Dr Juliane Kaminski
@comparativeminds.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Comparative Psychology, Member of Centre for Comparative & Evolutionary Pschology (CCEP)
@uop-ccep.bsky.social, #ComparativePsychologie #AnimalCognition, #Dogs, #Chimpanzees, #SocialCognition, #Domestication,She/Her
@uop-ccep.bsky.social, #ComparativePsychologie #AnimalCognition, #Dogs, #Chimpanzees, #SocialCognition, #Domestication,She/Her
We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Shaped by domestication: Did the evolution of facial muscle anatomy and ear morphology in dogs reflect adaptations to humans’ unconscious preferences?
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October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Our PhD student, Anna Sydänheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their 🐶 .
If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you!
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If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you!
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August 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our PhD student, Anna Sydänheimo, is conducting a study into how dog owners perceive routine husbandry procedures (e.g. nail clipping) on their 🐶 .
If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you!
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If you are a dog owner from the 🇬🇧 or 🇫🇮, please consider contributing by filling out this questionnaire. Thank you!
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🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
Opportunities — ASAB
www.asab.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:03 AM
🚨JOB alert🚨 Full-time Managing Editor role for @asab.org journal Animal Behaviour. Applicants must have animal #behaviour background; previous editorial experience would be ideal.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
Apply by 31st July 2025.
#publishing #editor #job
More details: www.asab.org/opportunities
PLEASE share widely.
June 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Reposted by Dr Juliane Kaminski
Donations to Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary (needed in part due to shuttered USAID) can be made at www.tacugama.com
Famous chimpanzee sanctuary faces existential threat from illegal land grab
Tacugama has grown to become Sierra Leone's most popular tourist attraction over the last three decades. But in a stand against the fast-approaching illegal encroachment, the sanctuary has closed its ...
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June 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Donations to Tacugama Chimp Sanctuary (needed in part due to shuttered USAID) can be made at www.tacugama.com
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Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!
📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open!
Join our international expert team to explore minds across species.
We study:
🐒 Primates
🐕 Dogs
🐘 Elephants
🐴 Donkeys and horses
🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
#MSCA
Join our international expert team to explore minds across species.
We study:
🐒 Primates
🐕 Dogs
🐘 Elephants
🐴 Donkeys and horses
🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
#MSCA
Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application
These tips and tricks will help you find the best host organisation and prepare a successful proposal.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
May 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!
It’s #worldbeeday. Give them space and they will come! 🐝🐝🐝
May 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It’s #worldbeeday. Give them space and they will come! 🐝🐝🐝
Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!
📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open!
Join our international expert team to explore minds across species.
We study:
🐒 Primates
🐕 Dogs
🐘 Elephants
🐴 Donkeys and horses
🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
#MSCA
Join our international expert team to explore minds across species.
We study:
🐒 Primates
🐕 Dogs
🐘 Elephants
🐴 Donkeys and horses
🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...
#MSCA
Postdoctoral Fellowships call: 6 steps to prepare your application
These tips and tricks will help you find the best host organisation and prepare a successful proposal.
marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu
May 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Get in touch if you are interested in projects on ToM in 🐶 or chimpanzees, dog-human communication, or any other topic in the area of social cognition with dogs or chimpanzees!
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I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology
www.leuphana.de
April 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
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A reminder that we have a full PhD scholarship open at ARU in Cambridge, UK, open to candidates of any nationality. The project is on "the comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx" and links to bioacoustics, evobio, anatomy, socioecology, etc. Please r/t and reach out with questions.
April 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
A reminder that we have a full PhD scholarship open at ARU in Cambridge, UK, open to candidates of any nationality. The project is on "the comparative anatomy of the mammalian larynx" and links to bioacoustics, evobio, anatomy, socioecology, etc. Please r/t and reach out with questions.
It was a book about Kanzi that sparked my interest in comparative psychology. 😔
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Remembering Kanzi — Ape Initiative
www.apeinitiative.org
March 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It was a book about Kanzi that sparked my interest in comparative psychology. 😔
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
Interested in #comparativecognition? Keen to work with #dogs? Interested in applying for a Newton International Fellowship? Get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
royalsociety.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Interested in #comparativecognition? Keen to work with #dogs? Interested in applying for a Newton International Fellowship? Get in touch! royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
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A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities:
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Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft
nachrichten.idw-online.de
January 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities:
nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...
nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/10/h...
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🌟JOB ALERT🌟
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
Deadline: 24th Jan 2025
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
Deadline: 24th Jan 2025
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
bristol.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🌟JOB ALERT🌟
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
Deadline: 24th Jan 2025
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’
That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour
Deadline: 24th Jan 2025
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Reposted by Dr Juliane Kaminski
RIP Julia Cissewski (1973-2025), Department Administrator of MPI-EVA's linguistics department (1998-2015). Every linguist who was at MPI-EVA during Bernard Comrie's tenure remembers her well (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sclp...). Julia is survived by her partner, linguist Greville Corbett.
January 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
RIP Julia Cissewski (1973-2025), Department Administrator of MPI-EVA's linguistics department (1998-2015). Every linguist who was at MPI-EVA during Bernard Comrie's tenure remembers her well (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sclp...). Julia is survived by her partner, linguist Greville Corbett.
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Thank you Finland! 👏👏👏⬇️⬇️⬇️ #mdpi #Frontiers
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
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Changes to the classification
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December 16, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Thank you Finland! 👏👏👏⬇️⬇️⬇️ #mdpi #Frontiers
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Congratulations to @louiseloyant.bsky.social, winner of the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social 2024 Napier Medal for her PhD work on inhibitory control across macaque species. What an achievement 🥳💪🥇
Congratulations to our winner of the 2024 Napier Medal: Dr Louise Loyant - a fantastic talk on her PhD research investigating inhibitory control across macaque species. #PSGBBristol
December 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Congratulations to @louiseloyant.bsky.social, winner of the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social 2024 Napier Medal for her PhD work on inhibitory control across macaque species. What an achievement 🥳💪🥇
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📣Senior position announcement: We are searching for an ~Academic Director~ for the Duke Lemur Center. If you or someone you know are qualified, we welcome applications!
See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology
interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...
See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology
interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...
December 12, 2024 at 7:28 PM
📣Senior position announcement: We are searching for an ~Academic Director~ for the Duke Lemur Center. If you or someone you know are qualified, we welcome applications!
See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology
interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...
See description at link below. Msg me if any Qs. Pls repost! #lemurs #primatology
interdisciplinary.duke.edu/opportunitie...
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We are so excited for our annual winter meeting tomorrow in Bristol! The programme for the event can be found on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Don't forget to tag your posts with #PSGBBristol
Meetings | Primate Society of Great Britain
www.psgb.org
December 11, 2024 at 2:18 PM
We are so excited for our annual winter meeting tomorrow in Bristol! The programme for the event can be found on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Don't forget to tag your posts with #PSGBBristol
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Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:
Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Validating quantitative measures of uncertainty in communicative interaction as indicators of affective valence in wild animals at University of Portsmouth, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:
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Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!
December 5, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!
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We are now on Bluesky 🥳
We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️
Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!
We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️
Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!
December 3, 2024 at 8:03 PM
We are now on Bluesky 🥳
We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️
Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!
We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️
Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!
Reposted by Dr Juliane Kaminski
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
November 20, 2024 at 4:26 PM
New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...