📣ATTENTION!!! Postdoc position on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩 With the APE Group & Wildminds Lab @nakedprimate.bsky.social Come join us!!! ✨Please RT✨ @efprimatology.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Very cool topic! 🐵🧠☺️

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

Also knew airport security would flag me for this apparatus 😅🤣

Two exciting conferences in a week is a lot 😅 ( @cultconf.bsky.social & @univie.ac.at ), topped with many catch ups and events (@raccoonologist.bsky.social) in between, I've ended up knocking myself out this weekend 🤒. So forever grateful to my scientist connections in Europe, thanks for having me ❤️

A lovely visit to the CASCB at University of Konstanz! Thank you for having me this week @uni-konstanz.de ❤️

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!

Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️‍🔥

royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Have you been too busy to read our recent paper on orangutans' culturally-dependent diets? 😔 Never fear, we have published a two-page research briefing to give you a quick overview of our paper's aims, findings, and implications! 🤩 Check it out here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...

🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

We aren't so"old" :')

Group of researchers at the pub

Nothing like unwinding after #ASABWinter2025 with friends old and new in the pub 🍻 I’m truly knackered!

Soo many of us attending #ASAB25 ! @asab-meetings.bsky.social

It's retro now...

Louise posing with a poster Do chimpanzees "over-imitate"? A first test with conspecific models.

Nikki with a poster labelled sniffing birds

Going to make a collage of posters presented at #ASABWinter2025! Want to be included like these awesome ladies? Drop a photo below ⬇️

Maybe only humans have a call for Mushroom Mushroom 🍄😱🦡🐍

🎉 Congratulations to Mathilde Delacoux 🎓 who defended her thesis "Many Eyes Together: Investigating the Perceptual, Cognitive, and Social Foundations of Collective Detection in Bird Flocks" 🕊️ supervised by Fumihiro Kano 🎊

MSc 2021 to PhD 2025 🎓
To new beginnings 🥂

Probably should have put it in acknowledgements too 😅 🥤

An Exciting Workshop with the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation today at the Messerli Research Institute Vienna! 🦧🦧🦧

Months 😭😭, but an essential part of the recovery process is gossip girl time ❤️

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

Congratulations Dr.!!! 🥳

Jen in front of a slide with a picture of a cockatoo holding an object and Alice Auersperg, reading Object Combinations and the Onset of Tool Use in Animals Jennifer Colbourne & Alice Auersperg vetmeduni

Subbed in to give a talk on behalf of @auersperga.bsky.social at #Behaviour2025 ! I think it went pretty well considering I made it while recovering from food poisoning 🥴

Our paper on the combinatory tool use origins hypothesis will hopefully be out soon!

Does spotting geese count as birdwatching? #behaviour2025

Thank you #behaviour2025 for hosting my talk on overimitation in dogs, the topic of ManyDogs 2! 🐶
@manydogsproject.bsky.social

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

#behaviour2025

@manydogsproject.bsky.social

Wanna get some insight into the ManyDogs 2 topic: overimitation? Talk today in Hall 6, 18:12, Behaviour 2025!

We are collecting data now in dog labs across the world! Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com / check out our website below to join!

manydogsproject.github.io/manydogs2.html

Was macht uns sozial? 🤔 Wir begleiten Psychologin & Neurowissenschafterin @magdalenaboch.bsky.social und Hündin Kalea ins Labor - beide sind Teil des Forschungsteams. 🐶🧑‍🔬
Dort wird daran gearbeitet, jene Hirnregionen zu entschlüsseln, die für unser Sozialverhalten entscheidend sind. 🗝️

Does your institute have a dog lab? Know anyone working with dogs for behavioural / cognition research?

Because ManyDogs 2 has launched for data collection!

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