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I'll be looking for a post-doc to join the lab in 2025! If you might be interested, reach out (DM/ email)n so that we can chat at #CDS2024!

Congratulations, Dorsa!!! So well-deserved. We will miss you

📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Associate to join the Mind & Culture Lab at Duke University. The ideal candidate has a PhD in Psychology or Anthropology & is interested in cross-cultural work. Apply here! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27429

It is happening again! Join our workshop ✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP✨ to learn about technological innovations to study the human and animal mind. Apply here: https:/www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/2024-btg2/

New paper alert! 🚨 Late to sharing this, but here's a short review of a decade of work with Gergely Csibra on how infants represent giving, and why it matters (for event cognition and the origins of the relational mind). Thread below! 🧵👇 t.ly/S6cLw 1/15

Proud of this review with Alison Gopnik ! - 'The development of human causal learning and reasoning' - now available here: rdcu.be/dFToV Nature Reviews Psychology We review the development of human-unique causal understanding from an 'interventionist' perspective, outlining

Great psychologist turned philosopher Mariel Goddu (@marielgoddu.bsky.social) and I wrote this review of the development of human causal learning, 20 years worth of comparative, developmental, philosophical and computational work. Empowerment included. Free to read at this link. nature.com/articles/s4415…

Sarah Hrdy’s ‘Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies’ just arrived on my kindle 😊 If you’ve not read any of Hrdy’s books, then start today

Now out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences!

Important read Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… ‘The constraints imposed by fieldwork are often incompatible with high publication rates, journal impact factors, and citation count’

📢The DISC Lab is hiring a lab manager (flex start day)! More research info here: ashleyelizajordan.com Min salary = $44,550 w/ generous benefits: hr.wisc.edu/benefits/new-e… Apply here by 6/17: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/research-… 👉🏾Please share widely!

We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Our attention waxes and wanes over time. How does this influence the way our memories are organized? Pupil size at encoding, an index of attention, predicts the temporal structure of subsequent memory Super proud of Manasi Jayakumar (she/her) for this work! 👀 osf.io/preprints/psya…

📢 PhD position in human, ape, or dog cognition Johns Hopkins University - please RT! We study how animals think, & what makes the human mind unique Deadline: Dec 1 Learn more here: social-cognitive-origins.com And here: social-cognitive-origins.com/join-our-team.… And in QT'd thread

🚨Call for abstracts🚨 CO3 is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, March 26-29th 2025, and features 5- and 10-min talks, posters, the Early Career Award talk, and a Master Lecture by Professor Suzanne MacDonald. Don't miss it! Deadline: December 13, 2024.

Dorsa is brilliant, kind, and fundamentally *curious* about the world and humanity. I love the way she thinks, and her lab will undoubtably become an intellectual powerhouse!

So pleased to finally see this paper in print. In what we think is one of the largest meta-analyses of animal behaviour, we find no evidence for inequity aversion in nonhumans (in accept/reject paradigms). Led by Oded Ritov & with Jan Engelmann & Christoph Völter. 👇

Very excited to have this published! No evidence for inequity aversion in nonhuman animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms, w/ Christoph Völter, Prof Nichola Raihani , & Jan Engelmann : royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Do animals get jealous like people? New UCBerkeley Psychology research looks at years of studies into whether non-human animals have a similar sense of fairness. The answer is more nuanced than it may seem. news.berkeley.edu/2024/12/12/do-…

Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information? Luke A. Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…