Jessie E.C. Adriaense
@drjessieadriaense.bsky.social
• Emotions, empathy, & social behavior/cognition in mammals and birds
• Interdisciplinary & comparative psychologist
• PostDoc in Zurich
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9ebdkaQAAAAJ&hl=en
• Interdisciplinary & comparative psychologist
• PostDoc in Zurich
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9ebdkaQAAAAJ&hl=en
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To get this new social media account going, I'm sharing a little celebration: our 2019 animal empathy review got its 100th citation today 🥳. This work represents the bulk of my research: investigating empirical evidence of "human uniqueness" in animals, with a firm grip on its theoretical foundation
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New paper out now in Ecology & Evolution:
"Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms:
A general framework for labile traits"
Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms:
A general framework for labile traits"
Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Estimating (Non)Linear Selection on Reaction Norms: A General Framework for Labile Traits
It remains difficult to empirically estimate nonlinear selection on individual reaction norms, inhibiting robust tests of adaptive theory and accurate predictions of phenotypic evolution for labile t...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
New paper out now in Ecology & Evolution:
"Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms:
A general framework for labile traits"
Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms:
A general framework for labile traits"
Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
For all your Socio-Eco-Evo questions 👇🏻
Hot on the tail of our Tsimane IGE study comes the theory paper that motivated it! What are the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of social plasticity in dynamic environments? See our new Functional Ecology paper to find out more
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Frequency dependence favours social plasticity and facilitates socio‐eco‐evolutionary feedback in fluctuating environments
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
For all your Socio-Eco-Evo questions 👇🏻
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I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Indirect genetic effects among neighbors promote cooperation and accelerate adaptation in a small-scale human society
Social effects on fertility promote population growth and the evolution of flexible cooperation in a small-scale human society.
www.science.org
July 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
May 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.
You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.
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March 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
December 28, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Please circulate widely:
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology
We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education
tinyurl.com/IEEjobs
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Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.
Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review
Vocal communication is broadly distributed in a wide range of nonhuman animal species and is hypothesized to play an important role in mate attraction…
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January 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Vocal communication in corvids: a systematic review. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In our new paper we review 130 papers and summarise empirical evidence for socioecological factors affecting vocal communication, as well as evidence for vocal learning in different corvid species.
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Dive into the world of animal behaviour with us.
Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL...
Or wherever you get your podcasts.
#SciComm #animal #podcast
Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL...
Or wherever you get your podcasts.
#SciComm #animal #podcast
January 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Dive into the world of animal behaviour with us.
Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL...
Or wherever you get your podcasts.
#SciComm #animal #podcast
Subscribe now so you don't miss the first episode!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6vxB3zL...
Or wherever you get your podcasts.
#SciComm #animal #podcast
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In @drjessieadriaense.bsky.social 's paper we use a mixture model. You could call it a partially-Hidden Marko Model, bc some states known exactly others inferred. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Technical supplement not online it looks like, but code here: github.com/ErikRingen/m...
Technical supplement not online it looks like, but code here: github.com/ErikRingen/m...
Common marmosets use body posture as multi-functional signal to solicit, maintain, and modify social play
Social play is a highly active social interaction, characterized by rapid exchanges of various behaviors with multiple partners. Many primates use bodily expressions during social play, yet the potent...
www.biorxiv.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:23 PM
In @drjessieadriaense.bsky.social 's paper we use a mixture model. You could call it a partially-Hidden Marko Model, bc some states known exactly others inferred. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Technical supplement not online it looks like, but code here: github.com/ErikRingen/m...
Technical supplement not online it looks like, but code here: github.com/ErikRingen/m...
To get this new social media account going, I'm sharing a little celebration: our 2019 animal empathy review got its 100th citation today 🥳. This work represents the bulk of my research: investigating empirical evidence of "human uniqueness" in animals, with a firm grip on its theoretical foundation
December 2, 2024 at 1:55 PM
To get this new social media account going, I'm sharing a little celebration: our 2019 animal empathy review got its 100th citation today 🥳. This work represents the bulk of my research: investigating empirical evidence of "human uniqueness" in animals, with a firm grip on its theoretical foundation
Reposted by Jessie E.C. Adriaense
We're launching our new #UZH funded citizen science project using exciting #AI powered smart bird feeders to learn more about common European garden birds and how they survive the winter.
This is the start of something *BIG*
Sign up if you are interested! www.citizenscience.uzh.ch/en/projects/...
This is the start of something *BIG*
Sign up if you are interested! www.citizenscience.uzh.ch/en/projects/...
November 29, 2024 at 1:47 AM
We're launching our new #UZH funded citizen science project using exciting #AI powered smart bird feeders to learn more about common European garden birds and how they survive the winter.
This is the start of something *BIG*
Sign up if you are interested! www.citizenscience.uzh.ch/en/projects/...
This is the start of something *BIG*
Sign up if you are interested! www.citizenscience.uzh.ch/en/projects/...
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We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...
As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
www.science.org
November 29, 2024 at 6:34 AM
We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...
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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Disadvantageous inequity aversion (IA), a negative response to receiving less than
others, is a key building block of the human sense of fairness. While some theorize
that IA is shared by species acro...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 27, 2024 at 4:39 PM
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.
Great position 👌🏻
Postdoc alert: research associate in animal behavior at the University of Bristol
Topic: “Developing automated welfare assessment methods (reward learning) in chickens, dogs and mice”
Deadline: December 17th, 2024
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Topic: “Developing automated welfare assessment methods (reward learning) in chickens, dogs and mice”
Deadline: December 17th, 2024
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 27, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Great position 👌🏻
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Our updated EcoEvoRxiv preprint "Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits" is now live. Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
November 26, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Our updated EcoEvoRxiv preprint "Estimating (non)linear selection on reaction norms: A general framework for labile traits" is now live. Work done in collaboration with Yimen Araya-Ajoy, Niels Dingemanse, @ali--wilson.bsky.social, and David Westneat. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...