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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣🎓 Open #PhD Position (3.5 years) 🎓📣 Want to come work with me on culture and social bonds in apes? 🐵 Apply to join my new group in the @livingingroups.bsky.social at @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social. Full job posting: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/131133/cultu... Deadline 📅 23 October 2026 Please share widely!

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Ari Strandburg-Peshkin @arispeshkin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are offering 3 #PhD positions in our Ecology of Animal Societies Department @livingingroups.bsky.social at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - check them out! imprs-qbee.mpg.de/66685/current

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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 02/10/2026

Interesting new work on the management of progressivity in chimpanzee grooming sessions by @kaylakolff.bsky.social and Simone Pika www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Also nice to see the term 'redoings' from our @heesenr.bsky.social et al. 2022 framework gain some currency!

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When grooming stalls: Assessing communicative repair, negotiation, and progressivity in chimpanzees

Communication; Animal behavior; Zoology

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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🐒 GfP 2027 – registration & abstract submission are open! Join us for the 18th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie, 17–19 Feb 2027 in Göttingen at the @primatenzentrum.bsky.social 📅 Abstract & early-bird deadline: 15 Nov 2026 🔗 www.dpz.eu/gfp2027 #GfP2027 #Primatology

Save-the-date graphic for the 18th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Primatologie (GfP 2027), taking place 17–19 February 2027 in Göttingen, Germany. The design features a photograph of an adult macaque with an infant, conference details, the website www.dpz.eu/gfp2027, a QR code, and the logos of the German Primate Center, the University of Göttingen, and the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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Zoë Goldsborough @zoegoldsborough.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Imagine you are a white-faced capuchin monkey on Jicarón island learning how to use stone tools 🔨 Your mother does not use tools, so who do you turn to as a model? Our new manuscript answering this question is out now in Animal Behaviour @asab.org. doi.org/10.1016/j.an.... A 🧵 of our findings (1/10)

A juvenile white-faced capuchin monkey eating a coconut. Photo credits Christian Ziegler

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🚨📢 New preprint w/ Dennis Papadopoulos & @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social A Joint Action Toolset framework for comparative research on joint action: osf.io/preprints/ps... 👇 Instead of asking if animals possess human forms of joint action, JAT quantifies species-specific coordination tools ⚒️

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Taï Chimpanzee Project @taichimpproject.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📣NEW paper📣 To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CPCAMM...

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Jamie Whitehouse @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🐒 Post-doc Opportunity 🐒 ... annndd we're now also advertising a 3-year Research Fellow position at NTU as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline: 19th June :) Please repost!

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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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MOSAIC @uofg-mosaic.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Join our MOSAIC May Grand Challenge with Sławomir Wacewicz & @dr-severinehex.bsky.social: "Honest Signals, Costly Lies: Trust, Deception, and the Evolution of Communication". All welcome! Reply for the link or DM @pablo-arias-sarah.bsky.social 🗓️21 May | 14:00-15:30 (BST) | Zoom Abstracts below 👇

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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

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IMPRS-QBEE @imprs-qbee.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information: imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...

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Doctoral/Postdoctoral Position in Comparative and Developmental Psychology

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The Moyen Bafing Chimp Project @mbchimp.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We’re hiring a Field Project Manager with the Moyen Bafing Chimpanzee Project! Help run a growing wild chimpanzee research & conservation project in West Africa 🐵 Apply by 24 Feb (open until filled). More info via QR code in the image. Note: Right to work in the EU required. #job #conservation

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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Fully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

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Physiological health outcomes of dominance hierarchies in team-based contexts

Find out more about this fully funded PhD studentship opportunity.

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Alex Chan @alexhhchan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Second paper out this week 😱😱 We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos, published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041... [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behavio...

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

So much fun having been part of the Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour #KSCB2025 - lots of interesting discussions on the concept of joint action, what it is, and how it can be studied across species. Thanks to the organizers for this exciting opportunity!

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

🚨 1 more week to apply!! 🚨 2 PhD positions in my group on cross-species comparisons & #development of joint action, #communication & #emotion in #chimpanzees and #children at @Uni-konstanz.de - DM me about questions ☺️ Application deadline: 16.06.25 Start date: 1.10.25

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Yannick Becker @ybecker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #LanguageEvolution #Chimpanzees 1/n 🧵👇

Portrait of the chimpanzee “Wazak” (©James Mollison) & Nerve fibres in the chimpanzee brain (©MPI CBS)
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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Position to work with apes: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/d... Position to work with human children: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/b...

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Doctoral Position in Comparative Cognition and Communication

Deadline: 16.06.2025

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Raphaela Heesen @heesenr.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

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sombylab.bsky.social @sombylab.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

📢 JAM is back in 2025! 📢 The 10th edition of Joint Action Meeting (JAM X), to be held in Torino, Italy, from Wednesday 9th to Saturday 12th July, 2025. Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2025. CLICK: somby.ceu.edu/jam #JAMX #JAM10 #JAMXinTorino #JAM10in2025 #JointActionMeeting #JAM

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

The Social & Cognitive Origins Group at Johns Hopkins University studies how humans and other animals think.

The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in full spring bloom.

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Annual Conference of the Cognition, Behavior and Evolution Network in Antwerp, September 18-19, 2025 With keynotes by @zannaclay.bsky.social, Koen Margodt, and Leda Cosmides. Submission deadline May 1 www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uan...

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Annual Conference of the Cognition & Behavior Evolution Network 2025 | Social Sciences | University of Antwerp

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