriminate chickadee calls by individual in go/no-go task but don't generalize to feebee calls

Suggests they may use more context info in wild

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#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics

Oxford dons ‘drank wine from skull of a slave woman’ A silver chalice made with a sawn-off human skull was used regularly at formal dinners at Worcester College until 2015, according to a museum curator

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As Canada buckles down to protect its sovereignty, try to remember that Pierre Poilievre hand-delivered coffee and donuts to violent insurrectionists who wanted to overthrow the federal government and called for the murder of the Prime Minister.

Evolving language:

- Reports that HAQERS -- human-ancestor quickly evolved regions, acquired after split from chimpanzees -- influence language not general cognition
- Via altered behind of Forkhead transcription factors (eg FOXP2)
- Finds HAQERS-like seqs in other vocal learners

#prattle 💬

At NIH, ‘everyone is on edge’ as they brace for deep cuts and more centralized control As the NIH braces for cuts of up to 5,000 of its 20,000 positions, “people are scrambling and freaking out,” a researcher said.

NIH is likely cutting up to 25% of its workforce this week. NIH staff have substantial expertise, typically PhDs. And they really *believe* in the work. NIH's will not be able to meet its mission w/these cuts. The scientific threat is not just direct funding cuts www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/n...

There is a lot going on in this photo. It’s art.

I am excited to announce that @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition on "Cognition in the Wild". Submissions are due by June 15. We are excited to see the amazing work you have been doing! link.springer.com/collections/...

YouTube video by TheTragicallyHipVEVO The Tragically Hip - Montréal (Live From Molson Center, Montréal/2000)

In memorium 💔🥀 🇨🇦
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#Dec6 #Canada
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🧵Tonight UofA announced at the GSA council that international tuition in 26/27 will be increasing an astonishing 10% for all undergraduate programs and course-based graduate programs. The increase for thesis-based program is still undecided. All domestic students will experience a 2% increase.

High protein, low calorie, and delicious. A perfect food.

For sure. Monday me will not agree with Sunday Steven nor Sunday Chris.

Dear all, I am looking for a postdoc for an ERC-funded project on meditation and the predictive brain in my lab. More details can be found here: heleenslagter.com/positions Feel free to reach out with any questions! Please help spread the word!

I am hiring a research technician. Please spread the word. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/281...

Know someone who is a great mentor to 🇨🇦 research trainees? Nominate them for the Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ Mentorship Award: wicsc.ca/wp-content/u...

Opinion | Learning While Female in Kabul How educators around the world keep hope alive in a hopeless place.

Please read this: You'll weap, but still, please read:

*Learning While Female in Kabul*

"My student Asma had been missing for four class sessions when I tried to reach her. Her response came back after a few days. “Please professor,” she wrote. 'Do not alone me'."

Excited about this Assist Professor position in AI + Biological Cognition in Dept Psychology at Univ of Alberta! Candidates should play equally well in AI and Neuroscience fields & contribute to our knowledge of how AI + Neuroscience relate. Please share!
www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

What a drag. I loved Homicide. He was a great actor.

Come work with an amazing group of faculty at UNC Bio! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/266... Also, please share!

Harvey Mudd College is looking for a new tenure-track faculty member whose research and teaching interests sit at the interface of biology and climate. If that sounds like you, I very much hope you'll apply. Application review starts September 18th.

Unc people. Get inside. Active shooter reported on campus

FACULTY JOB OPENING - come work at UNC! feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

The advice to get to know and treat your admin staff like gold is solid. As a former chair told me, a chair’s job is to spend all their time thinking about their faculty members so they do not need to spend any time thinking about their chair.

A bit too late for don’t at this point…

You are Department Chair? Do you have enough coffee?

Same here.