Are you a female or gender-diverse #psychology student interested in learning #coding? 🤔
✨ Join the workshop "SheCodesPsy 2026 Reprogramming stereotypes!"
📅 13–15 May | 💰 Free
📍CIMCYC - UGR
📝 Application deadline: 16 March
There was one study about this with Kanzi the bonobo showing no kiki bouba effect. This one with the chickens is a really cool study!
To commemorate Women's Month, we want to invite you to our upcoming online panel:
Building Inclusive Computational Skills 🛠️
🗓️ Monday Feb. 23
🕐 13:00-14:30 CET
🗣️@palencianoap.bsky.social @hailina.bsky.social @cecibaldoni.bsky.social
Registration here: shorturl.at/Jqm4M
Co-hosted by @psychopy.org
🟢 Científicos denuncian en Science el uso de la ciencia como pretexto legal para capturar aves en España.
Tras la suspensión de los permisos de caza, se han otorgado cientos de autorizaciones para capturar aves bajo permisos "científicos" sin los estándares legales, científicos y éticos esenciales.
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...
Bored during the holidays? Mis/disinformation about evolutionary science keeping you up at night? Recognize efforts to correct the record and spread cheer by nominating a deserving person for the 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye award! Open to nominations worldwide.
forms.gle/tZi87Y2KBJjg...
Considering a #psychology #PhD? University of Michigan’s (free!) online Diversity Recruitment Weekend (Mar 27–28) connects you with UM faculty & grad students. Strengthen your apps & meet with #faculty, including in the #Brain&Behavior area! Apply by Jan 28: lsa.umich.edu/psych/divers...
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques!
Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026
🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
Want to recognize someone who has gone above and beyond in communicating and countering misinformation about human evolutionary science? Nominate them for the EHAP 2026 Evolution in the Public Eye award! Nominations are now open (until Jan 31) at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...
If you’re in Ann Arbor on Oct 24th, come out to the library for the first Evolution in the Public Eye award address featuring Ed Hagen. Refreshments provided!
Very excited to announce the inaugural Evolution in the Public Eye Award Ceremony and Lecture. Our first winner, Ed Hagen, will be speaking about "The Evolution of 'Recreational' Drug Use" on Oct. 24 @ 5:30pm at the Ann Arbor District Library. More info: sites.lsa.umich.edu/ehap/evoluti...
MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓
To new beginnings 🥂
Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶
@manydogsproject.bsky.social
We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!
manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html
4/10 The first is another study with capuchin monkeys. Instead of testing them in groups rather than in pairs (normally chosen/imposed by the researchers), and the results suggest that there is an aversion to inequity.
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
by @maytemartinez.bsky.social
New paper alert! #SarahFBrosnan and I tested capuchin monkeys reaction to inequity and contrast in a group setting. Read more here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees!
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
Better late than never...
I'm delighted to share that the last study from my PhD is finally out!
🐩 Do dogs form reputations of humans? No effect of age after indirect and direct experience in a food-giving situation
🔗 rdcu.be/etVIn
#dogscience #animalcognition #openaccess
We're hiring📢📢📢
To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊
Amazing opportunity with the amazing @gwenwiro.bsky.social !
We are hiring! Jointly with the Social Minds Lab at UMich, we are accepting applications for a full-time lab coordinator for research on cognition in #children, adults, and #primates. Read more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
« If we cut or limit funding for curiosity-driven research, we risk shutting down the pipeline of future innovation. While the outcomes of basic science may seem unclear or esoteric at first, such work frequently forms the bedrock of future technologies, treatments, and therapies. »
Are you an #instructor interested in using #interactive activities to demonstrate principles for the evolution of #cooperation? Check out this classroom activity focused on strategies in the prisoner's dilemma, for high school or university students!
sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...
Proud of #UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz and lab coordinators Charlie Mackenzie and Skylar Brodnan for giving their first conference talks at #AABA2025! Work on food transfers, tool use, and social attention in sanctuary and wild #chimpanzees, in collaboration with Zarin Machanda and many others!
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...
This account is meant to be a professional account rather than a personal one.
So, professionally speaking, does anyone in Atlanta want to adopt this adorable kitten I caught and had spayed? 🙃
Her breed is purr-machine-lovebug.
(Professional opinion, of course.)
#adopt #kitten #cat #Atlanta
New content: Chai, M., Palenciano, A. F., Mill, R., Cole, M. W., & Braem, S. (2025). It’s Hard to Prepare for Task Novelty: Cueing the Novelty of Upcoming Tasks Does Not Facilitate Task Performance. Journal of Cognition, 8(1): 17, pp. 1–20. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... #psychscisky
Check out these Spanish statistics learning modules, translated by UMich undergrad Daniella Harris, former lab manager / Stony Brook grad student Natalia Camargo Peña & UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz, based on an English series by former lab manager Paige Barnes - a real collaborative effort!
@gwenwiro.bsky.social joined our lab as a researcher. She studies how group cohesion and cooperation promote communication in social carnivores (wolves 🐺 and dogs 🐕) to ultimately understand the origins of human language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
Check out her latest work: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
