Laura van Holstein

Assistant Professor @EmoryUniversity - Hominin macroevolution, interspecific competition, and living models

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

Interspecific competition played an important, previously ignored, and unusual role in hominin speciation and extinction - read my latest paper in @NatureEcoEvo here: https://t.co/E1AMwatIin
@CamZoology @UCamArchaeology

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

Absolutely thrilled to announce I've just started as Assistant Professor at @EmoryUniversity! Life - both academic and non-academic - feels full of excitement, ideas, and energy. Stay tuned for total irreverence for disciplinary boundaries in human evolutionary biology 🤩✨

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

@TheNudeApe @IPS_PrimateNews @APE_Group_UZH Love it! Have a great time, Lara! (And say hi to Ellen!)

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

I'd apply in a heartbeat if I could. Most creative (!) project proposal I've ever read, brilliant fieldwork opportunities, and the BEST supervising team you could wish for! Apply, apply, apply!

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come join @APE_Group_UZH & Wild Minds Lab @NakedPrimate ✨Please RT✨ @EFPrimatology @PsgbStudent @BiologicalAnth @IPS_PrimateNews @PrimateEducate

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

Key result number 2⃣...

[Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @hellen_wildlife]

@KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH @BulindiChimps @GMERC_TZ Many carrying styles were atypical to those of living healthy & sick infants, suggesting that chimps are aware of the difference... These carrying modes included draping the corpse over the shoulders/back, carrying the corpse in the mouth, by the head/neck or tucked in the groin.

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

Key result number 1⃣...

[Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @hellen_wildlife]

@KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH Until now, ICC in chimps had only been documented in habituated groups via direct observation.

But what about the many chimpanzee populations that aren't habituated?

Using camera traps, we recorded ICC in 7 unhabituated communities, at *twice* the frequency of existing reports.

[Prof Kathelijne Koops @KathelijneKoops]

Chimpanzee Dian (named after Fossey) of the Tongbongbon community carrying her deceased infant in the Nimba Mountains of Guinea 😢@APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

A lovely group of collaborators, and such a thought-provoking subject matter. Give it a read! ⬇️

[Hellen 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @hellen_wildlife]

🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨

*Camera Traps Document Infant Corpse Carrying Behaviour in Multiple Unhabituated Chimpanzee Populations*

A multi-site collaboration across Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼, Guinea🇬🇳, Uganda🇺🇬 & Tanzania🇹🇿

Now published in @Ecol_Evol

Read it here: https://t.co/2yLAOaaUGI

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans.

Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought.

[Zoë Goldsborough @GoldsboroughZoe]

Hot off the press 📢: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇

[Sergio Almécija @AlmecijaSergio]

"Primate Phenotypes:" 6,000+ 3D scans. Skeletons. Bones. MorphoSource. https://t.co/d6mSKTZzfw! #openaccess

Project description:
https://t.co/FeAN9Q1Oh8

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

@KathelijneKoops @APE_Group_UZH @UZH_Science @WUSTLbioanthro @snsf_ch Congratulations Desi!!! Although I'd have awarded you a PhD based on the EPIC OUTFIT alone

[Claddis R package @Claddis_pkg]

NEW VERSION: Claddis version 0.7.0 is now live in CRAN. https://t.co/MEDdzq3AM7

[Human Evolution in Zagros Mountains @SamanHeydarGura]

Just came out!
Reconstructing contactand a potential interbreedinggeographical zonebetween Neanderthalsand anatomically modern humans
https://t.co/QIk9ALlnbZ

[Many Minds podcast @ManyMindsPod]

New episode!! 📣📣

A conversation w/ @birchlse about his new book, 'The Edge of Sentience.'

Some beings are clearly sentient—primates and dogs, for example. Many other beings might be, but we're just not sure. How should we treat the edge cases?

Listen: https://t.co/r1hLYpBokK

[Geladas_for_Cooperation @geladas_bridges]

🚨 Exciting news! The first paper from our project out in @IntJPrimatology 🐒 We report positive interspecies interactions between tolerant geladas and olive baboons in an unprotected area in Ethiopia 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼@TheLeakeyFndtn @EthosLabo Full story here: https://t.co/T9aUXmILWQ

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

@RoinnAnLuisigh @wabarree Hahaha! R2 “Manuscript left me in a deep existential crisis” -> immediate accept

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

Was asked to comment on @wabarree's new paper (in Dutch, sorry Andrew!): "There is far too little explicit thought about the limits of our knowledge and what we can do about it. This is a much-needed and creative response to that scarcity..a delightfully uncomfortable conclusion"

[Laura van Holstein @lolvanhol]

Read the paper here: https://t.co/PJEIeV09dW

[Prof. Leslea J. Hlusko @LHlusko]

Just finished two inspirational days @EED2024. An honor to present @Tied2Teeth @ERC_Research and to see the always-kind @J_Saers, the always-cool @aigverte and to meet Frietson Galis! Some of my fave talks: @UCSDCooperLab
@aigverte
Marketa Kaucka
Maud Fagny
Thanks #Helsinki!

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Several plants eaten by chimpanzees when they are ill or wounded have been found to have medicinal effects, providing some of the strongest evidence yet that our close relatives practise self-medication. https://t.co/lA2FAiqqzB