I am looking for a MSc student to conduct their thesis within my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 You will be part of the Evolutionary Cognition Group at UZH (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social). Unpaid position (funding options would need to be applied for by the candidate).

Join us in Copenhagen in June for our summer course on programming in R! - Aimed at PhD students in behavioural ecology, others also welcome - No prior programming knowledge needed Deadline for sign-up: May 1 More info here: programmingintrocph.weebly.com

Our new paper is out in @intjprimatol.bsky.social! Huge credit to Luca Wienand for an excellent bachelor's project on spatial and sociosexual behavior in common marmosets! Read all about it here: shorturl.at/R5eju @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @evocoggroup.bsky.social

We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...

Doctoral/Postdoctoral Position in Comparative and Developmental Psychology

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Our new preprint is out! Animal collocation analysis 2.0: improving statistical inference and applications for cohort comparisons. 🥳 Check it out here, or read our summary below: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵

Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour

Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.

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🎙️ 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...

Comment le bisou est né chez les grands singes | RTS

Bien avant Homo sapiens, nos ancêtres primates échangeaient déjà des baisers. Une étude parue dans Evolution and Human Behaviour montre que ce geste, à la fois intime et vecteur potentiel de maladies,...

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