Charlotte Gannon

#Primates
We’ve lost one of our pioneers

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91 "Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

Farewell to one of the greats
www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

I’ll be presenting a poster from my PhD study at LCICD today! Feel free to stop by to read all about it!

Thrilled to be back at my undergraduate home for the LCICD. Looking forward to an interesting few days learning about the latest in developmental research!

@lancasteruni.bsky.social
@lcicd.bsky.social

🩺 Are you a nurse or midwife? I'm researching your health & access to occupational support – and I'd love your input! Please take a few minutes to complete my survey 💬👇
📋 warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

#Nurses #Midwives #HealthcareResearch #Wellbeing

I know I can't believe how fast it's gone! I'll be presenting a poster in my work at the LCICD in August if you'll be there. I'm really looking forward to coming back to Lancaster, that definitely feels like a lifetime ago!

Thanks Kate!

BBC targets adults in the latest adventure for its top dog Bluey Corporation aims to build ‘lifestyle brand’ for all ages around smash-hit cartoon character

Here’s a 🧵 about the amazing Bluey, which tells a different story about the BBC than the one we usually hear…

It’s how the BBC’s commercial arm has understood the new media world, piled into digital platforms - & is now reaping the benefits.

Story & details:

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Not sure if it’s a location/country preference but at Warwick it’s referred to as a PhD thesis and seems typically across UK and Europe!

Thank you Nicole!! 🎉

Overjoyed to say that yesterday I successfully defended my thesis and am officially a Dr🎓🦧

A massive thank you to @gambichiara.bsky.social and Marina Davila-Ross for being my examiners and making the experience so enjoyable.

And to @warwickpsych.bsky.social for being such a supportive department!

Cool methods! Thermal imagining to capture changes in blood flow and gaze direction #ApeTank #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social

We continue the comparative theme with Luke Duncan on sound perception in great apes and the division of labour between vowels sad consonants #ApeTank #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social

Here is what 2 years of fieldwork looks like! 🙌 also 👏 to Ani’s husband for taking on the lead acting role in the project and posing as a 🐅😮

Charlotte Gannon @ckagannon.bsky.social now talking about the phantasic spectrum #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social

Our new paper is out!

We found #orangutans develop #nest-building skills through observational #sociallearning, #selectiveattention
to“know-how” and transmission of“know-what” information.
🦧🦧🦧🦧
#academicsky
#primates
#science
#biologicalscience
#warwickpsych

🦧🦧🦧🦧
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

And @eddonnellan.bsky.social takes us to the end of the first session with a whistle-stop tour of all things prediction error! #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social

Next up @teruniahamat.bsky.social presenting preliminary data from her brand new corpus of shared book reading in 13-14 mo! @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay

Next up is @cyberming.bsky.social with her work on iconic gesture speed @warwickpsych.bsky.social #LLGAwayDay

Today is a very exciting day, full of research talks by postgrads, postdocs, and faculty working on the topic of language across the University of Warwick #LLGAwayDay @warwickpsych.bsky.social

A great time at @pintofscience.uk last night watching @dranipermana.bsky.social teach us all about orangutan nest building and then expertly judge our own nests! Turns out I need to spend a bit more time in the forest to get the hang of it.

Out today in Ann NY Acad Sci: orangutans show third-order rhythmic nesting in alarm calls—like music, rhythms within rhythms within rhythms. They adjust tempo and rhythm by threat type: faster for credible threats 🐯, slower for less credible alarms 🔵. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...

Published today! Here we show how social life shapes musical timing in a duetting monkey... and how hard is singing while parenting! 🙈 🎶 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
@marcogamba.bsky.social

Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize.

A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org
🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Michaela Pawley is awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship 2025-26. Congratulations!

🎉 Congratulations to @michaelapawley.bsky.social, a PhD student of the Warwick Sleep and Pain Lab @nkytang.bsky.social, on being awarded a UK Data Impact Fellowship from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social! This competitive programme supports 5 early career researchers using UK Data Service resources.

A picture of a humpback whale just below the sea surface taken by Marc Quintin

A thread explaining our new discovery about humpback whale song published today in Science... We found key statistical properties that characterise all human languages in another species for the first time. We have more in common with whales than we previously thought! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Hedonic values for sensory objects are computed by nuclei located in the mesocorticolimbic reward system. These nuclei are distributed across several different anatomical structures, including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), the amygdala, the insula, the striatum (including the nucleus accumbens and the pallidum), and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, including the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). During hedonic evaluation (the assessment of objects in terms of how good or bad they are for the organism in its current, past and anticipated states), this system receives signals projected from sensory systems that represent perceptual information about the evaluated object, from systems that monitor homeostatic, autonomic and endocrine states, and from executive and semantic systems that represent knowledge, expectations, behavioural options and situational conditions and demands.

The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience

Perspective by Marcos Nadal (@mnadal.bsky.social) & Martin Skov (@mskov01.bsky.social)

Web: go.nature.com/3ZfccAG
PDF: rdcu.be/d13QD

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in a crazy group of monkeys at U of Edinburgh . Do reach out with questions!
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...