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Ed Donnellan

@eddonnellan.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Warwick Uni. Keen primate. Interested in growing things and occasionally playing instruments. Borderline utility cyclist. 90% sprout content

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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just hopping off at bad take central
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So glad to see this published @gregork.bsky.social - you've worked so hard on this and the end result is great!
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Also spiders maybe? When they wrap something in silk and move it around?
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In that they briefly transport water in a scrunch of leaves
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Chimpanzee leaf sponging maybe just about meets the criteria
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don't get me started on the School of Athens
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Great for an age variable in an educational dataset too! I use 0.00000001 because that's not nothing.
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Also it will have it's own idiosyncratic missing data codes
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Computer𝔍𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔰 @computerjames.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
the only video worth rescuing from my deleted twtter
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Majestic
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What's up with the tail flick? So cool
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
too coherent - have you tried going bigger picture?
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Don't think that crossed my mind
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Apparently I was convinced my (turns out) little sister was definitely going to be a labrador
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
To paraphrase Jane Goodall, “now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept cows as human.” To paraphrase Veronika the cow, "moo, that hits the spot". www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow
Osuna-Mascaró and Auersperg report flexible, multipurpose tool use in a cow, expanding the known range of mammalian tool users and underscoring overlooked cognitive capacities in livestock.
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
At the Warwick Babylab we have an exciting new study about 4-year-olds' language learning. If you are keen to take part with your 4-year-old, please register your interest using this form and we'll get in touch with more information (warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...).
Flyer for a study at the University of Warwick. Text reads: Language learning study. Does guessing words help you learn? We are looking for 4-year-olds for a fun study to help find out how children learn new words and how sentences are put together. Calling mini scientists! Recruiting 4-year-olds now! Help Warwick Research with Kids group with exciting new research! 3 sessions either on the University of Warwick campus or at home. you receive 3 books and a £25 voucher. Interested? Email Ed at ed.donnellan@warwick.ac.uk for more info, or scan the QR code to register your interest in taking part. The QR code directs to a qualtrics survey available at https://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6XbQRngMAUrOEIK
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It only just about works if you say it out loud
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"I get really frustrated when I can't think of the superfamily containing Hylobatidae, Pongidae and Hominidae." "Hominoid." "Yeah so am I."
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Sofa crisp roulette
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Brian Lilly @brglilly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Bonobo 'Yuli' and her one week old baby boy inside the house 1 of 2 @twycrosszoo.bsky.social #bonobo #primates
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
These are absolutely fantastic. Only got the slightest glimpse the other day
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Dr Chiara Gambi @gambichiara.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📣📣📣🎉🎉🎉 Our very first Stage 1 RR is accepted in principle at Developmental Science!!! All thanks to the hard work of @eddonnellan.bsky.social brilliant collab with @katemessenger.bsky.social and of course funding from @leverhulme.ac.uk Data collection starting soon! Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Last night I had breakfast for dinner. Today I had breakfast for breakfast. And they said I could be tamed.
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
oliverjeffers.com/books/what-w...
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What We'll Build
A story about a parent's boundless love & life's endless opportunities. A father & daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together.
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
bookwagon.co.uk/product/benj...
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Benjamin Zephaniah's People Need People, illustrated by Nila Aye
People Need People to tease and please, to learn from and to celebrate with. Benjamin Zephaniah reminds us of our human need for company.
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Conclave 2: Pope in the City
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Come on fungi. Do your stuff already
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Weird it wasn't a Polar Bus Replacement
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
How soon is now
Harvested sprout stalks
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sounds perfect! "Oh no, it's a two-day hike to reply to that email".
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Binoculars?
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Soon...
Sprout stalks and a sunrise
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I mostly do research into language development, chimp communication and information-seeking behaviour. Currently collecting data on prediction error-based language learning in 4 year olds (e.g., osf.io/rfq6u, osf.io/v5pzb/) See pubs here: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
link.springer.com/article/10.3... This paper creates a combined accuracy and RT measure (SRT) from Flanker tasks, but the raw data includes them separately... Might be nice to compare ddm against their findings.. (OK I'll stop)
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Inconsistent flanker congruency effects across stimulus types and age groups: A cautionary tale - Behavior Research Methods
The flanker task is a common measure of selective attention and response competition across populations, age groups, and experiential contexts. Adapting it for different uses often involves changing m...
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In about 2 years we should have some flanker data from ~95 four year olds... So hold tight
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Sounds like they should be trying to find flanker data then! Got to be some open data out there (probably best from kids so there's good variability in accuracy and RTs)
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Ah yes - correct. On No-Go trials you only get RTs for incorrect
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Caveat - actually participants were pretty accurate, so may not be what you're looking for - though there's some variation in the RTs.
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
n=564, 50 trials. Loads of other variables you could use as IVs in there too. Let me know if you want me to explain the data structure...
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Ed Donnellan @eddonnellan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
You could try the data accompanying our Psych Methods paper (osf.io/g7nbw/). There's a Go/No-Go task (described here under "Reaction Time Experiments" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...) - which you can treat as a binary response (correct or not) with RTs.
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Random item slope regression
Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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