Comparative Cognition Society

📣 New #Postdoc position in #ComparativeCognition with Dr. Suzanne Gray at Villanova University, USA. If interested in research topics such as #Wildlife monitoring, #Field observations of #AnimalBehavior, or #Sustainable #HumanAnimal coexistence, apply here: jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33765 🧪

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Cognitive Science is stronger when more voices are included.
The Broadening Participation initiative funds projects that engage underrepresented communities, bridge disciplines, and create lasting outreach impact.

Deadline: April 15 🗓️
Learn more & apply: cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

Postdoc Position in Animal Behaviour Does intergroup conflict shape intragroup (parochial) prosociality in primates? If so, what behavioural, neuroendocrine, and (epi)genetic mechanisms drive it.

#Postdoc #Job opportunity in #AnimalBehaviour with Jorg Massen at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Check out the position here: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Animal cultures matter for conservation, but also to animals - Learning & Behavior A growing acceptance that many nonhuman animal communities have distinct cultures – group-variable patterns of behavior and information sustained over time by social learning – is beginning to reshape...

"Animal cultures matter first and foremost because they matter to the animals themselves."

If you enjoyed our recent episode on the value of animal cultures, you may be interested in this new paper by @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social & @kristinandrews.bsky.social!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

New paper alert 📣 Baby #chicks tested with the bouba-kiki paradigm show evidence that mechanisms for crossmodal associations of shapes with sounds are present in a broad range of species 🧪 🐥

#CompCogPapers #SoundSymbolism #Chicken #BirdBrain #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the mechanisms of learning from social interaction. Read articles for free: buff.ly/K8v43YM

📣 New paper alert 🧪 The authors demonstrate that Kanzi the #bonobo tracks the displacement of "invisible" juice, a first of its kind study to examine imagination in nonhuman beings.
Read the paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#GreatApe #AnimalBehavior #CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology

The first round of microgrants for 2026 is open! Apply here : https://opencollective.com/animal-behaviour-collective.

Attention - the first round of microgrants for 2026 is running!
Apply and read terms and conditions here : opencollective.com/animal-behav...

Is cognition at the root of plant behavior? Information processing underlies the behavior of many species, including plants. However, there remains uncertainty about how plants integrate and use information, and whether this is analogous to ani...

📣 #NewPaper on #plant information processing, with a truly excellent title 🌱 🧪 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

#CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology #Plants #InformationProcessing #Cognition #Ecology #Biology #Evolution

New paper alert: Social dynamics in #Meerkats 🧪 Make sure to see the videos in Vlad's thread as well 🙌

#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehavior #CollectiveBehvior #SocialHierarchy #AnimalCommunication

FINE Panel: Writing for the Public, C. Schradin, J. Strassmann, R. Gadagkar, M. Cobb (30 Sept. 2025) YouTube video by Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution

Are you looking for advice on communicating with the public as a scientist? Check out these resources by the @fine-seminar.bsky.social and its organizers:

Panel discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohoc...

Article about interacting with journalists: methodsblog.com/2026/01/14/h...

In case you haven't seen this themed issue on #Animal #Minds, it offers insights on the evolution of cognitive adaptations across #species 🧪

#CompCogPapers #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #AnimalBehavior #Cognition

#NewPaper on adaptive tool use in Veronika the Carinthian #Cow 🐮 🧪
#CompCogPapers #AnimalBehvior #ComparativePsychology #AnimalCognition #ToolUse #CarinthianBlondvieh

📣 New #JobAd for a #PostDoc focused on #Ageing & #Kinship. It sounds like a #Whale of a gig, with possibilities for collaborating across the #UK and #NorthAmerica 🐋 🧪
Info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...

#CompCog #AnimalBehavior #SocialMammals #Orca #SocialDynamics #Aging

Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...

🧪 New paper with "gifted" pet #dogs 🐶 suggests that they are able to associate labels they've overheard their guardians use with novel objects. Check out the full article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#CompCogPapers #AnimalCognition #DogBehavior #DogCognition #ComparativePsychology #LoveDogs

Our call for symposia now open!

We are now accepting submissions for symposia, with submissions for oral/poster presentations invited from 31 January 2026.

For more info, or to download the proposal form, visit our conference page 👇
www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-...

There's still time to submit your abstract for #CO32026! 🙌 The submission deadline is on Friday Dec 12th, all information about registration, membership, and the conference is on the website: www.comparativecognition.org/conference.php 🧪
See you in Montréal! 🐶🐝🐟🐦🐀🐍🦧🦝🐢🐘🐬🦦🕷️🐖🐆
#CompCog #AnimalBehavior

New study of personality variability across social contexts in common marmosets 🧪 🐒
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
#AnimalBehavior #CompCogPapers #Personality #Monkey #Primate #IndividualVariation #Marmoset

📣 Interdisciplinary workshop on animal minds! There's still time to submit an abstract before the Dec 1 deadline 🧪

#AnimalMinds #Psychology #Cognition #CompCog #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Ethology #Biology

Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials - Nature Human Behaviour Howard-Spink et al. develop an empirically based model of orangutan diet development, which suggests that social learning is vital for orangutans to acquire varied diets.

Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵

On behalf of @ethophilia.bsky.social , I am organising a hublet in Santiniketan, India for Winter ASAB 2025. Please feel free to contact me for any further information.
#ASAB #WinterASAB2025 #hublet
@asab.org
Link:

asabwinter.github.io/2025/

📣 Register for #CO32026 and join our diverse community of comparative cognition researchers in Montréal this coming April (15-18)! 🍁🎉🙌🧪 Become a society member and submit an abstract by December 12th: www.comparativecognition.org/conference.php

New paper from our team: No Sex-Differences in Learning Trap-Gap Problems in Zebra Finches #OA bit.ly/43pY9eB in Ecology and Evolution #nest #AnimalCogniton 🧪

@psychualberta.bsky.social

@ba-whittaker.bsky.social

@compcogsoc.bsky.social

@julself.bsky.social

@ualberta.bsky.social

The social origins of consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences We present the social origins of consciousness hypothesis, according to which the ability to coordinate with group members was the original adaptive function of consciousness. We offer three arguments...

Loved this paper by @kristinandrews.bsky.social and Noam Miller. A very convincing argument for the function of consciousness.

Peek a boo! Information seeking about food and functionality in capuchin monkeys - Animal Cognition The ability to be aware of your own knowledge state (metacognition) can be investigated by examining an individual’s information-seeking behaviour. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) perform strategic sear...

📣 New paper alert! Capuchin monkeys showed selective information seeking behaviour, suggesting that this is a flexible & domain general behaviour, not just a foraging strategy 🧪 🐒 #CompCogPapers #ComparativeCognition #Monkey #AnimalBehavior #ComparativePsychology
doi.org/10.1007/s100...

Bee positive! 🐝 A new study found evidence for positive affective contagion in bumblebees, this is an exciting direction for studying affect and emotion beyond vertebrates 🧪 #CompCogPapers #AffectiveScience #ComparativeCognition #BumbleBee #SocialBehavior #AnimalBehavior #Invertebrate #Insect

Abstract submission for #CO32026 is now open, join us next April in Montreal 🎉🍁🦫 Submit for a symposium by November 14th, or for an individual talk or poster by December 12th.
Information on the conference and a link to the member portal where you can submit: comparativecognition.org/conference.php

The MBirds paper is out! Congratulations to all collaborators on this major accomplishment 🧪 The study found interesting differences in neophobia between migratory and non-migratory species: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.

She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.

#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane

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