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mchimento.bsky.social
postdoc at Uni KN | Uni Zurich studying social learning, social networks and animal culture in birds 🐦 and agent-based models πŸ€– https://michaelchimento.github.io
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The Culture Conference 2025 is (already) finished after 2 days of amazing discussions! 
Thank you to everybody for attending and presenting, either online or in person! We hope you spent 2 wonderful and exciting days in Utrecht, full of (social) learning and fascinating science discussions πŸ₯³

πŸ“£ preprint klaxon: New study with @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social @lucymaplin.bsky.social where we take a closer look at the innovation arms race between cockatoos and residents of Sydney doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Second paper out this week 😱😱 We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041... [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

The CES 2024 and Capstone Conference talks are now available online using the link below! A lot of the talks (with permission) are available for ALL. So if you missed the conferences, this is your chance to experience it all free of charge! ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/02/13/t...

🏰 PhD position on computational modelling | collective dynamics | cultural evolution 🏰 Get in touch with any questions you might have and join me in beautiful Marburg! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/c... (Deutsch) stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/3... (English)

an R package that just loads tidyverse called tidyverseloadR

ketikagarg.github.io/blueSkyAcade... nice network viz of starter packs, edges indicate more than 3 shared members. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social starter pack bridges behavioral ecology and mvmt ecology (checks out). but ecology is a subgraph disconnected from the largest subgraph of communities

if I see that goddamn ai cat in a wizard hat one more time

Hey bluesky, when I'm not wearing my science hat, I like to DJ and share it on yt. Here's a new mix w wintery vibes (🎧 recommended) youtu.be/zgFt2xJE4r0

absolutely an honor to have this wonderful primer (and illustration) by @rachelaharrison.bsky.social about our recent paper!

Really Excited to announce that I've been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant to start my research group at Uni Lausanne late next year! It will be all about understanding behavioral development, taking into consideration the physical and social environments. The model system? golden eagles of course 😌

Uploaded (a version of) my set from the 2024 CES afterparty 🎧! Some bangers from around the globe youtu.be/ovrKgES6xR0

πŸ¦πŸ“’πŸ§ͺ very pleased to share our freshly published cultural diffusion experiment w/ Gustavo AlarcΓ³n-Nieto @lucymaplin.bsky.social @ PLOS Biology that explored decision-making of immigrant great tits after moving into a new social group: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

🚨 Evidence for social transmission of stress in zebra finches In this huge experiment, Hanja Brandl experimentally stressed zebra finches in replicated colonies, and found that their group mates (who were not exposed) showed similar behavioural responses. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

so like what starter packs are you into

If anyone is looking for a PhD or postdoc project validating the ability of camera traps to estimate known population densities and demographies of capuchins, compare body sizes, and identify individuals with CNNs (with existing training data) email or message me.

New mix up! youtu.be/AjqJ61rG7Cc?...

the stapler gets me

soundtrack this evening www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NOh...

πŸ₯³πŸ§ͺnew paper out w/ @damienfarine.bsky.social about how movement shapes networks and interacts with transmission rules to affect spreading dynamics. Key take-away is that spreading on dynamic networks =/= spreading on static representations of those dynamic networks doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

So excited for @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social in two weeks!! I'll be talking about some new birdsong work, and then DJing the after party with @mchimento.bsky.social (theme is "global diversity in club music") 🐦 ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/programme/

Scientists: Elsevier has a *shocking* amount of data about you. @eikofried.bsky.social lays it out in detail in the blog post below.

Our new study shows that over a billion birds die every year in the US from building collisions. 🧡 @abcbirds.bsky.social πŸ”— wapo.st/4cfAWNz

Och, that Iran!

πŸ§ͺ πŸ¦πŸ“’ new preprint out with co-first Alex Chan, @lucymaplin.bsky.social and Fumihiro Kano. We present 3DSOCS: a RaspberryPi-powered system for markerless 3D tracking of *wild* birds that can be deployed in the field, runs on batteries! tinyurl.com/2tr774vf

All good things come to an end ... Last but not least Kristina Beck will present on Monday, June 17th at 5 PM CET "Exploring the effect of local population density on social network structure in great tits". Zoom link on our website www.eslrsociety.com/events/eslr-...

πŸ§ͺπŸ₯³ new preprint with @lucymaplin.bsky.social. in a large-scale cultural diffusion exp (n=144 birds), we find that great tits can assess socially observed payoffs and use that information in their own decision-making when faced with spatial variation biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you can make June 10 5PM CET, join the zoom link below to hear Dominik Deffner talk about social and spatial dynamics as part of the @eslr.bsky.social seminar series!

Our first seminar with the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social is this Monday! Taylor Hersh will be talking about some new work on sperm whale cultural diversity πŸ‹ 5/13 at 5 PM CET (11 AM EST) πŸ—“οΈ

Now out in Nature Comms 🎊 Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups [link: rdcu.be/dCC3Z] 🧡below