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CEEC@ceec-research.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 New PhD opportunity! On the cognition of non-human primates and cephalopods 🐙❤️🐒 All the details attached!

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

🚨 Our new publication deals with cases of repeated attempts of infant kidnapping in one of our groups of geladas, why could this happen and what consequences on group dynamics?? with @ceec-research.bsky.social 🐒 Open access here:

Ripple Effects: Social Turmoil Following Infant Kidnapping Attempts in Wild Geladas

Graphical abstract illustrating the social consequences of infant kidnapping in wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada). The study monitors a 28-day period divided into a 14-day pre-kidnapping phase and ...

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In the meantime in Uganda 😍 with the #APELANG project on full speed. I’ll let you enjoy these cute #chimp #twins 😚 captured by YijunYang 😌

Back from a two week trip in Japan to launch an international research project funded for 5 years by the @cnrs.fr ! Stay tuned for some exciting research on language evolution and comparative cognition coming soon! W/ @tokyouniversity.bsky.social @osakauniv.bsky.social @kyotouniversity.bsky.social

#voxprimato #bourses 🚨 J-3 avant la date limite d’envoi des dossiers pour une des quatre bourses recherche ou conservation proposées par la SFDP! Des infos 👉🏽 sfdp-primatologie.net/index.php?pa... Des questions 👉🏽 info@sfdp-primatologie.net

#APELANG team is thriving in Uganda 🇺🇬😍 Look at that chimp 🙈

🇬🇧 With this new paper comes, for the first time officially, a new name! Ethos changed its name! We are now the CSEC! Centre for the Study of Ethology and Cognition! 🇫🇷 Avec ce papier, un nouveau nom officiel pour la première fois! EthoS devient CEEC! Centre d’Etude en Ethologie et Cognition!

Mélissa Berthet@berthetmelissa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We used a dataset collected from observations, playback experiments and predator presentations during my PhD. We conducted formal linguistic analyses derived from this paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The As and Bs of titi monkey linguistics: why emotional communication is not the enemy

The alarm call sequences of titi monkeys (genera Plecturocebus, Callicebus and Cheracebus) have sparked important debates over whether they exhibit parallels with human language. Some researchers con...

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If you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it! Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!

Mélissa Berthet@berthetmelissa.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

When #primatology meets #fashion ! Today I am giving a lecture at the amazing Institut Français de la Mode #IFM in how to create meaning without words 🙊

New publications for a happy new year 2026! @maelmleroux.bsky.social and colleagues published a new framework for #welfare, #EDI and #ethics in animal research. Find out more here: A call for CARE! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework

Despite increasing awareness of animal welfare, there are vast discrepancies between legal protections and recommended practices for different species…

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With a new year comes a new field season for the #APELANG team! Celebrating their first night in the forest 🐵 Welcome to the latest addition to the team @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social 😍 Looking forward to the next 3 years together !

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!

Alban Lemasson et Maël Leroux étaient aux mardis de l’espace des sciences ! Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Retrouvez leur conférence en ligne ici: www.youtube.com/live/io6tAYL... Et leur livre: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... @espacedessciences.bsky.social @maelmleroux.bsky.social

Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! [Alban Lemasson & Maël Leroux]

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Espace des sciences de Rennes@espacedessciences.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📅 Au programme en novembre !

Absolutely thrilled to have been invited to present my work at the AUBE meeting. www.instagram.com/p/DPy7WufDDf...

A Paimpont toujours @rennesuniv.bsky.social , mais aussi dans un café des sciences à La Gacilly, Alban Lemasson et @maelmleroux.bsky.social ont présenté leur livre sur la linguistique animale: quand les animaux prennent la parole, aux éditions Apogée #FDS2025 www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...

A Audierne, @maelmleroux.bsky.social à également présenté (et dédicacé!) le livre co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole!, aux éditions Apogée #FDS2025 www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...

Last week, our own @berthetmelissa.bsky.social & @maelmleroux.bsky.social were at the @lasfdp.bsky.social 2025 conference. First congress as official board members, and Mélissa presented their work on chimp vs. bonobos combinatoriality!

It's hard to overstate the impact Jane Goodall had on my life, both in terms of essentially birthing my field, but also her deeply, contagiously humanist (for want of a better word) spirit. I've never been starstruck in my life except for the two occasions I met Jane, where I could barely talk.

A little update of the beginning of this academic year! New papers, communication, public outreach:

@maelmleroux.bsky.social organised a symposium on animal linguistics at the @SLE2025 in Bordeaux with the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, introduced by Philippe Schlenker

Demain, on fait grève ! Pr vous distraire, vous pouvez écouter mon nouvel épisode du podcast Bêtes de science @futurasciences.bsky.social. J'y parle du guépard, l'occasion d'évoquer le @cheetah.org & les études de com' vocale de @maelmleroux.bsky.social : podcasts.futura-sciences.com/futura-betes...

Le guépard a des choses à dire !

Aujourd’hui, direction la Namibie , à la rencontre du guépard ! 🐆 Maître de la vitesse, ce félin élancé fend la savane comme une flèche. Avec ses ...

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L’émission d’hier à retrouver ici 👇🏻 merci @rfi.fr ! www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

Autour de la question, le magazine de toutes les sciences - Comment donner la parole aux animaux ?

Comment décoder le croassement des corbeaux, les dialectes des bonobos ou le chant des baleines Quand les animaux prennent la parole … Un formidable voyage au cœur de la communication et de la conscie...

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Maël Leroux@maelmleroux.bsky.social · last yr.

Live today on @rfi.fr !

Live today on @rfi.fr !

Maël Leroux@maelmleroux.bsky.social · last yr.

And we continue on this série with an interview live for CQFD, at the Swiss radio RTS 🙏 With Lucia Sillig! Thanks for this great experience! CQFD - rts.ch www.rts.ch/emissions/cq...

Spent a wonderful week in Aurich with Simon Townsend and Katie Slocombe to talk about the next step of the @agencerecherche.bsky.social project #APELANG! Stay tuned ;) Ps: meetings in the river = best meetings 🏊‍♂️

And we continue on this série with an interview live for CQFD, at the Swiss radio RTS 🙏 With Lucia Sillig! Thanks for this great experience! CQFD - rts.ch www.rts.ch/emissions/cq...

Maël Leroux@maelmleroux.bsky.social · last yr.

Today we were at the radio to talk about our new book with Alban Lemasson! The first of a long series we hope!

First were @maelmleroux.bsky.social & @berthetmelissa.bsky.social talking about @edi-efp.bsky.social for the pre-conference workshop!

We had @maelmleroux.bsky.social presenting his work on chimpanzee compositionality.

Super happy to share a paper Catia Correia-Caeiro and Katja Liebal were kind enough to invite me on! An extension of the ChimpFACS for bonobos ❤️ With lots of people involved! peerj.com/articles/194...