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🦮 Attention dog owners! One of my trainees is examining the relationship between dogs and toys, and their owner’s thoughts about that relationship. Want to help? If you have a few minutes, you can complete the survey here: queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Last week, the Nebraska R User Group hosted a presentation by Matt Waite (@mattwaite.bsky.social) on "Talking to LLMs through R". Check out a summary of the talk at neb-rug.github.io/posts/talkin.... #rstats #llms

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🚨 The "penguins" data is coming to the base #rstats{datasets} in 4.5.0! @ellakaye.co.uk & @HeathrTurnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy r prepared an adapted and a raw version of the data set based on the {palmerpenguins} 📦 by @allisonhorst.bsky.social @apreshill.com and Kristen Gorman. 📈 Scatter plot:

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🌈 rainbowR meet-up: Wednesday February 26th, 5pm UTC 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 - ask questions about R 🙋 - tell us about an R package you like 📦 - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

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If you're a comparative psychologist and/or a behavioral neuroscientist, and/or if you're interested in learning about those fields, now is a great time to follow @apadivision6.bsky.social! As current president of the division, I can say we've got some fun social media things planned! 🧪💜🦍🐟🐕🦆🦎🐝🐁🐖🦇

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Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

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📢The BRAY Lab at the University of Arizona is hiring a research tech, based full time at Canine Companions in Santa Rosa, CA📢 Help oversee an innovative program of service dog research + answer important questions re: development and cognition! Apply (open until filled): bit.ly/BrayLabResea...

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The 'PRISMA2020' R package can used to make both static and interactive 'PRISMA' Flow Diagrams. Thanks to @heeminkang.bsky.social for the tip! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

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Summer Institute in Bounded Rationality, Berlin, 2025 www.decisionsciencenews.com?p=7210

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Did you ever suspect that the #dogs on your streets might have a penchant for #yellow? Well, the ones in West Bengal, India, definitely do! Congratulations to the team! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Our upcoming paper in Animal Cognition covered in today's The Telegraph Kolkata, on page 1. www.telegraphindia.com/life/meet-th... #dogs #FRDs #colourpreference #yellow

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Canine perspective taking: Anticipating the behavior of an unseen human. www.cell.com/iscience/ful... New paper w/ L.Huber, P.van der Wolf, M.Menkveld & S.Riemer providing evidence that dogs prefer to steal from a plate unseen by a human when the human's presence has to be inferred from sound cues.

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I just got one heck of a welcome home. Volume up, but not too high. The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊

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📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

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If you're a Nebraska based researcher with or seeking NIH funding and find yourself in a holding pattern, I'd like to talk to you! You can shoot me a DM or email: cdunker(at)journalstar(dot)com

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Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

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The Dog Aging Project is #hiring a Senior Administrative Coordinator in College Station at Texas A&M University! If you or someone you know is interested in joining the most ambitious canine study of its kind, #ApplyToday! Learn more & #JoinOurTeam: dogagingproject.org/careers #TAMUjobs

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🚨 Postdoc Opening! 🚨 Join our human-animal interaction research group at @uarizona.bsky.social, receive dual mentorship from myself & @dremilybray.bsky.social + contribute to a funded study investigating the impact of pets on mental health and wellbeing. Open until filled! bit.ly/3CenLAE

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Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

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Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠

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The tidymodels group has an #rstats summer internship position this year. The focus is on feature selection tools. All of the information is in the blog post below. We look forward to seeing your applications! www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

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Dropping my lab's @unlcchil.bsky.social 2024 Wrapped! 🥳🎉 Find out how many dogs enrolled in our database, how many participated in our studies, what our most common dog names and breeds were, and lots of other cool facts about our year! #dogs #wrapped

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My first article for the year! And timely, given the frigid weather. If you hear loud booms, they might be due to a frost quake. ❄️ @snexplores.bsky.social www.snexplores.org/article/scie...

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One could say that Berlin is a city perpetually at war with itself, its identity, its grasp of history, its language. And once a year, this spritual war manifests in the streets. Ancient Chinese weapons, from a more civilized age, are deployed. The goal is only chaos. www.youtube.com/watch?v=16sR...

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Amazing collective problem solving in ants:

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University of Washington is hiring a Primate Welfare Specialist shorturl.at/lHaiF #job #animalwelfare #primates @gohuskies.bsky.social

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Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience. rdcu.be/d30KP

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📦 {flashr} 0.2.0 is out! ⚡ {flashr} creates flashcards for learning #RStats functions or other things. The new version can extract R functions from R Markdown and #QuartoPub documents, which can be used to create flashcard decks. Blogpost: jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/flashr/ @quarto.org

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If you would like to teach your students useful data skills, the entire PsyTeachR suite is available with a creative commons licence to reuse and adapt. We teach stats but our focus is on working with real data, wrangling, visualisation and reproducibility using R psyteachr.github.io #AcademicSky

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📣Senior position announcement: We are searching for an ~Academic Director~ for the Duke Lemur Center. If you or someone you know are qualified, we welcome applications! See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...

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How I’m writing up studies from here on out

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Happy to see our fellow big team science project, ManyPrimates, presented at #ASABWinter2024 @asab.org ! Join the Manys ;) 🐵🐶

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#rstats in today's New York Times crossword.

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Interested in upping your ggplot2 game? Check out a blog post on Dr. Heike Hofmann's talk "Extensions to ggplot2 are easy – right?" neb-rug.github.io/posts/ggplot... This was the inaugural talk for the new Nebraska R User Group. Register for future talks at www.meetup.com/neb-rug/ #RStats #DataViz

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This is important! It's Especially hard in professional settings like conferences. People want to talk about the dog instead of relating to me as a professional.

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If you're giving to kids, Animal Climate Heroes is uplifting and lots of fun! apstevens.com/ach/

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Watch the waves from the M7.0 earthquake in Northern California roll across seismic stations in North America. 🧵 THREAD

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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.

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If you've ever wanted to learn #rstats then consider checking out our course Applied Data Skills which focuses just on data wrangling and viz and working in R rather than stats and will take you from zero to hero in reproducible reports. You even get walkthrough vids of my ramblings #AcademicSky

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#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out MR-based eye tracking (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

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Proton VPN is having a very good Black Friday sale for anyone interested in increasing their digital #privacy / #security https://protonvpn.com/blackfriday

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👋 I am open to work. I am currently a Visiting Scholar (previously Research Associate, 2015-2022) at University of Cambridge and an Affiliate (previously Senior Lecturer, 2021-2024) at Anglia Ruskin University. Please see short academic CV attached or www.drrachaelmiller.com. 1/

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[help wanted] An rOpenSci package is looking for some help! 🙏 📦 qualtRics (@juliasilge) 'help wanted' issues: "Question/comment about the documentation" at https://github.com/ropensci/qualtRics/issues/341 (by zaslov) "Intro: how to generate API token" at […]

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