📢 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. 👇

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP. Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶 Interested? Get in touch with me.

Through a Window and In the Shadow of Man were the most inspirational books I ever read as a teenager. Jane Goodall and local libraries joining forces to shape young minds 🐵📚❤️

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡ We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more. Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

What if there was a job where you were paid £33,714 a year to play with Lego and work in an internationally renowned museum, with the aim of inciting curiosity and wonder about the natural world? Applications close end of August. @nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪🧸🏺

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible). Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too! All the info you need is here: www.asab.org/conference-g... @asab.org

A very apt workshop for these times! Abstract submission has been extended to Aug 15:

New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

📈 Does anyone have recommendations for a half/one-day R workshop on data wrangling and Rmarkdown? We have a small pot of funding to run an in person/online workshop with psychology PGRs and staff at York St John University before the end of July 2025.

🚨 For this last-minute call, let me give it one more boost by introducing the amazing lineup of COSMOS 2025 speakers!🚨 (threat 🧵)

If anyone has questions about @manyprimates.bsky.social or want to know how to get involved, I will be at #EHBEA2025 for the rest of the week 🐒🦍🦧

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology. We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions. 4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply! tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

But that's not all!! ⭐ Don't forget our pre-conference panel on Big Team Science! ➡️ How initiatives like ManyLabs, ManyPrimates, and ManyBabies come together? This panel aims to demystify large-scale collaborations! Register here: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam... [6/10] #EHBEA2025 #TeamScience

Please share: The next round of application to our Masters in Cognitive Sciences is open! Curious about the workings of our minds? Come explore various questions about the mind and cognition in an international and interdisciplinary setting! Deadline for applications: Wednesday, 14 May 2025.

There is still time to apply for our 3yr postdoc looking at the role of group size and culture on social coordination in the Republic of Korea, Uganda and the UK! Drop me a message if interested 😊 mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...

Very happy to be representing @manyprimates.bsky.social. Join us to discuss all things Big Team Science!

Rachel thinks we might need a haggis episode 🤔

🦍🖥️New paper on great apes in virtual environments: Chimpanzee Turning Behavior During Spatial Navigation in Virtual Environments (animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1390). Led by Sarah Koopman, we went back to basics and asked a simple question about object permanence and optical flow.

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

We are already looking for our third generation of Cognitive Sciences students here in Rijeka! Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested in an interdisciplinary, international, small-group research Masters! More info at cogsci.uniri.hr

New #PhDposition (cultural psychology) at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA: the project focuses on social cognition and will involve research in Germany (Leipzig), Namibia and Polynesia. Application deadline: March 1st, 2025 www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

Dive into the world of animal behaviour with us. Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode! Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL... Or wherever you get your podcasts. #SciComm #animal #podcast

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗ I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”. To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese... #psychjobs

We’re sad the #ASABWinter2024 conference is over, but you can easily follow all of the brilliant speakers, chairs and organizers at go.bsky.app/QbM8rWb If you spoke at the conference and you just joined bluesky or we missed adding you, let us know so we can add you!

🎉 Great news! The #EHBEA2025 submission deadline has been EXTENDED by 2 whole weeks! 🚀 You now have until MIDNIGHT (UK time) on Monday, Dec 16th to get your abstracts in. Don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 Submit here: ehbea2025.com #EvolutionaryScience #AcademicConference @ehbea.bsky.social

I’m very excited to have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust grant to study co-representation across 3 cultures (Uganda, Republic of Korea and UK) in dyads and groups. I’ll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc. More details to follow, but please drop me a message if you’re interested! 😊🌍

Maybe late to the starter pack game? But haven't seen one specific to those studying the evolution of social behaviour, so made one! Any study species; humans, primates and beyond. Added some initial people but please comment to be added. go.bsky.app/CibACbM

‼️⭐ ONE WEEK left to submit ABSTRACTS for EHBEA 2025!! ⭐‼️ 🗓️Mon 2 Dec! We have an exciting conference planned for you at Northumbria, April 14-17! Plenaries by @heidicolleran.bsky.social, @drboothroyd.bsky.social, Christine Caldwell & Susan Carvalho! See you there! Plz RT 😊 @ehbea.bsky.social

Motivated by all these other animal-centric starter packs to fill in another niche: comparative cognition! go.bsky.app/5yu5SDr Let me know if you want to be added, or know someone who ought to be in the pack. Would be great to have representation from loads of species and places.

I'm recruiting for an RA on a mixed methods project hoping to co-produce a more intersectional understanding of EDs. At the mo it will be 1.5 days a week for 9 months, with some flexibility on when/where. Please share widely and let me know if you have Qs! Link here shorturl.at/uoPOj

Happy to share our recent paper on chimpanzees’ evaluations of conspecifics’ skills rdcu.be/dUPCS Big Thanks to the team of Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary for their fantastic support!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for PGR-led conference on ‘Creative methods of research with children and young people’ PGR presenters wanted for a conference at on 23rd Oct 24 Deadline to submit abstracts: 23rd Sept (Original Twitter thread with more detail from an organiser: x.com/lindarrighi/...)

Join us! We are seeking applicants for a fully funded 3-y PhD project on dogs’ and infants' causal perception using #eyetracking and #pupillometry, based at Vetmeduni Vienna and in collaboration with @jfkominsky.bsky.social at CEU. Full info here: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/...

I got lucky in the grant lottery! Excited to work with amazing collaborators on socio-communicative development across cultures 🇰🇪🇹🇷🇩🇪 Watch this space - will be posting PhD positions soon! @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social

Bahar Koymen and I are looking for two RA positions in Turkey to work in a longitudinal project. Details here - please share and repost! 🙏 manuelbohn.github.io/vw-add.html

EXCITING NEWS! We are accepting applications for a special funding round - Women in Fieldwork. If you identify as a woman conducting animal behaviour-related fieldwork, we welcome your application for one of four grants of £400 each. Deadline September 1st, 2024. opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Are you hiring new field or lab personnel? Do you want your job adverts to reach more underrepresented students? We want to help! Fill out this form and ABC will circulate these positions among our mentees + microgrant awardees. forms.gle/r231HG9R1PWL...

🚨 Exciting news! The ManyPrimates3 project is now open for data collection! In MP3, we will assess the ability of primates to make inferences by exclusion. Join us to explore primate cognition and promote large scale collaboration!

My fantastic PhD supervisor Prof. Sarah Beck in the UK has a new interdisciplinary PhD opportunity (w/ Prof Kraftl) on "Pro-environmental behaviour change and the role of zoos" I cannot hype Sarah enough. She is the absolute best. Please repost! www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

I wrote a little essay about what birding has done for me in the very short time since I became a birder. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...

📢 Just 10 days left to apply for our PhD position! Get in touch if you are interested in submitting a research proposal.

Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn and all my other wonderful co-authors! Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in a PhD in York, UK or know someone who might be considering a PhD? 6 exciting PhD projects to choose from in our Academic Associate scheme that involves some acadmic teaching and research trainining within cutting edge research teams jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Fully-funded PhD at York St John, UK exploring influences on time biases - e.g. beliefs, wellbeing, more. Please get in touch to discuss! More PhDs: future simulations, children’s cooperation, female offenders, body image compassion, imagery in language processing. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/021-24

I'm looking for a PhD student to work on cooperative problem-solving in young children. You would be supervised by me and @emmatecwyn.bsky.social as part of our wonderful developmental research group at York St John University jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New paper 📃 out now in Cognition Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging sciencedirect.com/science/arti...