Postdoc fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in Barth lab (cognition & development) & Dubar lab (sleep & psychosocial adjustment). Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Pls share!
wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively?
Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social!
And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!
New paper alert! 📢 Out now, fully #openaccess, in a special issue of Phil Trans on the evolution of collective intelligence (1/4) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27.
Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km....
IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-....
Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!
Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively?
Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social!
And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!
The best conference on animal minds - the Conference on Comparative Cognition - is off to a great start in Montreal!
Many thanks and big congrats to the organizers @compcogsoc.bsky.social !
Disgraceful!
The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering.
It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov
And Trump just bombed it...
I put forward an alternative to the language-of-thought hypothesis for geometry, the Wanderers Hypothesis for Geometry: Human geometry may originate from the interaction between ancient, navigation-like mental processes that approximate Euclidean geometry and our human capacity for natural language.
Postdoctoral fellowship in developmental science at Wesleyan University. Joint in H. Barth & R. T. Dubar labs. Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. 1 year, extendable to 2 years. Share and apply! wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
I’m advertising two position options (PhD/postdoc) within my lab - take a look below if you’re interested or send me a message ☺️ @uni-konstanz.de
Job 🚨 Please share!!
We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University
Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses
facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De...
@jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social
The inimitable Amalia Bastos is accepting applications for PhD students, through @standrewspsyneuro.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
4-year funding is available for students with the right to work in the UK: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
Awesome project, dreamy place, stellar mentor
@compcogsoc.bsky.social @animbehsociety.bsky.social @animalopps.bsky.social @asab-meetings.bsky.social @pamba.bsky.social @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social
Job 🚨 Please share!!
We have a teaching track faculty opening in our undergraduate behavioral biology program at Johns Hopkins University
Teaching animal behavior plus self-developed courses
facultyjobs.jhu.edu/Positions/De...
@jhu.edu @jhuartssciences.bsky.social
cOMPaRatiVe cOGNitiONHumans share acousticpreferences with other animalsLogan S. James1,2,3,4* Sarah C. Woolley 1,2, Jon T. Sakata1,2,Courtney B. Hilton5,6, Michael J. Ryan3,4, Samuel A. Mehr5,7,8Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefersome sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergentevolution may generate similarities in preference across speciesand underlie Darwin’s conjecture that some animals “havenearly the same taste for the beautiful as we have.” In this study,we show that humans share acoustic preferences with a rangeof animals, that the strength of human preferences correlateswith that in other animals, and that humans respond fasterwhen in agreement with animals. Furthermore, we foundgreatest agreement in preference for adorned, ancestral, andlower-frequency sounds. humans’ music listening experiencewas associated with preferences. These results are consistentwith theories arguing that biases in processing sculpt acousticpreferences, and they confirm Darwin’s century-old hunchabout the conservation of aesthetics in nature
out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species)
he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals
doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202
Intelligent agents can still take irrational actions and, sometimes, groups of animals are better at making good decisions than their constituent individuals.
Read the latest article from the TWCF-funded project, “Rationality and Reason beyond the Individual“ project below.
Migrated to Bluesky as I'm excited to share our new paper on collective route memories in homing pigeons: rdcu.be/e73Qk
We found flocks remembered old routes better than pigeons flying alone, likely because different birds remembered different parts of the route!
You’ve probably heard of collective intelligence but what about collective memory? 🧠🐘
New paper in press, led by Joe Morford! We investigated whether collective decision making in pigeons can rescue long-term memory of learned homing routes 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Does being in a collective buffer against individual forgetting, when it comes to navigation?
New paper by Joe Morford: we find that collectives of homing pigeons remember their routes better than individuals
@dorabiro.bsky.social @richardpmann.bsky.social
Thanks to @templetonworld.bsky.social !
Here's the latest call for proposals from the Morris Animal Foundation @morrisanimal.bsky.social. Lots of options, including a new opportunity for established investigators interested in #cancer, #aging and #longevity.
www.morrisanimalfoundation.org/article/morr...
A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.
Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels:
www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a...
Deadline: May 4th, 2026
We have three lectureships available at York Psychology (@yorkpsychology.bsky.social) with a broad remit for research/teaching areas. Home and overseas applications are welcome. Deadline for applications is early April - enquiries welcome. Come and join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Read why NIH colleagues resigned.
Brave writing from Sylvia Chou, Alexa Romberg, Paul Grothaus and Vani Pariyadath. 🧪
#science #standupforscience #integrity
www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
Heading into the weekend with that TFIF mbchimp style!!
#soundon #TGIF #chimpanzee #moyenbafing 🧪
This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today.
You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov
What a fantastic and stimulating theory of mind symposium at SSPP!
Thanks so much for organizing, @nicolefurgala.bsky.social !!
It was a treat to learn from and contribute alongside a dream lineup of philosophers and psychologists I deeply admire!
New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵
unsvr1.com/web/abc/work...
#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
