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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition

@primatecognition.bsky.social
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We study cognition and behavior of human and nonhuman primates at the German Primate Center and University of Göttingen. Funded by Leibniz Association; www.primate-cognition.eu YouTube: tinyurl.com/36dkn7 Impressum: www.dpz.eu/impressum

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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are hiring! For our new Campus Research Alliance Cognition, Brain and Behavior (CBB) in Göttingen, we are looking for a Biostatistician. CBB is a joint initiative of the @uni-goettingen.de and the @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. 📅 Deadline: 4 Oct 2026 🔗 www.dpz.eu/en/career-at... Please share!
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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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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
👏 Congratulations to Renate Schweizer and colleagues from the @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. This entire project started with a small Seed fund from the ScienceCampus and it is wonderful to see how it has now come to fruition. 🏆
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Since the start of our field site, Dietmar Zinner (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) has been studying Guinea baboons at CRP Simenti in Senegal. Here, he looks back at the early days of the site & what makes baboons so fascinating: youtu.be/MhWGAGJUJgo Thanks to @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de for funding
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Im Feld mit Dietmar Zinner - Einblicke in die Pavianforschung am CRP Simenti
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
What does everyday field research look like? 🐒 Our new video introduces life at CRP Simenti in Niokolo Koba NP (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social). Join camp manager Anaïs Avilés de Diego, meet Guinea baboons, and get a behind-the-scenes look at youtu.be/WhUqBMQ7_Fc Funded by @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
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The field station CRP Simenti in Senegal
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
We are happy to share that the newest video about ScienceCampus Research is out on YouTube! Join Claudia Fichtel (@kirindy.bsky.social) on a tour to our field site Kirindy Forest. Thanks to the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de for funding and Sam Sebastian Thomas and the video team at @uni-goettingen.de
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Paper alert: Kind of a serious fun paper 😂 - how to hold back laughter. Published by @anne-schacht.bsky.social, Vanessa Mitschke, Annika Ziereis and Sriranjani Manivasagam (@uni-goettingen.de; @primatecognition.bsky.social) . Paper is out in Comm Psychol: doi.org/10.1038/s442...
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Laughter regulation in solitary and social contexts varies across emotion regulation strategies - Communications Psychology
Using facial EMG and humor ratings, this study shows how suppression, reappraisal, and distraction differentially affect laughter-related expressions of amusement in solitary versus social settings.
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Looking for great place to do your PhD? 🧑‍🎓 Would you like to work with Assamese macaques in Thailand? 🐒 Our colleagues Julia Ostner and Oliver Schülke @primbehavecol.bsky.social offer a PhD position! Apply now and join the @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social curiosity.bsky.social at @uni-goettingen.de
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We’re not the only ones changing our minds 🐒🧠 Chimps revise their beliefs when new evidence appears — a trait once thought uniquely human. New Science paper from our former postdoc Hanna Schleihauf (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social; now @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Ein Fernsehtipp zum Wochenende: Das Bayerische Fernsehen zeigt eine Doku über die Sprache der Tiere. Mit dabei: Julia Fischer (@sfb1528.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social ) und ihre Forschung darüber, wie Affen kommunizieren. 📆27.9.2025, 18:45 BR Fernsehen & Mediathek (s.gwdg.de/TDMmkf)
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
🎞️ Episode 4 über den Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus ist online - Wie sich Neurowissenschaften und Feldforschung gegenseitig inspirieren 🐒🧠. Mit Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social, Claudia Fichtel @kirindy.bsky.social, Alex Gail @smgdpz.bsky.social ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCF...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus: Bridging Field and Lab Research
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Herzlichen Glückwunsch lieber Peter zu dieser besonderen Anerkennung Deiner Leistungen!
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
🎞️ Neue Episode unserer Filmreihe: Die Dyadische Interaktionsplattform und wie wir Kooperation, Konkurrenz und soziales Lernen untersuchen. ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgKS... feat Igor Kagan, @nivimani.bsky.social, @anne-schacht.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de
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Leibniz ScienceCampus: The Dyadic Interaction Platform
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Episode 2 unserer Videoreihe ist online: 🚐👶 Forschung im Kleinbus - das Phenomobil bringt Wissenschaft nach Hause. Peter Marschik & Team @UMG untersuchen, wie Babys mit ihren Eltern interagieren – und ob sich Entwicklungsstörungen frühzeitig erkennen lassen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H5j...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus: Inside the Phenomobil - A Rolling Lab to Track Infant Early Development
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Looking back at 10 years ScienceCampus. Today, we launch a four-episode video series. We start with How AI helps Decoding Primate Behavior find us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W3_... @primbehavecol.bsky.social, @uni-goettingen.de @primatenzentrum.bsky.social
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Leibniz Science Campus: How AI Helps Decoding Primate Behavior
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
free registration! Join us in Göttingen and celebrate 20 years Bernstein Center Göttingen. Submit your abstract by August 17 at events.gwdg.de/event/1099/
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Features: Face-to-face visibility of participants simultaneous presentation of stimuli and shared task contexts Flexible experimental paradigms Usable with adults, children, non-human primate dyads result of a long-term project with @primatecognition.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social.
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Join us in October for the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity and Interaction Submit your abstracts by August 1st -> events.gwdg.de/e/goettingen... Free participation, but registration required!
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The Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction
We are pleased to announce the First Göttingen Cognition Forum: Curiosity & Interaction Social and physical interactions with the environment shape cognition in humans and non-human animals alike. Und...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
We congratulate all newly elected members of the Leopoldina on this well-deserved recognition! We are especially happy for @stefantreue.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @sfb1528.bsky.social) who has now joined Germany’s National Academy of Sciences. 🍾 Congratulations! 🎆 @uni-goettingen.de
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Don't miss it! 🐒 What: SFB Lecture by Joah Madden (@exeter.ac.uk) 🗣️ Topic: How does cognition determine an individual's fitness 🕰️ When: Tomorrow, July 15th, 10 AM 📍 Where: Michael-Lankeit-Lecture Hall @primatenzentrum.bsky.social Looking forward seeing you!
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Fichtel-Kappeler-Lab @kirindy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Warum spielen Geschlecht und Gender eine so durchdringende Rolle bei der Gestaltung unserer Gesellschaften? Basierend auf Forschungsergebnissen aus Biologie, Evolution und Anthropologie bespricht dieses neue Buch biologische oder kulturelle Erklärungen und Lösungsansätze für Sexismus.
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Don't miss that! Really cool projects and lot of fun science to talk about!
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Primate Behavioral Ecology @primbehavecol.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Assamese macaque females prioritize future over current offspring! Check out our paper (led by PhD researcher Shivani) showing reduced infant survival if mothers conceive early again! tinyurl.com/4ka2ueyn @primatenzentrum.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de @primatecognition.bsky.social @dfg.de
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Herzlichen Glückwunsch liebe @violapriesemann.bsky.social für diese hochverdiente Anerkennung durch die #ALLEA! Wir freuen uns, dass Du auch bei unserem SFB eine wichtige Rolle spielst!
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FOR 2812 @for2812.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The program for GEM 2025 is now available as a pdf. for2812.rub.de/upload/edito...
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
🎓 Was bedeutet es, als Erste*r in der Familie den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu gehen? Unsere Podiumsdiskussion „First Generation Academics“ vom 12.3.2025 zeigt, mit welchen Hürden viele im Uni-Alltag kämpfen und wie man zwischen zwei Welten lebt. Jetzt online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOtp...
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First Generation Academics. Wie das Elternhaus Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst
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Cecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · 06/05/2025
Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology. See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...
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Ecology of Animal Migration
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VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 05/05/2025
Ihr Forschungsgebiet im Fokus: Mit dem Förderangebot "Scoping Workshops" bietet die Stiftung Raum, Forschungsgebiete zu reflektieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Bewerben Sie sich mit Ihrem Workshop-Konzept! 📅 Stichtag 16. Sept. ❗ Online-Sprechstunde: 5. Aug. www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/foerderun...
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Scoping Workshops
Hier dreht sich alles um Ihr Forschungsgebiet: Wie ist der aktuelle Stand? Welche Perspektiven gibt es für die Entwicklung? Mit den Scoping Workshops bietet die Stiftung Raum für Diskussion und intens...
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Limor Raviv 🐘🤗🦒🍄🦄 @limorraviv.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Interested in the evolution of human language and in understanding the pressures that shape languages today? Come do a PhD with me! Fully funded PhD position available in my group @mpi-nl.bsky.social, application deadline June 2nd: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
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Fully funded 4-year PhD position in Language Evolution | Max Planck InstituteMax Planck Institute for psycholinguistics
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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Spread the word: we're #hiring! We have an open #research fellowship position for #postdocs with their own research idea: It includes an own budget, a #PhD student position and the possibility to conduct independent research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception 🧭🦤🦇🐟⚛️🧪👩‍🔬! sfb1372.de/jobs
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Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Du bist Psychologe/-in, interessierst dich für Wissenschaftskommunikation in Forschung oder Praxis und möchtest dich vernetzen? Werde jetzt Mitglied der neuen @dgps.bsky.social Interessengruppe. Wir von @de.in-mind.org sind auch dabei! Mehr Infos & Anmeldung zum ersten Treffen nächste Woche ⬇️
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Elizabeth Hobson @elizabethhobson.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I am recruiting 1-2 postbacs for my parakeet sociality & cognition project! This position is for people finished with undergrad but who have not yet started grad school. Must be totally fascinated by parakeet social drama (there's a lot of it!)🪶🧪 Job ad here: ornithologyexchange.org/jobs/board/s...
Image showing the Hobson Lab logo (monk parakeets flying into a social network diagram with R code in the background), pictures of natural-colored green and gray monk parakeets, and head shots of our individually-marked birds showing their color combos and "names" (Blue-Orange-Blue has those colors on the head, cheek, and neck, and is "BOB"). Text says "Postbac position: parakeet sociality & cognition"
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Kaja Wierucka @kajawierucka.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 Fully-funded PhD opportunity! Explore the links between social & communication networks in ring-tailed lemurs! Exciting fieldwork, interdisciplinary team, and innovative technologies! Apply now and join @primatenzentrum.bsky.social & @unigoettingen.bsky.social for this cutting-edge research!
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Congratulations @lirsamuni.bsky.social - a well deserved honor! 🍾
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Lena Ackermann @lenaackermann.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pod out now!
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Simon Blackwell @blackwellse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very pleased to see this paper now published in Psychological Reports, with @marcellawoud.bsky.social, Katharina Westermann, & Jürgen Margraf: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... /1
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The Relationship Between Vividness of Positive Future-Oriented Mental Imagery, Anhedonia, and Positive Affect - Simon E. Blackwell, Katharina Westermann, Jürgen Margraf, Marcella L. Woud, 2025
The vividness with which people can imagine positive events happening in their future has been linked to a number of different aspects of psychopathology and we...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Our colleagues at the University Medical Center in Heidelberg are recruiting! Multiple open positions in the clinic led by Luise Poustka with labs of Peter Marschik & @Martin Schulte-Rüther. ⬇️ PhD student: lnkd.in/ep4qTdQd Poszdoc: lnkd.in/eb-hvC_V Studienassistenz: lnkd.in/eda6eASs
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Friends of Bonobos @friendsofbonobos.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Floodwaters overwhelmed Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, putting bonobos and staff members at risk. Your emergency gift will provide repairs, food for bonobos and staff, and clean drinking water. Please, give what you can today. savebonobos.org/FloodRelief #FloodRelief #Urgent (Video shows restaurant)
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Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd.com · 04/04/2025
🚨 @markkho.bsky.social & I are hiring a joint postdoc interested in computational models of social interaction & computational psychiatry 💻 Ideal candidates have experience w/ multi-player web-based experiments & computational modeling 📅 Review begins April 18, 2025 🔗 apply.interfolio.com/165809
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
SFB Paper Alert! That’s teamwork: 14 SFB members across nine projects put together a perspective paper on “Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild”, which was published in @naturemethods.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild - Nature Methods
In this Perspective, Vogg et al. discuss the progress and challenges of using computer vision approaches in the behavioral analysis of primates in their natural environment.
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Interested in an Emmy Noether Group on “Methods in AI”? Discover opportunities at the @thegoecampus.bsky.social! Join the online info event by the Campus Institute Data Science to learn more & connect: 📅 April 23, 5 PM 🔗 www.uni-goettingen.de/en/696563.html #AI #EmmyNoether #DataScience #Göttingen
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VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 09/04/2025
Freiräume statt bürokratischer Grenzen 🚀: Mit unserem neuen Förderangebot "Strategische Experimentierräume" unterstützen wir Universitäten 🎓, die gemeinsam mit Ministerien neue Wege in der #Hochschulentwicklung erproben wollen. #Wissenschaft Innovativ, flexibel und kooperativ - alle Infos hier: 👇
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Impulse für das Wissenschaftssystem: Strategische Experimentierräume - Hochschulentwicklung braucht Flexibilität
Gefördert werden strategische Konzepte an Universitäten im Verbund mit den zuständigen Ministerien, innerhalb derer neue Lösungswege erprobt werden, die bisher aufgrund gesetzlicher oder bürokratische...
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Curious about how we judge others based on physical traits? This study by Tobias Kordsmeyer, @larspenke.bsky.social et al reveals strong halo effects for both faces and bodies, showing consistent biases across German and Japanese observers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Halo effect of faces and bodies: Cross-cultural similarities and differences between German and Japanese observers - Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, Daniel Freund, Atsushi Ueshima, Kiri Kuroda, Tatsuya Kameda, ...
According to the halo effect, person perceptions are globally biased by specific traits or characteristics. Attractive people are attributed positive traits lik...
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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Comparative research in animal social behaviour—where are we at, and what’s next? In our symposium at #Behaviour2025 (S20) we explore the power & pitfalls of comparative approaches—and how to unlock their full potential. Join us to brainstorm, share ideas, and push the field forward together!
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Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition @primatecognition.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Glad to hear the workshop on "Non-invasive methods for wildlife monitoring" at Phu Khieo went well and all participants are safe and unaffected by the earthquakes. At the same time, our thoughts are with those affected by this tragedy—wishing them strength in this difficult time.
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Frontiers in Social Evolution Seminar FINE @fine-seminar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Todays FINE April 1st 2025, Camille Testard, Harvard University, USA Title: Neuroethology of sociality and its role in environmental resilience YouTube www.youtube.com/channel/UClX...
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The Leopoldina published a working paper on demographic change and ageing. The team includes SFB PI Julia Fischer (@julxf.bsky.social; @primatecognition.bsky.social; @primatenzentrum.bsky.social) and proposes to address demographic change across all policy areas to develop sustainable solutions
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Mélissa Berthet @berthetmelissa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Send suggestions, ideas, or examples of barriers you encountered, to help improve accessibility and make the next EFP conference more inclusive and diverse!
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In tomorrow’s public lecture, Prof. Jan-Peter Duda from the @unigoettingen.bsky.social speaks about geological traces of earliest life on #Earth – and how #geobiology can help in the search for extraterrestrial life. 👽 In German. www.mps.mpg.de/die-erde-und... @thegoecampus.bsky.social 🔭🧪
Donnerstag, 13. März 2025, 19 Uhr
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Verborgene Welten: Auf den Spuren des frühesten Lebens auf der Erde
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SFB 1528 - Cognition of Interaction @sfb1528.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Heute, um 17 Uhr endet in der alten Mensa unsere Reihe über Wege zu einer diverseren Wissenschaft. Wir freuen uns auf eine spannende Podiumsdiskussion & Publikumsfragen zu "First Generation Academics - Wieso das Elternhaus die Karrierewege junger Wissenschaftler*innen beeinflusst" Eintritt frei!
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