Keith Jensen

Developmental and comparative psychologist at the University of Manchester. Primary focus is the evolution of prosociality, punishment and spite.

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

@QMUL (Queen Mary U of L) is up to its usual dirty tricks and is threatening to shut down the film department in response to a marking boycott. Help force the vice-chancellor to back down by signing this open letter to be presented to Council tomorrow. https://t.co/1vjTmWDg3p

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

@CommunicatMind Very ambitious Richard. And brave! I have no doubt it will be impressive. And a lot of work. Bon courage.

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

@JonasVerspeek @PeerJLife @ejcvanleeuwen @dwlameris @NickyStaes @Jeronobo1 @UAntwerpen @ZOOscience_eng @APELAB2 Thanks!

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

I love how #smbc gets to the point of science, in this case warm-glow altruism and spite. https://t.co/gGMvJXlaP8

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

Once again, Zach Weinersmith gets right to the point. Fun look at design constraints. #smbc #hiveworks https://t.co/ascAf8eRf5

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

The kind of question kids always ask. If a gorilla and a chimpanzee fight, who will win? Spoiler: chimps don’t ply fair. Lethal coalitionary attacks of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) on gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in the wild. https://t.co/DLZ34wxQGy

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

One of the clearest examples of active food sharing in chimpanzees. A few caveats come to mind. (1) Why is a tortoise with chimpanzees? (2) By themselves, videos are not evidence. (3) Not likely to be a good example of reciprocity. All of which makes this perfect for lectures. 😁

[Zanna Clay @zannaclay]

v cool PhD position to study 'Animal Expression of Emotions during Social Behaviour' with a great research group in Utrecht!
https://t.co/FTGhQQxaSx

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

This is an unsurprising finding about surprising findings. Animal cognition research thrives on “breakthroughs” and “discoveries” and these are what get reported on the most in the press and by researchers in other disciplines.

[Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) @BrianNosek]

"Citation counts on Google Scholar were significantly higher for the papers that failed to replicate [than those that replicated successfully] with an average boost of 16 extra citations per year." https://t.co/SGC4AfMDmI

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

Would a primate researcher with no experience spontaneously use Twitter to hammer out surveys? Claudio wants to know your thoughts about captive orangutans.

[Claudio Tennie @CTennie]

Polltime!

If given hard nuts and wooden hammers, will orangutans spontaneously hammer the nuts open w. these hammers?

Aka: "Can orangutans nutcrack?"

24h poll - so be quick (& retweet)

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

I have amazing friends with amazing jobs! I love what they’re doing.

[Joan Silk @jbsilk1]

Tnanks to Dieter Lukas for bringing this twitterworld

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

More on the culture wars. And not the ridiculous one of whether cancel culture is killing off Dr Seuss and Pepe Le Pew. The real one about ape culture.

[Claudio Tennie @CTennie]

Ape cultures exist, but they may well be of a different *type* as compared to human culture.

Our new paper (with @AlbaMotes1, link below) tested this idea. How? We present & apply a *new method* that aims to detect evidence for human types of culture. https://t.co/vpYvTKNVty

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

@Susanne_Shultz Seeing turkey sex in a tweet seems surreal enough. Very sorry to hear about the Covid issues. I hope you and everyone affected comes out unscathed. I have to say I am now curious about turkey sex. Gonna add that along with duck sex for things to ponder.

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

I remember a time that people would have dogs to protect their homes, not this way around: “make sure you’ve got some home security, CCTV... All those sorts of basic security steps which you can take to reduce the chance of you having your pet stolen.” https://t.co/YD2XfmSYvP

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

An ignobel venture 👏🏻

[Claudio Tennie @CTennie]

Have you ever seen any replication attempt of any Ig Nobel prize study? Neither had we. We have now done and published a replication attempt of an #ignobel study - on chimpanzee imitation. A short thread. @improbresearch

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

@utafrith @royalsociety This looks quite interesting, and to a parent, unsurprising. I piloted a sharing game that worked well in the lab, but ended in a table almost being kicked over when one of the participants had to share with his sister back home (not my kids, thankfully).

[Elisa Bandini @elisa_bandini]

🚨New paper alert with @CTennie, Margherita Bandini and Animal Behaviour & Cognition (ABC)! 🚨https://t.co/AzQXRTcD6t 1/9

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

Several days later, still my favourite science news of the week: Why wombats have cube-shaped poo. https://t.co/eiqRpmBJ8Y

[Keith Jensen @KeithEvolves]

Still time to apply for a PhD with me and @Susanne_Shultz on the evolution of mutualistic cooperation. Deadline Jan 22. https://t.co/N9yg6zZ5Dm