'Genius' chimpanzee Ai dies in Japan at 49 Aside from mastering Chinese characters and the alphabet, Ai could also identify the Arabic numerals from zero to nine and 11 colors, a primatologist said.

Ai, a "genius" chimpanzee that could recognize more than 100 Chinese characters and the English alphabet, has died at the age of 49, Japanese researchers have said.

I would say yes, especially as these skills seem to be getting rarer. Writing is thinking! I would recommend Sarnecka’s (free) book “The Writing Workshop) osf.io/n8pc3/overview as a great resource!

Jane Goodall, the trailblazing naturalist whose intimate observations of chimpanzees in the African wild produced powerful insights that transformed basic conceptions of humankind, has died. She was 91.

Read more about her legacy www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

You can find it at the NSF GRFP solicitation site. There isn't a specific announcement, but if you go to the eligibility section you will find the information there.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF changed their eligibility requirements for the GRFP a month before the deadline. Students used to be able to apply in their 1st or 2nd year, now only 1st years can apply - excluding an entire cohort of students with no notice. Yet another way this admin is kneecapping American science

Do Humans Use Push‐Down Stacks When Learning or Producing Center‐Embedded Sequences? Complex sequences are ubiquitous in human mental life, structuring representations within many different cognitive domains—natural language, music, mathematics, and logic, to name a few. However, the....

New work with @samcheyette.bsky.social & Susan Carey testing the memory architecture used when learning/producing center-embedded sequences. Adults don't use Push-Down Stacks as is often assumed, instead they rely on a Queue-like memory architecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Another fun #cogsci2025 in the books! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the CO-Lab grad student posters! Alessanda Silva on Number-Space mappings & @elijahtramm.bsky.social on Hierarchical grammar learning in monkeys (and humans). Posters still available through Cog. Sci. or reach out for a copy.

Thrilled to be presenting my first poster at #cogsci2025! If you’re interested in hearing about research on recursion in adults, children, and monkeys, consider stopping by! Also happy to chat about all things language, math, and logic!

Portrait of Kanzi

The remarkable bonobo that humans named Kanzi has died, age 44. During his life he helped researchers learn much more about the capabilities of his species, and by extension about our shared common ancestors.

www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

I like to find something I haven’t read from an author whose other work I liked. It helps remind you how fun reading is. I also like to find something weird/different from what I usually read, because I’m curious to know more.