Another visual feast created by #NatGeo and Roland Hilgartner showcasing our first findings on #selfmedication and #allomedication of wounds using #insects in a nonhuman species. @alessandra_masc @lara_southern Comparative BioCognition Osnabrück

📢So glad to see this work led by Lydia Luncz out after years of very hard work. This is the tip of the iceberg! If we wish to find the 'unfindable' we must be able to ID artefacts & defy old ideas about preservation & diagnostic traits @primobevolab Oxford Anthropology ICArEHB 🧵1/6

Our new paper about self-directed behaviours in bonobos is out! Following previous work, we studied SDBs during cognitive testing and found some interesting results… 🧵 mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/2…

The final version of the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE) is now available for download Now with a nice cover! (and still a 65MB pdf with over 800 pages of the latest research on language evolution) evolang.org/jcole2022/proc… Joint Conference on Language Evolution #jcole2022

PhD opportunity at Utrecht University on Primate culture and social complexity uu.nl/en/organisatio…

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Do chimpanzee gestures conform to human linguistic laws? Check out our latest findings on BCFS gestures used in sexual solicitations! 🧵1/10

New paper w/ @wimpouw, Prof. Asli Ozyurek @ozyurek_a and @[email protected] on communicative efficiency from an interactional and multimodal point of view nature.com/articles/s4159… Some highlights 👇

🎉 Congratulations to Bill Thompson, winner of the 2022 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award for research on emerging experimental methods that combine cognitive-behavioral studies with machine learning to trace how knowledge is transmitted between people. scim.ag/v6

WE'RE HIRING! Tenure-track Assistant Professor in #BiologicalAnthropology at @UArizona. Seeking evolutionary perspective on impacts of variable and changing environments on human & non-human primate health and well-being. Due 12/9/2022! Please share! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

PhD position in Primate Culture & Social Complexity (1.0 FTE) - Working at Utrecht University - Utrecht University uu.nl/en/organisatio…

This month our CBC Twitter will be taken over by our PhD candidate Fanny Tibesar. Her research focuses on gestural communication and turn-taking in adult sooty mangabeys.

Call for Applications: 12 PhD Positions in the RTG ‘Situated Cognition’ (June 2023–May 2026). This is a great opportunity for students interested in the whole range of Neuroscience / Cognitive Science / Philosophy situated-cognition.com/2022/11/08/cal…

Why did social relationships evolve? So that individuals can help each other is a simple answer. But help each other how, exactly? Our new paper in iScience journal shows that socially integrated individuals are less likely to be injured by conspecifics sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper: Do genes and languages evolve together? Not always! In fact, the matches and mismatches are interesting. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #linguistics #genetics #prehistory

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was published #OnThisDay in 1859. “There is grandeur in this view of life - that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

PhD position alert🥁🎺🥁🎺!!! We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on cognition and curiosity in wild orangutans at the Development and Evolution of Cognition Research Group at the @maxcine_mpiab & being part of the IMPRS-QBEE. We can't wait to meet our new team member!🤓

Beautiful #brainpicking day today with Kayla Kolff talking about definitions of #grooming in #chimpanzees. „First thing is still for me to check the ‚Patterns of behavior‘ book by #JaneGoodall… and indeed we find a useful and accurate #definition!

On January 19, 2023, the Comparative Bioacoustics Group (Comparative Bioacoustics Group) of the Max Planck Institute (MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics) invites you to attend, in-person, the “Rhythm, Music, and Animal Communication” symposium! More info and to register: mpi.nl/events/rmac2023

VERY excited that our paper on age-based social selectivity in macaques is out in PNASNews! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Interested in learning more about: ✅Social behaviour ✅Aging ✅Why humans might shrink their social networks as they get older? Then read on… 🧵(1/20)

Today our PhD students attended the Osnabrück's Institute of #CognitiveScience Christmas lunch. What a great opportunity to meet and exchange ideas over delicious food!