Val Kuhlmeier

🦮 Attention dog owners! One of my trainees is examining the relationship between dogs and toys, and their owner’s thoughts about that relationship. Want to help?
 
If you have a few minutes, you can complete the survey here: queensu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s.
Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879.
Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all.

Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years?

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PAMBA Prize — PAMBA

We are pleased to invite submissions for the 2025 PAMBA Prize essay contest in the philosophy of animal minds for early-career researchers. The winning paper will be published in Biology & Philosophy and presented as a keynote at the meeting in Santa Barbara. For details: www.the-pamba.com/prize

Primate Cognition II (Tomasello & Call) - is about to be available!

The first volume (of two) will be on primate social cognition.

See:
academic.oup.com/book/58927

We're hiring an assistant professor in developmental science, in the psych department at the University of Alberta!

Ideally their research should focus on motivation/reward processing and development (across the lifespan). Please share!

Now hiring! Hunter College CUNY - Assistant Professor in Psychology, Animal Behavior & Conservation. bit.ly/abcjob

Applications are now open for an Assistant Professorship in Animal Behavior & Conservation, Psychology at Hunter College, CUNY 🐿️ Come join our fabulous faculty!! 🐘 Find more information and apply here: bit.ly/abcjob

📢Starter pack for canine science: go.bsky.app/TPPUQyb Please share & all suggestions for more folks to include are extremely welcome and appreciated! 🐶🙌

New bowerbird paper! Male great bowerbirds build display courts that are linked to mating success, and we found that object availability 🧱 rather than male building ability 👷 explains variation in court quality rb.gy/vznmm7

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
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Oh my gosh this is so good.

Introducing ManyDogs2: Overimitation in Dogs. Project proposed and led by Dr. Ludwig Huber, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. Join us for a virtual Town Hall. Presenting the newest ManyDogs project - everybody is invited to ask questions and learn how to get involved! Wednesday, November 29th, 2023 7a PT / 10a ET / 3p CET. Register to attend: http://bit.ly/3G1tzeY

Big things happening over at
@manydogsproject.bsky.social! Join us for a virtual Town Hall introducing ManyDogs2: Overimitation in Dogs on Wed, Nov 29 - 7a PT / 10a ET / 3p CET Everybody is invited to ask questions and learn how to get involved! Register to attend: bit.ly/3G1tzeY

Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14!
 
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.

Career - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Join us! New, fully funded PhD positions available in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA in Leipzig.
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

"We show that Guinea baboons (Papio papio) can use direct reciprocity and partner choice to develop and maintain high levels of cooperation in a prosocial choice task."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Mirror Reveals a Surprise About Bird Brains A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections.

Such a cool twist on an old design: Roosters warn each other when a hawk is circling overhead. But when they’re alone and a predator is near, they stay silent to avoid attracting attention. Importantly, they don’t warn their own reflection.
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/s...

Don’t know if this will help, but in Hilton et al (2021) we looked at 2-year-olds’ group-based selective prosociality, with one group similar to the child and one dissimilar. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yay! PAMBA is now on Bluesky, this makes me so happy. Give us a follow to stay up to date on the latest in philosophy of animal minds and behaviour @pamba.bsky.social

More good news to share 😁
The MB-ManyWebcams paper is officially out in Infancy! doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Congrats to Adrian Steffan, Lucie Zimmer, Tobi Schuwerk, and the whole team!

Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-ManyWebcams

#devpsyc #psychscisky

Pleased to announce that the MB-Demographics paper is now officially published (open access!) doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

Congrats to lead author @lehersingh.bsky.social and the whole team!

Learn more about the project here: manybabies.org/MB-Demographics

#devpsyc #psychscisky

Scale models for the win!!! Love it!

Long Overlooked, Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coronavirus (Published 2021) Collaborating with devoted colleagues, Dr. Kariko laid the groundwork for the mRNA vaccines turning the tide of the pandemic.

Article from 2021 that NY Times reposted today. I needed tissues by the end.

www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/h...