Shona Duguid

📢 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. 👇

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!🙏

We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.

Well worn book cover for Through a Window by Jane Goodall

Through a Window and In the Shadow of Man were the most inspirational books I ever read as a teenager. Jane Goodall and local libraries joining forces to shape young minds 🐵📚❤️

Speaker list for the Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia: 2025-09-12 | Doruk İriş (Sogang University) 2025-09-26 | Talbot M. Andrews (Cornell University) 2025-10-10 | Setayesh Radkani (MIT) 2025-10-24 | Christian Ruff (University of Zürich) 2025-11-07 | Bianca Beersma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 2025-11-21 | Kristopher M. Smith (Washington State University) 2025-12-05 | Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)

⚡ Autumn 2025 Cooperation Colloquia ⚡

We are excited to announce the next run of Cooperation Colloquia. With @talbotmandrews.bsky.social, @setayeshradkani.bsky.social, @kris-smith.bsky.social, @alexmesoudi.com, & more.

Every second Friday, 15:00 CE(S)T

Sign up here: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

Creative Producer: LEGO Programme:South Kensington

What if there was a job where you were paid £33,714 a year to play with Lego and work in an internationally renowned museum, with the aim of inciting curiosity and wonder about the natural world?

Applications close end of August.

@nhm-london.bsky.social 🧪🧸🏺

Applications for Winter 2025 conference attendance grants are trickling in, awarding up to £500 with a high success rate (if eligible).
Deadline isn't until 1st October, but don't forget to get referee statements in by then too!
All the info you need is here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...
@asab.org

A very apt workshop for these times! Abstract submission has been extended to Aug 15:

Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) mentally represent collaboration?: Action-learning and communication in a partnered task Non-human primates engage in complex collective behaviours, but existing research does not paint a clear picture of what individuals cognitively represent when they act together. This study investigat...

New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

📈 Does anyone have recommendations for a half/one-day R workshop on data wrangling and Rmarkdown?

We have a small pot of funding to run an in person/online workshop with psychology PGRs and staff at York St John University before the end of July 2025.

🚨 For this last-minute call, let me give it one more boost by introducing the amazing lineup of COSMOS 2025 speakers!🚨 (threat 🧵)

If anyone has questions about @manyprimates.bsky.social or want to know how to get involved, I will be at #EHBEA2025 for the rest of the week 🐒🦍🦧

Count me in!

I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.

We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.

4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!

tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4

But that's not all!!

⭐ Don't forget our pre-conference panel on Big Team Science!

➡️ How initiatives like ManyLabs, ManyPrimates, and ManyBabies come together? This panel aims to demystify large-scale collaborations!

Register here: tinyurl.com/RegisterTeam...

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#EHBEA2025 #TeamScience

A group of students sitting on a grassy areas in front of a modern University building. Masters in Cognitive Sciences: Cognition and the Mind, Applications Open, Deadline: 14 May 2025

Please share:

The next round of application to our Masters in Cognitive Sciences is open!

Curious about the workings of our minds? Come explore various questions about the mind and cognition in an international and interdisciplinary setting!

Deadline for applications: Wednesday, 14 May 2025.

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There is still time to apply for our 3yr postdoc looking at the role of group size and culture on social coordination in the Republic of Korea, Uganda and the UK! Drop me a message if interested 😊 mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...

Very happy to be representing @manyprimates.bsky.social. Join us to discuss all things Big Team Science!

Rachel thinks we might need a haggis episode 🤔

🦍🖥️New paper on great apes in virtual environments: Chimpanzee Turning Behavior During Spatial Navigation in Virtual Environments (animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?id=1390). Led by Sarah Koopman, we went back to basics and asked a simple question about object permanence and optical flow.

MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩

Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365...

Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

A group of students posing in front of a seaside view

We are already looking for our third generation of Cognitive Sciences students here in Rijeka!

Please spread the word to anyone who may be interested in an interdisciplinary, international, small-group research Masters! More info at cogsci.uniri.hr

Career - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

New #PhDposition (cultural psychology) at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA: the project focuses on social cognition and will involve research in Germany (Leipzig), Namibia and Polynesia.
Application deadline: March 1st, 2025
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

Dive into the world of animal behaviour with us.
Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode!

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL...

Or wherever you get your podcasts.
#SciComm #animal #podcast

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗
I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”.
To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
#psychjobs

We’re sad the #ASABWinter2024 conference is over, but you can easily follow all of the brilliant speakers, chairs and organizers at go.bsky.app/QbM8rWb

If you spoke at the conference and you just joined bluesky or we missed adding you, let us know so we can add you!

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🎉 Great news! The #EHBEA2025 submission deadline has been EXTENDED by 2 whole weeks! 🚀

You now have until MIDNIGHT (UK time) on Monday, Dec 16th to get your abstracts in. Don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 Submit here: ehbea2025.com

#EvolutionaryScience #AcademicConference
@ehbea.bsky.social

I’m very excited to have been awarded a Leverhulme Trust grant to study co-representation across 3 cultures (Uganda, Republic of Korea and UK) in dyads and groups.

I’ll soon be advertising for a 3 year postdoc. More details to follow, but please drop me a message if you’re interested! 😊🌍

Maybe late to the starter pack game? But haven't seen one specific to those studying the evolution of social behaviour, so made one! Any study species; humans, primates and beyond. Added some initial people but please comment to be added.

go.bsky.app/CibACbM