#CO3_2023 complete ✅ Met so many great people and listened to incredible talks, including Christopher Krupenye present collaborative work led by Laura Simone Lewis, PhD First conference as part of the Social & Cognitive Origins group, JHU 🐒🧠

Last week I gave my first presentation as part of my PhD for the PBS department Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences. It was a great experience and I’m very grateful for how receptive and supportive all the faculty, post docs and PhD students were! Can’t wait to share our results hopefully soon!

I am thrilled to finally share these results with the world! We found that chimps and bonobos likely remember familiar conspecifics whom they haven't seen in years -- possibly as long as 26 years. It's the longest memory ever recorded in nonhuman animals. nytimes.com/2023/12/18/sci…

Congratulations to my amazing supervisor & mentor Christopher Krupenye!🍾

I’m hugely honored to have received this recognition from American Psychological Association, and grateful for the wonderful mentees, mentors, and collaborators that have made our scientific discoveries possible! Some dreams do come true

Delving into the minds of primates! 🐵 Can #Bonobos understand ignorance? In a groundbreaking study Luke A. Townrow & team pointed out hidden rewards to ignorant human partners, shedding light on their ability to infer others’ mental states. 🤔 #PrimateMind #TheoryofMind #CO3_2024

I gave my first ever conference presentation this week! It was such a positive experience and I couldn’t be happier it was at ComparativeCognitionSociety #CO3_2024 Already excited to do it again next year with such an awesome group🐵

My sister is running a 10k very soon to raise money for the UK Alzheimers Society. It’s a great cause, one close to our hearts, and I’m incredibly proud of her❤️ If you have any money you are happy to donate we would be incredibly grateful! justgiving.com/page/evie-town…

We’re sad to share Rene, one of our chimps, passed away last week 💛 Chimp group dynamics are incredibly complex and Rene, who was 31-years-old, was part of a fight which broke out within the troop. He was a huge personality and will be missed by those who cared for him.

Applications are open for the 2025 Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences Early Career Colloquium! This is a great opportunity to present your work and meet JHU faculty and trainees. Deadline 10/15/24.

Bonobos are brainiacs. These apes are so smart that they appear to be able to tell when humans are missing information. And they're more than willing to point us in the right direction, according to a new paper! My latest for Scientific American: scientificamerican.com/article/bonobo…

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…

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at Johns Hopkins University (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/