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Raphaela Heesen @rapha_heesen

Jun.-Professor @uniKonstanz in comparative behavioral biology | joint action, communication, emotion in #chimpanzees #bonobos #children |bit.ly/CJALab

Joined January 2019
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Raphaela Heesen@rapha_heesen
9 Aug 2025
To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions 🚨 osf.io/preprints/osf/7tk9e_v…
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Marco Gamba@Marco_Gamba
Apr 29
Come out and play! Why do some societies, human and non-human, embrace playfulness among adults, while others suppress it? It is a matter of "style". doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.05…
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@fumihirokano@fumihirokano
Apr 28
Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp field CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📄 docs.google.com/document/d/1… 公募｜九大 狩野ラボ ポスドク・技術職・院生 視線×社会認知（実験・野外・CV）

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Alex Chan@AlexHHChan
Apr 28
My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open postions! Check it out here :)
@fumihirokano@fumihirokano
Apr 28
Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp field CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📄 docs.google.com/document/d/1… 公募｜九大 狩野ラボ ポスドク・技術職・院生 視線×社会認知（実験・野外・CV）
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Iain Couzin@icouzin
Apr 17
Delighted to share this amazing news for the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour and ⁦@UniKonstanz⁩ !!! Thanks so much to the Hector Foundation! uni-konstanz.de/en/universit…

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Evolutionary Cognition Group@EvoCogGroup
Apr 10
We are hiring two 4-year phd students in our new project: The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism. For details, see here: @evocoggroup.bsky.social or visit our homepage!
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CLES NCU@cles_ncu
Apr 8
Good Morning, #Plovdiv! Hello @EvolangConf #EvolangXVI #language #evolution Follow @symbolicstorage and @jonasnoelle for conference updates! :D They always take the best notes!
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Alex Chan@AlexHHChan
Mar 31
New preprint alert!! Accepted to CVPR 2026, we present the CHIRP dataset, a task-diverse computer vision dataset on Siberian jays. @CBehav
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Human Evolutionary Ecology Group UZH@heeg_uzh
Mar 24
Shoutout to Irena Atanasova for completing her master thesis on whether overimitation might be a key ingredient in the evolution of cumulative culture in humans, using Agta hunter gatherer data 🙌 Bold , sharp and fantastic finish 🚀Proud to have her in the lab 👏
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Michael Pleyer@symbolicstorage
Mar 24
🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Out now in Cognitive Science: Exploring the Guessing-Game Experimental Paradigm. Can humans understand the meaning of novel vocalisations & of ape gestures? Human performance in such tasks is definitely impressive but what does it mean? Let's delve in 1/
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Zanna Clay@zannaclay
13 Oct 2025
Next Friday 24th October at 1pm, I will be giving my Inugural Lecture! All are extremely welcome. If you would like to attend online (or in person), please can you complete this form? Then I can send you a meeting link and/or if you'd like the recording forms.gle/UZmAMt5VXNZNPaVH9
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Taï Chimpanzee Project@TaiChimpProject
26 Sep 2025
📢Job alert 📢 Come and join the @TaiChimpProject as camp manager. Two years job with a possible prolongation for 3rd year. Join a vibrant research project in the middle of the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/IR…
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Society for Affective Science@affectScience
15 Sep 2025
Want to dive deep? Submit a symposium! Have an idea to workshop or results to share? There are posters for that! Want to speak on empirical or theoretical work? Give a flash talk! Want to spark discussion? Chair an innovation forum! So many ways to engage! bit.ly/3K4pmfR
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Ahmed El Hady
@zamakany
16 Jul 2025
Count down to my very favorite event of the year that I very much enjoy curating and organising The Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour (21st July - 8th August ) . Can’t believe it is our third year already 🙌🙌. Three week immersion in the state of the art collective behaviour research Can’t wait to welcome all students and faculty next week exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/
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Michael Pleyer@symbolicstorage
3 Jul 2025
I am honoured to have been awarded the Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Scientists. Also congratulations to my colleague Marta Sibierska! Out of the 6 Scholarships in Linguistics in all of Poland 2 went to our lab, pretty awesome!
A news article from the website of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (translated from Polish). 3 x MNiSW scholarships for outstanding young scientists The Minister of Science and Higher Education awarded scholarships to 228 young researchers from all over Poland. Applications from scientists representing all 53 scientific and artistic disciplines were submitted to the competition. In each of them, no more than five scholarships are awarded, including a maximum of one for a doctoral student.

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Michael Pleyer@symbolicstorage
2 Jul 2025
I am honoured to have received the 1st Degree Award of the Rector of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (@UMK_Torun) for Individual Scientific Achievements in 2024 in the Field of Humanities Our lab @cles_ncu also got a 3rd Degree Award for Scientific Team Achievements yay!
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🚨 1 more week to apply!! 🚨 2 PhD positions in my group on cross-species comparisons & #development of joint action, #communication & #emotion in #chimpanzees and #children at @UniKonstanz @CBehav - DM me about questions ☺️ Application deadline: 16.06.25 Start date: 1.10.25
Raphaela Heesen@rapha_heesen
17 May 2025
Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) @UniKonstanz @CBehav 👇 links below!
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Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) @UniKonstanz @CBehav 👇 links below!
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Position to work with apes: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobp… Position to work with human children: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobp…
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