Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Very cool new study finding third-party imitation in blue-throated macaws by @esha-haldar2025.bsky.social et al. in Sci. Reports. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

Important new work (from Elisa Bandini, @ctennie.bsky.social, @sofiaforss.bsky.social et al.) addressing an elephant in the room - how weird are our weirdest apes, and how is that skewing research efforts? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Our new paper is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! A step toward more comparable approaches in bioacoustics! We tested how different acoustic feature extraction and classification methods affect caller ID classification accuracy. Read about it here: 🔗 shorturl.at/F31Pb

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

Amazing sounding project and a real dream team of supervisors - share widely and/or apply!

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

The IPS EDEI committee has put together Conference tips for first timers with loads of great guidance on how to navigate your 1st conference. Available in English, en Français, & en Español Please share widely! Feedback welcome! internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips-conferen... 🧪🐒 #IPS2025

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...

Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)

Hot off the press 📣: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using white-faced capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

🚨Field assistant job in South Africa working with sociable weavers 🚨 🔌Experienced in electronics? 🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology? 🪶Like working with birds? Find more information below! Applications close on 08/06/2025 sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/... #fieldwork #ornithology

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

Do you teach cultural evolution? Then take a look at this opportunity to get money to release it open source for others to teach it, plus some additional funds for your research

Yep, that's because we are churning out more papers per scientist than ever -- evidence here, among other metrics about the publication market and it's unsustainable practices direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

I was sceptical this was real. It’s real. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

1/5 Chimpanzees take care of themselves and others. Cases in which chimpanzees have treated their own and other people's wounds (from cleaning them to applying medicinal plants). They also clean themselves after having sex or relieving themselves. (paper) www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...

It’s finally out!! Our new study shows that wild geladas seem to recognize prosocial vocal affiliation to victims of aggression! A key insight into the evolution of empathy in primates 🔊🐒 @geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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

TLDR: new paper headed up by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social & with an awesome team, incl @andrearavignani.bsky.social , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms! www.cell.com/current-biol... But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16

Tune into this awesome new chimp drumming study!!! 🧵 🥁 Featuring the fabulous Nimba chimps!

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology & Enviro Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is lovely, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ Working link this time 👇 www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Absolute GOAT article title. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Tldr; Researchers from UZH release LLMs into a sub-Reddit, pretending to be rape victims, trauma counsellors, bigots and PoC. These were even targeted to the personal data of the "subject". No consent from the 4m users of the subreddit was sought.

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...

Our (@maelmleroux.bsky.social et al.) paper out today in #RSOS: we tested the ability of bonobos to process 'non-adjacent dependencies'. Surprisingly, unlike our prior work on chimps and marmosets, we found no evidence that they did so... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Behavioural diversity in animals threatened by #biodiversity decline. In @science.org, @ammiekalan.bsky.social @uvic.ca & Lydia Luncz @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social emphasise the urgent need to develop strategies for preserving animal cultural #behaviour. tinyurl.com/569u66sv & doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fantastic 3-year postdoc opportunity working on communication in wild chimpanzees with a dream team of scientists!

🚨 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 👇🏻

"Findings suggest that compositionality [the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures] is a prominent feature of the bonobo vocal system revealing stronger parallels with human language than previously thought." Fascinating work by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social et al.🧪

Important study yielding new insights into the deep roots of aspects of our communication system/#language— @berthetmelissa.bsky.social M. Surbeck and S. Townsend did great work to reveal semantic composition in vocal combinations in bonobos. 🧪 Out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bonobos may combine words in ways previously thought unique to humans

Interesting article in Science today about why we should safeguard animal cultures too doi.org/10.1126/scie...

An exciting application of linguistic methods to bonobo call combinations yields ground-breaking results, finding the closest analogue yet for human compositionality in our closest living relatives. New from Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social et al. in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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

Is psychology racist? Phil Banyard, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, thinks it is; and we seek your views. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Do you want to know more about allonursing in pinnipeds? Check out our last open access publication in Marine Mammal Science doi.org/10.1111/mms.... @bioacteam.bsky.social @marinemammalogy.bsky.social

I am excited to announce that @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition on "Cognition in the Wild". Submissions are due by June 15. We are excited to see the amazing work you have been doing! link.springer.com/collections/...

New paper🚨 So time for one last 🧪 🧵 of 2024! TLDR: Wild chimpanzees love big butt-resses (we can not lie), and are fussy about which ones they choose, but not quite in the way we predicted 😂 tinyurl.com/DrumTrees 1/8 Hoots to Wytse W; @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social; Vesta Eleuteri & #teamDrum

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Good morning! I made you breakfast. It's a paper exploring Menzerath's law in meerkat vocal behaviour. I hope you like it. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Just dropping this here for those of you who are looking for primatologists to connect with!! If you are a primatologist that would like to be added, let me know! go.bsky.app/Szs5d5o

Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich. Deadline March 15th.

Funded ESRC PhD studentship on 'Engagement with nature among LGBTQIA+ communities'. #phdlife #PhD #phdposition #LGBTQIA Details on the studentship and application process: www.aru.ac.uk/research/pos.... Deadline for applications: 15th March. Do get in touch if you are interested!

Curious about whether chimpanzees enjoy watching baby videos📺🐒? Check out the latest paper on the motivational value of infant video clips for chimpanzees! This is one of the studies in my master thesis and finally we published it!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...