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Brandon Moore, PhD
11 days ago
@projectceti.bsky.social
used drones to capture the first-ever footage of a sperm whale giving birth! Multiple female whales from different family groups helped the mother through her labor, making this the first documented "assisted birth" outside primates! 🧪
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Stephanie L King
13 days ago
New OA paper
@royalsocietypublishing.org
: What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation?
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Lovely collab with
@lirsamuni.bsky.social
Martin Surbeck and Richard Connor.
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Coexistence Under Pressure: Tourism and Urban Expansion Threaten Spider Monkey Populations
The increase in human–spider monkey interfaces leads to a range of interactions, and there is thus a growing need to design and implement relevant coexistence plans.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.70137?fbclid=IwY2xjawQyVR5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe5JTaphws5UahM6dbLwYts1f8-AJ6zKKbm10lAu5zc0rwFDecSmbPuphu22M_aem_46bXQd8ouojHlfDK5BGVZA
12 days ago
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Matilda Brindle
about 2 months ago
My interview with
@manymindspod.bsky.social
! Come for a deep dive into the evolution of kissing 💋, stay for the earth-shattering insights 🤯 "fish don't run" 🐠🏃 "monkeys tend to loll around quite a lot" 🙈 "chimps have moved on to grass-in-bumhole behaviour" 🍑🌱
disi.org/origins-of-t...
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Origins of the kiss - DISI
Exploring our world's diverse forms of mind—human, animal, machine—from diverse perspectives.
https://disi.org/origins-of-the-kiss/
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Chris Krupenye
2 months ago
Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in
@science.org
We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative
youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine
YouTube video by Johns Hopkins University
https://youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
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Many Minds podcast
2 months ago
New episode, first of 2026!! 🎉🎙️ A deep dive into metaphor with
@sflusberg.bsky.social
! Metaphors delight, provoke, captivate, shock, and galvanize us. What does it say about the human mind that we simply can't escape them—and frankly don't want to? Listen:
disi.org/the-aura-of-...
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michael chimento
4 months ago
🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
with Will Hoppitt in
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses.
@cbehav.bsky.social
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission
A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70228
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I'm really happy to share this paper showing a relationship between social integration and offspring survival in female spider monkeys. I was lucky to work on this with Cristina Jasso,
@grf.bsky.social
and a great group of collaborators.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Social integration in temporal multiplex association networks predicts offspring survival in female geoffroy’s spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - While sociality is considered an important factor influencing female reproductive success, it is unclear how temporal social dynamics relate to it. We address...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-025-03691-4
2 months ago
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Royal Society Publishing
4 months ago
A new issue of
#PhilTransB
expands the field of cultural evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges - from
#inequality
and cooperation to
#conservation
and education. Read articles (all
#OA
):
buff.ly/S44vv6l
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Kate Laskowski
3 months ago
Hello dream project! Who doesn't want to work on social dynamics in the cutest birds with the incredible Liz Hobson?!?! (No one, thats who)
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Joseph Feldblum
9 months ago
We have a new paper out in
@cp-iscience.bsky.social
reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪
#evosky
#primates
#primatology
#anthropology
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality
In humans and other social mammals, more socially connected females often have higher fitness. Yet evidence linking female sociality to offspring surv…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004225011241
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Meg Crofoot
11 months ago
Ever feel like our culture has gone wrong? If so, we're maybe not alone. Check out this mind-bending story of the emergence of a behavioral tradition where capuchin monkeys abduct infant howler monkeys led by
@zoegoldsborough.bsky.social
and
@bjjbarrett.bsky.social
of
@livingingroups.bsky.social
!
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Ethological Society
2 months ago
🧪 ETHOLOGY: Baby elephants build social bonds early! 🐘💞 Revathe & Vidya show that Asian elephant calves form differentiated relationships early on: they interact closely with mothers and “escorts” who provide allomaternal care, while largely avoiding other females. Read:
doi.org/10.1111/eth....
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Young Asian Elephant Calves Show Differentiated Social Relationships With Conspecifics
We studied spatial and behavioural interactions between young calves (< 6 months old) and conspecific females to understand social ontogeny in a wild Asian elephant population. We found differentiate...
https://doi.org/10.1111/eth.70048
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Universität Konstanz
6 months ago
New study from #UniKonstanz @cbehav.bsky.social and @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social shows: animal swarms don’t need to follow fixed rules; their coordination emerges from brain dynamics. Flexible “ring attractor” networks create complexity from simplicity:
https://t1p.de/4c6cd
#UniKonstanz
@
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couzin.bsky.social
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Darren Croft
3 months ago
We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with
@samellisq.bsky.social
@drwhale.bsky.social
and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...
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Andrew King
3 months ago
And our work is one of three papers published in Current Biology showing importance of social dynamics on sleep. Commentary here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Sleep: Primates bear a social cost
Field studies of baboons, orangutans and chimpanzees suggest that social rank and group living can shorten and fragment sleep. The findings highlight the physiological costs of maintaining social bond...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01548-9
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Andrew King
3 months ago
Our paper is published today in Current Biology and is featured on the cover! We report a neat, and somewhat counter-intuitive, finding: higher-ranking baboons get less and more interrupted night-time rest.
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Delphine De Moor
4 months ago
Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in
@behavecol.bsky.social
– to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵
tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy
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Jaclyn Aubin
3 months ago
Our new review of beluga sociality and culture just dropped at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! Some of our key conclusions summarized 🧵
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@marine-valeria.bsky.social
@dmennill.bsky.social
@raincoast.org
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
2 months ago
Spider monkeys use collective intelligence to find food:
www.earth.com/news/spider-...
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Spider monkeys use collective intelligence to find food
Spider monkeys share food knowledge by changing groups, helping everyone find fruit faster in forests across seasons and landscapes.
https://www.earth.com/news/spider-monkeys-use-collective-intelligence-to-find-food/
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
3 months ago
🐒🧠 New paper in npj Complexity: complementary information sharing in fission-fusion dynamics. Video explainer:
youtu.be/PIAhcLWqsO8?...
Full paper (open access):
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Higher-order spatial networks enable distributed foraging knowledge in heterogeneous environments. 👇
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Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging
YouTube video by Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences
https://youtu.be/PIAhcLWqsO8?si=wLlQ3uKx1uZY9Mzk
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Friends Of Midway Atoll (FOMA)
5 months ago
#Wisdom
is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll).
#Birds
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NetSci 2026
5 months ago
𝗗𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝘀 & 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗮𝘁𝘇 will give their first-ever 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲 at NetSci 2026! Their groundbreaking work has shaped how we understand networks, & this session will be a highlight of NetSci’s 20th anniversary. Call for abstracts:
tinyurl.com/3tbj2v83
Call for satellites:
tinyurl.com/42sru6kz
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Elizabeth Hobson
5 months ago
In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire O’Connell
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
5 months ago
Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here:
github.com/BenKawam/ASN...
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Many Minds podcast
8 months ago
New episode!! 🎙️📣 A conversation with
@manvir.bsky.social
about the many faces of shamanism. Shamanism is not a relic of the past or a curio from far-off lands—it's alive and well, all around the world. The roots of shamanism, after all, lie within us. Listen:
disi.org/the-shaman-w..
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Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
10 months ago
Reasonable, minimal collective action for a better scholarly publishing ecosystem
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Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez
11 months ago
🧪New preprint: “Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks” in collaboration with Ross Walker,
@mattjsilk.bsky.social
, Denis Boyer and
@sandrateles-esmag.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
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Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members come together and s...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE
about 1 year ago
Great talk by Hal Whitehead about sperm whale clans yesterday. If you missed it, then watch it here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbA...
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25 February 2025 Hal Whitehead
YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbAAmiRmF0
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Wisdom🦋
over 1 year ago
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. Rumi, Sufi scholar and poet (1207–1273)
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