Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi

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Dejan Pantic@serbianism.com · 2mo ago

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spontaneous problem-solving in bumble bees

Problem-solving using novel solutions without explicit training is often considered a hallmark of cognitive flexibility. We investigated whether bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) could solve a novel obj...

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Is anyone still here? 😅

Thibaud Gruber@thibaudgruber.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Question for the hive mind. I requested @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social to transfer our preprint to a journal but never got confirmation from said journal. Is there anyway to follow-up with a track number to that journal? Shares appreciated!

Can bees be aware? Using a demanding learning task, researchers show that #honeybees behave as if awareness plays a role in their learning doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #ProcB #Behaviour #Cogniton

Question for the hive mind. I requested @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social to transfer our preprint to a journal but never got confirmation from said journal. Is there anyway to follow-up with a track number to that journal? Shares appreciated!

I've written up some notes on the Open Tree of Life viewer iphylo.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne... which explain a little about how it works, and cites the papers that influenced the design. The browser itself is at iphylo.org/ott-viewer #treeoflife #blogpost #phylogeny

A new way to view the Tree of Life

Blog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics.

iphylo.blogspot.com

📣 New funding opportunity for primate research & conservation 🐵👇 The MuT Foundation offers field research grants (up to €20K) for projects in primate behaviour, conservation & biodiversity. Supporting fieldwork and early-career researchers! Please share: groups.google.com/a/g-groups.w...

📣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

Superb resource to study human brain development, out in @nature.com 🧪🧠 An atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age “Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature

fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

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What can we learn from bonobos and bottlenose dolphins about the evolution of between-group cooperation? 🏺🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... Outlines emerging evolutionary and mechanistic frameworks for understanding the origins, maintenance and function of between-group cooperation.

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

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 · 5mo 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...

Very good new paper from Dupoux, Lecun and Malik. Why current AI systems don't learn as well as toddlers and what to do about it. arxiv.org/abs/2603.15381

Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons on autonomous learning from cognitive science

We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition. The proposed framework integrate...

arxiv.org

New paper alert with Stephan Kaufhold, Mia Borzello and David Kirsh! How well does cognition studied in the lab reflect cognition in the real world? Much of what we think we know about cognition rests on methodological assumptions that have become so established that they often go unexamined.

I’m happy to announce that our paper "The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter" has now been published in Evolution and Human Behavior. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Oxytocin is typically described as a "social" hormone. In our new article, we propose that it should instead be viewed a hormone that modulates behavioral flexibility doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Very nice work about the division of labor between Cortex & Cerebellum 👇🧪🧠

Mark Wagner@mark-j-wagner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How does the brain generalize past experiences without confusing memories? 🧠 Our lab's newest preprint reveals a fundamental division of labor between the cortex and cerebellum that solves this problem. (Check out the cortex-cerebellum video below! 👇) 🧵

Terrible headline (this is NOT what the new research - link below - shows!), terrible AI image! Argh! Here’s the actual research: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Where do I start?! 1/4

I have written a piece articulating what I believe is a reasonably new position on AI, or at least one extremely underrepresented in the discourse, and I hope people will read it. The full piece is behind the New Scientist paywall, but I will share some snippets www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too

Both boosters and sceptics have strongly held opinions on AI tools like ChatGPT, but after an experiment in vibe coding, I have realised that both camps are wrong, says Jacob Aron

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My book is now published! 🌏🎶🧪
 You can download it for free at academic.oup.com/book/62353 - I’d be grateful if you do! I also published an accessible summary with audio/video today in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41... Try reading that first, then give the whole book a read if you like it!

We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation

We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...

This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen. It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.

MPI-EVA Leipzig@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Children around the world process #gaze in similar ways. Large cross-cultural study led by @elmanubohn.bsky.social & @dbmhaun.bsky.social finds common 'processing signature' of gaze following. @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social @leuphana.bsky.social tinyurl.com/278wxka3 & academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

🚨 New paper alert! "Honestly exaggerated: howler monkey roars are reliable signals of body size and behaviourally relevant to listeners" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We show that formants advertise body size and mediate social interactions in black and gold howler monkeys.

Our new paper on overcoming the ‘dyadic default’ is out now in Child Development Perspectives! @patkanngiesser.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

Overcoming the dyadic default in research on child development

Abstract. Researchers conducting experimental work on sociocognitive development in childhood typically study one-on-one interactions. This approach aligns

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Outstanding @science.org study on the evolution of gene regulation shaping #cerebellum development 🧪🧠🧬 @ioansarr.bsky.social @marisepp.bsky.social @tyamadat.bsky.social @steinaerts.bsky.social @kaessmannlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development

Gene regulatory changes are considered major drivers of evolutionary innovations, including the cerebellum’s expansion during human evolution, yet they remain largely unexplored. In this study, we com...

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Tracing the wave of Neanderthal-modern interactions www.johnhawks.net/p/tracing-th...

Tracing the wave of Neanderthal-modern interactions

A rapid expansion of modern people ran into Neanderthals and mixed with them nearly to the ends of their range.

johnhawks.net

Our new pre-print shows how unsupervised clustering methods can identify biologically meaningful differences in early vocal production, with no human feedback. @antorrisi.bsky.social has led this interdisciplinary collaboration based on computational methods + #chicks 🐣 arxiv.org/abs/2601.12203