@francescadp.bsky.social
Lecturer, Newcastle University Interested in primates cognition with a focus on decision-making
In 2010, when I was an undergraduate student, Jane Goodall visited the primate center in Rome. She met all the students and our little capuchin monkey, Totò. She was kind, humble, strong, and truly inspiring. It was a special moment I will never forget.
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02.10.2025 07:43 — 👍 14 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 0
✨ It’s Induction Week! ✨
Happy to welcome our first-year Psychology students and introduce them to Science Adventures, which brings children into the university to take part in fun, hands-on science while contributing to real research.
@newcastleuni.bsky.social
Flyer for Open Methods in Comparative Cognition Research webinar
Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩
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📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom
🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv...
#openscience #bigteamscience
Last but not least! today we share the talk of Christine Caldwell as plenary speaker at @ehbea2025.bsky.social
Here she talks about the cognitive challenges for cumulative cultural evolution and how these abilities were selected 🧠
Don’t miss it! 👇
youtu.be/UvVNfyiYOGc?...
🔔 New paper out on Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates
@mariehirel.bsky.social, @williamohearn.bsky.social and @julxf.bsky.social made this happen
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congrats to our (co-supervised with @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social and Bess Price) MRes students who presented their research project at the Poster event at @newcastleuni.bsky.social Their project explored long-term social integration and cohesion in a captive chimpanzees community. More to come!
28.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
01.07.2025 23:35 — 👍 63 🔁 19 💬 5 📌 2
2025. #DEI. When do girls fall behind in maths? Gigantic study (France) pinpoints the moment. Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
13.06.2025 06:20 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
An illustration of a white-faced capuchin monkey carrying a howler infant on their back while cracking nuts with a stone
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...) we show the rise and spread of a surprising tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (www.ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵 (1/12)
19.05.2025 15:07 — 👍 106 🔁 52 💬 2 📌 13
Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
It's always a great pleasure to chat with @thedissenteryt.bsky.social ...here is our latest conversation
05.05.2025 18:52 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!
24.04.2025 00:34 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1Loved being part of the team that put this together! Thanks for the lovely words and to everyone who made it happen!
18.04.2025 14:53 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Thanks, more to come from this project, stay tuned 😊
15.04.2025 10:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great start of the conference!
14.04.2025 15:13 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great start to #EHBEA2025 with our preconference panel on Big Team Science!
Big thanks to @thorabjorns.bsky.social, @shona-d.bsky.social, Harry Clelland, @amrotella.bsky.social, and our fantastic host @francescadp.bsky.social!
Great discussion & insights about managing big teams in science 👏 👍
Quote: " In sum, leader-directed teaching of opaque cooperative norms would be a mutually beneficial strategy, where the costs incurred by influential teachers are, at least partly, outweighed by the long-term benefits of cultivating cooperation within the group."
Mosaic plot illustrating the relationship between evidence for teaching and non-teaching social learning, based on a binary researcher-coded measure of teaching. "Although instrumental cultural transmission frequently occurs through both teaching and non-teaching social learning, opaque cultural information is predominantly transmitted through teaching, with relatively fewer instances of non-teaching social learning."
With @sheinalew.bsky.social: Teaching is associated with the transmission of opaque culture and leadership across 23 egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies, in @naturecomms.bsky.social
#evolution #culture 🧪 #LeadSciSky #CultEvo
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 Don’t miss the pre-conference panel!
"Behind the Scenes of Big Team Science"
📍 Monday, Apr 14 | 2–3 PM | Room CCE001
Featuring panellists from ManyPrimates, ManyFaces, Multi100 and the Forecasting Collaborative!
Register here: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...
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Only a few days left! Look forward to the start 😁
09.04.2025 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🧠🐒 Interested in comparative cognition, sociality and animal behaviour?
I am open to hosting MSCA postdoc fellowship applicants! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
We indeed had a fantastic time and was wonderful to see children so engaged with our research 🐵
15.03.2025 09:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Urgent dilemma! We need your opinion 😊
14.03.2025 06:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚨 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!
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I am excited to announce that @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special collection in the journal Animal Cognition on "Cognition in the Wild". Submissions are due by June 15. We are excited to see the amazing work you have been doing! link.springer.com/collections/...
27.02.2025 04:53 — 👍 85 🔁 61 💬 2 📌 4Few days left to register!
25.02.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I’ll be presenting a new study on whether children punish norm violations more on behalf of friends or strangers, and how this affects their preference for restoration vs. punishment.
Looking forward to discussing these findings!
#CognitiveScience #DevelopmentalPsychology
I argued yesterday with both a head of a law department who'd written a book on AI accountability and a young PhD student, neither of whom really understood how or when to use generative AI. Please consider this a draft and give me feedback or other links. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/02/gene...
20.02.2025 07:13 — 👍 53 🔁 19 💬 12 📌 8
We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
19.02.2025 17:28 — 👍 12 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
