Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

It’s full speed ahead with Science Adventures Today! So great to see so many little future scientists! #scienceengagement #childdevelopment @newcastleuni.bsky.social

In 2010, when I was an undergraduate student, Jane Goodall visited the primate center in Rome. She met all the students and our little capuchin monkey, Totò. She was kind, humble, strong, and truly inspiring. It was a special moment I will never forget. vimeo.com/36693178?fl=...

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✨ It’s Induction Week! ✨ Happy to welcome our first-year Psychology students and introduce them to Science Adventures, which brings children into the university to take part in fun, hands-on science while contributing to real research. @newcastleuni.bsky.social

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩 🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟 📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom 🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv... #openscience #bigteamscience

Last but not least! today we share the talk of Christine Caldwell as plenary speaker at @ehbea2025.bsky.social Here she talks about the cognitive challenges for cumulative cultural evolution and how these abilities were selected 🧠 Don’t miss it! 👇 youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?...

🔔 New paper out on Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates @mariehirel.bsky.social, @williamohearn.bsky.social and @julxf.bsky.social made this happen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to our (co-supervised with @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social and Bess Price) MRes students who presented their research project at the Poster event at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Their project explored long-term social integration and cohesion in a captive chimpanzees community. More to come!

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

2025. #DEI. When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study (France) pinpoints the moment. Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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)

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...

It's always a great pleasure to chat with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social ...here is our latest conversation

Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!

Loved being part of the team that put this together! Thanks for the lovely words and to everyone who made it happen!

Thanks, more to come from this project, stay tuned 😊

Great start of the conference!

Great start to #EHBEA2025 with our preconference panel on Big Team Science! Big thanks to @thorabjorns.bsky.social, @shona-d.bsky.social, Harry Clelland, @amrotella.bsky.social, and our fantastic host @francescadp.bsky.social! Great discussion & insights about managing big teams in science 👏 👍

With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social #evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧪 Don’t miss the pre-conference panel! "Behind the Scenes of Big Team Science" 📍 Monday, Apr 14 | 2–3 PM | Room CCE001 Featuring panellists from ManyPrimates, ManyFaces, Multi100 and the Forecasting Collaborative! Register here: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam... [6/10]

Only a few days left! Look forward to the start 😁

🧠🐒 Interested in comparative cognition, sociality and animal behaviour? I am open to hosting MSCA postdoc fellowship applicants! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

We indeed had a fantastic time and was wonderful to see children so engaged with our research 🐵

Urgent dilemma! We need your opinion 😊

🚨 Exciting announcement for #EHBEA2025🚨 We will have a FREE pre-conference panel on Big Team Science! Curious about Big Team Science? 🤔 How initiatives like ManyLabs, ManyPrimates, and ManyBabies come together? This panel aims to demystify large-scale collaborations! 🧵👇[1/4] @ehbea.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/...

Few days left to register!

I argued yesterday with both a head of a law department who'd written a book on AI accountability and a young PhD student, neither of whom really understood how or when to use generative AI. Please consider this a draft and give me feedback or other links. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene...

We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

‼️🏷️TWO WEEKS left for #EHBEA2025 Early Bird Registration (Mar 1)! 🌟 You’ll save up to £65 – more than the gala dinner! 🍽️😋 So, register now and join us for fantastic dinner & art at the Biscuit Factory, a gorgeous independent art gallery! 🎨 ⬇️ Registration + info below [1/3] @ehbea.bsky.social

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/

Send us a message if you are interested!

Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? In @pnas.org, Luke Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Apply for a conservation, research or captive care grant up to the value of £1250. Applications must be submitted by the 1st March. For information about how to apply, and previous projects funded by PSGB, see the grants page of our website: buff.ly/48dv99h

New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

Can’t wait to go!!!

📢 We have now reviewed all the abstracts submited to #EHBEA2025! If you submitted an abstract, go check your email now! With the large number of quality submissions, there will be an exciting mixture of long talks, short talks, & posters! Can't wait till April! @ehbea.bsky.social

"By embracing the humanity of scientists, curricular materials can signal to students that they too can contribute to biology. Our work provides a simple approach that curriculum developers can employ to improve equity in biology" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Cultural traits like beliefs and behaviors are influenced by conformity—the tendency to align with others—or anti-conformity—the choice to deliberately diverge. A new paper in PNAS looks beyond averages and incorporates “trait clustering” to model this dynamic interplay. santafe.edu/news-center/...

👏 Petr Tureček (Charles University) is this year's #EHBEA New Investigator Award winner and plenary speaker at #EHBEA2025! Get ready for an unmissable talk! 🎤 @ehbea.bsky.social

Very Important! Published by @asab.org at the start of each year. 2025. "Guidelines for the ethical treatment of nonhuman animals in behavioural research and teaching." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:

⏳ ONE WEEK LEFT! ⏳ The extended deadline to submit your abstracts for #EHBEA2025 is FAST approaching: 🗓️ Mon 16 Dec, midnight (GMT)! Don’t miss this opportunity to present your work at Newcastle, April 14-17! 🌟 Submit now: ehbea2025.com @ehbea.bsky.social #BioAnth #CultEvo #EvPsych #Evosky

Interested in learning more about primate #observational methods? Check out these modules on recording #chimpanzee behavior, including grooming, aggression, & tool use, with example videos thanks to @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & Kibale Chimpanzee Project! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.

🚨 Deadline extended 9th December! 🚨 Enter ASAB's science communication competition. Submit your 1-2min video showcasing your cool animal behaviour research related to the meeting theme: "Addressing biases in the field of animal behaviour." Use this form tinyurl.com/ASABwinter20... to participate!

🌡️🔥Check out our new Science Advances paper on how #ClimateChange impacts the immune performance of wild capuchins 🐒! Lead by Jordan Lucore check out the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Watch the explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7yl...