Do young bonobos and chimpanzees become independent from their mothers at the same age?🤔 Answers can be found in this cool new study led by @jolindevlaeyen.bsky.social 👏👏👏, which was an absolute pleasure to be part of.

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

The spotlight video for the ChimpFACS Extension for bonobos is out: youtu.be/qijxWubdyNU?...

🐾 Just out & open access! Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound, Vol. 2 🎶 From insects to elephants and whales—how animals use & are affected by sound. Thanks to Christiane Erbe & all co-authors (me included)! 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

📢 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

1/n Hot off the press! The first empirical chapter of my PhD and the fruit of a hugely collaborative project led with Franziska Wegdell and Johanna Schick is out! We explore if immature-directed vocalisations are present and in what quantity in wild great apes. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📰 🐒 These exciting new results from our consortium are also featured in an article from The New York Times, by Carl Zimmer. 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

One thing that makes humans remarkable is baby talk. And that might be one reason why we have language. Here's my story [Gift link] nyti.ms/4k5duXd

We studied the evolution of infant-directed communication by comparing vocal input rates across great apes! A collaborative study led by @carolinefryns.bsky.social, Johanna Schick and me; www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

🌍 Dream of adventure in the heart of Africa? Boost your career in conservation or research as a field researcher on wild bonobos in the DRC! Paid, full training, project management skills & epic experience await. Apply ASAP & RT to share! 👉 bit.ly/bondiv2025 #conservationjobs #research

New paper on the role of peers in language acquisition: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Working with @wildcognition.bsky.social on this paper was so much fun: drawing from our research with mammals (primates & hyenas) we discuss to what extent the urban niche poses novel cognitive challenges or whether they are exapted to exploit urban resources link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs! Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

400 people w/ doctorates read the same research abstract where the lead authors name was either male or female. Participants felt the discovery in the abstract was more important when the author was male & spent more time reading it(114s for male authored; 98s female). www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Many fields use video coding + interrater reliability. But: how reliable are those reliability tests? No standards exist for sample size, clip choice, or metrics - a blind spot. We present BRAVO—a first workflow to improve reliability by restricting coders DOF. [Paper is OA] #Reproducibility

Bonobo Sanctuary, Lola Ya Bonobo, is flooded. Financial help is needed to help them restore their facilities and keep the bonobos safe.

🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

🌿 Become a Field Site Manager for the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project in Guinea! 🌿 We're seeking a dedicated individual to oversee operations and support research starting as early as April 2025. Be part of a team exploring chimpanzee behavioral ecology in the stunning PNMB!

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 – My first PhD paper is out as a preprint! Need a break from everything happening in the world? Time to focus on #great #apes 🐵✨. We investigated whether wild #bonobo infants develop more slowly than #chimpanzee infants, but the answer isn’t so clear-cut!