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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology

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Multidisciplinary team of psychologists and behavioural biologists. Our research is helping us to better understand human evolution. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Our very own @tapintothewild.bsky.social presented work from two of her PhD chapters on #elephant #postures and human-elephant interactions at @ecbb2026.bsky.social last week!! Amazing work and fabulous talk 🐘🌍👏🏻 #ECBB2026
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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We’ll be collecting data and recruiting for our Little Scientist database again at Victorious this weekend. Come and find us in the kids arena! www.itv.com/news/meridia.... @uop-ccep.bsky.social @uopcidd.bsky.social
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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fieldwork dreams: attending @uop-ccep.bsky.social journal club (a super interesting talk by Titir Debnath on #macaques and #human–wildlife #conflict in the Indian Himalayas)… and some grey friends also wanted to listen!! 🐒🏔️🐘
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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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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Grateful to have won a second Jana Robeyst Trust Fund #Grant to help support my research assistant hire 🩵 shoutout to Thatayaone (TT) and his incredible knowledge; from helping me find elephants, to filming them - and for being a calm presence when they come a little too close!! 🤣🐘🎥
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
✨ Meet the CCEP team!! ✨ Alexia is a first-year PhD student exploring multimodal communicative signals across contrasting emotional contexts in crested macaques 🙊🙈 She hopes to develop an objective and quantitative framework for assessing affective valence in wild animals! 📸: stock images 🌿🧠
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Tapinder Sidhu @tapintothewild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We've extended this study to see how many responses we can get in one week! 👉 tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr Don't miss out on fun #science participation right at your fingertips. Help us understand how we perceive and interpret #elephant behaviour 🐘 💻 🌍 Study link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr
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Tapinder Sidhu @tapintothewild.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚨📣 More spaces available!!! Take part & contribute to research by viewing images or videos of #elephants! Share & spread the word to help us reach more people who live or work with elephants 🐘🌍👉 Link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr @uop-ccep.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social @leanneproops.bsky.social
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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
🚨📣 Calling everyone who lives or works with #elephants !! 📣🚨 help us to share, spread the word and find those to complete a short study on #elephant #posture for some fab research by @tapintothewild.bsky.social 🩵 how many responses can we get in a week? 🐘🌍🧠 Link: tinyurl.com/55vjsbxr
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
✨ Meet the team!✨ @sasha-touille.bsky.social is a PhD student focusing on #multimodal #communication in donkeys and horses 🧠 One of her main goals is to build an ethogram and study how donkeys and horses communicate; exploring whether differences in their social dynamics influence communication! 🐴🫏
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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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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It was our #CCEPScienceDay yesterday!! We put on a fab day of presentations, poster sessions and activities to talk to students about our staff and student projects 📚🌍👩🏻‍🔬 and showcase the range of research happening across our centre!! 🐴🐶🐘🙊🦧
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
✨Meet the team!!✨ @tapintothewild.bsky.social is a PhD student analysing #elephant #postures expressed across different contexts in elephant-elephant and elephant-human interactions. The aim is to aid human-elephant coexistence and animal welfare by understanding the nuances of elephant behaviour 🧠🐘
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We had a fab journal club today featuring the work of Jennifer Linden - a PhD student from @zslofficial.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk - talking to us all about her research on African #wilddog conservation and climate change! 🌍🐶🐆
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
✨Meet the team!✨ @vascom.bsky.social is a PhD student exploring the intersection of behaviour, plastic pollution, and human perspectives. His research examines moor macaque interactions with #plastic, human perceptions of wildlife–waste interactions, and arts-based approaches to raise awareness 🐒♻️🗑️
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Check out this fascinating article about elephant knowledge, featuring our very own Dr. Lucy Bates 🧠🐘🌍
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How elephants pass on crucial survival skills to next generations
Scientists are finding elephant youths respond differently to danger if they grew up without elders.
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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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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
✨Meet the CCEP team!✨ @sophiemilward.bsky.social specialises in #SocialCognition, studying the drivers of human coordination with others. She studies child / adult behaviour across diverse cultures to identify how our social coordination abilities develop and are influenced by our surroundings 👥🌍🧠
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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I wrote a thing…. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Some dogs can pick up hundreds of words – do they learn like children?
Some dogs can remember the names of hundreds of objects.
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Leanne Proops @leanneproops.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Webinar: Donkeys as Agents of Drought Resilience for Pastoralist Communities 5th February at 11am GMT/2pm EAT port-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89107947069 We are pleased to invite you to our webinar and panel discussion sharing the findings from our British Academy-funded project. Hope to see you there!
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Sasha Donnier @sasha-touille.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Sharing the first results from one of my PhD studies at the SCDTP final year conference felt like a real milestone 💫🐴 #SCDTPFYC2526
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It was a fab day at the SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social Final Year Conference yesterday! CCEP students presented their fab PhD research showcasing their projects in equid communication and elephant behaviour; in person and from the field! Congrats to Tapinder and @sasha-touille.bsky.social 🐘🐴 #SCDTPFYC2526
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
New podcast episode featuring our research @uop-ccep.bsky.social 🐒 @estherherrmann.bsky.social and I talk about some of our findings on chimpanzee and macaque cognition and why protecting these species matters. Listen here: shows.acast.com/399a0c03-e9d... #primates #evolution #psychology
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Life Solved
Designed for curious thinkers, the Life Solved podcast explores current research and thought-provoking topics. Join us as we explore the latest research at the University, and find out how that resear...
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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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Angela Stoeger @angelastoeger.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🐘 New Paper on Elephant Gestures Featured in The New York Times 📰 NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/s... The study is part of Vesta Eleuteri’s PhD research, supervised by me and Catherine Hobaiter, in collaboration with Josh Plotnik and Lucy Bates.
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How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples
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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excellent talks, nice chats, great city! #CSF2025 #Hamburg
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Kate Lewis @kate-lewis.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Check out my article in The Conversation, all about our latest paper, which created an extensive catalogue of horse facial expressions 🐴 Thank you so much for inviting me to contribute! #TheConversation #equineresearch #facialexpressions theconversation.com/horses-have-...
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Horses have a complex repertoire of facial expressions, just like primates
The study has created a catalogue of horse facial expressions to help people understand how to read these incredible animals.
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Kate Lewis @kate-lewis.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We have created the first anatomically based ethogram of horse facial behaviour, covering a broad range of distinct behaviours from aggression through to play 🐴 Check it out here: peerj.com/articles/193... @leanneproops.bsky.social @uop-ccep.bsky.social
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An ethogram of facial behaviour in domestic horses: evolutionary perspectives on form and function
Understanding cause and function of animal facial behaviour can provide key insights into the animal’s cognitive and emotional state. The Equine Facial Action Coding System (EquiFACS) has characterise...
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Laura Simone Lewis @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships, and psychology of others. Little ...
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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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Rachel Thomson 🐘 @rachelliephant.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Very grateful for my Jana Robyest Trust Fund grant and Portsmouth Psychology grant for getting me on a plane to Botswana - and to the Elephants for Africa research camp! 🐘🩶 Here to scope out the national park for my PhD field season next year; what a beautiful place 🌍🇧🇼 #SCDTP @scdtp.bsky.social
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Gibraltar Macaques Project @gibmacproj.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Today at 1pm UK time the GMP will be featured in the Journal Club of the Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology from the University of Portsmouth!
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congrats to our PhD student @vascom.bsky.social who recently won Best Photo at the University of Portsmouth Revolution Plastics PhD Conference! 🥳 🥇 check out his thought-provoking picture of a Moor Macaque in South Sulawesi, Indonesia:🐒🥤📦🛍️ #plasticpollution #primate #phd
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Dr Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Humans are bad at reading dogs’ emotions – but we can do learn to do better
Even experts get dog body language wrong at times.
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We had a fantastic time showcasing our research at the Science is Wonderful! fair organised by the European Commission in Brussels. Thanks to #MSCA for the invitation and to all children who visited our booth 😃 🐒 @francescadp.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social
Dr Teresa Romero, Dr Jerome Micheletta, Dr Marine Joly and Dr Francesca De Petrillo in front of their booth „Smart monkeys: how primates think and why they need your help!“A paper cup with a face of a macaque Pledge wall with post-it notes left by children who visited the boothDr Francesca De Petrillo and Dr Marine Joly present their cognitive tasks using hands-on activities to children
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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/
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MacaqueNet: Advancing comparative behavioural research through large‐scale collaboration
We present MacaqueNet, a global community of macaque researchers who developed the first publicly searchable, standardised database on affiliative and agonistic behaviour. This cross-species database...
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Excited to showcase our 🐒 research at the #scienceiswonderful 2025 science fair organised by the #EuropeanCommission #MSCA. See you in March in Brussels 😃 with @jmicheletta.bsky.social, @teresa-romero.bsky.social, @francescadp.bsky.social marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/science-is-w...
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Science is Wonderful!
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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
You can now apply for our 3 year postdoc looking at the role of culture and group size in social coordination and collaboration in the UK, Uganda and Republic of Korea! Any questions please don’t hesitate to drop me a dm or email (sophie.milward@port.ac.uk) mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Congratulations to @louiseloyant.bsky.social, winner of the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social 2024 Napier Medal for her PhD work on inhibitory control across macaque species. What an achievement 🥳💪🥇
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Thanks to the Bristol Zoological Society for hosting such a great @primatesocietygb.bsky.social meeting! It was nice to catch up with our @uop-ccep.bsky.social PhD students: Luke Collins, @louiseloyant.bsky.social, @sarahsalphati.bsky.social and Amanda Bartlett.
Luke Collins, Louise Loyant, Sarah Salphati, Amanda Bartlett and Marine Joly
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Marine Joly @marinemjoly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Congrats again Louise!! #proudsupervisor @uop-ccep.bsky.social
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Jérôme Micheletta @jmicheletta.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Together with @leanneproops.bsky.social and Cressida Bowyer, we are looking for PhD applicants for a project using human behaviour change theory to develop educational programmes promoting the conservation of crested macaques. More information here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Using human behaviour change theory to develop educational programmes promoting the conservation of critically endangered crested macaques (Macaca nigra) in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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teresa-romero.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:
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Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
More information about my upcoming Leverhulme project here. Postdoc adverts coming soon! www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...
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Researcher awarded £270k to unpack how people interact in groups
At a time when countries across the world need to work together to address pressing global issues, a new study will look at how people from diverse backgrounds come together and interact.
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Sophie Milward @sophiemilward.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!
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Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology @uop-ccep.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We are now on Bluesky 🥳 We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️ Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!
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