📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de

IMPRS-QBEE@imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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...

Also knew airport security would flag me for this apparatus 😅🤣

Two exciting conferences in a week is a lot 😅 ( @cultconf.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at ), topped with many catch ups and events (@raccoonologist.bsky.social) in between, I've ended up knocking myself out this weekend 🤒. So forever grateful to my scientist connections in Europe, thanks for having me ❤️

A lovely visit to the CASCB at University of Konstanz! Thank you for having me this week @uni-konstanz.de ❤️

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...

Have you been too busy to read our recent paper on orangutans' culturally-dependent diets? 😔 Never fear, we have published a two-page research briefing to give you a quick overview of our paper's aims, findings, and implications! 🤩 Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Elliot Howard-Spink@ehowaspi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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 🧵

🎉🍾 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

STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission

A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...

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Nothing like unwinding after #ASABWinter2025 with friends old and new in the pub 🍻 I’m truly knackered!

Soo many of us attending #ASAB25 ! @asab-meetings.bsky.social

Going to make a collage of posters presented at #ASABWinter2025! Want to be included like these awesome ladies? Drop a photo below ⬇️

Maybe only humans have a call for Mushroom Mushroom 🍄😱🦡🐍

Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈@raccoonologist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

You know you’re a millennial when your first thought is “oh noooooo it’s a snaaaaaakkeee .. badger badger badger” #ASABWinter2025

🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊

MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓 To new beginnings 🥂

Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤

Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈@raccoonologist.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My favourite Starbucks work-buddy is now a doctor/dogtor 🐕 🎓 !!!! Congrats @louisemackie.bsky.social, we’re all so proud of you ! 🥂🍾

An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

Subbed in to give a talk on behalf of @auersperga.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 ! I think it went pretty well considering I made it while recovering from food poisoning 🥴 Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!

Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶 @manydogsproject.bsky.social We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025! We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join! manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬 Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️

Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research? Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection! Ad below 👇🐶💙💛

ManyDogs Project@manydogsproject.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2! 🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them? Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

My first paper of the goat cognition project is published! It describes the very first step in starting a project with animals: training the animals. I also tested odd-item search in goats. www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15...

Life lately

A nice action shot of the poster session in @cultconf.bsky.social at Utrecht University earlier this year! Thank you for the nice memories 👁️🐵🧒

1/7 Pet monkeys for capuchin monkeys Capuchin monkeys on Jicarón Island (Panama) have begun kidnapping howler monkey babies. It is a culturally widespread custom that appears to have no benefit whatsoever. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

A long work day trip to the countryside 😆 🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕🐕

In for an exciting evening of monkey queerness and dog nonsensical copying, @pintsworld.bsky.social #pint25

Pint of Science hits Vienna on the 19th of May! I will be there to give a talk about my PhD journey studying imitation in man-and-womankind's best friend: the domestic dog. pintofscience.at/event/so-hum...

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour