Bayesian models of perception and action by Kording Lab 🦖 Wei Ji Ma and Daniel Goldreich cns.nyu.edu/malab/bayesian…

We are hiring two tenure-track assistant professors at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at Universität Bern in conservation biology and mathematical and computational ecology tinyurl.com/IEEjobs l

A huge issue in primary education is that children are exposed to creationism before they understand science. #Teachers: fix this by showing them this lovely "Where do we come from?" video for schools by Humanists UK with Prof Alice Roberts💙 youtu.be/xXfGzknBpqo?si…… via YouTube

Don't forget to submit your abstract before Dec 1st! 👇👇👇 culture-conference.com/call-for-abstr…

We have a PhD studenstip available in any area of insect cognition or welfare through the China Scholarship Council (CSC - Chinese applicants only) to start in September 2025. findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

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Excellent new paper from Dominik Deffner, Natalia Fedorova, and Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛! "Bridging theory and data: A computational workflow for cultural evolution"—with a great example of using agent-based models and approximate Bayesian computation for inference 🤓 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Funded PhD studentship: Using hyperspectral imaging to assess facial expressivity in humans/primates. Ideal candidate would have skills in both bio and physical sciences! Join our team! :) Evolution and Social Interaction Group Jamie Whitehouse NTU Psychology ntu.ac.uk/study-and-cour…

Modeller? Interested in linguistic diversity? *Postdoc* position on DYNAMICS OF MULTILINGUALISM available in my group at MPI-EVA Leipzig. 2 yrs working with an international & interdisciplinary team led by Justyna Olko 🇪🇺🇺🇦 eva.mpg.de/career/positio…

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In south-eastern Senegal live female chimps that use spears to prize slumbering bush babies from tree cavities, as zoologist and broadcaster Lucy Cooke explains. discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/m…

📢 So excited to share my first PhD paper on chimpanzee cumulative culture and how it is shaped by population connectivity #chimps #cumulativeculture Check it out 👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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campus.uni-konstanz.de/en/science-bac… Check out the awesome coverage of our Centre for the Adv Study of Collective Behaviour field course by the Universität Konstanz magazine. Details about the 2025 course are coming soon 😎 youtu.be/qJD1tOXZYZY @Cini_Gall Chanel Rampartab KalahariResearchCentre Ecology of Animal Societies

New research led by Elliot Howard-Spink on chimpanzee ageing & impact on tool use featuring Bossou chimps! 👇

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

I met this gentle giant puppy on the streets of Greece, and I am looking for the best home for him. He loves cuddles, humans, cats, and dogs, and he recently survived a poisoned bait. I am willing to travel with him anywhere in Europe where he will be adopted #AdoptDontShop

I have an open Postdoc position in Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zürich! The project is about the conservation of transcription factors functions between strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🧬🦠 More details and application at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_… Please share!

Today, interesting work published on Menzerath's law by Stuart K Watson and cols: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 👏🐵👁️Our work: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… indicate that Menzerath’s law could be a spurious observation but not Menzerath-Altmann’s law. Other communicative pressures may operate.

The call for abstract is now closed, thanks for all your submissions 🙌 If you have submitted an abstract, you will get an answer by the end of the week. ‼️Now, it's time to open the registration‼️ Attendance is still free 🥳 If you wish to attend: ⬇️⬇️ culture-conference.com/registration/