Raphaela Heesen

Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

Fully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social

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Second paper out this week 😱😱

We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!!

[paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041...
[documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...

So much fun having been part of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour #KSCB2025 - lots of interesting discussions on the concept of joint action, what it is, and how it can be studied across species. Thanks to the organizers for this exciting opportunity!

🚨 1 more week to apply!! 🚨

2 PhD positions in my group on cross-species comparisons & #development of joint action, #communication & #emotion in #chimpanzees and #children at @Uni-konstanz.de - DM me about questions ☺️

Application deadline: 16.06.25
Start date: 1.10.25

Portrait of the chimpanzee “Wazak” (©James Mollison) & Nerve fibres in the chimpanzee brain (©MPI CBS) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59254-8

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️

For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains.

New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees
1/n 🧵👇

Doctoral Position in Comparative Cognition and Communication Deadline: 16.06.2025

Position to work with apes:

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Position to work with human children:

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Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

JAM

📢 JAM is back in 2025! 📢

The 10th edition of Joint Action Meeting (JAM X), to be held in Torino, Italy, from Wednesday 9th to Saturday 12th July, 2025.

Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2025.

CLICK: somby.ceu.edu/jam

#JAMX #JAM10 #JAMXinTorino #JAM10in2025 #JointActionMeeting #JAM

What Bonobos Can Teach Us About the Roots of Fairness A new study explores how one of our closest primate relatives reacts to unequal treatment—and what it might say about the origins of human morality.

Bonobos refuse to cooperate when rewards are unfair, showing signs of inequity aversion. Their reactions hint at ancient roots of fairness in primate social life. #Anthropology #Primatology #Bonobos #Fairness #HumanEvolution

The Social & Cognitive Origins Group at Johns Hopkins University studies how humans and other animals think.

The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in full spring bloom.

🚨RT!

The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

Annual Conference of the Cognition, Behavior and Evolution Network in Antwerp, September 18-19, 2025

With keynotes by @zannaclay.bsky.social, Koen Margodt, and Leda Cosmides.

Submission deadline May 1

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