Incoming Asst Prof @UCSBPsych & @UCSB_Anthro • ape social cognition • @UC_PPFP Postdoc Fellow @UCBerkeley • PhD @HarvardHEB • @NSF GRFP • @DukeU alum (she/her)
Joined August 2017
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29 Jul 2024
I am absolutely elated to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor @ UC Santa Barbara with a joint appointment in @UCSBPsych and @UCSB_Anthro beginning July 2025!! I’m deeply honored and excited to join a wonderful community of colleagues & build my lab and team
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
4 Jun 2025
New paper from Laura Lewis and Jan Engelmann et al. (including me) with a clever new method. Chimps and kids will forgo reward to get a chance to look at social interactions
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
10 Apr 2025
Help support grad students in PBS! The Development and Evolution Area is starting a fund for a graduate student award, and any small amount helps! Use the link below
🚨Check the "in honor of" box and add PBS DEVO Area to tag your donation as part of our fund🚨
10 Apr 2025
Interested in making a difference in the PBS community and joining in on the #GiveDay celebrations? Click the link below to help our department continue their groundbreaking research on the mind and support the next generation of PBS scholars!
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
22 Nov 2024
Social play is not only fun but also has important social functions in #chimpanzee societies, promoting bonding & collective cooperation! @CurrentBiology
It is also a behavior that is really a pleasure to document
Access it here
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21 Nov 2024
New paper alert 📢
Chimpanzees playing bouts fosters cooperation in adults! @LirSamuni and colleagues from the @TaiChimpProject show how playing between adult chimpanzees predict cooperation between adults in the group. Enjoy!
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Last minute team changes mean we have a position open at short notice. Starts mid-Jan, application deadline Nov 21, costs covered & small stipend. DM for any questions - it’ll be full-on algae fishing fun times!!! Pls RT
26 Oct 2024
🚨Paid research assistant position with savanna chimpanzees in the incredible #MoyenBafing. Come work with us and help us get to know this amazing landscape and wildlife! Deadline November 21, costs covered & small stipend. More details 👉 tinyurl.com/mbchimpjob
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
16 Sep 2024
🎉I'm recruiting! GSU's ADAPT Lab is looking for TWO PhD students for Fall 2025 to study how culture and environment shape flexible thinking.
Position1️⃣:Cross-cultural focus (USA & Rep. Congo)🗺️
Position2️⃣ :Nonhuman Primate focus 🐒
adaptchildlab.com/news #PhD #Psychology
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
8 Oct 2024
[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xh…
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
18 Sep 2024
Come join us in beautiful Zurich for a postdoc!!! 🤩 @APE_Group_UZH
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
31 Aug 2024
🚨Announcement!🚨
👋🏾 #AcademicTwitter I am on the #academicjobmarket! I was a UC President’s Postdoc Fellow @UC_PPFP & am now a Postdoc @YalePsychology. I do quant & qual research to understand & address Black health & healthcare outcomes. Learn more here: drkimjmartin.com/
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
1 Sep 2024
KEEP ‘EM WILD! Primates are not Pets! Marmoset infants belong with their families, NOT in your home!
If you care about primates, help protect them in their native habitats by donating to the American Society of Primatologists, Conservation Committee (asp.org/support/).
ALT Two brown and grey marmosets looking up and on a tree branch. The image has yellow and white text
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Thrilled to attend the 'Bridging the Tech Gap' workshop at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. Huge thanks to the organizers
@P_eMartin, @LauraSimoneLew and @HannaSchleihauf for this insightful event and the opportunity to present my annotation system for chimpanzee gestures!
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
7 Aug 2024
Beer & poster time @MPI_EVA_Leipzig 's Bridging the Technological Gap Workshop 2024! Thanks @HannaSchleihauf @LauraSimoneLew @P_eMartin 🙏
I loved presenting this (ongoing) collaborative project on social learning with eye-tracking technology in chimps 👀🐵
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
6 Aug 2024
Ready to devStart...!
6 Aug 2024
All set up and excited for tomorrow's workshop at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! 🎉 We'll dive into designing eye-tracking studies and processing data with open-source tools. Can't wait to get started! 🚀👀
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6 Aug 2024
All set up and excited for tomorrow's workshop at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig! 🎉 We'll dive into designing eye-tracking studies and processing data with open-source tools. Can't wait to get started! 🚀👀
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
5 Aug 2024
Kicking off the bridging tech gap 2.0 workshop at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig today, thank you all for the kind words, which ranged from "I was blown away" to "I was flabbergasted" 😅
Thank you @P_eMartin @LauraSimoneLew @HannaSchleihauf for the invite and putting on another year of btg!
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
30 Jul 2024
I’m on the job market! S/o to @SEA_conf for this highlight where you can learn a bit about me 😉
29 Jul 2024
Every month we highlight the accomplishments of SEA members/affiliates. This month we are highlighting University of California Post-doctoral Fellow @CalebDawson, who is on the job market!
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29 Jul 2024
I am absolutely elated to share that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor @ UC Santa Barbara with a joint appointment in @UCSBPsych and @UCSB_Anthro beginning July 2025!! I’m deeply honored and excited to join a wonderful community of colleagues & build my lab and team
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29 Jul 2024
I’m immensely grateful for my community who has lifted me up as I climb toward my dream job. I couldn't have done this w/o the unwavering support of @ChrisKrupenye, @AlisonGopnik, @JanEngelmann, @BrianHare, Richard Wrangham, Josep Call @DorsaAmir, @BlackinBioAnth, @UC_PPFP & more
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My lab will explore the evolution & development of social cognition in human and nonhuman great apes using eye-tracking and other cutting-edge methods. I’ll be recruiting PhD students this Fall, so keep your eyes out & check my website for more info soon! laurasimonelewis.com
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Laura Simone Lewis, PhD retweeted
29 Jul 2024
We have an open call for two permanent lectureships in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews. A beautiful place to live and work. Please share! vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/V…
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