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Dora Biro

@dorabiro.bsky.social
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Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Uni Rochester, NY 🐦🐟🐵 Animal cognition, collective behaviour, navigation, tool use, social learning, culture

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Oviya Mohan @oviya-mohan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Excited to announce that my first paper is out now in @plosone.org! A huge thanks to my co-author @dorabiro.bsky.social. Check out our work on how conventions emerge in human dyads here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Experimental emergence of conventions in human dyads
Conventions can be defined as arbitrary and self-sustaining practices that emerge in a population and facilitate solving coordination problems. A recent study traced the formation of simple convention...
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Job Alert 🚨 - please share! My brilliant friend and collaborator, Fumihiro Kano, is launching a new Ecological & Collective Cognition lab at Kyushu University, and has postdoc, grad, and tech openings! Lab video: youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU More details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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groupdemo kyushu 04132026
YouTube video by 狩野文浩
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Elizabeth Warren @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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Chimpanzees spontaneously prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities, and collective context strengthens this behaviour
Abstract. In both humans and non-human animals, collectives can sometimes overcome individual cognitive biases or shortcomings to execute more rational beh
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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
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...
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Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons
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Elliot Howard-Spink @ehowaspi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New preprint! 🚨 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use (tinyurl.com/2j324t9p). For short synopsis, see 🧵.
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Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use
We know vanishingly little about how long-lived apes experience senescence in the wild, particularly with respect to their foraging behaviors, which are essential for survival. Some wild apes use tool...
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