Julia Mörchen

Dr. rer. nat. |
@MPI_animalbehav
@MPI_EVA_Leipzig
@SuaqOrangutans
@UniLeipzig
| Studying social learning and culture in great apes | 🔬 🦧💡🌳| she/her

[Julia Mörchen @JuliaEditha]

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

[MPI-EVA Leipzig @MPI_EVA_Leipzig]

Dialects in #chimpanzees. Human influence has led to cultural loss & calls for #conservation strategies to include preserving cultural distinctiveness. New study in @CurrentBiology by @MPI_EVA_Leipzig, @ISC_MJ & @TaiChimpProject. https://t.co/Z1pRScDjBU & https://t.co/112rseobsC

[Julia Mörchen @JuliaEditha]

Dear family and friends,
I made it!
Thanks for everyone for your support throughout this time!
I am so excited for what comes next.

[Orangutans of Suaq @SuaqOrangutans]

📢 We’re proud to share that Dr. Julia Mörchen has successfully completed her PhD! 🎓 🦧

#PhDone

[Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute #DISI @DivIntelligence]

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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!

More info: https://t.co/xR6lgTIvZ6

[Dave Leavens @DaveLeavens]

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

[Behaviour 2025 @Behaviour2025]

Abstract submission deadline for #behaviour2025 extended to 15th February!

In response to continued interest, we are pleased to announce the deadline extension.

For more updates click:
https://t.co/31m5qmByi5

#AnimalBehavior
#ScienceConference
#ECRChat

[sofia forss @ForssSofia]

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 ✨👇🏼✨

[Igor Grossmann, PhD @igi.bsky.social @psywisdom]

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
Learn more & apply: https://t.co/vBzosMDJxA

[Universität Konstanz @UniKonstanz]

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

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

Come join us in beautiful Zurich for a postdoc!!! 🤩 @APE_Group_UZH

https://t.co/32TWOOTQKd

@UZH_Science @UZH_ch

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

Scientists find out how early humans survived cold when they moved out of Africa | The Independent https://t.co/LaTlgR6MWU

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

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

[IPS Primate @IPS_PrimateNews]

Deadline 29th July!! Just a few more days to apply - please share widely, these workshops are an incredible springboard for ECR primatologists!

[Caroline Hu @HuWantsToKnow]

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. 🏝️🐒🐒🐒

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

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.

[Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @EEG_Cam]

#newpaper alert!
What drives #handaxe distribution in Europe? A large-scale analysis performed by our @MikLeonardi (@CamZoology) et al (@UCamArchaeology)suggests it's the interaction between #climate and #demography! And there's a surprise... (see 📷) https://t.co/ORb8lrtz1h

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

Why did Homo sapiens outlast all other human species? https://t.co/PALNRK45OF

[Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour @CBehav]

We warmly welcome all participants of the second Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour @CBehav @UniKonstanz @MPI_animalbehav! We hope you will have a brilliant time in #Konstanz and learn a lot about #collectivebehaviour.
https://t.co/myvCp1I071

[Max Planck Institute for Human Development @mpib_berlin]

More information about the Open Science Innovation Award and the award ceremony: https://t.co/Aq6GsYbgu8

[Oxford Anthropology @oxford_anthro]

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

[Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias @padillaccc]

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