Lots of great articles in here for animal communication researchers. Thanks Raphaela Heesen and Marlen Fröhlich for pulling this together! Animal Prattle

Post-vacation-catch-up: Very happy that this paper on visual bodily signals as core devices for coordinating minds in interaction is out! It offers a review of core pragmatic functions of visual bodily signals and speculations on their evolution. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Congratulations Katerina Harvati for being elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina! 🎊🎉💐 We SENCKENBERG are very proud of you!!!! 👏👏👏 👉sgn.one/1j5 #WomenInScience #paleoanthropology #archeology #excavations #FossilFriday

📢 Join our team #jobopportunity Postdoc in primate evolution at the Paleoanthropology working group, Universität Tübingen 💯 Application deadline: November 30th, 2022. ℹ️ Find all details here: uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/s…

Protolang (27-28 September) has a really cool list of keynote speakers this year: Dean Falk, Marlen Fröhlich, Simon Kirby, and Steven Mithen. And it's in Rome!

🚨Please share widely🚨 We're looking to hire an enthusiastic PhD student working on the coordination of joint action in human children of two societies, as part of our VolkswagenStiftung-funded project on communicative plasticity in🐵🦧🗣️ Deadline June 30th. t.ly/64oLL

🚨PhD position on orang-utan communication🚨 For our communicative plasticity project🦧🐵🗣️we're looking for a PhD student working on social action coordination in wild & zoo-housed orang-utans, collab w/ Orangutans of Suaq caroline. Deadline July 31st. t.ly/X42RL

📢 #JobAlert Join the Paleoanthropology team in Tübingen! We have an opening for a 5-year visiting professorship in #humanevolution. Application deadline: August 4 2023 ⏳️ 🔗 shorturl.at/rzAY2 Please share with any interested candidates!

The teams wants to grow! Only one more week left until the deadline 👇 Apply now and/or contact me with any questions 🦧

We are #hiring! Join our Department of Evolutionary Anthropology University of Zurich as Assistant Professor #TenureTrack in "Paleoanthropology" with NCCR Evolving Language! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen… Apply until 3rd December 2023 via mnf.uzh.ch/paleoanthro! #anthropology #paleontology #professorship

Research Assistant Wanted❗️ We're looking for an assistant to help collect data on wild orangutans🌿🦧🌿

Final paper of the orangutan gesture saga published this week! 🦧👋Wild-captive contrasts in non-voc communicative repertoires seem to be mainly driven by additional interaction partners, not by diffs in interaction outcomes or environmental affordances. t.ly/pBwmD

🦧 Deborah Galeone just started her PhD in the Freigeist Research Group "Pathways to Language", led by Marlen Fröhlich. Over the next 4 years she will assess individual variation & plasticity in communicative interactions of wild & zoo-housed orangutans. uni-tuebingen.de/de/258668

Oh Tenkere, what an honour indeed!

We are #hiring! Join our Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich as Professor in "Behavioral Biology" and realize projects at #KalahariResearchCentre and with Zoo Zürich! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen… Apply until 14th April 2024 at mnf.uzh.ch/behavebio!

*Very* excited to see the last study of my PhD making the cover of Science Magazine on the macaques of Caribbean Primate Research Center. We show that ecological disturbances can alter selective pressures on social ties leading to persistent societal changes. shorturl.at/i2WIB 🧵👇

Don't miss this great opportunity: The MuT Foundation offers 2 postdoc fellowships for research on great ape behaviour/conservation, w/ or w/o fieldwork. Deadline: 31 Jan. I'm a member of their advisory board, questions welcome! groups.google.com/a/g-groups.wis… groups.google.com/a/g-groups.wis…

Come work with us! ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Thoughtful new paper about learning and communication in primates from Marlen Fröhlich, cedric boeckx, and Claudio Tennie The role of exploration and exploitation in primate communication | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

🚨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 & captive bonobos, fully funded by VolkswagenStiftung. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je