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Jérôme Micheletta

@jmicheletta.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour, Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. Communication, cognition and social behaviour in macaques. Co-director of the Macaca Nigra Project: macaca-nigra.org

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Animal Behaviour Collective @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our latest microgrant funding round is open now! 📢 Below is a reminder of what we do and don't fund. This round closes October 30th! Want to help us support students? Please spread the word, and donate if you can! For more informaition and to apply: opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective
We do fund students' personal costs. For example: transport to uni, living costs and personal equipment. We don't fund research costs, for example: lab equipment and services, research permits and conference fees.
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Animal Behaviour Live @animalbehaviour.live · 13/09/2026
🌍✨ Join us for #ABL2026! ✨🌍 The annual Animal Behaviour Live online conference returns on 12 November 2026, in just 2️⃣ months ! 🎓 This year’s theme is “Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World”. ✅ Registration is open to everyone! 🔗 Register for FREE here: ablaoc.sciencesconf.org
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Animal Behaviour Live: Annual Online Conference 2026 - Sciencesconf.org
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Fondation Fyssen @fondationfyssen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Appel à projets - Subventions de recherche Ouverture des candidatures le 2 septembre 2026 Fin des candidatures le 14 octobre 2026 + d'informations sur le site web de la Fondation Fyssen
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!
A chimp solving a puzzle box problem. Photo credit: MPI-EVA
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Liran Samuni @lirsamuni.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🐒 Work with primates? Have you observed 3 or more individuals grooming together? Polyadic grooming is barely documented and we know little about its distribution. Please take 1–2 minutes to fill out this short survey and share: forms.gle/cLPB1mnwrjJo...
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Polyadic grooming in primates
survey about observations of polyadic grooming in primate species
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Save the date! 📅 PSGB is hosting an online workshop on the topic “Cognition for Conservation and Captive Care” (2nd September 2026). Check out the first look for our speakers working across primate behaviour and cognition & register your interest to receive the workshop link! 🐒 shorturl.at/HDvXA
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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🐶 As Section President for this year’s British Science Festival, I’m honoured to represent the amazing work we do at UoP Dog Cognition Centre, uncovering incredible cognitive abilities of dogs! #DogCognition #AnimalCognition #BritishScienceFestival www.britishscienceassociation.org/news/announc...
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Announcing our British Science Festival 2026 Section Presidents
The British Science Association has announced the Scientific Section Presidents for the 2026 British Science Festival, which takes place from 16-20 September in Southampton, hosted by the University o...
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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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Jamie Whitehouse @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🐒 PhD Opportunity 🐒 I'm excited to announce that we are now welcoming applications for a 3-year fully funded PhD position at Nottingham Trent University as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project. More info: jamiewhitehouse.github.io/mappingconne... Apply here: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Research Assistant position working on eye-tracking and parenting cognition in macaques, linked to Yuri Kawaguchi's BBSRC Fellowship. Join us at NTU! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Assistant in Primate Cognition:Hybrid
Research Assistant in Primate Cognition working with captive rhesus macaques to improve animal welfare.
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Arnaud Tognetti @atognetti.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430
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PhD for Thesis No. 2 of the SENS-ALIM Nexus: ‘Between disgust and immunity: Avoidance strategies and vulnerability to risks associated with foodborne pathogens’
- work environment: Humans are constantly exposed to pathogens in their environment. In addition to physiological immunity, a behavioural immune system enables the detection of risks and helps to avoi...
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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
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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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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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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Back in Brussels for the 2026 edition of the Science is Wonderful event organised by the #MSCA. Very grateful for being selected and invited again by the European Commission to explain our research and inspire children 🐵 🌴 @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social @francescadp.bsky.social
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🎉 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congrats to all for advancing open, reliable, & transparent practices in ecology and evolution. 🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/
The photo displays the logos of the 2025 SORTEE commendation award recipients
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Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Jérôme Micheletta @jmicheletta.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
We are recruiting a Lecturer in Psychology: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web... and a Teaching Fellow: mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web.... Come and join the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology 🐶🐵🐴🐘🕷️🧒 www.port.ac.uk/research/res...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 12/01/2026
The #BiologyLetters Early Career Researcher Competition is back for 2026! You must be an #ECR to enter and submit your paper by 31 March 2026 for the chance to win £1000. Two runners-up will also receive £500 each. Find out more: ow.ly/aCgx50UCo2H #EarlyCareerResearchers
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Our Science Perspective on Ianni et al - neural control of facial expressions involves voluntary pathways @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social www.science.org/eprint/EKJTZ...
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Making faces
Facial expressions are produced through a coordinated system of voluntary and emotional pathways
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Yuri Kawaguchi @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques! Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
🚨Roll up, roll up, fully-funded #PhD deadlines approaching... 6th Jan: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 8th Jan: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Social monitoring & manipulation #meerkats #mongooses #macaques #fieldwork #long-termdata @patrick-kennedy.bsky.social @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Michael Wagner @michiwagner4.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at
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Andrew King @shoalgroup.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Are you a UK national/resident and identify as Black, Asian, or a minoritised ethnic community? You can apply for a PhD with me and colleagues at Swansea as part of our NERC CROCUS doctoral training programme... and we develop the topic together. Please get in touch if eligible and interested!
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
⏰ 1 month left to apply for these fully-funded #PhD opportunities with us investigating social monitoring & manipulation. #bioacoustics #mammals UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp DM or email me if you have questions. Please spread the word. ☺️
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Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social animals at Unive...
PhD Project - Funded PhD open to UK-domiciled, home fee applicants of Black African, Black Caribbean or other Black or mixed Black heritage - Biological market monitoring and manipulation in social an...
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
BBS article on mechanisms of group cohesion in primates (Robin Dunbar), with our commentary proposing facial expression as one of those key mechanisms! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates - Volume 48
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Fully-funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU, associated with her BBSRC Fellowship on parenting in rhesus macaques. Join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social @ntupsychology.bsky.social (note - open to UK students only) www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...
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Enhancing welfare through cognitive assessment of parenting skills in captive managed animals
Find out more about this PhD opportunity funded by BBSRC, hosted through the NTU fully funded studentship scheme.
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Eithne Kavanagh @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Interested in the evolution of social behaviour? We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity on human social hierarchies, nonverbal behaviour and health! Supervised by myself, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social and @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social. Informal enquires encouraged! 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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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢Two fully-funded #PhD opportunities to work with us: Topic: Social monitoring & manipulation UK-domiciled black-heritage scheme: tinyurl.com/aja54nr6 NERC DLTP: tinyurl.com/4jfy47pp Cosupervisors: #PatrickKennedy @ljnbrent.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social #bioacoustics #mammals #fieldwork
Meerkat pups in the Kalahari, South AfricaRhesus macaques in Cayo Santiago
Dwarf mongoose staring at a camera, South Africa.
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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
⚠️ New Postdoc or PhD position open (3 years+) ⚠️ 🚩Developmental milestones across cultures 🌍 Based @leuphana.bsky.social , in collaboration with @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social Please share/apply! Link: tinyurl.com/58dsn43u
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Christoph Völter @christophvoelter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏
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Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Jérôme Micheletta @jmicheletta.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Really pleased (and surprised!) that my design was chosen 😃🥳 It took some trial and error but I am super happy with the minimalist design. It was taken from this pict of a crested macaque in Tangkoko near the Macaca Nigra Project field station. Can't wait to see how it will look like once printed 😊
The silhouette of a crested macaque sitting among leaves by the sea.
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
T-shirt design competition results 🚨 Congratulations to Katarina Piponi (left) who received first place in the public vote🥇. Additionally, Congratulations to Jerome Micheletta (right), who has won the Council’s Choice🎨. Both designs will be made available for printing soon on our online store. (1/2)
Katarina PiponiJerome Micheletta
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Jérôme Micheletta @jmicheletta.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Great opportunity to work with a great team!
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Emily M. Sanford @emilymsanford.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job
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Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University
With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Calling all artists! 🧑‍🎨🎨 We are running a t-shirt design competition - craft some primate artwork and submit it to us by the 1st October. The winning design will be sold on our online store, with generated funds used to support our work promoting primate conservation, research and captive care. See 🧵
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George Hodgson @ghodgson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social
Photograph of a brown feral cattle grooming the back of another cow, with a pink and grey tongue sticking out of her mouth
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Gwen Wirobski @gwenwiro.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We're hiring📢📢📢 To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New review paper on primate facial expression! 🙈🙊🙉 with @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social and Olivia O’Callaghan @ntupsychology.bsky.social
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primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵
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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Only two weeks left to apply! Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend! And spread the word to whoever might be interested! @efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
📢 @jmicheletta.bsky.social's, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social's, and my PhD student Holly Radford will deliver a @craeioe.bsky.social webinar Thursday at 4 pm UK/11 am ET/8 am PT from her PhD on nonverbal behaviours and first impressions during video calls between autistic and non-autistic adults.
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Jérôme Micheletta @jmicheletta.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
@kate-lewis.bsky.social latest paper documenting the first anatomically based ethogram of horses' facial behaviour using NetFACS 🥳 I'm grateful to @kate-lewis.bsky.social and @leanneproops.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute 🙂
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open! Join our international expert team to explore minds across species. We study: 🐒 Primates 🐕 Dogs 🐘 Elephants 🐴 Donkeys and horses 🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... #MSCA
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Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application
These tips and tricks will help you find the best host organisation and prepare a successful proposal.
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Julie Duboscq @connectthedots.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New Postdoc position! 🐵🐵🐵🐵 On the socioecology of cognition in primates, based in Paris @mnhn.fr @cnrs.fr, with field work It has it all: - the best science - the best macaques - the best beaches - the best people - the best office view #Eiffeltower Join us!
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🧠🐒 Interested in comparative cognition, sociality and animal behaviour? I am open to hosting MSCA postdoc fellowship applicants! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...
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Maël Leroux @maelmleroux.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
New paper from Olivia O'Callaghan's PhD on ERC project FACEDIFF www.facediff.co.uk, macaque facial expression processing gets better with age and good maternal care, so more flex than previously thought? @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @ntupsychology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
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Maternal care predicts facial expression processing in macaques
Facial expressions are common across mammals and are essential for social communication. In humans, a rich early social environment is important for t…
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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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