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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · Feb 13

Second paper out this week 😱😱

We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!

[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · Aug 9

To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

osf.io

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · Jul 27

So much fun having been part of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour #KSCB2025 - lots of interesting discussions on the concept of joint action, what it is, and how it can be studied across species. Thanks to the organizers for this exciting opportunity!

Christophe Bousquet @krisanathema.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Jul 24

To finish the third day of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour 2025 (#kscb2025), a great #keynote by Raphaela Heesen on #jointactions in #humans and #non-humans.

@cbehav.bsky.social

https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨 1 more week to apply!! 🚨

2 PhD positions in my group on cross-species comparisons & #development of joint action, #communication & #emotion in #chimpanzees and #children at @Uni-konstanz.de - DM me about questions ☺️

Application deadline: 16.06.25
Start date: 1.10.25

Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · May 17

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · May 15

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️

For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains.

New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees
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Portrait of the chimpanzee “Wazak” (©James Mollison) & Nerve fibres in the chimpanzee brain (©MPI CBS)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59254-8

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · May 17

Position to work with apes:

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/d...

Position to work with human children:

stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/b...

Doctoral Position in Comparative Cognition and Communication

Deadline: 16.06.2025

stellen.uni-konstanz.de

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · May 17

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

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sombylab.bsky.social @sombylab.bsky.social · Jan 22

📢 JAM is back in 2025! 📢

The 10th edition of Joint Action Meeting (JAM X), to be held in Torino, Italy, from Wednesday 9th to Saturday 12th July, 2025.

Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2025.

CLICK: somby.ceu.edu/jam

#JAMX #JAM10 #JAMXinTorino #JAM10in2025 #JointActionMeeting #JAM

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Primatology.net @primatology.net · Apr 16

Bonobos refuse to cooperate when rewards are unfair, showing signs of inequity aversion. Their reactions hint at ancient roots of fairness in primate social life. #Anthropology #Primatology #Bonobos #Fairness #HumanEvolution

What Bonobos Can Teach Us About the Roots of Fairness

A new study explores how one of our closest primate relatives reacts to unequal treatment—and what it might say about the origins of human morality.

www.primatology.net

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · Mar 23

🚨RT!

The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

The Social & Cognitive Origins Group at Johns Hopkins University studies how humans and other animals think.

The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in full spring bloom.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Mar 14

Annual Conference of the Cognition, Behavior and Evolution Network in Antwerp, September 18-19, 2025

With keynotes by @zannaclay.bsky.social, Koen Margodt, and Leda Cosmides.

Submission deadline May 1

www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uan...

Annual Conference of the Cognition & Behavior Evolution Network 2025 | Social Sciences | University of Antwerp

www.uantwerpen.be

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