Demain, on fait grève ! Pr vous distraire, vous pouvez écouter mon nouvel épisode du podcast Bêtes de science @futurasciences.bsky.social. J'y parle du guépard, l'occasion d'évoquer le @cheetah.org & les études de com' vocale de @maelmleroux.bsky.social : podcasts.futura-sciences.com/futura-betes...

L’émission d’hier à retrouver ici 👇🏻 merci @rfi.fr ! www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

Live today on @rfi.fr !

Spent a wonderful week in Aurich with Simon Townsend and Katie Slocombe to talk about the next step of the @agencerecherche.bsky.social project #APELANG! Stay tuned ;) Ps: meetings in the river = best meetings 🏊‍♂️

And we continue on this série with an interview live for CQFD, at the Swiss radio RTS 🙏 With Lucia Sillig! Thanks for this great experience! CQFD - rts.ch www.rts.ch/emissions/cq...

First were @maelmleroux.bsky.social & @berthetmelissa.bsky.social talking about @edi-efp.bsky.social for the pre-conference workshop!

We had @maelmleroux.bsky.social presenting his work on chimpanzee compositionality.

Super happy to share a paper Catia Correia-Caeiro and Katja Liebal were kind enough to invite me on! An extension of the ChimpFACS for bonobos ❤️ With lots of people involved! peerj.com/articles/194...

No kidding… such an important message to be heard

Peer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia. 👉 Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social

It's out! 🎉 Together with @maelmleroux.bsky.social , @chimpsahoi.bsky.social, and S. Townsend, we wrote a chapter on methods for studying animal sequences. Huge thanks to @limorraviv.bsky.social and @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for editing this amazing volume! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Et découvrez un extrait du livre (comme par hasard, sur la syntaxe…) ici 👇🏻 theconversation.com/quand-les-an...

Today we were at the radio to talk about our new book with Alban Lemasson! The first of a long series we hope!

Merci pour le shout out! 🫰🏻 À écouter, l’émission de ce matin sur France Culture sur le “langage”, le “rythme” et la “musique” des chimpanzés 🙊

It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi: unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...

Only two weeks left to apply! Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend! And spread the word to whoever might be interested! @efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

This new #RSOS paper tested the ability of #bonobos to process 'non-adjacent dependencies'. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @maelmleroux.bsky.social @chimpsahoi.bsky.social‬

April update of the labs activities - a 🧵 New paper documenting the absence of non adjacent dependency processing in bonobos, including Kanzi! Nouveau papier sur l'absence de détection de dépendances syntaxiques chez les bonobos : une experience de grammaire artificielle doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 1/4

New paper hot off the press! 🚨 Non adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos. A special one, as Kanzi, who participated in the study, passed away a few weeks ago 😢 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Game changing study in @science.org by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social and co. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

2 new jobs! 1 enseignant.e à temps complet, pour un CDD de 1 an renouvelable(date limite le 2 mai) univ-rennes.nous-recrutons.fr/poste/qyy7js... 1 enseignant.e-chercheur.e, contrat ATER (date limite le 22 avril) www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un... www.univ-rennes.fr/recrutement-...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻

🇫🇷 Aujourd’hui, « À la rencontre du poulpe », le livre de Ludovic Dickel est disponible dans vos librairies! 🇬🇧 Today, a book on octopus behaviour for the general public is published, written by our own Ludovic Dickel! 🐙 www.fnac.com/a21148718/Lu...

Incredibly excited about that! And amazed at the energy people brought in. Together, we can make a difference! Come and join us! Send us an email at [email protected]

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Mobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits Very nice to see this out in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#APELANG little update from the field! Clement and Sophie are nailing data collection in Kibale forest! Lots of amazing videos of chimps doing chimp stuff! Also, they do communicate 😏😌 Pic by Katie Slocombe (left) and Sophie Kurilla (right)

Does anyone have any recs for iPad/phone apps for scanning smaller objects like bones etc. for a primatologist currently cosplaying at archaeology 😅 3D scanner has been great for larger natural objects like trees but hoping to find something that will do the small stuff 🙏 #archaeologysky 🧪

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Back from the field! Didn’t all go as planned, but what a gorgeous time it has been! Super glad to see this #APELANG project started! An amazing team of 3 post docs and 3 research assistants collecting data in 3 #chimpanzee field sites in Uganda! Stay tuned! Also, I am officially leaving X today! 🐵

I can’t go in the forest, but the naughty baboons are here to keep me company (and on my feet!)

So… funny story. I got to the Kibale forest alright, to see the Kanyawara chimps. But I happen to have gotten sick… so quarantine for me again and no more chimps for the week 😭 Guess will have to work on that coding scheme!

A small forest pic dump 😌 including Nambi, that granny sitting on a log - the eldest soul here, more than 60 years old !

Finallyyyyy! Back with the chimps 😍 Sound on 🔊 #APELANG

Last day of quarantine! Today is getting some work done in a very difficult, challenging field environment… #APELANG @agencerecherche.bsky.social

One more day in quarantine, and preparing the field with Vanessa in our nice little outside office. Waibira chimps better be ready, we’re coming in hot on Thursday!

A little quarantine time at camp before being able to enter the forest. The occasion to appreciate the non-chimp folks 😌❤️ Baboons, blue monkeys, black and white colobus… and a bushbuck 😏 #APELANG

Arrived in Budongo today 😍 The fun can start! Get ready for chimp fest in the coming days 🦍 (disclaimer: this emoji is a gorilla…)

Arrived in Kampala! Leaving for budongo tomorrow with the team! But before that, enjoying a cocktail in the best plaaaaace! @ Skyz Ninety9

Let’s go! #APELANG Leaving for the field for 15days to set up 6 amazing researchers to conduct fieldwork with #chimpanzees in Uganda for the next 3months. I’ll try and document the trip here, and post cool(er) pictures to wish you all a very happy new year 2025 🎉

And... We are up and running! We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Ethics, Diversity and Inclusivity group of the EFP! 🥳 We aim to discuss and implement short-, medium- and long-term actions to mediate EDI issues in primatology. If you want to join, email us at edi4efp(at)gmail.com!

Xmas came early! 🎄 Very happy to share this review on combinatoriality in chimps and the evolution of language 🐵 Part of a great special issue, in a French, OA journal, that promotes multilingual science! French version to come in Jan! @LaSFDP journals.openedition.org/primatologie/1…

Nice press coverage of our latest study on chimp compositionality! It’s in German, so if anyone could tell me what I’m actually saying, that’d be great! @NCCR_Language @UZH_en @ISLE_uzh @BudongoChimps @SimonWTownsend @3satStudy: nature.com/articles/s4146… 3sat.de/wissen/nano/23…

I am thrilled (and a bit shocked) to annonce that I will start a permanent lectureship position @EthosLabo @RennesUniv in September. I realise the privilege I have, thanks to all of you who supported me! Time to give back! More research, teaching and mentoring coming!

Visiting St Andrews @univofstandrews, @NakedPrimate & others to discuss communication (and more!). And don’t get me wrong, it’s a thrill to exchange with everybody here, but the highlight so far are these beauties right here 👇🏼

It's official! After 5+ wonderful years w/@SimonWTownsend @DeptCompLangSci, time to move on! I am now working w/@phschlenker_ac @ENS_ULM @psl_univ! Stay tuned for more “animal linguistics” research soon! 🚨 New 📧: [email protected] 🚨 Also, I'm not mad at the view…

Let’s goooo! @CultConf #CultConf22, with the amazing @ChimpsAhoi introducing this year’s event 😍

Back at @ApeInitiative to do some #bonobo research with Kanzi and friends 😍 Here, Clara says: « best way to listen to artificial grammars is by getting a pedi by Mo ❤️ » Lucky her 😎

#PlotTwist ! I am finally presenting some of my PhD work in French! @LaSFDP this week in Aix-en-Provence. Pour les intéressés, c’est demain que ça se passe, à 10h15, et on parlera de “syntaxe” chez les chimpanzés !

Very important work for anyone interested in animal “linguistics”! Talk about #syntax, #meaning, and more ! t.co/7JbaeRD1wm