Comparative and Developmental Psychologist researching the origins of mind / playing with 🐒👦🦜 Scientific director @rzsslivinglinks. She.

University of St Andrews
Joined October 2014
📣📣📣 Applications for DISI 2025 are now open!! Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org/
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Last week we presented first data from our @geladas_bridges project at the conference of the Italian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour @sie_etologia in Turin! Emotions and prosociality in vocal exchanges of wild geladas… so happy and proud 🐒 @EthosLabo @TheLeakeyFndtn
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Heads up animal behavior researchers! Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15. Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav stri.si.edu/academic-program……
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Join us next week at our intelligence workshop @SimonsInstitute! Schedule: simons.berkeley.edu/workshop… Register online for both in-person and streaming. FANTASTIC lineup of speakers: 1/3
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We've moved to a system of funding rounds & the latest one is now open! Students can apply for a microgrant by May 24th towards personal financial needs like rent, groceries, transport etc. that are making it challenging for you to continue your studies 😓 animalbehaviourcollective.or…
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Great new paper with @Silviventu She showed that enriched rats are better at hard memory problems, have sparser hippocampal activity and more rate remapping in CA3 authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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📣 Exciting news! We're accepting applications for our Broadening Participation Grant. Apply for grants up to $5,000 to increase accessibility and inclusion of under-represented communities in #CogSci Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/… and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️
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"Mathematics of intelligence" @ipam_ucla is accepting applicants! Financial support available to attend and participate for extended periods, especially for recent PhDs, graduate students, and researchers in the early stages of their career. Apply! ipam.ucla.edu/programs/long-…
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Join us in beautiful Stirling to work with the best colleagues and fabulous students. Fantastic opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration. A great location for work and play. Get in touch if you want to chat all things Stirling
We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Psychology (Autism/Child Development). Full details of the post can be found here: stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-sti… Closing date: 21 April 2024
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Discover the new Perspectives Collective journal, an innovative new project where our partners @BudongoChimps will showcase voices of local experts in primatology and build capacity through training in key skills. Read the first volume now 👉 perspectivescollectivejourna…
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Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from the @NCCR_Language with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich. Deadline March 15th.
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Job alert: Come work with me and @FitzyLily on developing the multi-dimensional #CuriosityBattery for school aged kids. 3-year PDRA position at @lancspsychres to start Sept'24. Application deadline May 5: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.…
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Less than 3 days left to apply for this year's DISI! (Make sure to apply *before* March 1st) This was a uniquely enriching experience for me last year that I am still drawing inspiration from regularly. Feel free to contact me with any questions if you're curious!
📣📣📣 Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org/
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Come join us in Zurich & Beautiful Kalahari ⭐️ Awesome PhD opportunity
Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from the @NCCR_Language with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich. Deadline March 15th.
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Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination. Is the everyday task of passing cash to a cashier underpinned by cognitive processes that trace back to common evolutionary ancestors? 📢New from: @SOMBYLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Very pleased to announce that the first study from my PhD thesis is out now 🥳 with thanks to @ConstableMerryn and all my other wonderful co-authors!
Chimpanzees exhibit a behavioural signature of human social coordination. Is the everyday task of passing cash to a cashier underpinned by cognitive processes that trace back to common evolutionary ancestors? 📢New from: @SOMBYLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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🚨 Funded PhD position available (max. 4 years) to investigate how mangabeys perceive, represent and communicate! The project is supervised by Prof Klaus Zuberbühler based in Neuchâtel and with field work in Taï!
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📢Competition-funded PhD project available on the development of cooperative problem-solving, supervised by @shona_d and me at @YSJPsych. Scope to do comparative work too depending on interests/experience. Get in touch for more info! Deadline 22nd March
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Friendly reminder: review of applications begins in one week!
📣📣📣 Applications for the 2024 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! disi.org/
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