Rachel Harrison

🚨New Paper on Bonobo and Chimpanzee tool flexibility. As so often performance is leveraged by the captivity effect yet the two species differ in explorative behavior and how readily they switch between tool types. For more 👇🏼 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @rachelaharrison.bsky.social

Studying social transmission using STbayes Post provided by Michael Chimento. When studying animal culture, it’s important to establish whether novel behaviours or information have spread through social contact, or are rather innovated or p…

New blog post!!🚨

Michael Chimento gives an overview of the new R package STbayes, designed for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission 🌍 🧪

Read the blog here 👇

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📣 Join us Wednesday 14 Jan at 1pm GMT 💻🌍 Early career researcher interested in culture, behaviour, and learning? Get involved, learn about ESLR, and meet others in the field. We'll cover 2026 activities including skill-sharing sessions. 🛠️💡 Join: meet.google.com/sun-ddcz-gky

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

14 2y postdoc positions to rescue you from the US:

Early Career Rescue Fellowship Programme 2026

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I’ve become incredibly superstitious about F1 this autumn - since summer break, I’ve had the gut feeling that some drivers do better when I watch live. Put my R skills to good use today to find that, yes, of the championship contenders, Verstappen maybe gets a boost when I tune in.

One last monkey morning before we fly out. Very lucky to be able to join the @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social team to visit 2 of their groups today!

A final early morning at the iNkawu Vervet Project to say goodbye to the monkeys before heading to @urbanvervetproject.bsky.social on our way to the airport!

On day 3 at the Inkawu vervet project our fantastic master students did some more field experiments for @rachelaharrison.bsky.social ‘s project on social tolerance which has been now going on for over 2 years!

Day 2 at Inkawu Vervet Project and we got started on a new study for my @leverhulme.ac.uk early career fellowship. Also saw a lot of giraffe which was the icing on the cake!

Great first day at the Inkawu Vervet Project checking in with current studies for my @leverhulme.ac.uk early career fellowship! And a great opportunity to catch up with @albamotesr.bsky.social

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Great talk by @rachelaharrison.bsky.social at #ehbea2025, showing that children were less likely to 'overimitate' with an unfamiliar, than a familiar, demonstrator.

Wisdom was sighted near her usual nest site on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) on November 26, 2024. Her new mate is now incubating their egg! The oldest known banded bird in the wild, a Mōlī or Laysan albatross known as Wisdom and who is at least 74 years old, has once again mystified biologists. Being able to reproduce and develop an eg…

We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of #seabird biology. Welcome back & congrats! #ornithology friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...

Congrats Dominik!

Social learning is triggered by environmental cues in immigrant birds After dispersal, what cues trigger social learning in immigrants? This Primer explores a new PLOS Biology study in wild-caught great tits which suggests that changes in the physical environment, rathe...

I was super excited to be asked to write a short primer on @mchimento.bsky.social's very cool recent paper on social learning in immigrant great tits for PLOS Biology.
Is my favourite thing about it my little great tit illustration? Yes. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

bird sounds

Hello Academics. Have you recently decided you need to learn how to securely encrypt and decrypt text and files over open channels. Maybe for GDPR. Maybe to discuss things that might soon be illegal. I made a video for you. About 'data protection'.

youtu.be/M2-rly3ernY

If you’re an early career researcher who enjoyed #CES2024Durham, check out the ESLR (society for early career social learning researchers) upcoming workshop!

Drop me a message if you plan to join!

DEADLINE!! There are still two days to submit your abstract for #EFP2024 in Lausanne! Deadline is Wednesday the 17th of January. e-conferences.unil.ch/efp2024/subm...

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: We are extending abstract submission by an extra 2 (two!) months. The new deadline is January 17th, 2024. Big thanks to our scientific committee for their flexibility! #efp2024

Hello Bluesky! We’ll be sharing conference info both here and on the Other Place.

Abstract submissions are open and will close on November 17th - get writing!

wp.unil.ch/efp2024/abst...