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Vanessa Wilson

@vd0ubleu.bsky.social
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Researcher in comparative social cognition and individual differences. Lecturer in Psychology, University of Hull. Primarily but not exclusively primates.

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Animal behavior opportunities @animalopps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨Master’s project position available 🚨 Train gibbons to use touch screens as part of comparative and affective neuroscience research
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Anna Wilkinson @coldbloodedcog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Come and work with us.... jobs.lincoln.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at the University of Lincoln: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Human Animal Interactions
Lecturer salary starts from £38,784 per annum.Senior Lecturer salary starts from £44,746 per annum.The School of Natural Sciences at the University of Lincoln seeks to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lec...
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Dream job for an #editor & nature lover! 🐦🌿Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📅 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £38,710.00 per annum. 📍 BTO HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid working). Deadline for applications: 30 September 2026. #Ornithology
A Nightingale perches on a branch amongst the green foliage of a bush. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring! Science Communications Manager.
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Nora Slania @noraslania.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‼️Field work position ‼️ We are looking for a research assistant for chimpanzee field work in Cote d'Ivoire, starting November. 🐵🌳📹 Have field experience, speak French, and want to study chimps with us? Take a look and reach out!
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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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Dr Chris Young @drchrisyoung.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Job Alert 🚨: We are looking for field assistants to join our research projects in South Africa studying chacma baboons. Expenses coved. Please get in touch if interested and share widely. See attached advert 👇 @tylerbonnell.bsky.social
Description of the field position and duties
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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🔬 We’re looking for a master's student for a thesis on "Nocturnal Vocalisations of Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)", starting around August 2026 in Neuchâtel. More information: evolvinglanguage.ch/wp-content/u... Supervision and contact: @noemiefreymond.bsky.social
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Shona Duguid @shona-d.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📺 Watch this space: PhD position in children's collaborative problem-solving with @nicolacutting.bsky.social and myself to be advertised very soon! The application deadline will be in late March, so get in contact if you want to know more.
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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2026
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Confs: Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 2026
The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL) brings together the growing community of researchers working to expand the diversity of languages in the scope of psycholinguistic and neuroscience research. This research is driven by the recognition that structural/typological and socio-cultural diversity provides important and unique opportunities to see language processing and language learning mechanisms at work. The bulk of processing and acquisition research repr
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Manuel Bohn @elmanubohn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This study was an amazing collaborative experience. I'm really really grateful to all the wonderful people who contributed and made this happen. It's the closest I have ever come to finding something like a "universal" in human cognition.
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Looking for women up to 24 months postpartum to participate in my student's survey on maternal wellbeing 🙂 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/disse...
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The Relationship Between Postpartum Support and Wellbeing
Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...
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Bridget Waller @bridgetwaller.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Fully funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU (and Claire Witham at MRC) - join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social
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Marie Hébert @mariehebert.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
PLEASE SHARE 🚨🚨 6-month RA position available at the Univ. of St Andrews to work with Sue Healy (@cogwild.bsky.social), Simone Meddle (@simonemeddle.bsky.social) and I on the behavioural neuroendocrinology of early reproduction in zebra finches. tinyurl.com/577cx9tj Deadline: 03/12/2025 ⬇️
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New study out lead by @sarahbrocard.bsky.social: we found that chimpanzees and humans share similar sensitivity to prosocial behaviour, suggesting that species differences in prosociality are not grounded in ability to recognise actions, but in how they act on them. @cogcompneuch.bsky.social
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
It's been great to be a part of such a large scale collaborative project. A big thanks to Basel Zoo for letting us work with their birds! @cogcompneuch.bsky.social
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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Only 3 days left to register for the Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning X-PPL 2025! The event will take place on the 1st and 2nd of September in Zurich. @isle-uzh.bsky.social www.isle.uzh.ch/en/events/x-...
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Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning 1st - 2nd September 2025 | X-PPL 2025
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
New paper out on hominid fast mapping, led by Dahliane Labertoniere, with Carla Pascual-Guardia, Katrin Skoruppa & @zuberbuehler.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3kkzkjnk
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Fast mapping in hominids
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Caroline Andrews @candrewsvl.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Our new paper on animacy effects in Basque comprehension is out! It's been fun shepherding this paper for the last couple years.  Congratulations to all the authors, but especially Aitor Ergurtzegi on publishing the last paper of his PhD! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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The effect of animacy on the agent preference: Self-paced reading evidence from Basque - Memory & Cognition
Language processing shows a tendency to prefer agents over other roles. For instance, when initial unmarked noun phrases (NPs) are ambiguous between agent and patient roles, there is a preference to i...
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Pregnant ladies, we need you! Please take ten minutes to fill out our short survey on maternal wellbeing.
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Shoko Sugasawa @shokosugasawa.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨Fully-funded PhD studentship on insect behaviour, cognition & muscles with me & @viveknityananda.bsky.social at @newcastleuni.bsky.social 🐝🍀🎓🙌Application deadline April 30, start date in September. Drop me an email if you have questions! www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Image of a PhD position advert entitled "PhD studentship in Brain, Brawn, and Bugs: cognitive and physical factors of insect dexterity" with images of a praying mantis and a bumblebee foraging.
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Marlen Fröhlich @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je
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Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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Alexandra Rosati @alexrosati.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We are hiring! We have an open position for a new lab coordinator in #primate #cognition and #behavior in the Cognitive Evolution Group at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Find out more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We're looking for equine stakeholders (horse owners, breeders, stable managers, vets etc) to fill in this short survey, to help us assess feasibility of a possible horse welfare tool. Please share! shorturl.at/PIG2s
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Stakeholder Equine Choice Survey
Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Your input will help us understand your experience with horses and your perspective on a proposed welfare tool that provides horses with social c...
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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📢 Join the 7th annual meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture ( #SCSC ) on the 28-29th of April at the University of #Zurich! Registration and abstract submission are now open until the 28th of February. More information: culturalcogsci.org/AnnualMeetin...
7th annual meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture (SCSC). Registration and abstract submission now opened!
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Re-sharing this: it would be great to get some more participants before data collection closes!
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/hull/petow...
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Insightful and depressing statistics from Tatsuya Amano on the negative impact of being a non-native English speaker on publication output.
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Our work on ape event cognition and the evolution of language is featured in The Conversation theconversation.com/how-primate-...
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NCCR Evolving Language @nccrlanguage.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
📰🐒According to a study by Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social and team, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects when observing someone interact with something. Learn more in the article from PLOS Biology, in DE, FR and EN on our website. evolvinglanguage.ch/great-apes-t...
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Great apes visually track subject-object relationships like humans do - NCCR Evolving Language
When observing someone interact with something, humans and apes alternate attention between the two subjects. Great apes  track events with their eyes in the same way that humans do, according to a st...
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Sebastian Sauppe @sebastiansauppe.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In our new paper 📝 @plos.bsky.social PLOS Biology, we use #eyetracking to study how great apes understand who-does-what-to-whom — surprisingly similar to human adults! Thus suggests that the event cognition basis for language was present in our common ancestor. ➡️ journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways
Are only humans capable of tracking agent/patient roles during events, a cognitive foundation of syntax? This study shows that great apes, like human adults but unlike infants, differentiate agents fr...
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Moritz M. Daum @moritzdaum.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#PaperAlert: Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? @vd0ubleu.bsky.social from the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social and colleagues from the @kweltentdeckende.bsky.social lab just published a study in PLOS Biology on this question: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways
Are only humans capable of tracking agent/patient roles during events, a cognitive foundation of syntax? This study shows that great apes, like human adults but unlike infants, differentiate agents fr...
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Hot off the press! Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? In our new paper out in PLoS Biology, we take a comparative eye tracking approach to explore temporal gaze distribution to agents and patients in dyadic interactions tinyurl.com/mryk7kmb
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Vanessa Wilson @vd0ubleu.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It feels great to have been part of such a large collaborative effort. Very much looking forward to seeing what comes next.
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