What being pro-Palestine means to me / my platform: I'm passionately, unequivocally, and without hesitation, a proponent of the Palestinian people’s just and urgent aspirations for self-determination, liberation, sovereignty, and safety. I grew up in Gaza, where I experienced

I will soon recruit a post-doc to work on the mechanisms of social learning & cultural evolution. Get in touch if you are ambitious, computationally minded, and interested in behavioral experiments, modeling, simulation, and/or brain-imaging! ESLR Society Cultural Evolution Society

📢New paper alert: The archaeological visibility of chimpanzee nut-cracking. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

JOB 📢: Assistant Professor in Ecology, Evolution or Behavioural Ecology Durham BioSciences Durham University. Deadline 31 Oct 2024 More info: durham.taleo.net/careersection/… CEG Durham Durham BEER centre BES careers SCB #HiringNow EcologyJobs EcologyJobs ASAB

Differential use of the same call combination by different groups of wild bonobos link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Effects of irrelevant unintelligible and intelligible background speech on spoken language production. Final version by Jieying He , Candice Frances , Ava Creemers & Laurel Brehm doi.org/10.1177/174702…

#CES2024 will be holding themed discussion sessions, which you can propose and vote on now! If you missed out on submitting an abstract, why not submit a themed discussion proposal? Cultural Evolution Society Link to submit proposals & vote: ars.particify.de/p/55984250?ent…

We will start to look at the applications on Sep 13. Looking forward to your application!

Fantastic program for the corvid vocal communication conference next week! Just sent out to participants, check your inbox. There is still time to register if you would like to attend: covco2024.github.io

⭐️2-year postdoc position open in my lab⭐️ Anyone interested in #psycholinguistics #ageing #language #cognition please get in touch! Open for applications until Sep 15th 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat… School of Psychology, University of Birmingham The Centre for Human Brain Health

🎓PhD Defence!🎓 On 16 september Sophie Slaats will defend her thesis 'On the interplay between lexical probability and syntactic structure in language comprehension' at 10.30 hrs in the Aula of the Radboud University @[email protected] or via live stream. More info: mpi.nl/news/sophie-sl…

Yet another truly amazing science communication video by Ze Frank, this time on snake locomotion. They can tie a KNOT in themselves to climb a pole. youtu.be/zFNnx4UgkNI

Animal culture PhD alert 🚨

CES paper alert 🚨

📢 Save the date! The 10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) will be held on 9-11 July 2025 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands 👇Check out our website for more information 👇 isgs10.nl ISGS Donders Institute MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics CLS

Examining the robustness and generalizability of the shape bias: a meta-analysis - new paper by Samah Abdelrahim and me. Lots of heterogeneity in this important phenomenon, perhaps masking true developmental and cross-linguistic trends... osf.io/preprints/psya…

The limitations of Large Language Models for understanding human language and cognition direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

MOSAIC is back! Our next MOSAIC meeting on 'Foundations of Multimodal Interaction' will feature @pliang27 discussing multimodal and multisensory AI systems. All welcome! Thur, 26 September, 2pm-3.30pm UK time (contact Jonas Nölle @[email protected] for Zoom link)

Our monthly discussions on multimodal social interactions will resume this month with a super interesting speaker Paul Liang, an expert in multisensory AI! This is opened to everyone so feel free to join if you are interested in the topic! 😊