Christina Nord

“We suggest that an even more radical step is required:viz, that cognition encompasses all of the processes that guide and control behaviour as the animal responds to the challenges of surviving and reproducing.That is, cognition is not a distinct phenomenon separable from sensory-motor capacities.”

With or without you: common marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, personality expression is mediated by social setting Animal personality has been studied in many solitary and socially living taxa, but the effect of conspecifics on the individuals' personality expressi…

🐒 With or without you? 🤔

📌 A recent study shows how the presence of conspecifics affects the #personality expression of #marmosets. 🤩

#animalbehaviour #primates #sociality #callithrix

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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.

Decoupling Design from Darwinian and Skinnerian Selection - Perspectives on Behavior Science Darwin explained how seemingly purposeful and foresightful design could be decoupled from natural selection. Skinner followed suit for selection by reinforcement. Together with cultural selection, the...

A nice and thought-provoking paper by Ed Wassernan, on #mentalism and #behaviorism, and some cultural selection: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stephen Jay Gould was born OTD in 1941.

“Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table.... Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways.”

🦫🦋🐋🌱🧠🗃️🧪#HistSTM #PhilSci #EvoBio

Just FYI there was a gigantic multi-plaintiff federal lawsuit (MDL for you lawyer folks) in New York that alleged acetaminophen causes autism and it got dismissed because the judge excluded ALL of the plaintiff's scientific experts for lacking reliability. And judges almost never do that.

Kelsey McCune measuring individual variation using new non-parametric method of repeatability for time-to-event data, which often has many right-censored values. Specifically, survivability using Cox Proportion Hazard models. Math details published in Animal Behaviour! Tutorial on GitHub!

#ABS2025

"REPLICATION STUDIES" New section of the journal! Only publish close replications Short-format (2-3,000 words) Minimal intro needed Only highlight deviations from original study Low barrier to writing Streamlined peer review Behavioral Ecology

Exciting new venue for publishing these close replications!! Woohoo! Love this idea and project, Kate!

#ABS2025 #BreakingNews

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power

paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122

press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

¡NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!

"A World of Minds: Ecological Psychology as a Framework for Comparative Cognition"

Authors: Miguel Segundo-Ortin, Paco Calvo, & Louise Barrett

You can download it from here: miguelsegundoortinphd.com/publications

Animal culture recognized as key factor in new conservation strategies Exeter scientists are among those who have discovered many animals learn and pass on behaviors through social learning or culture, which could have important implications for conservation.

#Ecology

A History of Primatology in Canada and an Introduction to the Special Issue Primatological research by anthropologists and evolutionary biologists based in Canada has expanded greatly since its inception ca. 60 years ago. The research foci of the founding primatologists were...

Delighted to say that my and Amanda Melin's special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on primatology in Canada is now complete with 18 papers(!!) and the Introduction has just been published! Co-authored by Linda Fedigan. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Drivers of female power in bonobos - Communications Biology In mammals, documented female dominance is rare, but females can hold high status even with male-biased dimorphism. In wild living bonobo groups, female coalition formation best explains the observed ...

GreatAdaptations: Female bonobos team up to boss males around. One more awesome piece of data to add to the enduring mystery of why bonobos and chimps are so different. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Checkout our new article looking at complexity in social relationships and health out now in PeerJ! peerj.com/articles/191...

GPS is relatively new. So how can we study long-term animal movements? Our approach in @Ecology_Letters transforms historic location records (pre-GPS) into valuable data, revealing capuchins' responses to #climate and demographic change. #openaccess...

‼️#PhD ‼️How do group-living sifaka make movement and foraging decisions under extreme energetic constraints?

Work with an expansive bio-logging & remote sensing dataset at a hub of animal behavior research!

⏰Deadline Nov 24th....

A major bone I have to pick with “Chimp Crazy” is not one produce asked where she gets these infant primates she sells. What happens to the mothers?

Missouri woman loses license to run roadside zoo after hiding a chimp in her basement The U.S. Department of Agriculture revoked Tonia Haddix’s license to keep and sell exotic animals, after the Missouri woman lied to a judge about a chimpanzee she claimed had died.

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4 days left to apply! Fully funded PhD within an ERC-funded project on the collective dynamics of sleeping in (baboon) groups. Come join us @imprs_qbee @MPI_animalbehav @CBehav @UniKonstanz...

A sad day for the world of great ape language research.

www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

My brain literally cannot comprehend all of the bad stuff that just happened today so instead: scholastic book fair now has online wallets that you can use for your kiddos at the book fair- but also, you can donate to “share the fair” so others w/o can get books.

Excited to share the outcomes of our new paper introducing predictability to group management practices. A challenging endeavor, because management practices often share unreliable cues.

Really happy with how this turned out, possible through lots of support!

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