1/4 📢 So exciting, my second Dissertation paper has been published in iScience! 🔬 We examined how food availability affects social learning in migrant orangutan males, who learn from local orangutans after dispersal through peering 🔬 🦧💡🌳
https://t.co/Kb4MpcdoKP
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Applications for DISI 2025 are now open!!
Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
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Thoughtful new paper about learning and communication in primates from @MarlenFroehlich, @cedricboeckx, and @CTennie
The role of exploration and exploitation in primate communication | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences https://t.co/zlfuIyjsx5
Abstract submission deadline for #behaviour2025 extended to 15th February!
In response to continued interest, we are pleased to announce the deadline extension.
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Join the Disi Community - Is your research related to intelligence and diversity of minds? Then take the chance to expand your horizons and form new interdisciplinary scientific friendships - Apply for Summer School 2025 ✨👇🏼✨
Exciting opportunity! We’re hiring *two* Post-Doctoral Fellows (1) Social-Cog Psych (w ABM interest) & (2) NLP/Computational Social Science @UWaterloo. Work on #culture, #judgment, #decisionmaking with https://t.co/w06nIbfpyB
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An international research team led by the #UniKonstanz@CBehav and @oxford_brookes concludes that gentle touch is not only good for mental health, but also for the evolution of cooperation: https://t.co/Knfzz5zOE5
@MPI_animalbehav
Proboscidean species—animals including modern elephants and extinct woolly mammoths—experienced a fivefold increase in extinction rates when early humans appeared, according to a new model-based @ScienceAdvances study involving fossil data. https://t.co/daTHOTocjY
How can social behavior affect survival after a natural disaster? HUGE congrats to @CamilleTestard and co-authors, whose study about Hurricane Maria's impact on @CayoSantiagoPR just came out in @ScienceMagazine ! Check out the paper, the thread, and the COMIC. 🏝️🐒🐒🐒
Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: https://t.co/5OogaxRymH! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.
Do chimpanzees use tree bark to self-medicate? 🐒
Historically it's been thought that chimps only eat bark when no other option is available.
New research led by Dr @ElodieFreymann suggests that the bark is actually medicinal - read more: https://t.co/Ng9Tos1VfD #Conservation
We need better and more PopSci by scientists | Science - absolutely! But we also need accessible training (and funding) to be able to do this (esp. in languages other than English) https://t.co/eldZ7uwkFn