Our latest episode of Transmissions is out! This one features Prof. Dr. Lucy Aplin, a leading cognitive ecologist from the University of Zurich and Australian National University.
This marks our very first episode dedicated entirely to understanding animal culture!
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If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse.
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🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨
We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep!
🗓 Nominations close: Jun14
🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8
📢 Results announced this summer
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This transition will affect roughly 2.5 million civil servants as part of a 2026 strategy to achieve "digital sovereignty."
France already has a successful precedent; the national police force has operated 100,000 computers on Linux since 2008, proving that such a massive shift is feasible.
Good Is In The Details is a finalist in the HigherEd PodCon awards for our episode “Individual Choices, Challenges, and Social Change” with Philosophy Professors @madva.bsky.social and @dryan149.bsky.social
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"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
How does religious conflict reshape moral cognition across cultures?
We're hiring a postdoc to help answer that question using computational modeling (DDM, RL) across 20 countries.
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Wow it's hard to start new research and grow our lab and get stuff out and *also* be social, but Human Sociality Lab is still here! We'll catch you up on our latest. To get you started: greetings from Kenya, where Soujanya Akkiraju and @annepisor.bsky.social work on climate change and health! 👋🌍🇰🇪
Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science
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Cultural Evolution Society
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Timothy Snyder
Podcast Episode · Good Is In The Details · September 17, 2025 · 50m
“Units of the NIH are privately directing grantees to request permission in advance for any co-authorship with a scholar affiliated with a foreign institution, even if all the work was done in the United States.”
Grantees also told to remove papers with foreign authors from progress reports.
NIH, NASA grantees are confused and concerned amid agencies’ piecemeal communication
