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Tom Holding

@verwirrt.bsky.social

Postdoc at MPI EVA Leipzig, developing agent-based modelling tools for cultural evolution and demography

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Heidi Colleran - EHBEA 2025
YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Heidi Colleran - EHBEA 2025

Starting the week strong ๐Ÿ’ช we share now the plenary talk of @heidicolleran.bsky.social, which was part of @ehbea2025.bsky.social

Here, she talks about the misconceptions and the biases behind the idea of โ€œnatural fertilityโ€๐Ÿ‘ถ

Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned!

youtu.be/8Ch1t7zpW10?...

25.08.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Seeing polarization of light with the naked eye Many readers may know that scores of animal species sense the polarization of light for purposes including navigation, predation, and communication1. โ€ฆ

Humans can see light polarisation!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

18.06.2025 09:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Job announcement ๐Ÿšจ: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread โฌ‡๏ธ Please share!

07.05.2025 09:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

25.04.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60391    ๐Ÿ” 20697    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 600    ๐Ÿ“Œ 832
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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Womenโ€™s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

Today in the USA, women are TWICE as likely to DIE giving birth than their mothers were a generation ago.
And TRUMP's War on Women continues with ending the landmark Women's Health Study: www.science.org/content/arti...

23.04.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 64    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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New paper with @lottybrand.bsky.social and @verwirrt.bsky.social. We use some cool modeling to argue for a central role of analogy in the evolution of both language and high-fidelity social learning, using multiple NK landscapes. Feedback welcome.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

01.11.2024 15:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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My Voice, My Choice Movement for safe and accessible abortion in Europe. Join us and be a part of change for Europe that is free, equal, and just for all. Together we are stronger.

Campaign for cross-border financial support for safe abortions within the EU
www.myvoice-mychoice.org

13.05.2024 08:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sigh. โ˜น๏ธ

04.12.2023 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

As hostile as the internet sometimes seems, I still love that it's full of old articles where someone has spent unreasonable time to explain random things to strangers in great depth. A whirlwind tour of algorithms for sampling discrete probability distributions: keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-c...

14.12.2023 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Backup career: Ornithomancer! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornitho...

05.10.2023 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election - ... Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election

New paper on voter fraud conspiracy theories out! We found evidence that the spread of voter fraud tweets during the 2020 US election was boosted by a bias for negative emotion (w/ @albertoacerbi.bsky.social, Morin, Stubbersfield, and Glassman) ๐Ÿงต www.nature.com/articles/s41...

18.09.2023 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@madele.bsky.social

13.09.2023 10:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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