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Have you ever wondered how monkeys learn new skills? This fascinating study co-supervised by @RachKendal in collaboration with USP - Universidade de São Paulo reveals how skills can be shared among bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil 🐒 👉 brnw.ch/21wQha5 #DUresearch #DUinspire

New paper! American Journal of Biological Anthropology We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

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Catherine Peters - one of the finest of Wilkie Collins's biographers - has died aged 94. The King of Inventors was written pre-internet. She went everywhere, read everything including his letters scattered around the world and set the bar for others bit.ly/4aP9sza RIP

An absolutely love place to work!!

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andrea_e_martin: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? We analyse theories of representation in neuroscience showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

I remember my father saying to me 50 years ago that ‘Fortress America’ would eventually look to itself, and Europe would be left to fend for itself. I was too young to understand what that meant. I do now

Does Donald Trump have conflicts of interest between policy and personal assets? Does he understand or care what a CoI is?

Being cynical, like Palmerston: “There are no permanent enemies, and no permanent friends, only permanent interests”. It is particularly shameless from the US though

Not one family in Nuuk, Greenland would accept a visit from JD and Usha Vance. NOT A SINGLE RESIDENCE, this is why the visit was cancelled. Drop a 💙 if you would REFUSE to let JD Vance in your home too.

I made this slide during his first presidency. It illustrates how not to make evolutionary inferences from comparative data (dashed red line, although that could also be stock markets). Today more than ever it seems like an insult to chimpanzees

The only thing more depressing than Trump’s bullying with tariffs is other governments like the UK falling over themselves to negotiate to minimise them. Never a good idea to give a bully what they want

Thrilled for the upcoming TIBBE online talks &discussions with the amazing Robert Barton & Susan Healy around how do we better connect brain structure, function & behaviours? Next Wednesday, May 28, 2pm UTC, 4pm Paris 🧠🐒🦜Join us crowdcast.io/c/linking-brai…

Trump on embodied cognition (via ChatGPT)

“Brains over Bots: Why Toddlers Still Beat AI at Learning Language” by Caroline Rowland et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

'Embodied cognitive evolution and the limits of convergence' - paper by Louise Barrett and me just out: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…. .

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

Is the sense of reality a purely visual business?? "Our results demonstrate that a key mechanism through which the brain distinguishes imagination from reality is by monitoring the activity of the mid-level visual cortex." cell.com/neuron/fulltex…