New article just out in NBR, co-authored with some brilliant linguists I’m working with in the new @dfg.de-funded CRC “Common Ground” (link below)! What can ambiguity in nonhuman communication teach us about the evolution of language? 🐵🗣️🐘

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗 How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Congratulations to my superb PhD student Angèle Lombrey on publishing her first article in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social — no less! 😎🍾 Curious about individual differences in animal communicative behavior? 🐦🐬🦧Check out our open-access paper: 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 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

🚨 New preprint! 3 years after our symposium at the EFP-GfP meeting in Arnhem, I'm happy to share a prefinal draft of our review on approaches to studying flexibility in animal communication. Thanks/Merci beaucoup to the 7 stellar presenters & coauthors who made this possible! osf.io/preprints/ps...

@mawadafreville.bsky.social just presented her work on the social development of vervet monkeys at the SFECA conference !

Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans

The EFP's EDI group had its first meeting yesterday! 🥳 With 23 registered members, we already have lots of projects and ideas. It is not too late if you want to join! 📢 Stay tuned for more coming soon!

Out of mama's shadow, but not too far... Mawa Dafreville talking about vervet monkeys' socialisation @cultconf.bsky.social @mawadafreville.bsky.social #cultureconference2025