What does everyday field research look like? 🐒 Our new video introduces life at CRP Simenti in Niokolo Koba NP (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social). Join camp manager Anaïs Avilés de Diego, meet Guinea baboons, and get a behind-the-scenes look at youtu.be/WhUqBMQ7_Fc Funded by @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

We are happy to share that the newest video about ScienceCampus Research is out on YouTube! Join Claudia Fichtel (@kirindy.bsky.social) on a tour to our field site Kirindy Forest. Thanks to the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de for funding and Sam Sebastian Thomas and the video team at @uni-goettingen.de

Paper alert: Kind of a serious fun paper 😂 - how to hold back laughter. Published by @anne-schacht.bsky.social, Vanessa Mitschke, Annika Ziereis and Sriranjani Manivasagam (@uni-goettingen.de; @primatecognition.bsky.social) . Paper is out in Comm Psychol: doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Looking for great place to do your PhD? 🧑‍🎓 Would you like to work with Assamese macaques in Thailand? 🐒 Our colleagues Julia Ostner and Oliver Schülke @primbehavecol.bsky.social offer a PhD position! Apply now and join the @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social curiosity.bsky.social at @uni-goettingen.de

We’re not the only ones changing our minds 🐒🧠 Chimps revise their beliefs when new evidence appears — a trait once thought uniquely human. New Science paper from our former postdoc Hanna Schleihauf (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social; now @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ein Fernsehtipp zum Wochenende: Das Bayerische Fernsehen zeigt eine Doku über die Sprache der Tiere. Mit dabei: Julia Fischer (@sfb1528.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social ) und ihre Forschung darüber, wie Affen kommunizieren. 📆27.9.2025, 18:45 BR Fernsehen & Mediathek (s.gwdg.de/TDMmkf)

🎞️ Episode 4 über den Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus ist online - Wie sich Neurowissenschaften und Feldforschung gegenseitig inspirieren 🐒🧠. Mit Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social, Claudia Fichtel @kirindy.bsky.social, Alex Gail @smgdpz.bsky.social ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCF...

Herzlichen Glückwunsch lieber Peter zu dieser besonderen Anerkennung Deiner Leistungen!

🎞️ Neue Episode unserer Filmreihe: Die Dyadische Interaktionsplattform und wie wir Kooperation, Konkurrenz und soziales Lernen untersuchen. ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgKS... feat Igor Kagan, @nivimani.bsky.social, @anne-schacht.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

Episode 2 unserer Videoreihe ist online: 🚐👶 Forschung im Kleinbus - das Phenomobil bringt Wissenschaft nach Hause. Peter Marschik & Team @UMG untersuchen, wie Babys mit ihren Eltern interagieren – und ob sich Entwicklungsstörungen frühzeitig erkennen lassen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5j...

Looking back at 10 years ScienceCampus. Today, we launch a four-episode video series. We start with How AI helps Decoding Primate Behavior find us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W3_... @primbehavecol.bsky.social, @uni-goettingen.de @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

free registration! Join us in Göttingen and celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center Göttingen. Submit your abstract by August 17 at events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Features: Face-to-face visibility of participants simultaneous presentation of stimuli and shared task contexts Flexible experimental paradigms Usable with adults, children, non-human primate dyads result of a long-term project with @primatecognition.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.

Join us in October for the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction Submit your abstracts by August 1st -> events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen... Free participation, but registration required!

We congratulate all newly elected members of the Leopoldina on this well-deserved recognition! We are especially happy for @stefantreue.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @sfb1528.bsky.social) who has now joined Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. 🍾 Congratulations! 🎆 @uni-goettingen.de

Don't miss it! 🐒 What: SFB Lecture by Joah Madden (@exeter.ac.uk) 🗣️ Topic: How does cognition determine an individual's fitness 🕰️ When: Tomorrow, July 15th, 10 AM 📍 Where: Michael-Lankeit-Lecture Hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social Looking forward seeing you!

Warum spielen Geschlecht und Gender eine so durchdringende Rolle bei der Gestaltung unserer Gesellschaften? Basierend auf Forschungsergebnissen aus Biologie, Evolution und Anthropologie bespricht dieses neue Buch biologische oder kulturelle Erklärungen und Lösungsansätze für Sexismus.

Don't miss that! Really cool projects and lot of fun science to talk about!

Assamese macaque females prioritize future over current offspring! Check out our paper (led by PhD researcher Shivani) showing reduced infant survival if mothers conceive early again! tinyurl.com/4ka2ueyn @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de

Herzlichen Glückwunsch liebe @violapriesemann.bsky.social für diese hochverdiente Anerkennung durch die #ALLEA! Wir freuen uns, dass Du auch bei unserem SFB eine wichtige Rolle spielst!

The program for GEM 2025 is now available as a pdf. for2812.rub.de/upload/edito...

🎓 Was bedeutet es, als Erste*r in der Familie den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu gehen? Unsere Podiumsdiskussion „First Generation Academics“ vom 12.3.2025 zeigt, mit welchen Hürden viele im Uni-Alltag kämpfen und wie man zwischen zwei Welten lebt. Jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtp...

Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology. See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

Ihr Forschungsgebiet im Fokus: Mit dem Förderangebot "Scoping Workshops" bietet die Stiftung Raum, Forschungsgebiete zu reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Bewerben Sie sich mit Ihrem Workshop-Konzept! 📅 Stichtag 16. Sept. ❗ Online-Sprechstunde: 5. Aug. www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/foerderun...

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Spread the word: we're #hiring! We have an open #research fellowship position for #postdocs with their own research idea: It includes an own budget, a #PhD student position and the possibility to conduct independent research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception 🧭🦤🦇🐟⚛️🧪👩‍🔬! sfb1372.de/jobs

Du bist Psychologe/-in, interessierst dich für Wissenschaftskommunikation in Forschung oder Praxis und möchtest dich vernetzen? Werde jetzt Mitglied der neuen @dgps.bsky.social Interessengruppe. Wir von @de.in-mind.org sind auch dabei! Mehr Infos & Anmeldung zum ersten Treffen nächste Woche ⬇️

I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for my parakeet sociality & cognition project! This position is for people finished with undergrad but who have not yet started grad school. Must be totally fascinated by parakeet social drama (there's a lot of it!)🪶🧪 Job ad here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs! Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

Congratulations @lirsamuni.bsky.social - a well deserved honor! 🍾

Pod out now!

Very pleased to see this paper now published in Psychological Reports, with @marcellawoud.bsky.social, Katharina Westermann, & Jürgen Margraf: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... /1

Our colleagues at the University Medical Center in Heidelberg are recruiting! Multiple open positions in the clinic led by Luise Poustka with labs of Peter Marschik & @Martin Schulte-Rüther. ⬇️ PhD student: lnkd.in/ep4qTdQd Poszdoc: lnkd.in/eb-hvC_V Studienassistenz: lnkd.in/eda6eASs

Floodwaters overwhelmed Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, putting bonobos and staff members at risk. Your emergency gift will provide repairs, food for bonobos and staff, and clean drinking water. Please, give what you can today. savebonobos.org/FloodRelief #FloodRelief #Urgent (Video shows restaurant)

🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Review begins April 18, 2025 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

SFB Paper Alert! That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in an Emmy Noether Group on “Methods in AI”? Discover opportunities at the @thegoecampus.bsky.social! Join the online info event by the Campus Institute Data Science to learn more & connect: 📅 April 23, 5 PM 🔗 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/696563.html #AI #EmmyNoether #DataScience #Göttingen

Freiräume statt bürokratischer Grenzen 🚀: Mit unserem neuen Förderangebot "Strategische Experimentierräume" unterstützen wir Universitäten 🎓, die gemeinsam mit Ministerien neue Wege in der #Hochschulentwicklung erproben wollen. #Wissenschaft Innovativ, flexibel und kooperativ - alle Infos hier: 👇

Curious about how we judge others based on physical traits? This study by Tobias Kordsmeyer, @larspenke.bsky.social et al reveals strong halo effects for both faces and bodies, showing consistent biases across German and Japanese observers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Comparative research in animal social behaviour—where are we at, and what’s next? In our symposium at #Behaviour2025 (S20) we explore the power & pitfalls of comparative approaches—and how to unlock their full potential. Join us to brainstorm, share ideas, and push the field forward together!

Glad to hear the workshop on "Non-invasive methods for wildlife monitoring" at Phu Khieo went well and all participants are safe and unaffected by the earthquakes. At the same time, our thoughts are with those affected by this tragedy—wishing them strength in this difficult time.

Todays FINE April 1st 2025, Camille Testard, Harvard University, USA Title: Neuroethology of sociality and its role in environmental resilience YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...

The Leopoldina published a working paper on demographic change and ageing. The team includes SFB PI Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social; @primatecognition.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) and proposes to address demographic change across all policy areas to develop sustainable solutions

Send suggestions, ideas, or examples of barriers you encountered, to help improve accessibility and make the next EFP conference more inclusive and diverse!

In tomorrow’s public lecture, Prof. Jan-Peter Duda from the @unigoettingen.bsky.social speaks about geological traces of earliest life on #Earth – and how #geobiology can help in the search for extraterrestrial life. 👽 In German. www.mps.mpg.de/die-erde-und... @thegoecampus.bsky.social 🔭🧪

Heute, um 17 Uhr endet in der alten Mensa unsere Reihe über Wege zu einer diverseren Wissenschaft. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Podiumsdiskussion & Publikumsfragen zu "First Generation Academics - Wieso das Elternhaus die Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst" Eintritt frei!

Lisa Ohrndorf, @julxf.bsky.social and colleagues studied landscape partitioning by Guinea baboons in Niokolo Koba National Park: Low level of feeding competition between; remains to be seen if this is a general feature of Guinea baboons. more: s.gwdg.de/tXhc79 Paper out in: lnkd.in/eKnTMdcy

📣🚨 Extension of Early Bird Registration Deadline 🚨📣 We are pleased to announce that the Early Bird Registration deadline for Behaviour Conference 2025 has been extended to accommodate ongoing interest from participants. 🗓 New registration deadline: 7th April 2025. 🗒️

🌿 Join the @mbchimp.bsky.social ! 🐵 Seeking a part-time Data Assistant in Göttingen, Germany. Ideal candidates have experience in GIS and R, and will work with camera trap and spatial data. Dive into chimpanzee behavioral ecology in Guinea's PNMB. #Conservation #DataScience

Very nice insight into the DPZ field station EBQB in Peru.