Gilbert Roberts

Sorry to be thick - what do you mean 'the pinned image'?

I don't understand how anyone can think that firing on people trying to get food is in any way defensible. October 7 is not an excuse to commit atrocities, war crimes and genocide. #gaza #palestine #israel

Oh. I didn't know you were at Newcastle. You sound like you do interesting stuff. I work on cooperation / agent based modelling / morality / human sociality and was a founder member of the CBE in a former life. Let me know if you have time for a chat before you go.

Shocking

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating
"I support
Palestine.
Action
must be taken."
My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

UK bosses to be banned from using NDAs to cover up misconduct at work Exclusive: Changes to workers’ rights bill will prohibit the silencing of staff who suffer harassment or discrimination

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jul...

Where did the puffin come into it?

Dream PhD opportunity, doing important and pioneering work on how humans and other animals solve problems that require them to work together to sustain resources (like the planet!)!

Creative, brilliant, and supportive mentor!

I'm on vodafone. Think it was £9 a month for roaming in 50 countries, unlimited calls + phone extra. Lucky there's a large data allowance as there was a 3.8GB update today while I was out shopping. Like many things in life, have to keep on changing because the last experience was so bad ;-)

Beauties! (I may be biased)

Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocr… From New York Times bestselling author and economics co…

It also brought to mind this very excellent book by an academic hero of mine, Robert Frank - www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

Your essay and predicament reminds me of times I have heard from other scientists / journals / funders "yes, but it's *just* a theory isn't it?" Argh.

"page not found" (just showing off that I do click on links)

As a scientist working on my laptop in the Clachaig after a wee scramble I can relate!

Petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season We call on the Government to stop the shooting of hares during their peak breeding season, by establishing a legally enforceable close season for hares in England and Wales, from 1st February to 30th…

Brown hares can currently be shot all-year round , despite an estimated decline of 80% in the last 100 years . Please sign the petition now calling on the Govt to introduce a close season from Feb – Sept . Thank you !

Just seen this. Looks great.

Puffin therapy

A cryptic role for reciprocal helping in a cooperatively breeding bird - Nature A study of the cooperative breeding behaviour of superb starlings during 40 consecutive breeding seasons over 20 years reveals long-term reciprocal helping between both related and unrelated individua...

Our latest superb starling work in @nature.com. We observe long-term reciprocal helping relationships, and suggest reciprocity is an underappreciated mechanism promoting the stability of cooperatively breeding societies. Led by Alexis Earl and @gerrycarter.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not my concern thanks. Just something to bear in mind when dealing with the parents.

Perhaps you could read the article to the lucky couple who have a deformed baby - I'm sure that will make it all fine.

Evolution of stable reciprocity Human cooperation among non-kin has long been accepted as being based on reciprocity: the idea that we return help from individuals that we re-meet (Trivers, 1971). However, this paradigm has been cha...

Revised preprint. Charles Efferson and Ernst Fehr claim that reciprocity does not work. In a Nature paper they falsely claim that between-group competition rescues cooperation. Here I show that a simple error in their model is responsible for their false claims www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

..I'm sure you know more about the cultural side of things David, but if you know there's a doubling of the chance of birth defects do you not have a moral responsibility to discourage cousin marriages? (speaking as someone with at least one homozygous recessive condition)

Echoes of the Indian cobra bounty scheme?

YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

Listening to PetShopBoys Suburbia (1986). Timeless, except perhaps for updating "where's a policeman when you need one to blame the colour TV" to "where's a politician when you need one to blame social media". www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCq...

Coquet Island: 3 Top Of The Hide☀️23/04/25 YouTube video by CarnyxWild

Puffin cam from Northumberland is back @ehbea2025.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/aMaNSZU...

Thanks! I had been going to go to a workshop in Leiden this week but will have to wait to next years ehbea now! 😁

I see a cap helps in being a science communicator 😜

I love the imagery of a new-born thought struggling to take wing from the mud. Exactly what I'm struggling with. Not used LLMs though!

Patient satisfaction with GP services in England has collapsed, research finds Exclusive: Family doctors have switched to providing far fewer in-person appointments

22 mins on autoredial app to be told surgery fully booked with people who somehow got through. Travel insurance want evidence but surgery says they are there to treat people not sign forms. Fever and coughing up blood so this is no surprise. Got appt in end but.. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...