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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, Jane. I will never forget that chance encounter at Nairobi airport - both of us heading home from the field. As a grad student, it meant everything to me.

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Sep 3

We are also looking for to fill the managing director position for the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS at the University of Tübingen!

Please see below for English text and the link for the German advert.

Deadline: Sept. 15!
lnkd.in/gJZrvGnk

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 7

3. Experimental archaeology
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 7

2. Biomechanics
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · Aug 7

Job Alerts!🚨 We are looking to fill three Independent Junior Research Group Leader positions in the 'HUMAN ORIGINS' Cluster of Excellence at the University of Tübingen
Application deadline: Sept. 10, Starting Jan. 1, 2026

1. Genotype-Phenotype interactions:
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Independent Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d, 100%)

uni-tuebingen.de

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evolangconf.bsky.social @evolangconf.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for papers for Evolang 2026 is now posted! evolang2026.org. Workshop proposals due Sept 22nd. Paper submissions October 26th. Evolang is interdisciplinarity at its best. We hope to see you in Plovdiv!!

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Aug 4

📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇

Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations to my superb PhD student Angèle Lombrey on publishing her first article in Biological Reviews
@camphilsoc.bsky.social — no less! 😎🍾

Curious about individual differences in animal communicative behavior? 🐦🐬🦧Check out our open-access paper:
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Individual variation in animal communication: from species averages to unique voices

The comparative study of communicative behaviour in non-human animals, especially primates, has yielded crucial insights into the evolution of human language. This research, mostly focused on the spe...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jul 28

Now published! 📝✅📢
Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access).
Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them!

📖 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/brv....

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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · Jul 1

We are hiring! Two PhD positions for interdisciplinary work on great ape communication and language evolution in a joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social.

🎯 evolutionary or probabilistic modeling
🗓️ deadline: Aug 13
🔗 tinyurl.com/2cnzwakj

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground!

🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome.
🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13
🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq

Please share!
@elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 24

w/ @kirstyegraham.bsky.social @julietteaychet.bsky.social @taichimpproject.bsky.social, Peter Clark, Nancy Rebout, Guillaume Dezecache, Carel van Schaik!

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨 New preprint! 3 years after our symposium at the EFP-GfP meeting in Arnhem, I'm happy to share a prefinal draft of our review on approaches to studying flexibility in animal communication. Thanks/Merci beaucoup to the 7 stellar presenters & coauthors who made this possible! osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

osf.io

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 3

press release (sadly only in German): uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Neuer Sonderforschungsbereich ist in der Sprachwissenschaft verankert

uni-tuebingen.de

Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 3

This was fast! :) thank you, Cedric! Congrats on your latest publications!

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned!

Dietmar Till @dietmartill.bsky.social · May 30

Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · May 27

Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · May 27

Huge thanks to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for their wonderful editing work! 🙌📚

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 New chapter alert 🚨 What can variation in great ape communication—across individuals, dyads, populations, species—tell us about language origins and communicative flexibility? 🦧🤷‍♂️ My latest piece w/ Carel van Schaik is out now in the OH of Approaches to Language Evolution.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · May 23

Very proud to be part of this extraordinary team! What a time to be working and living in Tübingen ⚒️🐵🦧🦴💀

Katerina Harvati @katharv.bsky.social · May 22

I am extremely honored that our Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS' was selected for funding by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft!! This is incredible news and I look forward to exciting times ahead setting up this new Cluster!

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Judith Beier @judithbeier.bsky.social · May 23

A great success for archaeology and human origins research in Germany 🥳 Two clusters of excellence to be funded for (another) 7 years. Congratulations to @clusterroots.bsky.social, @uni-kiel.de, @unituebingen.bsky.social, @harvatilab.bsky.social, @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social!

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · May 22

The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence

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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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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · Apr 10

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.

We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.

4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!

tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology

www.leuphana.de

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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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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Mar 11

🔜🗓️ Five days left to apply for a 2-yr postdoc position on bonobos! Don't miss this opportunity 🐵👇

Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)

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