2025. Smart dogs have a humanlike knack for naming new objects | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Really nice coverage of our work on bonobo syntax with Simon Townsend and Martin Surbeck, by @rfieldmouse.bsky.social. Thanks so much, Rachel! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The call for Max Planck Research Groups 2025 is open (9 Sep–14 Oct). Postdocs can launch independent careers w/ 6+ yrs, budget, team & world-class support. 👉 mpg.de/max-planck-research-groups #AcademicJobs #PostdocOpportunities #PostdocAppreciationWeek

📢 Call for Symposia is open! Submit your symposia proposals for EFP2026! Share innovative primatology topics and help shape the scientific programme. 🗓 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 🔗 Submit: forms.gle/WmGZHwviZB7C... 🌐 Conf website: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/ 📩 Mailing list: forms.gle/jcZKhJj6KdVv...

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

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...

Are you like me and struggle to choose colors for your charts? I recently found the colorspace package, and it's a total game-changer. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... Load the package, run 'pal<-choose_palette()' and a GUI shows you color combos! Check out my example with #TidyTuesday data:

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#voxprimato #job Poste de direction du Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, États-Unis 👇🏽

#vocprimato #job Trois postes de Junior Group Leader en Évolution Humaine (primates non humains inclus!) au sein du Human Origins Cluster de l’Université de Tübingen en Allemagne dont un en Biomécanique et l’autre en Archéologie Expérimentale Date limite 10/09 👇🏽

#voxprimato #bourses L’université de Vienne (Autriche) lance son Advanced Studies Center et offre des bourses de recherche toutes thématiques confondues (par exemple au department d’étude de la biologie du comportement et de la cognition) Date limite 01/09! 👇🏽

We will soon advertise these two post-doc positions (multispecies archaeology + primatology): zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/opportunities

📖Published📖 Price et al. present an open-source easy-to-use workflow, using zebras as an example, that can detect individuals in their natural environment and automatically infer their atomic scale behaviours of standing, grazing, walking and running 🦓 buff.ly/z4qyIyD

I also recommend the resources curated by @skepticalscience.bsky.social. For example, this list is categorized by type of argument (it's not real, it's not humans, it's not bad, etc.) and each response has many links to the original peer-reviewed science. skepticalscience.com/argument.php...

Postdoc (80%) in the Cognition Lab at University of Zurich, Switzerland We are looking for a postdoc to work with us on the capacity limits of cognition (working memory, attention, long-term memory, ...). Application deadline: 10 September 2025

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've lived with in the past, showing the power of long-term relationships.

So happy to see my first PhD paper out royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With my amazing supervisor @robinmorrison.bsky.social and the @savinggorillas.bsky.social, we examined female dispersal decisions in mountain gorillas.

Super cool work from a super cool team 👏

So happy that this paper lead by Joseph Mine is finally out! Was cool to be part of this project on the social learning of multi-modal communication in chimpanzees, which is slightly outside of my usual scope (and it’s my first co-authored paper too, yay!) :) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

Our first paper is out!!🐕🎤 Talking dogs? How realistic is it? We explore the scientific, cultural, and technological aspects of speech-like communication in dogs, and argue that while they excel at human-directed communication, spoken language may not be feasible or even desirable. #dogscience

Now published! 📝✅📢 Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access). Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them! 📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

I'll be giving a talk at Uni Penn, USA, in April 2026 on compositionality in bonobos. Happy to (somehow) offset the carbon footprint of my trip by giving a talk at another university close to the US East Coast. Feel free to email me if you're interested!

Congrats Elisa and Sofia on the first (of many) papers that derived from their @einsteinberlin.bsky.social price-winning project (paper available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

50000 signatures et 30000 en moins de 24H ! La Loi Duplomb est dangereuse pour la santé. Vous souhaitez agir facilement et rapidement ? Voici une solution simple qui prend une minute : signer cette pétition contre la loi Duplomb : petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/... A partager !

📢 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

🚀 New Project! @shumon.bsky.social and his colleagues Johannes Schick & @nakedprimate.bsky.social just received funding from @volkswagenstiftung.de for their new research project „ZOOGESTURES“! #multispecies Congrats! @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social tinyurl.com/kswsda4k

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

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/...

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

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

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

We had @berthetmelissa.bsky.social present her work on compositionality in bonobos she conducted in her last postdoc!

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...

I'm very excited and happy to share that the canid cognition team in Neuchâtel is growing fast! We'll be hiring soon, so keep your eyes and ears open 🐺🐶

🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉 Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference. Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

#voxprimato #conference 📢 registration and abstract submission for the 37th conference of the SFDP are open! 🐒 It will be held in Poitiers, France, from 30/09 to 03/10 on the thematic "(Paleo)primatologieS: from the field to the lab" and is organised by the fantastic team @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏

Please share far and wide! A fantastic opportunity for primatologists of all ages to develop their field skills - aimed particularly at those who face barriers to obtaining fieldwork 🐒 www.psgb.org/pages/psgb-f...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

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...

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...

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

📽️ In November, researcher @adriansoldati.bsky.social presented a TEDx Talk on the communication of wild chimpanzees. The recording is now available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVFdAxDfLmE