Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand had some visitors from the RTG! While Kerne Rayner has been researching the amazing Assamese macaques for a while now, Valentin Hassler, who works on computer vision techniques, dropped by to say hello.

Another month, another paper! Our first cohort's doctoral researchers, Anne-Kathrin Mahlke and Shreya Venkatesan, have just published their latest findings. Dive in!

New paper from @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social: Can parents direct infants' attention using language in free-play interactions? The answer is a resounding no - infants just as likely to switch attention to objects their parent is or is not talking about during free play dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa...

We started the summer term with a blast! Our welcome BBQ for our Mercator Fellow, @mjgruber.bsky.social, attended by some 2nd-cohort PhDs, turned into an fantastic scientific event! Many thanks to Jürgen Schmidhuber for inspiring conversations and an amazing talk!

Apply now! Curiosity Summer School 2026. Deadline closes tomorrow! 📍 Göttingen 📅 July 20–24 Interdisciplinary summer school for early-career researchers in psychology, neuroscience & related fields. ✨ Lectures, workshops & hands-on sessions 🎓 Travel grants available events.gwdg.de/event/1382/r...

Summer School 2026

We are pleased to announce the first: Curiosity Summer School 2026 The five-day summer school brings together graduate students and early-career researchers from psychology, behavioral biology, cognit...

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Apply soon! Curiosity Summer School 2026 📍 Göttingen 📅 July 20–24 Interdisciplinary school for early-career researchers in psychology, neuroscience & related fields. ✨ Lectures, workshops & hands-on sessions 🎓 Travel grants available ⏳ Deadline coming soon: April 15! events.gwdg.de/event/1382/r...

Applications open: Curiosity Summer School 2026! 📍 Göttingen 📅 July 20–24 Interdisciplinary school for early-career researchers in psychology, neuroscience & related fields. ✨ Lectures, workshops & hands-on sessions 🎓 Travel grants available ⏳ Deadline: April 15 👉 events.gwdg.de/event/1382/r...

Summer School 2026

We are pleased to announce the first: Curiosity Summer School 2026 The five-day summer school brings together graduate students and early-career researchers from psychology, behavioral biology, cognit...

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My lab at U Göttingen is looking for a PostDoc or PhD student to work on an ERC-funded project at the intersection of computer vision, graphics & neuroscience.

Another amazing project our RTG is part of!

MB7 (Curiosity in early development) design meeting is tomorrow (18.3.26) at 9AM and 5PM CET. We will introduce our research question, paradigms currently being considered and our plan to invite proposals for further design suggestions. Sign up here manybabies.org/MB7/ or join the MB7-design Slack

👀 Looking for a PhD position in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience? What about applying with us? The deadline is on March 15, more details: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi... #PhDposition #Curiosity #ResearchTrainingGroup

New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Maternal information sampling targets children's knowledge gaps

According to recent computational approaches, when children are presented with information by knowledgeable others, children can make the pedagogical …

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⏱️Two days left to apply for the PhD position in our A1 project! Are you curious about the developmental interplay between curiosity, metacognition, and social learning? Join the second cohort of our RTG. Deadline: February 20. More details: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

⏳ Another deadline is approaching! Are neural network models your thing? Apply for a PhD position in the C3 project with @violapriesemann.bsky.social More curious about children’s reading behaviour? The B3 project with Sascha Schroeder could be a good match for you. Deadline: February 15.

Come and join us in beautiful Munich! 🧠 We have a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive environment, where scientific rigour and curiosity are celebrated. 🎉 #psychology #AI #intelligence #cogsci #neurosky #neuroskyence #ScienceCareer #AcademicJobs #Researcher #ResearchOpportunities #JobSearch

Eric Schulz@ericschulz.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%). Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026. Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf Reposts appreciated 🙏

🚨 Deadline extended! Ever asked yourself how children’s and adults’ curiosity affects their reading behaviour and choices? You still canapply for a PhD position in the B3 project led by Sascha Schroeder. Applications are open until February 15th. Learn more: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

⏰Until January 31, you can apply for 3 PhD positions! Join Sascha Schroeder in his B3 project on children’s reading behaviour, or explore what is boosted by curiosity in project B4 with @nivimani.bsky.social. If hierarchical modeling is more your thing, join @sinzlab.bsky.social in the C5 project!

⏰ Apply until Jan 15 if you want to work on baboons (the A3 project with @julxf.bsky.social). If you prefer lemurs, the B2 project with @kirindy.bsky.social is for you. The A4 project with @anne-schacht.bsky.social in Psychology/Affective Neuroscience is open for applications too!

🐒 Would you like to study the fantastic Assamese macaques at the Phu Khieo Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand? Apply for a PhD position in our A2 project led by @primbehavecol.bsky.social! ⏰You can apply until tomorrow, December 20. More info here: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

🎉We are proud to announce: we have our first alumnus! Today, Andreas C. Schneider from the @violapriesemann.bsky.social lab has successfully defended his doctoral thesis, congratulations! Do you want to learn more about Andreas’ research? Check out his recent publication: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.02482

📢Applications are open for the second cohort of our RTG! Learn more about the opportunities: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi... 🔔Join our info meeting on Dec 10, 1 p.m. CET. Register via: survey.academiccloud.de/index.php/34...

❓Do you want to join us? We are looking for a PhD in Behavioral Ecology: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht... 💡 Do you want to learn more about the upcoming open positions in the second cohort or register for our info event? Take a look at our homepage: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/open+posi...

New publication from the Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab (@kirindy.bsky.social) is out in Animal Cognition: @elifkarakoc.bsky.social, @richardvogg.bsky.social & colleagues show: competence pays – briefly Red-fronted lemurs could learn to obtain food from food boxes ... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Foraging competence and its impact on social relationships in a socially tolerant wild primate - Animal Cognition

Social interactions are crucial for individual health and ultimately fitness, making the choice of social partners evolutionarily relevant. Previous research has shown that individuals who succeed in ...

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Do you want to join us? Our colleagues @violapriesemann.bsky.social (MPI Dynamik & Selbstorganisation) & Michael Wibral (@uni-goettingen.de) recruit a postdoc to develop dyadic interaction paradigms suitable for OPM-MEG at our new research building #HuCaB www.mpg.de/25532084/pos...

Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) | MEG and Cognition of Interaction

Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) - MEG and Cognition of Interaction

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Finally, many thanks to all helpers and our co-organisers @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social, @spp2205.bsky.social, the Campus Institute Dynamics of Biological Networks, the Campus Institute Data Science and the Human and Cognition Research Center @uni-goettingen.de

Last week, we had three amazing days full of discussions and wondering what curiosity actually means. Thank you to @modirshanechi.bsky.social, @mjgruber.bsky.social, and Lisa Beinborn for being there with us, it was a pleasure. Special thanks to Azzurra Ruggeri for her great talk!

What an event - or rather, what a year! Our RTG celebrated its first year! We had the pleasure of listening to a talk by the president of @uni-goettingen.de about his research on curiosity. Later, we explored new disciplines. Maybe it’s not rocket science, but we’re still giving our best 😉

After a visit is before the next visit! Thank you for sharing your research with us @gambichiara.bsky.social from @warwickpsych.bsky.social and Louise Goupil from @uelbabydevlab!

🔎 Forschung virtuell erleben! Bei der #Nacht-des-Wissens könnt Ihr mit unserer Virtuellen Tour Labore, Feldstationen und Freilandforschung entdecken – und gleichzeitig erfahren, wie wir an neuer Wissenschaftskommunikation arbeiten. 📍 Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2 📅 21.6., ab 17 Uhr

Worth a visit! Our neighbors from @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

At the booth of RTG 2636: Form-meaning mismatches. Thank you, Felicia!

Congrats on the first submission in the 3rd cohort @irtgprotect.bsky.social