Associate Professor in vertebrate social behaviour, University of Copenhagen. Research: animal behaviour, bioacoustics, emotions, cognition, welfare. Mom of 2
I have a PhD project to look at the impact of climate change on an endangered WA skink 🦎. Applicants interested in herpetology, thermal ecology and collaborating with First Nations are encouraged to apply. Apply now: www.murdoch.edu.au/study/schola... Lab website: www.nicholaswulab.com
Our new paper on beluga spatial structure is now published in Animal Behaviour! Here is the story of what we found 🧵1/6 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org
🚨🐒Join the Urban Vervet Project! We are currently looking for a research assistant to strengthen our on-site team at the beautiful Simbithi Eco Estate in South Africa. More info below 👇 @sofiaforss.bsky.social
Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteria: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Do animals use names? Conceptual and empirical criteriaIn recent years, several claims have been put forth suggesting that animals of different
species address each other using receiver-specific calls that function as individual
names. If accurate, this w...www.cell.com
We're hiring a Research Assistant (Dutch, 32h/wk) in Nijmegen! • Lab exp. (VR, EEG, Motion Capture) • Annotating multimodal speech & gesture data • Starts between 1 Nov 2026 and 31 Jan 2027 • Ideal for grads in Psych, Ling, CogSci & related fields Apply by 15 Sep: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
#passerines #evolution #biogeography #citizenscience Stunning paper, bravo!, and enthusiastic Perspective by @ebriefer.bsky.social, with three helpful - and probably familiar - birdsong recordings.
Quentin Bacquelé1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
Do humans and birds share an eye for design? 🐦🎨 For my Master's diss, I’m testing if we share aesthetic tastes with bowerbirds. I need 100 responses to finish! Visual, anonymous & under 5 mins. Link: exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🧪 cc: @scienseed.com #AcademicSky #SciComm
Elephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones Bone-conduction hearing in elephants and humans: a middle-ear comparative study🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/aud... These mechanisms may explain elephants' ability to detect ground-borne acoustic signals over long distances.
𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐙𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬' 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 [via Julie Elie & @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼🐦💬 "birds not only announce who they are and what they are doing, but also use individual signatures [for recognition]" www.scientificamerican.com/article/will... #birds #animals #language #individuality
Will humans one day talk to animals? This scientist is bringing us closerJulie Elie has been studying zebra finch vocalizations for years. Now, she has won the Coller-Dolittle Prize for progress toward a world where humans can talk to animalswww.scientificamerican.com
Great apes may have been laughing with a similar rhythm to modern humans for at least 15 million years, suggests study in @commsbio.nature.com. Findings suggest laughter has become faster, more variable, and increasingly influenced by the situation it occurs in. 🧪 #evosky #evolution
Rhythm and timing in laughter reveal that human vocal plasticity falls on a hominid continuum - Communications BiologyComparative analysis of laughter rhythm across all extant great apes reveals that isochrony is ancestral to hominids, with tempo, variability, and context-sensitivity increasing progressively toward humans, tracing a continuum of vocal plasticity.spklr.io
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 out now in TREE @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social "Constraint and convergence in the evolution of vertebrate sound production". Thanks to Christian Herbst, Coen Elemans, and @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social for a great collaboration. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
My department has funding for 2-year MByRes studentships (full tuition fees and research allowance) on ecosystem resilience, broadly defined. Apply to do a project with me modelling social-ecological networks. #culturalevolution #socialnetworks ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho...
Have a look at the final publication here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Turns out (and I know we've all suspected it) chimp culture may be way broader and richer than 39 behaviors. 😉
Chimpanzee culture beyond the conspicuous: Evidence for broad-scale observational social learning in wild individualsWild chimpanzee cultures have traditionally been studied through group-level comparisons of a limited set of conspicuous skills. The cultural relevanc…www.sciencedirect.comMichael HaslamBrilliant new study (preprint) led by @noraslania.bsky.social on how wild eastern chimpanzees observe each other. 'Peering'—or close-range attentive observation—happens in all kinds of contexts and esp. for young chimps, opening the door to new cultural traits 🧪👀 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
How do other animals experience time? It's been a pleasure to work with @singhal.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social on a paper exploring how temporal illusions and other experimental strategies can shed light on this. It's our today! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
The Trump admin is trying to dismantle a major ocean monitoring network that helps scientists track data related to climate change and ocean conditions - which would worsen weather models that save lives. Good news: some lawmakers are beginning to fight back. Articles: zurl.co/l3ouf
Lawmakers fight to stop the Trump administration's dismantling of a $386M ocean observatory projectLawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.zurl.co
🎉Out today: the labour of love that's our NEW paper showing dwarf #mongooses pre-emptively change #behaviour in anticipation of #intergroup #conflict... & this depends on relative group size (threat level). 👥Led by the brilliant @josharbon.bsky.social @natecoevo.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🦑 🐋 #whale #pilotwhale #shipnoise #Gibraltar "They found the mammals were able to increase the volume of their calls used for short distances, but long-distance calling was more challenging, according to their recently published study." Link to study in comments share.google/IWIEgtmWE5by...
Pilot whales can’t hear each other over ship noise in Strait of Gibraltar, study findsThe rumble of ship traffic is drowning out the calls of long-finned pilot whales and potentially other marine species in the Strait of Gibraltar, a narrow strip of water between Morocco and Spain that...share.google
1/4 The enormous complexity of algae fishing Researchers have studied in detail how chimpanzees in Guinea fish for algae. They prepare their tools (up to 4 m long) in advance, and use 22 different techniques. (paper) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
1/5 Goats and sheep pass the marshmallow test (with flying colors) In this study, goats were able to resist temptation for 63 seconds on average in order to obtain a better reward. Sheep waited 54 seconds. (paper) link.springer.com/article/10.1...