Stockholm University's Department of Zoology seeks an Associate Professor in Animal Ecology and Evolution. Deadline: Feb 28, 2026. More info: https://su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:883922/where:4/ #job

Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

🚀 Excited to announce that I'm looking for people (PhD/Postdoc) to join my Cognitive Modelling group @uniosnabrueck.bsky.social. If you want to join a genuinely curious, welcoming and inclusive community of Coxis, apply here: tinyurl.com/coxijobs Please RT - deadline is Jan 4‼️

A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Curious about how smartphones shape children’s development? We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for 3(+2) years for a cutting-edge randomized controlled trial conducted in collaboration with @orbenamy.bsky.social and her team. iwm-tuebingen.de/en/career/jo...

Now in press at Topics in Cognitive Science! We review children's understanding of different kinds of visual media across contexts, and argue that this work has important implications for childhood learning and assessment tools @cogscisociety.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excited that this is now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com 🎉 David Rose (davdrose.github.io) led this project on how children's understanding of causal language develops. 📃 (preprint): osf.io/preprints/ps... 📎: github.com/davdrose/cau...

📢 Applications are open for the 2026 #JacobsCIFARFellowship! A new partnership between the Jacobs Foundation and CIFAR supports early- & mid-career researchers advancing how children learn & develop worldwide. 🗓️ Apply by 2 February 2026 → cifarportal.smapply.io/prog/jacobs_...

Who wants to be the new professor for general #linguistics in Cologne? 👀 ifl.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/lingui...

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

We are trying something new @leuphana.bsky.social Our "Individual Research Master" will launch in fall '26. Students (any discipline) team up with a supervisor from Leuphana and design their own research-based curriculum that optimally prepares them for a PhD. More info: tinyurl.com/5bvr2mbv

Looking for a funded Ph.D. in #CogSci in an interdisciplinary, research-first program? Apply to CEU! cognitivescience.ceu.edu/admission Deadline February 4, 2026. Please share with any interested students! #PsychSciSky #DevPsych #CogPsych

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u

W3-Professur Entwicklungs- und Gesundheitspsychologie an der Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Passau. Schwerpunkt: Schulbezogene Forschung, insbesondere Lern- und Entwicklungsstörungen, Stressprävention und Umgang mit digitalen Medien: www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/do...

New paper challenging the didactic role of Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) We hypothesised that parents use IDS as a didactic tool by acoustically emphasising unknown words. Analysing 38k speech segments (182 parents of 8-18m olds) => NO evidence for a didactic strategy! doi.org/10.1037/dev0002077

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground". Share, apply, or reach out for details! tinyurl.com/y2av9hhd

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Gather round, all those bayes curious, pragmatic, committed or indifferent, for an elegant and flexible way to approach reliability estimation using bayesian measurement models! All thoughts and ideas welcome

Deadline approaching fast (October 1st)!

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions) Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture. Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation" More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective. A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE. levante-network.org/global-colla...

Applications open for the new #PhD program “Embracing Transformation” @leuphana.bsky.social (36 positions) Research how societies respond to change – whether in climate, democracy, work, or digital culture. Fin me in "Psychology of Transformation" More info: www.leuphana.de/transformation-phd

Studying children often comes with challenges such as high data variance, data loss, and sample attrition. A new study by Dr. Stephanie Wermelinger, @moritzdaum.bsky.social, and Marco Bleiker examined person- and situation-level factors that affect data quality in developmental research. Link👇

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email [email protected] to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

Come and join us at the University of Sydney School of Psychology! 🦘 Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor position usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

Our (short) perspectives piece on challenging dyads as defaults in developmental psychology research is out (open access). Check it out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Roman Stengelin (MPI EVA)

Mark your calendars! BTSCON2025 is officially set for October 6-8th. @psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social @manybabies.org

Join us!!! 2 (!) PhD positions on wild chimpanzees and bonobos in the Ape Behaviour & Ecology Group and Wildminds Lab!!! 🤩🤩🤩

PostDoc position (3.5y) available in interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground". 🎯 Topic: Pragmatic reasoning about Common Ground 🎓 linguistics | philosophy of language | cognitive science 📅 Deadline: July 14 tinyurl.com/3vd9wa6p Please share! @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/... We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit... #linguistics + friends

We are hiring 14 early-career researchers! In the programme “Embracing Transformation” researchers investigate what transformation is and how it can be successfully shaped. Find out more: www.leuphana.de/en/portals/e...

There is only this week left to apply for the Phd-position (75%; 4 yrs) about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability at Leuphana University Lüneburg @leuphana.bsky.social.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social. 🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling 🗓️ deadline: Aug 13 🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj

Come work with us on this really exciting interdisciplinary project!

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!

Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

Really looking forward to this - interdisciplinary in its best sense and with an amazing team!

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

Fully funded PhD position @leuphana.bsky.social - psychology of sustainability and transformation! Come work with us

Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...

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...

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

We're still accepting apps for our research scientist position with LEVANTE (levante-network.org). This position is ideal for folks wanting to be the interface between a cool scientific project and an awesome team of software developers. Think of it as a technical product manager, but for science!