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EthoS @ethos-research.bsky.social · 2d

Last week, our own @berthetmelissa.bsky.social & @maelmleroux.bsky.social were at the @lasfdp.bsky.social 2025 conference.
First congress as official board members, and Mélissa presented their work on chimp vs. bonobos combinatoriality!

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Stuart K Watson @chimpsahoi.bsky.social · 6d

It's hard to overstate the impact Jane Goodall had on my life, both in terms of essentially birthing my field, but also her deeply, contagiously humanist (for want of a better word) spirit.

I've never been starstruck in my life except for the two occasions I met Jane, where I could barely talk.

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EthoS @ethos-research.bsky.social · 6d

A little update of the beginning of this academic year!
New papers, communication, public outreach:

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EthoS @ethos-research.bsky.social · 6d

@maelmleroux.bsky.social organised a symposium on animal linguistics at the @SLE2025 in Bordeaux with the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, introduced by Philippe Schlenker

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Le nid de pie @leniddepie.bsky.social · 29d

Demain, on fait grève ! Pr vous distraire, vous pouvez écouter mon nouvel épisode du podcast Bêtes de science @futurasciences.bsky.social. J'y parle du guépard, l'occasion d'évoquer le @cheetah.org & les études de com' vocale de @maelmleroux.bsky.social : podcasts.futura-sciences.com/futura-betes...

Le guépard a des choses à dire !

Aujourd’hui, direction la Namibie , à la rencontre du guépard ! 🐆 Maître de la vitesse, ce félin élancé fend la savane comme une flèche. Avec ses ...

podcasts.futura-sciences.com

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jul 1

L’émission d’hier à retrouver ici 👇🏻 merci @rfi.fr !
www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 30

Live today on @rfi.fr !

Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 28

Spent a wonderful week in Aurich with Simon Townsend and Katie Slocombe to talk about the next step of the @agencerecherche.bsky.social project #APELANG!

Stay tuned ;)
Ps: meetings in the river = best meetings 🏊‍♂️

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 16

And we continue on this série with an interview live for CQFD, at the Swiss radio RTS 🙏
With Lucia Sillig!
Thanks for this great experience!

CQFD - rts.ch www.rts.ch/emissions/cq...

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EthoS @ethos-research.bsky.social · Jun 16

First were @maelmleroux.bsky.social & @berthetmelissa.bsky.social talking about @edi-efp.bsky.social for the pre-conference workshop!

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EthoS @ethos-research.bsky.social · Jun 16

We had @maelmleroux.bsky.social presenting his work on chimpanzee compositionality.

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 16

Super happy to share a paper Catia Correia-Caeiro and Katja Liebal were kind enough to invite me on!

An extension of the ChimpFACS for bonobos ❤️

With lots of people involved!

peerj.com/articles/194...

Adapting the facial action coding system for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) to bonobos (Pan paniscus): the ChimpFACS extension for bonobos

The Facial Action Coding System (FACS) is a widely recognised coding scheme for analysing human facial behaviour, providing an objective method to quantify discrete movements associated with facial mu...

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 14

La prochaine fois qu’on se voit ;)
Tu me diras ce que tu en penses!

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 2

The original paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Jun 2

No kidding… such an important message to be heard

Marion de Vevey @mariondevevey.bsky.social · May 31

Peer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia.
👉 Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social

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Marion de Vevey @mariondevevey.bsky.social · May 31

Peer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia.
👉 Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social

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Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social · May 29

It's out! 🎉
Together with @maelmleroux.bsky.social , @chimpsahoi.bsky.social, and S. Townsend, we wrote a chapter on methods for studying animal sequences.

Huge thanks to @limorraviv.bsky.social and @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for editing this amazing volume!

academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · May 28

Et découvrez un extrait du livre (comme par hasard, sur la syntaxe…) ici 👇🏻

theconversation.com/quand-les-an...

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · May 27

Today we were at the radio to talk about our new book with Alban Lemasson! The first of a long series we hope!

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · May 22

Merci pour le shout out! 🫰🏻
À écouter, l’émission de ce matin sur France Culture sur le “langage”, le “rythme” et la “musique” des chimpanzés 🙊

Alexandra Delbot @alexandradelbot.bsky.social · May 22

Et un peu de lecture pour finir avec cet ouvrage paru ce mois-ci, par @maelmleroux.bsky.social et Alban Lemasson. Je vous le conseille chaudement ! Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Le langage humain est-il unique ou sommes-nous trop centrés sur nous-mêmes pour penser ainsi ?

Quand les animaux prennent la parole !

Le langage humain est-il unique ou sommes-nous trop centrés sur nous-mêmes pour penser ainsi ? Le langage est un comportement social très complexe qui n'a pas émergé récemment, selon les éthologistes....

www.editions-apogee.com

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · May 15

It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée:
www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...

A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi:
unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...

La culture animale : éthologie et linguistique

<p>Dans Quand les animaux prennent la parole !, publié aux éditions Apogée, Alban Lemasson et Maël Leroux nous parlent du langage animal, bien plus complexe que ce que nous imaginions… […]</p>

unidivers.fr

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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · May 13

Only two weeks left to apply!

Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend!

And spread the word to whoever might be interested!

@efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Mar 26

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨
A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social

It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵

Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html
And here 👇🏻

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · May 4

This new #RSOS paper tested the ability of #bonobos to process 'non-adjacent dependencies'. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @maelmleroux.bsky.social @chimpsahoi.bsky.social‬

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EthoS @ethos-research.bsky.social · Apr 28

April update of the labs activities - a 🧵
New paper documenting the absence of non adjacent dependency processing in bonobos, including Kanzi!

Nouveau papier sur l'absence de détection de dépendances syntaxiques chez les bonobos : une experience de grammaire artificielle
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · Apr 23

New paper hot off the press! 🚨

Non adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos.

A special one, as Kanzi, who participated in the study, passed away a few weeks ago 😢

doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

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