Dr. Behavioral Biology 🎓 Curious about what tickles (non)human minds 🧠 Ecological, cultural & cognitive underpinnings of #innovation & #flexibility💡
Postdoc @IAST.fr • PhD @univie.ac.at • #DISI alumna • SciComm 📢 Proud #FirstGen & STEMinist 💜
Paula Ibáñez de Aldecoa
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Sir David Attenborough… on your 100th birthday, we thank you.
For a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with such grace and wonder.
Generations have fallen in love with nature because of you.
Happy birthday, Sir. 🎉
"We found that cumulative improvement occurred across generations even in the absence of causal structure, demonstrating that cultural transmission alone *can* drive technological improvement."
Beautiful study. No notes. Highly recommended.
📣 Out now in @pnasnexus.org our *NEW PAPER* revamping a long-standing debate: to what extent does causal reasoning aid the cultural evolution of technology?
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Thanks to @vdscobene.bsky.social for inviting me to give a keynote talk at the last PhD Academy Conference @univie.ac.at. I felt so honoured to be surrounded by so many bright young minds in this marvellous historic venue ✨
Groupie highlight moment meeting my academic heroes, the iconic Peter and Rosemary Grant!
What an immense pleasure to listen to their fieldwork stories and trailblazing discoveries with the Darwin's finches in my beloved Galápagos 💚
🚨New Paper on Bonobo and Chimpanzee tool flexibility. As so often performance is leveraged by the captivity effect yet the two species differ in explorative behavior and how readily they switch between tool types. For more 👇🏼 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @rachelaharrison.bsky.social
Imagination in bonobos!
I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org
We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative
youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko
Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!
“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤
A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.
Abstract. Humans are uniquely capable of producing highly efficient tools, but the extent to which this capacity depends on individual reasoning abilities
📣 Out now in @pnasnexus.org our *NEW PAPER* revamping a long-standing debate: to what extent does causal reasoning aid the cultural evolution of technology?
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
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Abstract. Humans are uniquely capable of producing highly efficient tools, but the extent to which this capacity depends on individual reasoning abilities
Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...
