New episode!! 🎙️🔨 A conversation w/ @auersperga.bsky.social about tool use in cockatoos, crows, cows, and other animals. What counts as tool use? Does using a tool always require cognitive sophistication? And why are tool-using species so often found on islands? Listen: disi.org/island-of-th...

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1/ 🚀 We’re hiring a PhD student + a Postdoc to build foundation models for behaviour — where large-scale behavioural video meets deep learning. 📍 Douglas Research Centre / McGill + Mila, Montréal 🇨🇦 Apply 👉 l1nk.dev/j1zfg0k 🧵

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Open-rank faculty position at Vanderbilt U. in theoretical biology: apply.interfolio.com/194619, deadline Nov 6. Contact @megbehri.bsky.social with questions.

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I’m excited to share our new preprint, where we ask: to what extent can evolution in fluctuating environments be predicted? Spoiler: far more than the strong history-dependence of fitness would suggest! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Calling #ALife researchers & philosophers🚨 There’s still a little over a week left to submit your abstract for the interdisciplinary minisymposium we’re organizing in December. Please help us spread the word & reach anyone who might be interested! 👇 hiw.kuleuven.be/clps/events/... #philsci #HPS 🧪

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