🚨RT!
The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
Do you like to dip your fries in ketchup before eating it? Our cockatoos do too! In a new study in Current Biology, we showed our cockatoos innovated a new way to flavour their food: they dunk noodles in blueberry soy yoghurt. Read about it and watch our video abstract: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Chimpanzees reliably produced communication behaviours in the event of a breakdown in coordination and differed qualitatively in their operation of our see-saw apparatus depending on whether they learned it in a social or non-social setting. (2/4)
Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is now published!
Kea but not cockatoos are susceptible to a bait-and-switch magic trick. And check out that thermal imaging! ❤️🔥
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
We discuss our results in the context of chimpanzee communication during social tasks and the parameters that do and do not constitute coordination from the subjects' perspective (3/4)
🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
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Huge thanks to keeper and research team @edinburghzoo.bsky.social for their support on this project! (4/4)