mastodon 4.6.9Investigating the evolution of social behaviour. Comparative Behavioral Ecology group leader (he/him) at the MPI EVA
A symptom of the skewed incentive system of academic careers: a professor awarded himself a made-up award and used that to get a promotion.
""The gold medal for philology is a pure creation of Mr Florent Montaclair, who awarded it to himself (and then to Noam Chomsky) via the intervention of this learned society, which he himself had evidently created, and this university, which only exists on an internet site"
Winners and Finalists of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2026
