Are you hiring new field or lab personnel? Do you want your job adverts to reach more underrepresented students? We want to help! Fill out this form and ABC will circulate these positions among our mentees + microgrant awardees: forms.gle/r231HG9R1PWLEe…

Things are moving forward people! ⏭️ Stay tuned for more soon. Here: a first glimpse into what we will be working on together in the next months, years, and decades! To building a more ethical, diverse and inclusive primatology and academia! 🥂 See Melissa’s tweet for thanks 😻

ABC is seeking mentors who can guide students and professionals through their career transitions outside the academic world! If you can help or know someone who has this experience, consider sharing this post! 🙏 Mentors form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A day of chatting about research in comparative cognition, communication and ethology. Super intense but super exciting 🤩🤩 stay tuned, it’s gonna be amazing 😍

🇬🇧 This week, PhD students Léa Gueguen and Manon Toutain, as well as Dr. Séverine Henry and Pr. Alban Lemasson are ISAE 2024 Brazil to present their research and represent EthoS! Stay tuned for more on Wednesday and Thursday! #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology ISAE

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…

Gesture exchanges in wild chimps resemble human conversational patterns! New paper (with data from 5 chimp communities!) in Current Biology led by Gal Badihi and Cat Hobaiter! Ping NCCR Evolving Language UZH Science ISLE

🚨🚨PhD position alert!! 🚨🚨We are looking for a doctoral student to carry out behavioural research on acoustic and visual communication in wolves and dogs @ Comparative Cognition Lab (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) and the Domestication Lab Vienna (Vetmeduni, Austria)

📢📢 The Dept. of Comparative Cultural #Psychology MPI-EVA Leipzig is looking for a #PhD candidate for a project on the cognitive foundations of cumulative cultural #evolution in #chimpanzees. Interested? ⏰✍️ Apply by August 15th! eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

We have an open call for two permanent lectureships in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews. A beautiful place to live and work. Please share! vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/46…

Funding alert! Applied for a Marie Curie but got rejected with *Seal of Excellence* < 2 years ago? MUR is offering 150 very generous positions for 3-years senior postdocs! If interested in any of my research areas & want to join my lab Sapienza Università di Roma - Italy, send me an email!

New paper out from my time École normale supérieure | PSL in #AnimalBehaviour! We looked at the mechanisms behind mobbing call recognition in great tits and which acoustic features matter. Turns out, they all do, to a degree... Read more here, in #OpenAccess: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📰 New paper alert! 🇬🇧 Prenatal maternal stress can have phenotypical effects into the third generation. We observed specifically increased fearfulness and neophobia in females. Led by Marion Charrier and the EthoS team Read more here Royal Society Publishing : doi.org/10.1098/rsos.2…

Delighted to share Comparative Cognition Lab @UC San Diego first empirical study on button trained dogs. We show that dogs can recognize and respond appropriately to the words produced via buttons and they respond similarly independently of who is producing the word. 1/n dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

[APPEL AUX SCIENTIFIQUES FRANCOPHONES] RT pour l'amour des sciences 🙏 Tous les matins sur France Culture, je fais parler un.e chercheur.se d'une étude qui vient de paraître dans son domaine, souvent une dont il est co-auteur.trice mais pas toujours.

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…

🎉Exciting news! Our lab's first paper, "Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates," is now published in @Science! 🐒 Dive into our findings on how marmoset monkeys use vocal labels similar to human names and dialects. Check it out! 1/6 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨#APELANG in on! 🚨 My project on multimodal combinatorial communication in #chimpanzees has been funded ANR! Put your seatbelts on and let’s go for a 5 year ride! Stay tuned for more news soon! Spoiler alert: it’s the dream team and we’ll look for people to join 🥹

Amazing #PhD #job opportunity with Victor Narat et al on the interaction between #humans and #bonobos in fragmented habitats. #conservation Ping La Société Francophone de Primatologie - SFDP EFP-Primatology Science & recherche au Muséum adum.fr/as/ed/voirprop…