I am looking for a MSc student to conduct their thesis within my PhD project on multimodal communication in common marmosets! 🐒🌞 You will be part of the Evolutionary Cognition Group at UZH (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social). Unpaid position (funding options would need to be applied for by the candidate).
We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"
Join us in Copenhagen in June for our summer course on programming in R!
- Aimed at PhD students in behavioural ecology, others also welcome
- No prior programming knowledge needed
Deadline for sign-up: May 1
More info here:
programmingintrocph.weebly.com
One of our IMPRS Faculty Members, @heesenr.bsky.social , is currently looking for applications. Please follow this link for more information:
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/125923/docto...
Our new paper is out in @intjprimatol.bsky.social!
Huge credit to Luca Wienand for an excellent bachelor's project on spatial and sociosexual behavior in common marmosets!
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/R5eju
@primatenzentrum.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social @evocoggroup.bsky.social
Our new preprint is out! Animal collocation analysis 2.0: improving statistical inference and applications for cohort comparisons. 🥳 Check it out here, or read our summary below: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵
Josefine Bohr Brask
www.biorxiv.org
IMPRS-QBEE
Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.
Bien avant Homo sapiens, nos ancêtres primates échangeaient déjà des baisers. Une étude parue dans Evolution and Human Behaviour montre que ce geste, à la fois intime et vecteur potentiel de maladies,...