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A Barbary macaque walks on all fours through an outdoor wire mesh tunnel towards the camera

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First post AND first new paper on the butterfly app! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kv83mjMA3iZ

'Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus'
with @julxf.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social out now in #AnimalBehaviourJournal
Read🧵 for more! 1/9

Well done! :)

"The Last Job You'll Ever Need": A Heist TTRPG "The Last Job You'll Ever Need" is fast and dirty game for executing a meticulous heist.

I'm kickstarting a TTRPG, starting today! It's a card-drawing heist game (no dice), good for one-shots, and high-stakes Ocean's 11 style play.

The fnding is all or nothing, so if you back, you only pay if I reach my humble £600 goal.

Go on, support it!

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YouTube video by distrustful dinosaurs Harder! Faster! Louder! – Crows! Fireworks! Berlin! (Krähen in der Silvesternacht)

A beautiful insightful video about urban wildlife during new year’s eve in Berlin (sadly, representative of any German city) by @distrustful-dinos.bsky.social

If you are tempted to light even just 1 explosive for your pleasure, this video is for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCfH...

Forschungszensur in den USA. Die Liste der Ausschluss-Wörter verunmöglicht jede valide medizinische oder biologische Forschung ("female").

@life sciences, @alle: mailt uns an, kommt zum Online-Treffen am 06.02.!

Who would have guessed that open access and open science non-profits such as @archive.org and @cos.io are useful just in case your government want to delete scientific data?

And yet, here we are.

Domain-specific inferences about conspecifics’ skills by chimpanzees Scientific Reports - Domain-specific inferences about conspecifics’ skills by chimpanzees

Happy to share our recent paper on chimpanzees’ evaluations of conspecifics’ skills rdcu.be/dUPCS

Big Thanks to the team of Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary for their fantastic support!

Stellungnahme #profsfuerhanna #WissZeitVG neuer Entwurf BMBF

3 - #IchBinHanna Listen to this episode from Podcast "Erschöpfte Wissenschaft?!" on Spotify. Gespräch mit Amrei Bahr: Amrei ist eine von den Initiator*innen der Initiative #IchBinHanna. Sie weiß genau, wovon sie spric...

Podcast #ErschöpfteWissenschaft! Wir reden über:

➡️ #IchBinHanna & Existenzsorgen

➡️Zeitfresser Drittmittel

➡️unbezahlte Mehrarbeit & Vollzeit-Arbeit bei Teilzeit-Bezahlung

➡️Rattenrennen

➡️Bewerbungsmarathon

➡️Pendeln forever

➡️Fachkräftemangel

➡️ #WissZeitVG

➡️Trendthemen-Bingo & Verwertungslogik

WissZeitVG-Referentenentwurf geht mit 4+2 ins Parlament – und nun? von Kristin Eichhorn

Ich will keine Texte zum #WissZeitVG mehr schreiben.

Natürlich habe ich es angesichts der aktuellen Lage dennoch getan. Heute als Urlaubsvertretung in #ArbeitInDerWiss bei @amreibahr.bsky.social. #IchBinHanna

Podcast Tipp: „Erschöpfte Wissenschaft“ open.spotify.com/episode/1VxW...

„Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination“. Interesting new study by @emmasmcewen.bsky.social and colleagues

We and the Campus Institute Data Science look forward to welcoming you at the German Primate Center for our second Movie Night on March 5, 7 PM.
Don't miss "Her" and our discussion about the advent of AI and emotional and ethical consequences; with Alex Ecker, Vanessa Mitschke & Catrin Misselhorn

Great PhD opportunity with fantastic supervisors in York (UK)

Heute ein Fernsehtipp. Julia Fischer, Sprecherin unseres WissenschaftsCampus kommt heute Abend in der Sendung
Quer des @brkommunikation.bsky.social in einem Beitrag über die Ethikdebatte um die Paviane im Nürnberger Zoo zu Wort.
www.br.de/br-fernsehen...

Toller Auftakt unserer Filmreihe "Von natürlichen und künstlichen Intelligenzen"! Danke an das Publikum, das Lumière und unsere beiden Diskutantinnen Claudia und Steffi 📽️

Hat Spaß gemacht - Vielen Dank an alle Beteiligten und das tolle interessierte Publikum :-)

Ein Gespräch zur Frage wieweit Hochschulen politische Akteure sein sollten. Mit Anmerkungen von @amreibahr.bsky.social, dass Wissenschaftler*innen bessere Bedingungen brauchen damit Wissenschaft demokratischen Aufgaben gerecht werden kann.
www.deutschlandfunk.de/demos-gegen-...

We & #CIDAS are thrilled to partner with our art house cinema #Lumière for a film event on Feb 8.
Join us for "Krähen - Die Natur beobachtet uns" and discuss crow and primate cognition with Claudia Wascher (Anglia Ruskin University) and Claudia Fichtel (DPZ)

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How can I find what I want? Can children, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys form abstract representat... Abstract concepts are a powerful tool for making wide-ranging predictions in new situations based on little experience. Whereas looking-time studies s…

New paper 📃 out now in Cognition

Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prior research found that long-tailed macaques may be prone to distraction and exhibit poorer inhibitory control abilities compared to other primates. With this study, we could show that they can exhibit patience when their needs (reduced cognitive distraction) are adequately met. (4/4)

In the current study, we tested the effect of reward value on the monkeys performance in the exchange task. When we reduced the value of the exchange item, the monkeys displayed significantly improved abilities to delay gratification. (3/4)

This work was a follow-up of our data collection for the @manyprimates.bsky.social Delay of Gratification (MP2) call. During MP2, we had only 1 instance of reward exchange. We suspected this performance wasn’t truly representative of our monkeys’ capacity to delay gratification. (2/4)

Preprint on delay of gratification in long-tailed macaques:
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8v6gz
Congratulations to @juditstolla.bsky.social for this great outcome of her Master thesis project.

Advertising 11 PhD positions in the RTG "Form-meaning mismatches". Project 3 - associated with my group - examines how word-form and word-meaning mismatches influence early word learning, expanding on this publication (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...).

Ja, und ich hatte endlich mal Zeit herauszufinden wie man hier einen 🧵hinkriegt 😅

Children may have struggled with the unfamiliar first- person perspective, and the difficulty of the task when they had to consider multiple agent characteristics at once. (8/8)

domain-context combinations. Contrary to our expectations, even the oldest children performed poorly.
Our findings are at odds with previous research showing that 4-year-olds rationally recruited optimal partners for cooperative tasks. (7/8)

They recruited the optimal partner in both contexts from around 5 years of age and generalized partner expertise to novel domains. In Experiment 2, children were introduced to a weak/smart and a strong/ignorant model and had the opportunity to apply this information in games of different (6/8)

In preprint #2, evidence on social evaluation competence in 4-7-year-old children was mixed. In Experiment 1, children were introduced to a weak and to a strong model and had the opportunity to apply this information strategically in competitive and cooperative games. (5/8)