Researcher in primatology 🐒 and animal linguistics 🎤🙊
Titi monkeys, bonobos and gorillas ❤️🦍
Postdoc at the University of Milan, Italy
She/Her
https://sites.google.com/view/melissa-berthet
Mélissa Berthet
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🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨
The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient
Position at
@ceec-research.bsky.social
📆28th June deadline
More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW
#ringing #fieldwork
Camille Troisi
Confirmation on Friday that a rare Ebola virus was sickening people in the DRC shocked many scientists—mainly because of the outbreak’s sheer size. Since then, researchers and public health experts have been sprinting to make up for lost time. https://scim.ag/4ftcyx5
Does it matter whether you use focal sampling or scan sampling to collect animal behaviour data? We used simulations to find out, testing how accurate and precise each method is across a range of behaviours, study systems, and observation protocols.
Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads
We are currently accepting applications for two positions on this project!
Research Fellow/Post doc : tinyurl.com/postdocNTU
PhD Student: tinyurl.com/PhDNTU
Come work with us! @bridgetwaller.bsky.social @neuroprimato.bsky.social
📣 New Lecture!
@berthetmelissa.bsky.social explores new findings that wild bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble the compositional structure of human language 🧠
📅 30 May
🕓 16:00 GMT | 12:00 EDT | 09:00 PDT
📍 Online (Zoom)
Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Come and join us for two evenings of fun networking!
First come first served, register asap!
For a deeper conversation on the topic, see this post - I enjoyed reading their paper!
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Honoured to see our work featured in this very nice piece!
With recent advances in animal communication research, we may be getting closer and closer to talking with animals. But should we?
edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/s...
Delphine De Moor
Pour les curieux, une étude à laquelle j'ai participé avec mes collègues en linguistique 🐝 :
📣NEW paper📣
To date, only humans demonstrate meaning-based, generative communication. However, recent discoveries of combinatorial versatility in chimpanzee + bonobo vocal sequences open the possibility of generative communication in other species. Read here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CPCAMM...
Jamie Whitehouse
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Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of mapping social networks. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/jwhi...
New paper! We use simulations to test received wisdom on the observational sampling method to use and find that Altmann 1974 was right all along (never bet against Jeanne!). Focal follows capture rare, fleeting behaviours, scans captures long, common behaviours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ambre Salis
Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.
Through a series of cognitive experiments and behavioural studies with non-human primates, Jamie Whitehouse and team will identify the role that processing facial expressions has in the evolution of…
Most behavioural studies rely on systematic behavioural sampling, as observing and recording all behavioural events that occur is rarely feasible. Cho…
Are you attending #EFP this year?
Don't forget to register for the EDI events! Places are very limited. You should have received the registration link in your inbox.
A huge thank you to the @efp2026.bsky.social Organizing Committee, who are generously offering a drink for every participant. 🍹
La danse des #abeilles est un système de communication remarquablement sophistiqué, mais on considère d'habitude qu'elle n'a rien de commun avec le #langage humain. 🐝
Une nouvelle étude révise ce verdict :
👉 www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
Leverhulme Trust
New open access publication in Topoi! @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I explore the ethics of AI animal translation projects. 🖥️🐬Before we build it, we need to take stock of the ethical implications.
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