Many morphs: Parsing gesture signals from the noise link.springer.com/article/10.375… A framework using data from the largest set of wild chimpanzee gestures available & splitting gesture types based on modifying gesture feature expressions (latent class analysis) to find certainty gains

I fly through the desert on a plane with no name, it feels good to be out of the rain.. Not gonna lie 48hrs in Scottish ‘summer’ and I’m real glad to be migrating South again!! 🤣 #fieldwork #gonechimping #mauritania

Fine. If the furry family insist on playing silly buggers on #worldchimpanzeeday I shall do a little herp habituation instead! Those teeny hands look perfect for gesturing with 😂 #gecko #herp #Guinea Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project

Very exciting news! I'm hiring a postdoc (Assistant/Associate Project Scientist) to work on AI and whales Project CETI UC Berkeley 🐳 We're a very interdisciplinary lab, as shown by this requirement: - PhD in linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, CS, marine biology, or

Rare opportunity to join my team, as the PLOS Biology in-house editorial team is growing! It's a great team in a great journal, if I say so myself 😆 Please reach out if your have Qs & apply if interested!! UK or US; assoc or senior (preferred) Please RT us241.dayforcehcm.com/CandidatePorta…

Ah yes, the familiar 3am fieldwork road game of: is it a bike or a car with one light out coming at us in the middle of the road, and - if so - is it the left or right… Gonna have to remember to add it to the risk assessment 😅🤞 #fieldwork #gonechimping #Guinea

We are looking for two PhD students interested in cumulative culture in great apes. By using observational, experimental and computational methods, we aim to test whether precursors of human culture are present in chimpanzees and bonobos. uu.nl/en/organisatio…

New Paper in Current Biology! Chimpanzees across FIVE communities take rapid turns in gesture-to-gesture exchanges resembling human conversational patterns. Language may not be a pre-requisite for fast-paced, coordinated communication in social species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Chimps share humans' 'snappy' conversational style. In this new article, @vic_gill via BBC discusses field research with Cat Hobaiter and Gal Badihi, primatologists from University of St Andrews. 🧵 #AnimalCognition #AnimalCommunication #ScienceTwitter bbc.com/news/articles/…

Come chat with me next week about insect sensorimotor control, quantifying vision, and tracking with DeepLabCut 🦄 😎 #icn2024berlin make sure to participate in the poster treasure hunt! 🎁

1/3 El ritmo de las conversaciones chimpancé Los chimpancés se comunican mediante gestos con un ritmo de gesto-respuesta similar al de las conversaciones humanas habladas (200ms; n gestos 8559, n individuos 252) (paper) cell.com/current-biolog… Gal Badihi y Cat Hobaiter

Our Diverse Intelligences initiative (DI) is a global, multidisciplinary exploration of a world alive with brilliance. 🐒🦾🧠 Here's how we explore questions on intelligence... 🧵

If you are in the Northeast and can safely attend this, please do. Numbers are important!

Only one week left (16th August) to submit your abstract for the #ASABwinter2024. We already have an excellent range of submissions on 'addressing biases in the field of Animal Behaviour', don't miss your spot!

Delighted to announce that Comparative Cognition Lab @UC San Diego research on button trained dogs will be featured in the Netflix documentary INSIDE THE MIND OF A DOG premiering tomorrow! Also, our first empirical paper on this project will appear on August 28th! UC Newsroom UC San Diego youtube.com/watch?v=62ZAsn…

EXCITING NEWS! We are accepting applications for a special funding round - Women in Fieldwork. If you identify as a woman conducting animal behaviour-related fieldwork, we welcome your application for one of four grants of £400 each. Deadline September 1st, 2024. ⬇️

My awesome department UCSD CogSci Dept is hiring THREE!!! Assistant Professors in any area of Cognitive Science. See job ad for details: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04016. I love my colleagues and the students are unbelievably talented and interdisciplinary minded. Join us!

Can't believe this paper is finally out!!! Federico Rossano, Richard Moore & I propose that apes recruit features of existing behavioral repertoire for communicative purposes 🐵🫴🍎 TL;DR similar bodies, similar behaviors, similar communicative solutions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br…

Excited to present this morning at the 4th The African Bioacoustics Community conference our study on vocal-gestural combinations in elephant greetings 🐘👋