Dr Kirsty Graham

Chimpanzee drumming shows rhythmicity and subspecies variation Chimpanzees drum on the buttress roots of trees for communication. Eleuteri et al. investigate the presence of key elements of musical rhythm and of regional variation in chimpanzee buttress drumming....

TLDR: new paper headed up by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social
& with an awesome team, incl @andrearavignani.bsky.social , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16

This is devastating for science in the US. This whole 🧵 has the latest 🧪 news in case you weren't chronically on line this week. A lot of it is tough news 😔

#mondaymicdrop Wild Minds Lab goes audio! We’ve been working to share our research in diverse ways lately - whether @kirstyegraham.bsky.social ‘s awesome graphic novelisations, translations into French, or the smooth tones of Dr Matt Henderson’s #PodcastPapers

www.wildminds.ac.uk/our-publicat...

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I'm developing a niche conspiracy theory about the ManyManys authors being in the pocket of big k-pop 😆 "BTS brings together the research expertise needed to help address this problem while providing the infrastructure" (Alessandroni et al. 2024)

🧠🦅 Facial configuration matters 🦅🧠

We tested if wild #GreatTits recognise predators not just by what facial elements are present (eyes, beak), but also how they’re arranged.

👁️🔄 Rotate the eyes 90° = more fear
👁️↩️ Rotate them 180° = same fear
👁️🚫 No eyes/beak = no fear

#BirdCognition 🐦🪶🧪 #JCOMP

Over the past 4 years, ABC has collected donations and distributed the funds as microgrants to animal behaviour students in financial need. These microgrants have helped students cover costs such as books, travel, registration fees, etc. Thank you to everyone who donated to ABC!

Over the past 4 years, ABC has collected donations and distributed the funds as microgrants to animal behaviour students in financial need. These microgrants have helped students cover costs such as books, travel, registration fees, etc. Thank you to everyone who donated to ABC!

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

"If we are to meet our critical moment in history, we need to reckon with the reality that we are not up against adversaries we have seen before. We are up against end times fascism." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

🚀 Get ready! Season 4 of The Paleo Post Podcast is coming soon! New episodes packed with ancient discoveries and human evolution insights are on the way. Stay tuned and catch up on past seasons here! 🎧 youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Paleoanthropology #HumanOrigins #podcast #comingsoon

I’m in Albuquerque before CO3 and feeling very basic to find my writing block cured by friends, calm, sunshine, and good food

The Emoji Workshop - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies The project “Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom)” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) is hosting a one-day workshop on the linguistics of emojis at the Un...

Call for papers 👀 🧪
The Emoji Workshop🤩🫶🏽 to take place August 29 2025, University of Oslo

**Abstract submission deadline: May 16**

The workshop will be accompanied by a panel discussion on ‘Emoji meaning: stability and variation’

www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/...

🚨 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 👇🏻

I have loved working at Hunter College! You’ve been generous and supportive and I hope our friendships continue after I leave 💖

I have ultimately decided to move to Glasgow to live with and close to people I love 🥰 I’m seeking jobs in Scotland, if you’re hiring or want to put in grants together 😇

💫 Join @kirstyegraham.bsky.social  this Saturday and deepen your understanding of how bodily communication has evolved!

🌳 Register for "Every Body Communicates: Ape Gestures, Postures & Displays" — https://rb.gy/fb4rer

This was so much fun!! Science, history AND theatre 🥲🥰

🐒 Have you ever wondered how animals use gestures to communicate?

Join @kirstyegraham.bsky.social as they share open-source tools that can enhance our ability to compare bodily communication across species!

📆Saturday, February 22⏰ 5 pm GMT |1 pm EST |10 am PST🔗 Register here:https://rb.gy/fb4rer

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Primate Field Researcher Kirsty Graham and Historian of Africa Jill Rosenthal join Radiolab co-host Robert Krulwich to discuss chimpanzees, chaperones, and HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? — ... On Saturday, March 15, following the 2:00 PM matinee performance at the Ensemble Studio Theatre of HAVE YOU MET JANE GOODALL AND HER MOTHER? , the witty new comedy by Michael Walek, everyone is enc...

Looking forward to this comedy and panel on Saturday!! "Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?" is on at the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York throughout March 🐵

🚀 New Lecture Alert! "Every Body Communicates: Ape Gestures, Postures & Displays" with @kirstyegraham.bsky.social 

Join us and explore how we can better understand the bodily communication of other species.

📆 Saturday, March 22
⏰ 5 PM GMT | 1 PM EST | 10 AM PST
🔗 Registration:

YouTube video by Kirsty Graham Successful adoption of non-orphaned infant by a parous, nursing female in yaki

New year, new paper recording ✨ Here's our 2024 Behaviour paper "Successful adoption of non-orphaned infant by a parous, nursing female in yaki" 🐒 with @chimpanzeve.bsky.social et al. youtu.be/2_hu2sp33GI

O čem spolu „mluví“ šimpanzi Nejbližší příbuzní člověka se naučí komunikovat s lidmi pomocí stovek symbolů obrázkového písma. Proč tedy není mnohem bohatší jejich vlastní komunikace prostřednictvím gest?

For readers of Czech, here's an interview from December in which I discussed some recent work (coauthored with @kirstyegraham.bsky.social and @federicorossano.bsky.social) on chimpanzee communication. (Sadly it's paywalled.)

www.respekt.cz/tydenik/2025...

Me leaned against my desk

Empty lecture hall

Final exam today, it’s the end of my first semester as an Assistant Professor @abchunter.bsky.social 🥳 I loved teaching Evolution & Behavior! Students, you have been awesome, your engagement is what made the course 👏 Teaching comrades, thank you for sharing materials, recommendations, and feedback 💖

Greetings bluesky 👋 We're the Animal Behavior & Conservation Masters program at Hunter College CUNY where animal behavior, cognition, conservation, welfare & evolution meet!! Our MA now has two tracks: Thesis track or Internship track 👀 Apply by Feb 1st for Fall 2025 🐘 psychologyabc.hunter.cuny.edu

I AM looking for handy farm animal cognition gifs to spice up my next lecture or talk, how did you know 🤩👇

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Writing year-end appeals for @skypeascientist.bsky.social donations feeling like Nancy Pelosi.

We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there!

Wanna give science ed $5-10/month?
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Tis the week before Christmas & all through the (camp) house, there’s not a lot happening.. So figured I’d re-share last year’s Xmas themed 🧪 fun!

Stick around for some cool science and terrible puns in the reindeer themed tale of a snowy Scottish quest for enlichenment..
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‘Pragmatics First’: Animal Communication and the Evolution of Language by Dorit Bar‑On (screenshot of the abstract)

PROVINCIALISM IN PRAGMATICS by Josh Armstrong (screenshot of the introduction)

I have found myself in the unique position of having a lull in urgent To-Do's (don't @ me to remind me of something I've missed 😂) and am going to read papers that I... want to read 🥲

Great to hear more about inclusive conferences: thanks @cassandraraby.com & @natacharossi.bsky.social! Fabulous talks! #ASABWinter2024 @asab.org @animalbehaviour.live @kirstyegraham.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social @raccoonologist.bsky.social @asabeducation.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social

Totally! Like, I don’t want to stop doing talks but I want to find a way to be more realistic about what I can offer ☺️

Guest Lectures/Invited Talks I am a very busy bee these days, and am trying to balance my love of presenting research and doing outreach within my busy schedule. So I figured I’d make a menu of presentations that I can o…

I love giving guest lectures & invited talks so I end up saying "yes" to what could possibly be interpreted as "too many" 😅 In an attempt to be able to continue presenting without creating new slides each time I've made a 'menu' on my website ☺️ kirstyegraham.com/outreach-tal...