New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵
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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
First they came for DEI and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.
Then they came for gender identity research and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.
Then they came for the NPRCs, and I said nothing for I hoped my success rates would improve.
1/2 Ai, the chimpanzee who revolutionized science from Kyoto, has died at the age of 49.
She was the first chimpanzee to learn Arabic numerals.
Here you can see her in action in Tetsuro Matsuzawa's laboratory.
Skyline of Madison, WI
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
Googling yourself is getting weird in the age of AI. Though I’m flattered Google now thinks I’m neurosurgeon David Paul (or that he is me).
Very excited to share a new preprint that’s been brewing for a long time! This work was led by the exceptional @traceym.bsky.social, and made possible by a developmental + comparative + computational dream team.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen.
He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.
New work with @samcheyette.bsky.social & Susan Carey testing the memory architecture used when learning/producing center-embedded sequences. Adults don't use Push-Down Stacks as is often assumed, instead they rely on a Queue-like memory architecture onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Another fun #cogsci2025 in the books! Thanks to everyone who stopped by the CO-Lab grad student posters! Alessanda Silva on Number-Space mappings & @elijahtramm.bsky.social on Hierarchical grammar learning in monkeys (and humans). Posters still available through Cog. Sci. or reach out for a copy.
#cogsci2025 was a blast! Many excellent conversations about inner speech and categorical representation!
🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)!
(Ping me for Qs)
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Researchers came from around the United States to showcase projects, ranging from modeling coastal hazards to teaching quantum information science, that were killed prematurely this spring by one of a half-dozen federal agencies. scim.ag/3Tv5iVC
1: Ed Yong's An Immense World (such a good read)
2: Frans de Waal's: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? (lots of interesting points, but also some stretches)
Screen shot of a Fox News article with the headline "White men are 'walking around on eggshells at work, afraid to speak freely: Survey Poll reveals 43% of White men self-censor at work, while 25 million report losing job opportunities due to their race and gender" By Rachel del Guidice • Fox News
100% of Black people self censor at work. Its a job site not your personal safe space, snowflake.
Birds don't have capsaicin receptors... works like a charm!
CCCR logo, 100 Days Under Trump: Public Reactions to Attacks on American Governance & Institutions
🚨 CCCR has a new survey report out today! 🚨
"100 Days Under Trump: Public Reactions to Attacks on American Governance & Institutions"
The report draws on our Apr/May YouGov panel survey of US adults, following our Oct 2024 survey w/ recontacts + a sample refresh. 1/
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After already killing more than 1700 active grants related to politically charged topics, the National Institutes of Health has flagged another roughly 3200 grants for review and possible termination.
📣📣 A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues:
Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@nicholasvest.bsky.social
@marthaalibali.bsky.social
The original was fantastic! Can't wait for my niece & nephew to get a couple years older. Nerdy bedtime stories for days!
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
📣Now hiring! I'm looking to recruit a full-time Research Specialist (Lab Manager) to join the Social and Moral Learning Lab at UW Madison starting this summer! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc... (application deadline March 21, 2025)
Bonobo Nyota at Ape Initiative, a science and education nonprofit
Are humans the only species that communicates when a collaborator is missing information?
In @pnas.org, Luke Townrow and I show that our closest relatives, bonobos, can track when a partner is knowledgeable or ignorant, and tailor communication accordingly
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Excited to be part of this Cog Sci preconference workshop on compositionality in Math & Non-linguistic reasoning next week. Virtual and free to attend! Sign up here: framaforms.org/compositiona...
Our fantastic lab manager Sydney Buffonge presented her first poster at a national conference this past weekend at #CDS2024! Congrats Sydney!
Child Development Application: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
Come join the Cognitive Origins Lab at UW-Madison! We are hiring two full time lab managers to start this summer! One specializing in child development and one in non-human primate cognition. Application links below.
New episode!!
A conversation w/ Laura Lewis & @chriskrupenye.bsky.social about social memory in great apes.
Humans remember familiar faces for decades. But is this ability unique to our species, or is it part of our deeper primate heritage?
Listen: disi.org/social-memor...
Anyone teaching 2-sample t tests in Intro Stats? Here's the dataset you've been looking for.
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#stats #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪
