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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · 7d

Through a Window and In the Shadow of Man were the most inspirational books I ever read as a teenager. Jane Goodall and local libraries joining forces to shape young minds 🐵📚❤️

Well worn book cover for Through a Window by Jane Goodall

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Aug 26

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡

We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more.

Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T

Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Speaker list for the Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia:
2025-09-12 | Doruk İriş (Sogang University)
2025-09-26 | Talbot M. Andrews (Cornell University)
2025-10-10 | Setayesh Radkani (MIT)
2025-10-24 | Christian Ruff (University of Zürich)
2025-11-07 | Bianca Beersma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
2025-11-21 | Kristopher M. Smith (Washington State University)
2025-12-05 | Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)

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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · Aug 20

What if there was a job where you were paid £33,714 a year to play with Lego and work in an internationally renowned museum, with the aim of inciting curiosity and wonder about the natural world?

Applications close end of August.

@nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪🧸🏺

Creative Producer: LEGO Programme:South Kensington

jobs.nhm.ac.uk

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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · Aug 6

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible).
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org

ASAB Winter 2025 @asab-meetings.bsky.social · Aug 5

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!

Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.

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ASAB @asab.org · Jul 21

A very apt workshop for these times! Abstract submission has been extended to Aug 15:

HaDi MaBouDi @maboudi.bsky.social · Jul 18

Call for Abstracts Extended! 🌟
Join us this September in Sheffield for 'Nature of Intelligence: Bridging Animal & Artificial Intelligence', an ASAB Interdisciplinary Workshop.

@asab.org @sheffielduni.bsky.social
#ArtificialIntelligence #AnimalCognition #Neuroscience I #AcademicWorkshop #ASAB

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Emma Suvi McEwen @emmasmcewen.bsky.social · Jun 6

New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) mentally represent collaboration?: Action-learning and communication in a partnered task

Non-human primates engage in complex collective behaviours, but existing research does not paint a clear picture of what individuals cognitively represent when they act together. This study investigat...

journals.plos.org

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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · May 16

📈 Does anyone have recommendations for a half/one-day R workshop on data wrangling and Rmarkdown?

We have a small pot of funding to run an in person/online workshop with psychology PGRs and staff at York St John University before the end of July 2025.

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Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 For this last-minute call, let me give it one more boost by introducing the amazing lineup of COSMOS 2025 speakers!🚨 (threat 🧵)

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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · Apr 14

If anyone has questions about @manyprimates.bsky.social or want to know how to get involved, I will be at #EHBEA2025 for the rest of the week 🐒🦍🦧

Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social · Apr 14

#EHBEA2025 kicks off with pre-conference panel on large scale collaborations

Great to hear about some of the often unspoken aspects of large-scale collaborations

@ehbea2025.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @thorabjorns.bsky.social @shona-d.bsky.social @amrotella.bsky.social

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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · Apr 13

Count me in!

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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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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · Mar 28

But that's not all!!

⭐ Don't forget our pre-conference panel on Big Team Science!

➡️ How initiatives like ManyLabs, ManyPrimates, and ManyBabies come together? This panel aims to demystify large-scale collaborations!

Register here: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...

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#EHBEA2025 #TeamScience

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Cognitive Sciences Rijeka @ricogsci.bsky.social · Mar 25

Please share:

The next round of application to our Masters in Cognitive Sciences is open!

Curious about the workings of our minds? Come explore various questions about the mind and cognition in an international and interdisciplinary setting!

Deadline for applications: Wednesday, 14 May 2025.

A group of students sitting on a grassy areas in front of a modern University building. Masters in Cognitive Sciences: Cognition and the Mind, Applications Open, Deadline: 14 May 2025

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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · Mar 17

There is still time to apply for our 3yr postdoc looking at the role of group size and culture on social coordination in the Republic of Korea, Uganda and the UK! Drop me a message if interested 😊 mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...

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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · Mar 10

Very happy to be representing @manyprimates.bsky.social. Join us to discuss all things Big Team Science!

EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨 Exciting announcement for #EHBEA2025🚨

We will have a FREE pre-conference panel on Big Team Science! Curious about Big Team Science? 🤔

How initiatives like ManyLabs, ManyPrimates, and ManyBabies come together? This panel aims to demystify large-scale collaborations!

🧵👇[1/4] @ehbea.bsky.social

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Wild Behavior Podcast @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social · Mar 6

Rachel thinks we might need a haggis episode 🤔

Jonas Wisser @jwisser.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · Mar 5

The Scottish have won the AI Wars.

A screenshot of Google's AI Overview answer to the question "is haggis an animal". It says "Yes, the haggis is a small, furry mammal native to Scotland" and goes on to give the typical "asymmetrical legs" details.

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Matthias Allritz @realprimatthias.bsky.social · Feb 27

🦍🖥️New paper on great apes in virtual environments: Chimpanzee Turning Behavior During Spatial Navigation in Virtual Environments (animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1390). Led by Sarah Koopman, we went back to basics and asked a simple question about object permanence and optical flow.

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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · Feb 12

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩

Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...

Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration

We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cognitive Sciences Rijeka @ricogsci.bsky.social · Jan 6

We are already looking for our third generation of Cognitive Sciences students here in Rijeka!

Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested in an interdisciplinary, international, small-group research Masters! More info at cogsci.uniri.hr

A group of students posing in front of a seaside view

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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · Jan 27

New #PhDposition (cultural psychology) at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA: the project focuses on social cognition and will involve research in Germany (Leipzig), Namibia and Polynesia.
Application deadline: March 1st, 2025
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

Career - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

www.eva.mpg.de

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Wild Behavior Podcast @wildbehaviorpod.bsky.social · Jan 17

Dive into the world of animal behaviour with us.
Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode!

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL...

Or wherever you get your podcasts.
#SciComm #animal #podcast

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Lusine Grigoryan @grigolus.bsky.social · Dec 16

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗
I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”.
To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
#psychjobs

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ASAB @asab.org · Dec 13

We’re sad the #ASABWinter2024 conference is over, but you can easily follow all of the brilliant speakers, chairs and organizers at go.bsky.app/QbM8rWb

If you spoke at the conference and you just joined bluesky or we missed adding you, let us know so we can add you!

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EHBEA 2026 @ehbea2026.bsky.social · Nov 28

🎉 Great news! The #EHBEA2025 submission deadline has been EXTENDED by 2 whole weeks! 🚀

You now have until MIDNIGHT (UK time) on Monday, Dec 16th to get your abstracts in. Don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 Submit here: ehbea2025.com

#EvolutionaryScience #AcademicConference
@ehbea.bsky.social

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