Alexandra Rosati
@alexrosati.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Michigan interested in primates, cognition, development & evolution
Cognitive Evolution Group: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-evolution/
Primate Learning in Action: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearning/
Cognitive Evolution Group: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-evolution/
Primate Learning in Action: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearning/
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Alexandra Rosati
@alexrosati.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Tolerant and despotic macaques show divergent temperament but similar theory of mind | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The social intelligence hypothesis proposes that the demands of social life shape
the evolution of cognition, but different aspects of social interactions may be relevant.
To test how competitive vers...
royalsocietypublishing.org
Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy.
This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.
This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.
October 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
7 million people took to the streets across the nation to protest in defense of our democracy.
This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.
This country belongs to the people. We will fight for it with everything we've got.
Check out this online seminar on #applying to grad school from UMich's #Psychology Department (open to all; register her: lsa.umich.edu/psych/underg...)
October 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Check out this online seminar on #applying to grad school from UMich's #Psychology Department (open to all; register her: lsa.umich.edu/psych/underg...)
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Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play?
To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others!
"Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others!
"Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play?
To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others!
"Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others!
"Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!
July 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!
Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees!
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
July 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees!
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...
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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Tolerant and despotic macaques show divergent temperament but similar theory of mind | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The social intelligence hypothesis proposes that the demands of social life shape
the evolution of cognition, but different aspects of social interactions may be relevant.
To test how competitive vers...
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social!
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1929
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...
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If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
June 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country.
We will hold this administration accountable.
We will hold this administration accountable.
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The Trump administration lost a shocking 96% of rulings in federal district courts last month, according to a recent analysis by Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump’s stunning streak of losses in lower courts
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
June 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The Trump administration lost a shocking 96% of rulings in federal district courts last month, according to a recent analysis by Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee.
RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism.
This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.
RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism.
This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.
Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts
The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices helps the agency make recommendations on who should get certain vaccines.
www.nbcnews.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee.
RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism.
This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.
RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism.
This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.
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President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power.
The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
White House aide calls Los Angeles anti-ICE protests an 'insurrection'
Senior White House aide Stephen Miller on Saturday condemned protests in downtown Los Angeles against federal immigration raids as an "insurrection" against the United States.
www.reuters.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power.
The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians.
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
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The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.
June 8, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.
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Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say reut.rs/3SxBvuL
Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say
Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation.
reut.rs
June 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say reut.rs/3SxBvuL
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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 4:43 AM
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
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President Trump is using the same law to deport immigrants as the U.S. government used in WWII to justify the internment of Japanese Americans, including George Takei.
We're fighting Trump’s unlawful use of the Alien Enemies Act in court.
We're fighting Trump’s unlawful use of the Alien Enemies Act in court.
George Takei: How the Alien Enemies Act Was Weaponized to Incarcerate My Family | ACLU
www.aclu.org
May 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
President Trump is using the same law to deport immigrants as the U.S. government used in WWII to justify the internment of Japanese Americans, including George Takei.
We're fighting Trump’s unlawful use of the Alien Enemies Act in court.
We're fighting Trump’s unlawful use of the Alien Enemies Act in court.
State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
May 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Secretary Rubio can't answer the question because there's no constitutional reason why Rümeysa Öztürk was detained.
Writing an op-ed is not a crime.
Writing an op-ed is not a crime.
I just asked Marco Rubio if he really thinks that Rümeysa Öztürk’s op-ed is a foreign policy threat to the United States.
He couldn’t even answer the question.
He couldn’t even answer the question.
May 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Secretary Rubio can't answer the question because there's no constitutional reason why Rümeysa Öztürk was detained.
Writing an op-ed is not a crime.
Writing an op-ed is not a crime.
Possible due to years of US #federal #grant #funding, both to understand and develop CRISPR in the first place, and for this specific baby's treatment
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease
Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Possible due to years of US #federal #grant #funding, both to understand and develop CRISPR in the first place, and for this specific baby's treatment
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
May 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
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Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
April 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!
Wild Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Use Tools to Access Out of Reach Water
The use of tools to drink water is well-documented in wild chimpanzees, but the specific function of this behavior is unclear. Here we use a large data set of drinking behaviors spanning 14 years of ....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!
Major study of dementia risks involving a 20 year follow-up terminated:
"The most salient, I think, to why this grant was terminated is because it is the only nationally representative sample of Black Americans that’s ever been collected to assess health status in this group”
"The most salient, I think, to why this grant was terminated is because it is the only nationally representative sample of Black Americans that’s ever been collected to assess health status in this group”
NIH terminates $13 million grant on dementia
A $12.9 million grant for a study on dementia risks among at-risk U.S. populations was terminated by the National Institutes of Health.
www.michigandaily.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Major study of dementia risks involving a 20 year follow-up terminated:
"The most salient, I think, to why this grant was terminated is because it is the only nationally representative sample of Black Americans that’s ever been collected to assess health status in this group”
"The most salient, I think, to why this grant was terminated is because it is the only nationally representative sample of Black Americans that’s ever been collected to assess health status in this group”