Neat new paper on primate neurocognitive evolution, featuring the @manyprimates.bsky.social MP1 data!

Kai Caspar@nomascus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New study on the evolution of primate cognition, brain size, sensory and motor functions, prompted by "recent work showing fishes perform as well as primates on various cognitive tests." 🐟🦍🧪 Great to see such broad comparative perspectives driving research. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We received this dispatch from a @uop-ccep.bsky.social @uopcidd.bsky.social BTSCON viewing party. Look at all the Big Team Science FUN they're having! WE LOVE TO SEE IT!! (👀 @dremalt.bsky.social @manyprimates.bsky.social)

Catch keynotes from @angeladuckworth.bsky.social and Christopher Stubbs, featured sessions about Big Team Science in the Majority World, and presentations from all your favorite "Manys" including @manyprimates.bsky.social @manybabies.org @manydogsproject.bsky.social, etc. ALL THAT AND MORE!!

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

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Recently I spoke about @manyprimates.bsky.social for @liftcostaction.bsky.social about distributed research projects and teams in animal sciences! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKrA... If you're interested in BTS projects, comparative cognition etc, have a watch

[Drew Altschul & Bernhard Voelkl] Strategies to optimize cross-institute collaborations

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We are currently testing highly underrated and understudied colobus monkeys for @manyprimates.bsky.social at Zoo Krefeld. It's a start - but ManyPrimates needs more colobines (and gibbons) for fair representation!

Session Submission and registration is now open for BTSCON2025! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/submissions/ @abrir.bsky.social @psysciacc.bsky.social @manybabies.org

🚨 SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️ The 2025 Big Team Science Conference will be October 6-8! More information coming soon about invited speakers, submissions, and schedule. Get excited! (hosted by your BTS friends @manybabies.org @psysciacc.bsky.social @abrir.bsky.social)

Gwenolé, 1st-year master student, just finished his internship collecting data for the @manyprimates.bsky.social inference by exclusion project with me at @ethos-research.bsky.social. It was great working with him, and I wish him all the best in his future endeavours.

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 🐒🦍🦧

Dr Eve Holden (she/her)@chimpanzeve.bsky.social · last yr.

#EHBEA2025 kicks off with pre-conference panel on large scale collaborations Great to hear about some of the often unspoken aspects of large-scale collaborations @ehbea2025.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @thorabjorns.bsky.social @shona-d.bsky.social @amrotella.bsky.social

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

EHBEA 2026@ehbea2026.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 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

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.

📹🐒 Meet Jafar the Gelada from Edinburgh Zoo. One of our participants in the Many Primates research project, "Inference by Exclusion"! 💡 📹Kate Grounds 👩🏼‍⚕️Emma McEwen #ManyPrimates #PrimateResearch #Gelada #EdinburghZoo #AnimalCognition #InferenceByExclusion #PrimateConservation #ResearchEthics

We’ve made a big team science leaders starter pack! Please let me know if you want to be added or know someone who should be! go.bsky.app/PdvS9kC

We'll also be joined by many of our favorite "Manys" You already know about @manybabies.org @manyprimates.bsky.social @manydogsproject.bsky.social, but did you know there is now a ManyOTTERS???!?! 🦦🦦🦦😱 (we have it on good authority that otter videos will be shown 🥹) #BTSCON2024

We're excited to report that our 2024 conference schedule is now on our website! Check out the amazing line up of presenters and Big Team Science groups. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/ #OpenScience #TeamScience #SciSky #PsychSci

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Schedule Program >Full conference program will be released soon! *** ## Sessions *Session formats:* Symposia, Panel sessions, Hackathons, Talks, Lightning Talks, and Unconferences. More information is...

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SAVE THE DATE! The 3rd annual Big Team Science Conference will be held (virtually) October 8-10, 2024. Check out our website to see our fantastic (and growing) lineup of keynotes and invited sessions: bigteamscienceconference.github.io Submissions are open! #TeamScience #OpenScience

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The third annual Big Team Science Conference will be held virtually via Zoom October 8-10, 2024. The goal of this three-day virtual conference is to bring together a multidisciplinary group of researc...

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🚨 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!

ManyThanks to @manyprimates.bsky.social for their generosity, hard work, and their open data on which our analysis is based. www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/uploads/jour...

What about the brain best predicts short-term memory in primates? In our new paper, we found that whole brain size - not specific regions or EQ - is the best predictor. This suggests domain-general rather than specific cognitive foundations. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Short-term memory, attentional control and brain size in primates | Royal Society Open Science

Brain size variability in primates has been attributed to various domain-specific socio-ecological factors. A recently published large-scale study of short-term memory abilities in 41 primate species ...

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Ever wonder what a dog is thinking? The ManyDogs Project is an international consortium of canine science researchers using big team science to understand dog behavior and cognition. Find out more at jeffreyrstevens.github.io/posts/manydo.... #dogs #BigTeamScience #OpenScience

The Big Team Science Conference isn't on Bluesky (yet), so we're happy to announce on their behalf that the 2023 BTSCON program is available now! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

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Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW View and download the 2023 BTS Conference Prog...

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Data collection for MP2 is still ongoing! In MP2, we assess #primates’ ability to resist the temptation of an immediate reward in order to receive a larger or better reward later on. More info here: manyprimates.github.io/mp2/ Interested in participating? Get in touch with us!

ManyPrimates 2: Delay of Gratification

Establishing a Culture of Collaboration in Primate Cognition Research

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