studies cooperation, communication, social bonds, vampire bats | Assoc Prof at Princeton | Freeman Hrabowski Scholar at HHMI
Gerry Carter
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Is disease just a cost of social life, or can it shape the evolution of social life itself?
New research from @mingpapilio.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social suggests social immunity can be both a result of cooperation and a force that promotes larger, more complex societies 👇
The Department of Biology at the University of Iowa is hiring an evolutionary ecologist at the assistant professor level for fall 2027. Come and be my colleague!
jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...
EEB Scholars - run by our wonderful Princeton EEB graduate students, now open for applications: eeb.princeton.edu/graduate/eeb...
2nd- or 3rd-year PhD student? Applications for @hhmi-
science.bsky.social's #GilliamFellows Program open 9/1!
Robust dissertation support, an incredible community of scientists, tailored professional development (for you *and* your faculty thesis advisor), & so much more.
Bookmark bit.ly/4qQArRh!
Very excited to announce that the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al publishes in June! routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian
Our new paper investigating the temporal dynamics of vocal accommodation in common marmosets is now published in Proceedings B!
Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
@evocoggroup.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
Cool journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...
I highly recommend this very clear, helpful and practical paper on statistical inference with marginaleffects package. I added it to my lab’s “required reading” list.
🚨 @rmcelreath.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social & @avehtari.bsky.social are coming on the show mid-June to discuss their new book, Bayesian Workflow!
ONE listener gets to bring a real Bayesian problem onto the recording and have the three of them work through it live.
Here's how to enter 🧵
