Our colleagues from Zoology department are looking for a PhD student working on behavioral ecology of African mole-rats! #PhDposition

📢Our new comment on challenges and promises of big team science in comparative cognition research has just been published in Nature Human Behaviour. 😍🥳Read more below!👇

Our paper on how social interest - i.e., peering develops in wild and zoo-housed orangutan was published! Whilst the overall age trajectories are highly similar, zoo-housed orangutans peer more frequently and at a larger range of targets, even when controlling for opportunities🦧

Beyond excited to share our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in Oikos! doi.org/10.1111/oik.10…

A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/petowne…

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild & captive bonobos, fully funded by VolkswagenStiftung. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

🌍🤝 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐱 𝐈𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩 On Feb 20, researchers met to share insights, highlight synergies & explore future collaborations. Pr. Micah Murray: "We anticipate concrete mechanisms to foster collaborations." #Research #Innovation #TheSense #Idiap

Do you study behavior in one or more species? Then you could contribute data to the large-scale ManyManys 1 study on reversal learning across taxa! Join our open webinar series to learn how to get involved in Big Team Comparative Cognition! Register here: forms.gle/9VMgoXP4XmqUbv…

Join us for CogEvo 2025! A unique workshop on cognition, neuroscience, development & evolution with invited speakers and a poster sessions. 🗓️ **July 17-18, 2025** 📍 **Rovereto, Italy** 🔗 [Register](event.unitn.it/cogevo/) #CogEvo2025 #Cognition #Neuroscience #Evolution

🚨 Our webinar series kicks off tomorrow, March 13, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. (ET). We will discuss reversal learning with humans 👶 and non-human primates 🐵. If you haven't registered, you can join us here: calendar.app.google/6XpXJyggSWPbXb…. #BigTeamScience #OpenScience #ComparativeCognition

🚨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/

Very happy to share our new paper investigating compositionality in the vocal system of wild bonobos in Science Magazine led by Mélissa Berthet w/Kokolopori Bonobo Research! Swiss National Science Foundation UZH Science NCCR Evolving Language science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📸🐭🐿️🦔🐇🏙️That's the way to start a new week. New paper out! Using camera trap data we found that small mammal community composition, species diversity and evenness do not change along an urbanization gradient in and around Münster, Germany. publish.csiro.au/WR/WR24196

From 22.-25.05 in Mystères de l'Université de Lausanne, Mawa Dafreville, our amazing student helpers and I conducted a fun series of workshops entitled "Parlez-vous primate?", sharing our passion for science and primate communication with children and adults! 🐒 👀👂Hope to repeat it soon! 🥰✨️

A photo recap of #CogEvo2025 #Rovereto: three days of science and exchange across cognition, neuroscience, development, and evolution. 🙌 Thanks to all speakers, poster presenters, sponsors, and attendees who took part in this edition!!

Group photo at #CogEvo2025 #Rovereto Thank you all! Anastasia Morandi-Raikova Orsola Rosa Salva Andrea Messina Elisa Frasnelli Paola Sgadò @[email protected] Lucia Regolin

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor Vedrana Šlipogor is our second plenary speaker at the Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research (Scientific Meeting) CTEEER 2025 The Company of Biologists

Dr Vedrana Šlipogor Vedrana Šlipogor is our second plenary speaker at the Current Trends in Eco-Evo-Etho Research (Scientific Meeting) Website: sites.google.com/view/cteeer-20… Ethophilia Research Foundation CTEEER 2025 The Company of Biologists

📣 New paper out (& my first one on ravens)! ❤️ "Startling ravens at foraging: Differences in anti-predator behaviour can be explained by age rather than personality" by Weißenborn, Petra Sumasgutner, Bugnyar and myself, out now in Journal of Avian Biology! ✨️😊 doi.org/10.1002/jav.03…

📢 New article out in PLOS BIology! It was truly a pleasure and honour be a part of the core team members to lead this study and work alongside 129 collaborators from 82 institutions across 24 countries - the largest ever comparative study of neophobia in 🐦! 🥰