November is my least favourite month & this one looks particularly grim. So this Nov, I'll share daily #puffin videos from cameras I set up in recent summers on Skomer Island, Norway & Iceland. I hope they make some of you smile! Today, puffins landing en masse. #OnePuffinADay

What is imitation? A primer (< 4000 words) explaining why imitation has maddened and intrigued psychologists, biologists and philosophers for more than a century. psyarxiv.com/tn34f/ 🧵

Hello!! We're the Animal Behaviour Collective - a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants (animalbehaviourcollective.org) & mentorship (forms.gle/Uzjw1gSspRYVqK…) for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour. We've just launched our website today!!

Primate peeps 👋 Co-editing a special issue of Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution on Cognition, Foraging and Energetics in extant and extinct primates -with Cecile Garcia, Karline Janmaat, Francine Dolins & Sandrine Prat. Abstract deadline May 10th! Consider contributing! 👍 frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Our new paper exploring the extractive technology of previously unstudied neighbouring western chimpanzee communities is out! 1/6 frontiersin.org/article/10.338… Dora Biro @KJHockings ibap guine-bissau ZooOxECRN @OxZooDept

Check out our new open access paper. We present new analytical models to infer cognitive abilities from ranging data applicable to a diverse set of animals. A threat (N=11) Using natural travel paths to infer and compare primate cognition in t... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new paper is out! On automated recognition of wild primate behaviour using audiovisual signatures. A collaborative work between primatologists Dan Schofield Prof. Susana Carvalho Dora Biro @KJHockings Sophie Berdugo & computer scientists Max Bain Arsha Nagrani 1/3

Very excited by this Royal Society Publishing special issue, on not one but two of my favourite things (collectives+culture)! Thanks to co-editors Andrew Whiten Ellen Garland and Simon Kirby, and to our many fantastic contributors from the worlds of humans, animals and machines

I am thrilled to announce that Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI has funded a large 5-year project exploring: "Rationality and Reason Beyond the Individual" led by Dora Biro, Richard Mann, and myself

Job alert: I, Christopher Krupenye and Richard Mann will be recruiting 5 postdocs to study collective behaviour in apes, birds and fish (& models) on 5-year Templeton World Charity Foundation funded project “Rationality and Reason beyond the Individual”. Get in touch with us! 📧

Have you found yourself with a spare half hour and are wondering what to do with it? Please help fantastic PhD student Elliot Howard-Spink collect data on how humans sequence behaviours! Online experiment info and link: shorturl.at/ilHOQ

My book comes out in just five days in North America and the EU. Zounds! It's very good and you should get it, but you don't have to take my word for it - the 1st chapter is free on the PUP website. PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac… AMZN: amazon.com/dp/0691224145?…

🚨 Job alert, animal (or human) cognition peeps! Two weeks left to apply for a TT assistant prof position RochesterBrainCogSci. We are looking for researchers using non-invasive behavioural or computational methods in any area of cognition! Apply here: rochester.edu/faculty-recrui…

Interested in new ways to look at #collectivebehaviour in animals? My talk on the ontogeny and evolutionary history of collective behaviour: youtu.be/z74fnbj4S_Q?si… For detail, see our Royal Society Publishing #Philtrans special issue with @KateLaskowski royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

3-year postdoc opportunity to work with me at the University of Leeds on Mathematical Biology and Collective Behaviour as part of the TWCF-funded project Rationality and Reason: Beyond the Individual. Please contact me if interested, and share and RT. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

postdoc 🚨 please RT! Exciting postdoc position with Richard Mann modeling collective reasoning and rationality in animal decision-making. This is part of a large project involving Dora Biro and myself, and data from apes, birds, fish, etc alongside theoretical work!

With flying colours too… 😊 Woohoo, well done Elliot!!! 👨‍🎓

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105411 (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨🌰)