New paper by an old team offers insights into transgenerational plasticity from Bayesian models

It was so much fun to work with my PhD advisor Judy Stamps on this new paper just published in Oecologia! Inspired by Laura Stein’s study showing nonadditive effects of personal and paternal information, we wanted to know how the reliability of cues influences our expectations about how an individual should prioritize and integrate cues from different sources. A Bayesian modeling approach helped us to appreciate the importance of the control group…