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Chiara Zulberti

@chiarazulberti.bsky.social

πŸŒ±πŸ’¬ Biologist interested in the evolution of language and cognition 🐡 Multimodality in chimps πŸ”Ž PhD Student at Uni Leipzig she/her

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But making it formal can be important too. E.g. if it happened before that a supervisor was disappointed in a specific situation, or even worse frustrated and aggressive about it, then probably it's a good idea not only to have regular check-ins but also to have a written record of them.

24.11.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree those are important aspects too. Here, I think having reminders or a certain regularity is quite important, because the "original plan" always changes and keep changing as you move forward, so having regular check-ins to discuss what everybody is expecting and by when it's good.

24.11.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I am looking for an intern to support my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! πŸ’πŸŒž
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!πŸ₯°
@nccrlanguage.bsky.social

17.11.2025 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!πŸ™

13.11.2025 08:33 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

being available when needed, offering constructive criticism as well as motivation and recognition, being humane (do not request unreasonable achievements, or expect huge personal sacrifices, respect holidays, time to rest etc.), there's probably more but this are top three to me

12.11.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our final session focused again on methodologies 🧩 β€” with exciting applications from form-based approaches to assess chimpanzee gestures to facial action coding in rabbits πŸ’πŸ‡

@chiarazulberti.bsky.social

#gradmeet25

10.10.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a wonderful time in Madagascar for #IPS2025! Thanks to everybody who attended my talk, shared interesting insights and to the old and new friends that made it so memorable. Also thanks to the lemurs and beautiful landscapes πŸ’πŸŒ΄

04.08.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you at IPS and really into gestures🀌?

Come listen to my presentation "A formed-based approach to chimpanzee gestures" on Monday at 14:00 in the Tokyo conference room.

Hope to see you there!

20.07.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ Our new paper is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!

A step toward more comparable approaches in bioacoustics! We tested how different acoustic feature extraction and classification methods affect caller ID classification accuracy.

Read about it here: πŸ”— shorturl.at/F31Pb

10.07.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Congrats!! πŸ‘

26.06.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Split-image with the text β€œTO BEE or NOT TO BEE.” The left side shows a vibrant wildflower meadow with a bee on a daisy, symbolising biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem. The right side shows a dry, barren landscape with dead trees and no visible wildlife, representing environmental degradation. An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.

Split-image with the text β€œTO BEE or NOT TO BEE.” The left side shows a vibrant wildflower meadow with a bee on a daisy, symbolising biodiversity and a healthy ecosystem. The right side shows a dry, barren landscape with dead trees and no visible wildlife, representing environmental degradation. An EU flag appears in the bottom right corner.

Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay 🐝

Bees & other pollinators keep 80% of crop and wild flowering plants alive.

Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.

20.05.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 8710    πŸ” 2350    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 120
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New Postdoc position!
🐡🐡🐡🐡
On the socioecology of cognition in primates, based in Paris @mnhn.fr @cnrs.fr, with field work
It has it all:
- the best science
- the best macaques
- the best beaches
- the best people
- the best office view #Eiffeltower

Join us!

17.04.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Non-adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos: an artificial grammar experiment | Royal Society Open Science A key feature of language is our capacity to process syntactic relationships between words, whether they are directly sequential (β€˜adjacent dependencies’) or separated by other words (β€˜non-adjacent dependencies’). Recent data suggest that the basic ...

Our (@maelmleroux.bsky.social et al.) paper out today in #RSOS: we tested the ability of bonobos to process 'non-adjacent dependencies'.

Surprisingly, unlike our prior work on chimps and marmosets, we found no evidence that they did so...

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

23.04.2025 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Extensive compositionality in the vocal system of bonobos Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...

🚨New in @science.org🚨
With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences πŸ§ͺ
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

04.04.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 146    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 12

The world's only sanctuary for one of our closest relatives, the endangered bonobo, is experiencing severe flooding. Please consider donating to help them navigate this crisis: savebonobos.org/FloodRelief

13.04.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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a woman in a red jacket holds a microphone and says " you get a meeting " Alt: Oprah Winfrey in a red jacket holds a microphone and says " you get a meeting, and you get a meeting, and you get a meeting"

How can we make the next EFP conference more inclusive and accessible? What barriers do you encounter when you submit an abstract, travel to the location, or attend the conference?
Send us your ideas, suggestions or stories (below or DMs) and we'll work on improving EDI at the next EFP conference!

24.01.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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My colleagues are looking for (german-speaking) participants between the age of 18 and 65 to answer a 15 minute online questionnaire about wood forests for a super exciting study!🌲🌳
Please spread the word ✨

umfrage.uni-leipzig.de/index.php/8285…

05.12.2024 09:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I had the pleasure to present the ChimpLASG annotation system at the Multimodality in Interaction Workshop in sunny sunny Marseilleβ˜€οΈ. Thanks @HabibDass_Lise @ShreejataGupta and @MacChia_ra for the invite!@ILCB_france @vicomprogramme

ilcb.fr/event/multimod…

02.12.2024 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Support Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust on Giving Day for Apes 2022 Join us on October 8th, 2022 for #GivingDayForApes – a global day of giving to support wildlife sanctuaries protecting, rehabilitating, and conserving great apes

It's 🐡Giving Day for Apes🐡 and I would warmly suggest to consider donating to @Chimfunshi. They take extra care of the rescued chimps living there, and every euro helps to get them even healthier and happier lives.

givingdayforapes.org/organization/C…

08.10.2024 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to attend the 'Bridging the Tech Gap' workshop at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. Huge thanks to the organizers
@P_eMartin, @LauraSimoneLew and @HannaSchleihauf for this insightful event and the opportunity to present my annotation system for chimpanzee gestures!

07.08.2024 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Love the examples in those linguistics papersπŸ˜‚

26.06.2024 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a blast last week visiting @SimonWTownsend research group in Zurich and reviving the vibes of my MSc days. Back in Leipzig with fresh insights and motivation to move forward! πŸš€βœ¨

17.06.2024 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unexpected work buddies at @UZH_en

11.06.2024 14:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was happy to present the first bit of my PhD projecy at @EFP_2024! Amazing conference, with lots of interesting talks and productive coffee breaks. Also lots of fun! 🐡

08.06.2024 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The tears I cried leaving an amazing community of researchers, volunteers and workers who invest their time and energy for the well-being of the chimps and for a better world πŸ₯²πŸŒπŸ΅
I am so grateful for the time I got to spend in @Chimfunshi!

08.05.2024 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Act natural"
"Ok, I'll pretend I just saw a chimp in the trees

29.04.2024 11:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Debbie and Dallas drying up in the trees after the rainstorm.

@Chimfunshi

15.04.2024 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Behold the almighty Noel (left) and her daughters Nina (right) and Nadine (in her arms). There would be Nikkie as well, but she decided to leave the branch just before the shot.

11.04.2024 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spot the chimp🧐

@Chimfunshi

10.04.2024 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spent the first week playing "Find the difference" with these two. Now that I can tell them apart, here is Dora and her daughter Dolly😊

@Chimfunshi

08.04.2024 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0