@katyaherberg.bsky.social
Oxford University MSc graduate, studying primate cognition and behaviour π§ π΅
Thrilled to share our latest open-access study published in Scientific Reports! We examined how social versus asocial learning influences childrenβs ability to override previously learned strategies across three cultural settingsβBaYaka, Bandongo, and Germany: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
19.08.2025 06:54 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0super cool study!
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New paper out in eLife! π Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! πͺ¨ π°)
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OECS thematic collections.
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Peer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia.
π Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social
The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt
More coming soon! :)
For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
Cross-species teamwork from @livingingroups.bsky.social reveals unexpected similarities in three social mammals π€
By lead author @pminasandra.bsky.social with Emily Grout, Katrina Brock, Meg Crofoot, Vlad Demartsev, Amlan Nayak, Eli
Strauss, Ari Strandburg-Peshkinπ§΅1/2
www.ab.mpg.de/679000/news_...
Interested in great ape cognition? Come join our fantastic department at the Max Planck @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social studying self-recognition!
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
26.03.2025 13:25 β π 15 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0Do you have anyone reviewing Human Peoples by LluΓs Quintana-Murci? Or Being Human by Lewis Dartnell?
21.11.2024 22:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Been really wanting to read βEveβ by Cat Bohannon since it was published about a year ago!
21.11.2024 21:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm looking for new books out there (broadly) in the field of Human Ethology, and for people that would be keen to review them for the journal of the International Society of Human Ethology! π Have ideas?? π§ Let me know!
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The poster version of my primate drawings that I presented at #AABA last year. I think I'm going to start selling this as a poster, but I'd need a better count of interest to see if it's worth it. LMK!
#primate #monkey #ape #anthropology #primatology testing out tags
Tool use by a wild bonobo in LuiKotale, a report of water scooping: Since I was in the remote Congo when our paper with my mentors Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann came out, I will catch up now! link.springer.com/article/10.1... -->
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Pencil sketches of bonobos #sciart
Pencil sketches of bonobos #Sciart
Pencil sketch of a bonobo #SciArt
Pencil sketch of a bonobo π‘
A few pages of my sketch book with some pencil sketches of bonobos, a new commission I am currently working on.
#SciArt #mammals
