Tom Holding

Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings : Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

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

Starting the week strong 💪 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 “natural fertility”👶

Pass by, have a look, and stay tuned!

youtu.be/8Ch1t7zpW10?...

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. …

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

Job announcement 🚨: paid fieldwork opportunity with Sanguatsiniq research project! Details in thread ⬇️ Please share!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’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...

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...

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

Sigh. ☹️

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...

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

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) 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@madele.bsky.social