👩🏼🔬Researching animal cognition and language evolution @FamDogProject. 👩🏼💻Managing the Genius Dog Challenge.
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Some dogs have an exceptional talent for learning object labels. Our new study in @SciReports finds what are the characteristics of these gifted dogs.
Check the🧵 for a summary or have a look 👉🏼 rdcu.be/dtAJo – at Budapest, Hungary
Just finished giving my first plenary conference talk, as part of the Young Research of the Year Award, at the MET conference.
I am honored and deeply touched by this personal gift showing me with my dog Mitos. – at Veszprém, Hungary
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Our lab has a job opening for either a full-time staff or postdoc with expertise in neurohistology. We study brain-behavior evolution in dogs, domesticated foxes, humans, and other primates. Will share app links soon but please share & DM me if interested!
I just submitted two manuscripts in 24 hours (one 1st submission, one revision). I feel like I broke some phd student record.
P.s. submission portals suck. – at Budapest, Hungary
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My first elephant (and PhD) study supervised by awesome @stoegerangela1 & @NakedPrimate is out🚨!
TLDR - We found that 🐘 greet by appropriately targeting visual, tactile, and acoustic gestures at their audience and by combining calls and gestures go.nature.com/3JW50Cm🧵 1/12
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It is happening again!
Join our workshop
✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP✨
to learn about technological innovations to study the human and animal mind.
Apply here: https:/www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/2024-btg2/
Please sign to help stop Trophy hunting in Tanzania and save the elephants 🙏🏻🐘💔
@elephantvoices
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Love this study:
✅️Important theoretical contribution
✅️Important applied contribution
✅️New methods
It helps us understand our dogs better and makes a step towards understanding the genetics of food intake (hopefully) also in humans.
Our new research finds around a quarter of all Labrador retriever dogs face a double-whammy of feeling hungry all the time and burning fewer calories due to a genetic mutation 🧬🐶 1/6 🧵cam.ac.uk/research/news/gene…
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🚨PhD alert!🚨
Are you experienced in data science, machine learning, or related fields? Intrigued by farm animal behaviour and welfare?
We're offering a PhD position focusing on the automatisation of cognitive bias paradigms. 🐷🐐
Apply now!
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Happy to share our latest work with Luke Maurits and Daniel Haun in Scientific Reports. link.springer.com/article/10… We explored whether chimps engaged in competitive altruism in a triadic UG where two proposers could send offers to a responder who could only accept one offer
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A citizen science model turns anecdotes into evidence by revealing similar characteristics among Gifted Word Learner dogs @ShanyDror @andrea_sommese @FamDogProject nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
It's that time of the year: @DivIntelligence has opened the 2024 applications!
I took part in the last summer institute and it was a transformative experience.
PM me if you would like to hear more.
disi.org/ – at Budapest, Hungary
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Sadie says she is “freeloader”. Out of ten feedings she never first approached the snuffle mat 😂 While she doesn’t show a preference to contrafreeload, she is willing to snuffle when her tray is mostly empty! Read all about our new paper in @SciReports!
link.springer.com/article/10…
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A study in @SciReports highlights characteristics that are shared among most Gifted Word Learner dogs, including learning speed, their large vocabulary, and that they learned the names of toys spontaneously, without the explicit intent of their owners. go.nature.com/3NArs6e
Drawing great inspiration from small brains 🐝🐝🐝
A very thought evoking talk by @MartinGiurfa at #BCCCD. – at Budapest, Hungary
I had the great honor to present my work on the ability of Gifted dogs to learn labels by eavesdropping on their humans at #BCCCD24
@CogDevCeu. Thank you everyone for sharing you insightful comments and the stimulating conversations 🤗 – at Budapest, Hungary
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Do chimpanzees miss their former group mates? With eyetracking we can gain insight into what's going on in the mind of apes. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… @CoPAN_Leiden @LeidenPsy
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A citizen science model turns anecdotes into evidence by revealing similar characteristics among Gifted Word Learner dogs @ShanyDror @andrea_sommese @FamDogProject
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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I am thrilled to finally share these results with the world! We found that chimps and bonobos likely remember familiar conspecifics whom they haven't seen in years -- possibly as long as 26 years. It's the longest memory ever recorded in nonhuman animals. nytimes.com/2023/12/18/scien…
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Apes remember past groupmates for decades!
Check out our latest work, just published in @PNASNews
with @LauraSimoneLew, @northernlimitpt, @fkano, @Jeronobo1, and Josep Call
Video Summary: youtu.be/DsGS4_t_HW4?si=0Chn…
Paper: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…
I am thrilled to finally share these results with the world! We found that chimps and bonobos likely remember familiar conspecifics whom they haven't seen in years -- possibly as long as 26 years. It's the longest memory ever recorded in nonhuman animals. nytimes.com/2023/12/18/scien…
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🐾 Breaking News! 🌍🐶 Scientists from the Family Dog Project have unleashed new findings about Gifted Word Learner dogs! 🎓📚🔍 After a 5-year quest worldwide, the researchers share their discoveries in @SciReports. 📰🔬 🐕 #DogScience #GiftedDogs🐾🌟
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…