Marie Hirel

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.

All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia Neophobia (the aversive response to novelty) varies considerably across species and individuals, and can impact adaptability and survival. This study assesses neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 bird ...

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology:
“A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.”
Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
@themanybirds.bsky.social

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

💙New paper!💙

How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society?

With @danielredhead.bsky.social
we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Flyer advertising the Max Planck School of Cognition 4-year PhD fellowship programme, with a photograph of prior fellows. Interdisciplinary research, outstanding faculty, fully financed. You can now apply, sign up for the Applicant Support Program, and/or register for a Q & A session, all via the webpage: cognition.maxplanckschools.org

Applications open for fully funded 4-yr positions in the unique interdisciplinary program of the @maxplanck.de School of Cognition. Pursue a passion for science at the forefront of fundamental & applied research, mentored by a network of world renowned researchers.🧪
cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en

Intentional Communication in Animals The evolutionary origins of human language are deeply intertwined with the ability to communicate intentionally. Grounded in frameworks from developme…

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗

How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Curious about how primates acquire and process social information to generate social knowledge? 🦧

Check out our new review paper on social evaluation, with a particular focus on the cognitive mechanisms involved in assessing others' skills and competence 👇

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒

The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet.

📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

Choose Your Partner: Social Evaluation of Skillfulness at Cooperative Co-Action Tasks in Tonkean Macaques (Macaca tonkeana) — Animal Behavior and Cognition

🚨 My 2nd PhD chapter is now out in Animal Behavior and Cognition

We explore social evaluation of skills in Tonkean macaques in cooperative contexts with a promising experimental design 🧮👀🐒
@skeupp.bsky.social @julxf.bsky.social

Check it out here: www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...

A white and gray dog touches a yellow dot hanging on the wall with his nose. Text says ManyDogs 2 - Join the Team!

🚨 Calling all dog behavior & cognition researchers - ManyDogs Project is launching ManyDogs 2!

🔍🐕‍🦺We're studying overimitation: Do dogs copy irrelevant actions just b/c their favorite human does them?

Email manydogsproject2@gmail.com to collaborate globally and contribute to reproducible science!

Hi! This is a great idea, could I be added please? ☺️

💥💥 Our annual conference #ABL2025 is back! 💥💥

Join us 13–14 Nov 2025 for 2 exciting days:
🔹 6 sessions
🔹 6 stellar plenaries
🔹 Talks & posters on diverse topics
🔹 Global-friendly time zones 🌍
Mark your calendar 📅 and don't miss #ABL2025!

📌 Stay tuned—registration details will be announced soon

#voxprimato #conference
📢 registration and abstract submission for the 37th conference of the SFDP are open! 🐒
It will be held in Poitiers, France, from 30/09 to 03/10 on the thematic "(Paleo)primatologieS: from the field to the lab" and is organised by the fantastic team @palevoprim.bsky.social! 👏

Join conversation

🚨A vos agenda!🚨 Notre prochain atelier "Préparation au Terrain" aura lieu mercredi 14 mai à 18h CET.

Vous partez bientôt sur le terrain et avez 1000 questions? Cet atelier est pour vous!

Vous souhaitez partager votre expérience? Contactez-nous!

Lien: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

RT! Looking for an exciting opportunity to join a wonderful field team in Senegal as a PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT?
@CrpSimenti
is hiring! Explore the lives of wild Guinea baboons in their natural habitat, while gaining proficiency in diverse research methods: bit.ly/4j5itaM

A Barbary macaque walks on all fours through an outdoor wire mesh tunnel towards the camera

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First post AND first new paper on the butterfly app! authors.elsevier.com/a/1kv83mjMA3iZ

'Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus'
with @julxf.bsky.social @primatenzentrum.bsky.social out now in #AnimalBehaviourJournal
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