Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition

free registration!

Join us in Göttingen and celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center Göttingen.

Submit your abstract by August 17 at events.gwdg.de/event/1099/

Features:
Face-to-face visibility of participants
simultaneous presentation of stimuli and shared task contexts
Flexible experimental paradigms
Usable with adults, children, non-human primate dyads

result of a long-term project with @primatecognition.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.

Join us in October for the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction

Submit your abstracts by August 1st
-> events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen...

Free participation, but registration required!

We congratulate all newly elected members of the Leopoldina on this well-deserved recognition!
We are especially happy for @stefantreue.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @sfb1528.bsky.social) who has now joined Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. 🍾

Congratulations! 🎆
@uni-goettingen.de

Don't miss it!

🐒 What: SFB Lecture by Joah Madden (@exeter.ac.uk)

🗣️ Topic: How does cognition determine an individual's fitness

🕰️ When: Tomorrow, July 15th, 10 AM

📍 Where: Michael-Lankeit-Lecture Hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social

Looking forward seeing you!

Warum spielen Geschlecht und Gender eine so durchdringende Rolle bei der Gestaltung unserer Gesellschaften? Basierend auf Forschungsergebnissen aus Biologie, Evolution und Anthropologie bespricht dieses neue Buch biologische oder kulturelle Erklärungen und Lösungsansätze für Sexismus.

Don't miss that! Really cool projects and lot of fun science to talk about!

Assamese macaque females prioritize future over current offspring! Check out our paper (led by PhD researcher Shivani) showing reduced infant survival if mothers conceive early again!
tinyurl.com/4ka2ueyn

@primatenzentrum.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de

Herzlichen Glückwunsch liebe @violapriesemann.bsky.social für diese hochverdiente Anerkennung durch die #ALLEA!

Wir freuen uns, dass Du auch bei unserem SFB eine wichtige Rolle spielst!

The program for GEM 2025 is now available as a pdf.
for2812.rub.de/upload/edito...

YouTube video by Göttingen Cognition & Behavior Research First Generation Academics. Wie das Elternhaus Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst

🎓 Was bedeutet es, als Erste*r in der Familie den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu gehen?

Unsere Podiumsdiskussion „First Generation Academics“ vom 12.3.2025 zeigt, mit welchen Hürden viele im Uni-Alltag kämpfen und wie man zwischen zwei Welten lebt.

Jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtp...

Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology.

See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

Scoping Workshops Hier dreht sich alles um Ihr Forschungsgebiet: Wie ist der aktuelle Stand? Welche Perspektiven gibt es für die Entwicklung? Mit den Scoping Workshops bietet die Stiftung Raum für Diskussion und intens...

Ihr Forschungsgebiet im Fokus: Mit dem Förderangebot "Scoping Workshops" bietet die Stiftung Raum, Forschungsgebiete zu reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Bewerben Sie sich mit Ihrem Workshop-Konzept!
📅 Stichtag 16. Sept.
❗ Online-Sprechstunde: 5. Aug. www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/foerderun...

Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd:
www.mpi.nl/career-educa...

Spread the word: we're #hiring! We have an open #research fellowship position for #postdocs with their own research idea: It includes an own budget, a #PhD student position and the possibility to conduct independent research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception 🧭🦤🦇🐟⚛️🧪👩‍🔬! sfb1372.de/jobs

Du bist Psychologe/-in, interessierst dich für Wissenschaftskommunikation in Forschung oder Praxis und möchtest dich vernetzen? Werde jetzt Mitglied der neuen @dgps.bsky.social Interessengruppe. Wir von @de.in-mind.org sind auch dabei! Mehr Infos & Anmeldung zum ersten Treffen nächste Woche ⬇️

Image showing the Hobson Lab logo (monk parakeets flying into a social network diagram with R code in the background), pictures of natural-colored green and gray monk parakeets, and head shots of our individually-marked birds showing their color combos and "names" (Blue-Orange-Blue has those colors on the head, cheek, and neck, and is "BOB"). Text says "Postbac position: parakeet sociality & cognition"

I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for my parakeet sociality & cognition project! This position is for people finished with undergrad but who have not yet started grad school. Must be totally fascinated by parakeet social drama (there's a lot of it!)🪶🧪 Job ad here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...

📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity!

Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs!

Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!

Congratulations @lirsamuni.bsky.social - a well deserved honor! 🍾

Pod out now!

The Relationship Between Vividness of Positive Future-Oriented Mental Imagery, Anhedonia, and Positive Affect - Simon E. Blackwell, Katharina Westermann, Jürgen Margraf, Marcella L. Woud, 2025 The vividness with which people can imagine positive events happening in their future has been linked to a number of different aspects of psychopathology and we...

Very pleased to see this paper now published in Psychological Reports, with @marcellawoud.bsky.social, Katharina Westermann, & Jürgen Margraf: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... /1

Our colleagues at the University Medical Center in Heidelberg are recruiting!
Multiple open positions in the clinic led by Luise Poustka with labs of Peter Marschik & @Martin Schulte-Rüther. ⬇️

PhD student: lnkd.in/ep4qTdQd
Poszdoc: lnkd.in/eb-hvC_V
Studienassistenz: lnkd.in/eda6eASs

Floodwaters overwhelmed Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, putting bonobos and staff members at risk. Your emergency gift will provide repairs, food for bonobos and staff, and clean drinking water. Please, give what you can today. savebonobos.org/FloodRelief

#FloodRelief #Urgent
(Video shows restaurant)

🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry

💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling

📅 Review begins April 18, 2025

🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809

Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild - Nature Methods In this Perspective, Vogg et al. discuss the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches in the behavioral analysis of primates in their natural environment.

SFB Paper Alert!

That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in an Emmy Noether Group on “Methods in AI”?
Discover opportunities at the @thegoecampus.bsky.social!

Join the online info event by the Campus Institute Data Science to learn more & connect:
📅 April 23, 5 PM
🔗 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/696563.html

#AI #EmmyNoether #DataScience #Göttingen

Impulse für das Wissenschaftssystem: Strategische Experimentierräume - Hochschulentwicklung braucht Flexibilität Gefördert werden strategische Konzepte an Universitäten im Verbund mit den zuständigen Ministerien, innerhalb derer neue Lösungswege erprobt werden, die bisher aufgrund gesetzlicher oder bürokratische...

Freiräume statt bürokratischer Grenzen 🚀: Mit unserem neuen Förderangebot "Strategische Experimentierräume" unterstützen wir Universitäten 🎓, die gemeinsam mit Ministerien neue Wege in der #Hochschulentwicklung erproben wollen. #Wissenschaft

Innovativ, flexibel und kooperativ - alle Infos hier: 👇

Halo effect of faces and bodies: Cross-cultural similarities and differences between German and Japanese observers - Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, Daniel Freund, Atsushi Ueshima, Kiri Kuroda, Tatsuya Kameda, ... According to the halo effect, person perceptions are globally biased by specific traits or characteristics. Attractive people are attributed positive traits lik...

Curious about how we judge others based on physical traits? This study by Tobias Kordsmeyer, @larspenke.bsky.social et al reveals strong halo effects for both faces and bodies, showing consistent biases across German and Japanese observers.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Comparative research in animal social behaviour—where are we at, and what’s next?

In our symposium at #Behaviour2025 (S20) we explore the power & pitfalls of comparative approaches—and how to unlock their full potential.

Join us to brainstorm, share ideas, and push the field forward together!

Glad to hear the workshop on "Non-invasive methods for wildlife monitoring" at Phu Khieo went well and all participants are safe and unaffected by the earthquakes.

At the same time, our thoughts are with those affected by this tragedy—wishing them strength in this difficult time.