Oxytocin is typically described as a "social" hormone. In our new article, we propose that it should instead be viewed a hormone that modulates behavioral flexibility doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Very nice work about the division of labor between Cortex & Cerebellum 👇🧪🧠

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh! Here’s the actual research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Where do I start?! 1/4

I have written a piece articulating what I believe is a reasonably new position on AI, or at least one extremely underrepresented in the discourse, and I hope people will read it. The full piece is behind the New Scientist paywall, but I will share some snippets www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation

We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...

This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen. It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.

🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.

Our new paper on overcoming the ‘dyadic default’ is out now in Child Development Perspectives! @patkanngiesser.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

Outstanding @science.org study on the evolution of gene regulation shaping #cerebellum development 🧪🧠🧬 @ioansarr.bsky.social @marisepp.bsky.social @tyamadat.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tracing the wave of Neanderthal-modern interactions www.johnhawks.net/p/tracing-th...

Our new pre-print shows how unsupervised clustering methods can identify biologically meaningful differences in early vocal production, with no human feedback. @antorrisi.bsky.social has led this interdisciplinary collaboration based on computational methods + #chicks 🐣 arxiv.org/abs/2601.12203

More coverage of ‪Éadin's paper: oceanographicmagazine.com/news/immigra... 🐳🦑

The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇

Really cool study @adriansoldati.bsky.social , and cool to see all the old names as co-authors too, they will be very proud of that !

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Absolutely terrific study! Check the video footage in the ESM! www.cell.com/current-biol...

📖Published! animal2vec and MeerKAT: A self-supervised transformer for rare-event raw audio input and a large-scale reference dataset for bioacoustics A new transformative bioacoustic tool tailored for sparse and unbalanced bioacoustic data🦉 🔎 Find out more:

Brilliant overview here of the ongoing debate over dinosaur cognition. In short, it's complicated and evidence is fragmentary. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #anatomy #brains @tetzoo.bsky.social @gallinaciega.bsky.social @nomascus.bsky.social

A small tribute to Ai, who passed away www.linkedin.com/posts/thibau...

How do curiosity and surprise intersect following a violation of expectation? Read our paper here🔥 @auersperga.bsky.social @ivojacobs.bsky.social @elifduran.bsky.social

🎉🍾 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

Oxytocin varies across the lifecourse in a sex-specific way - new paper in @pnas.org working with Tsimane communities. For women, OT looks like a sex hormone and is linked to breastfeeding and childcare. For men, probably more related to health and aging. www.linkedin.com/posts/uzh-me...

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published! Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️‍🔥 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

1/4 Positive and negative moods in cockroaches Cockroaches change their mood depending on recent experiences: they become more pessimistic after exposure to light and more optimistic after perceiving an attractive smell. (preprint) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎙️ Comment le bisou, avec ses fonctions sociales, reproductives et de transmission dʹinformations, est-il apparu chez les grands singes ? Dans l'émission CQFD (RTS), le chercheur Thibaud Gruber @thibaudgruber.bsky.social en dit plus ! www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...

A full obituary for Dr. Ekman will appear in the December issue of Affective Science, and we'll keep the community informed of opportunities to honor Dr. Ekman's legacy. www.paulekman.com/blog/the-pas...

Young chimps play weird with tools and other objects & this can lead to innovation! Moss sponging, doll play, leaf clipping to ask for carrying. If copied and retained, rare kid innovations can contribute to cultural complexity 🧪🔬🐵 My fav article I've ever worked on: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Twenty-four years ago today, our paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder” was published: www.nature.com/articles/350.... A personal thread about the ups & downs of the journey we took to get to that point....1/n 🗣️🧬🧪

There are no words...

APCs are a bargain for this one, maybe we, as a community, should consider... 🤔

It was very interesting to venture into unchartered territories for me in this commentary! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SSGAA...

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We have a new paper out on how old age (variably) impacts chimpanzee tool use! See the thread by Elliot @ehowaspi.bsky.social ⏬⏬

osf.io/preprints/ps... - A functionalist theory of emotion - Ralph Adolphs - draft of the first part of a forthcoming book (“The new science of emotion” - Princeton U Press, 2026). What follows is a draft of Chapters 1-4, primarily with the aim of soliciting comments.

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.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/...

🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳 Are you curious about 🧒 developmental, 🌍 cross-cultural 🦧 species comparative research on cooperative sustainability? All info here or dm me with questions! career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job... Please share! 🙏

"Emotion leaves a trace in their voice - just like humans." Venkatraman Manikandan shared a clever, practical approach for AI monitoring of chicken vocalizations that could work across entire flocks to get a full picture of #animalwelfare #UFAW2025. Read about it 👇

The perks of working on a baby ape development project is spending time with them 😀. Popularity contest: Budongo (left) or Bugoma (right)? @snsf.ch

Killer whales use tools too 😀!

New review paper on primate facial expression! 🙈🙊🙉 with @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social and Olivia O’Callaghan @ntupsychology.bsky.social

"Rethinking Ostensive Communication in an Evolutionary, Comparative, and Developmental Perspective" now published in Psychological Review psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

#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! 👏

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

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!

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

New paper alert! Our study on consistent individual variation in Sumatran orangutan maternal behaviour is out today in @royalsocietypublishing.org! Using ~6000h of observation, we show that mothers are not all the same when it comes to parenting. (1/n) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...