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Cédric Girard-Buttoz

@tozbu.bsky.social

Biologist, primate fan, sport addict, photographer, try to understand how animals process the world and communicate about it

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Nice first PhD paper of Auriane on combinatitoriality in mangageys. In this study you'll discover the diversity and structure of mangagey call combinations. You want to know what they mean? Stay tuned for the next paper coming up very soon.

26.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📢 We’re hiring!

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor

📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

22.02.2026 14:07 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

#TheJuice

12.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 39    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
Image conférence Semaine du Cerveau 2026 Grenoble. Copyright photo Liran Samuni / TCP project

Image conférence Semaine du Cerveau 2026 Grenoble. Copyright photo Liran Samuni / TCP project

Lors de cette conférence, Cédric Girard-Buttoz présentera les découvertes récentes sur la complexité du langage des chimpanzés sauvages, nous permettant ainsi de mieux comprendre les origines de notre propre langage 🗣️

🗓️ 16 mars 2026 à 19h00 - Maison Grenoble Montagne

➕ cutt.ly/TtneEOjA

#SDC2026

09.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 Job alert! The University of Tübingen announces a W3 (Full) Professorship in Early Hominin Evolution in the framework of the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'HUMAN ORIGINS':

uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Application deadline: 11.03.2026 🚨

29.01.2026 08:38 — 👍 37    🔁 52    💬 1    📌 4

Sorry I meant "fledglings" not "nestings".

10.01.2026 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Paper alert ⚠️⚠️⚠️. Check out our last preprint on bird gestures. Great work By Mylene and collegue and my first empirical paper on non-primates :-). Not only do we confirm that the "after-you" gesture is indeed symbolic in tits but we also found that nestlings use this gesture for another function.

09.01.2026 20:41 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching...

6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6

8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp

Social monitoring & manipulation
#meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata

@patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

30.12.2025 10:15 — 👍 27    🔁 41    💬 0    📌 2
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What enables human language? A biocultural framework Explaining the origins of language is a key challenge in understanding ourselves as a species. We present an empirical framework that draws on synergies across fields to facilitate robust studies of l...

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n

23.11.2025 11:52 — 👍 207    🔁 86    💬 6    📌 10
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Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Funded PhD NERC GW4+ DLTP - Social monitoring and manipulation of cooperative exchanges at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like?
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

17.11.2025 11:49 — 👍 25    🔁 33    💬 0    📌 0
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I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞
Minimum commitment is 3 months full-time. Please note that this is an unpaid position and that remote options are not available. BSc and MSc students are welcome!🥰
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social

17.11.2025 12:07 — 👍 21    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 0
The University of Salford hiring Research Assistant in Bioacoustics in Manchester, England, United Kingdom | LinkedIn Posted 10:02:26 AM. Research Assistant in BioacousticsUniversity of Salford, School of Science, Engineering &…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

📢 JOB ALERT!
Interested in #Bioacoustics, #Linguistics and the #Evolution of #Language? We are seeking a #ResearchAssistant to join our project 'Convergent Evolution of Vocal Communication: Exploring the Parallels between #Birdsong and Human Speech'.👇 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

18.11.2025 10:15 — 👍 28    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 1
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Experimental evidence for delayed contingent cooperation among wild dwarf mongooses | PNAS Many animals participate in biological markets, with strong evidence existing for immediate cooperative trades. In particular, grooming is often ex...

#MongooseMonday is here again 🎉

Dwarf mongooses track what their groupmates are up to in the day using #vocal cues, altering their #grooming in the evening.

They reward helpful hounds (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) & shun bullies (doi.org/10.7554/eLif...)

#bioacoustics #mammals #cooperation #conflict

17.11.2025 16:28 — 👍 27    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

I think it's a great idea.

17.11.2025 08:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We're hiring -- join the Habitat Restoration & Protection Team!

15.11.2025 17:25 — 👍 10    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Exciting PhD opportunity to develop tech and software to record and understand wild animal behaviour. Fully funded by EPSRC DLA. Based at @uniexecec.bsky.social; co-supervised by Alex Thornton (@cornishjackdaws.bsky.social), @kjhockings.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/5fr73snt

14.11.2025 12:52 — 👍 17    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 0

📢 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. 👇

04.08.2025 07:31 — 👍 19    🔁 21    💬 0    📌 0

Scotland seems pretty appropriate or?

14.11.2025 20:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Apply now to become a speaker at our Institute! We invite excellent postdocs in neuroscience, ecology and other fields related to our research to apply for our Emerging Scientist Talk Series. Apply by October 24: www.bi.mpg.de/ess

@chr-mayer.bsky.social @fleyes.bsky.social @michaelahau.bsky.social

19.09.2025 06:08 — 👍 20    🔁 22    💬 0    📌 2
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Marine Le Pen au tribunal pour injure raciale contre une étudiante voilée La cheffe de file du Rassemblement national comparaissait lundi 10 novembre pour avoir assimilé en 2019 une étudiante de Sciences Po à « l’islam radical », au seul motif qu’elle portait le foulard. F…

Marine Le Pen était jugée ce lundi pour avoir assimilé en 2019 une étudiante de Sciences Po à « l’islam radical », au seul motif qu’elle portait le voile. La jeune femme, un temps engagée auprès de l'Union européenne et de l'ONU, a dénoncé devant le tribunal la violence de cette essentialisation.

10.11.2025 20:30 — 👍 122    🔁 44    💬 7    📌 1
The biggest problem is the leadership of the institutes, the directors, people like me. Most of us got appointed by being successful in a system that lacks the reforms that are needed. And the job encourages a kind of competitive narcissism that views complaints about the system as weakness. Why would you trust us to implement reform?

The good news is that a lot of directors are going to retire in the next 10 years. More than 100 of them. If hiring is done right, a lot of change can be accomplished. But we’ll have to be less focused on hiring people based upon how many Nature papers they’ve published. Instead we’ll need to hear that they have a persuasive vision for how to improve the conduct of research in their field. No more Brotgelehrte with high h-indices, please.

The biggest problem is the leadership of the institutes, the directors, people like me. Most of us got appointed by being successful in a system that lacks the reforms that are needed. And the job encourages a kind of competitive narcissism that views complaints about the system as weakness. Why would you trust us to implement reform? The good news is that a lot of directors are going to retire in the next 10 years. More than 100 of them. If hiring is done right, a lot of change can be accomplished. But we’ll have to be less focused on hiring people based upon how many Nature papers they’ve published. Instead we’ll need to hear that they have a persuasive vision for how to improve the conduct of research in their field. No more Brotgelehrte with high h-indices, please.

age/gender distribution of Max Planck directors. Left is men. Right is women. Vertical axis is age. Horizontal is count.

age/gender distribution of Max Planck directors. Left is men. Right is women. Vertical axis is age. Horizontal is count.

The relevant bit of grump from the quoted post (left). And age distribution of Max Planck directors (right)

10.11.2025 08:42 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol University of Bristol Beacon House Queens Road Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000 Contact us

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

10.11.2025 09:43 — 👍 35    🔁 46    💬 0    📌 4
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The cuckoldry conundrum Concerns about cuckoldry are a dominant theme in evolutionary studies of mating, frequently used to explain sex differences in reproductive strategies. However, studies in nonhuman species have shown...

Prepping a lecture on paternal care and revisiting this brilliant 2024 article by Brooke Scelza.

Such a good demonstration of the value of an anthropological lens when thinking about the evolution of human family life.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

04.11.2025 22:15 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Psychology – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) PRIO invites applications for a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in social psychology/ psychology/ cognitive science or a closely related fiel ...

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity in Psychology!
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is hiring a 2-year, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher (PI: Júlia Palik).
📍 Location: Oslo, Norway
🗓️ Deadline: November 24, 2025
🔗 Apply here: www.prio.org/about/career...

04.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Check out new paper led by @jackmanera.bsky.social on impacts of noise pollution. @monashscience.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social #BobWongLab

31.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Link to report: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

06.11.2025 09:33 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

There's a field of writing on philosophical issues in animal cognition that is dedicated to reconceptualising established philosophical ideas.

06.11.2025 09:59 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Hedgehog. Getty Images

Hedgehog. Getty Images

Join us! We’re recruiting a PhD researcher to uncover how hedgehogs & other insectivores survive prey toxins. Dive into molecular evolution & protein biochemistry @shabmohammadi.bsky.social @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livuni-ismib.bsky.social @mpi-ce.bsky.social

🦔 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

06.11.2025 09:12 — 👍 27    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 2

#animalcommunication
A different view on #acoustic #signals used as part of #animal #contests - after rather than before or during the fight.
#birds #mammals
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

05.11.2025 20:18 — 👍 24    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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How to apply Learn how to apply to the Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity graduate program at Indiana University with detailed steps, requirements, and deadlines.

If you're looking for a #postdoc but aren't quite a fit for my lab, check out this exciting opportunity via IU's Common Themes in Reproductive Diversity group! 2-year NIH traineeship to work on one of the group's core themes. Details here! ctrd.indiana.edu/how-to-apply/

05.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 9    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0