fx dechaume-moncharmont @fxdm@mamot.fr

Heart rate increases when crossing the #road: Road traffic safety in #bear also. #science #biology #ecology #animalbehaviour #biologging
📄 Ditmer et al (2018) American black bears perceive the risks of crossing roads. Behavioral Ecology 29:667-675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary020

While I am still a great fan of Kahneman's best seller "Thinking, fast and slow" (2011), here are refreshing views about the pervasive presentation of #decision making processes based on two orthogonal systems: type I (fast, unconscious, automatic, error prone) vs. type II (slow, conscious, costly, reliable). #psychology #cognition #heuristic #rationality #science
📄 Melnikoff & Bargh (2018) The mythical number two. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 22:280-293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.02.001

Darwinian medicine and new views on #cancer or #Alzheimer : genes formerly linked to higher fitness now predispose to non-communicable diseases.
#evolution #demography #science
📄 Corbet et al. (2018). The transition to modernity and chronic disease: mismatch and natural selection. Nature Reviews Genetics http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41576-018-0012-3

#Gender bias in #academia (again): while they represented 42% of the attendance, women only asked 31% of the questions. #science #GenderBias
📄 Käfer et al. (2018) Progress and prospects in gender visibility at SMBE annual meetings. Genome Biology and Evolution 10:901-908. https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/10/3/901/4924379

Don't lecture me! Towards better didactic practices in the #university. Institutions should revise their promotion and merit-recognition policies to incentivize and reward implementation of evidence-based instructional practices. #teaching #science #lecture #biology
Stains et al. (2018) Anatomy of STEM teaching in North American universities. Science 359:1468-1470 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aap8892

Very impressive game of Chinese whispers in bats.
Patriquin et al. (2018). Bats without borders: predators learn novel prey cues from other predatory species. Science Advances 4:eaaq0579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaq0579
#science #biology #bat #ecology #animalbehaviour #behaviouralecology #communication #imitation

Nice article of theoretical ecology by the MAD group: the state of the internal reserve is an excellent proxy for foraging decision in fluctuating environment. All the mathematical details are hidden in the supplementary materials. http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1871/20172411 #science #ecology #physiology #animalbehaviour #heuristic #decisionrule #foraging

Animals detect #infection threats: generalization of the concept of ecology of #fear by also taking into account the parasites.
Weinstein et al. (2018). A landscape of disgust. Science 359:1213-1214 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6381/1213.full #science #ecology #biology #predation #parasite

#Fake news spread farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth in social media: a very disappointing (yet not really surprising) result detailed in a vast quantitative analysis. Vosoughi et al. (20158) The spread of true and false news online. Science 359:1146-1151. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146.full #science #socialnetwork #fakenews

Fact so romantic: #kiss has probably a profound adaptive significance as a way to assess or shape your #microbiome compatibility with your partner. #science #bacteria
Kort et al. (2014). Shaping the oral microbiota through intimate kissing. Microbiome 2:41 https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2049-2618-2-41

Strong #gender bias in #academia: a quantitative study shows that women refrain from asking question at #seminar. Interestingly, the gender of the first person to ask a question also predicts the gender imbalance in subsequent questions. #science #GenderBias
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10985

Scientific #writing. Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers. #science #publication https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02404-4

Many users recently reported that #scihub does not work in some countries. Consider connecting to a recent server using #VPN (for instance via Germany). #science #publication_guerilla

Improve ecological literacy: a selection of 100 papers, and #Darwin still on top! #science #ecology #evolution
Courchamp, F. and Bradshaw, C. J. A. 2018. 100 articles every ecologist should read. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:395-401
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0370-9
See also, the responses to this subjective and partial list as regards possible #gender, #racial and editiorial #bias.

#Reproducibility crisis in #science: overestimation of the effect size and no larger statistical power in high impact factor journal.
Brembs, B. 2018. Prestigious science journals struggle to reach even average reliability. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12:37 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00037/full