Dr. Limor Raviv 🦄🤗🐘🦒

I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at @Radboud_Uni: 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) ru.nl/en/working-at/… 📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮) ru.nl/en/working-at/… Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105411 (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨🌰)

What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection We wrote a piece in Psyche Magazine about our research on #empathy in infants :) psyche.co/ideas/were-lea…

You can watch all the highlights of our @isgs2025 conference on our utube channel m.youtube.com/watch?v=EcIRzk…

📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

Expected, but now confirmed: if available, the speech of other children may play an important role in language acquisition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de… ☝️also: child-directed speech and child speech share acoustic and structural features

Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation by Sali A. Tagliamonte A user's manual for analysing variation using the R programming language, including practical exercises, checklists, and insider tips. 📚 cup.org/44QKXiJ

From inadvisable to impermissible: how norms emerge through iterated learning pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Comparison of the larynges of wolves and dogs gives support to the neural crest hypothesis of the domestication syndrome royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits at the University of Stuttgart (1-year extension possible). Research topic is open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching obligations until Summer 2027, some light…

Such a cool study!!! 😍😍😍

🚨Second PhD chapter is out today! We show that elephants gesture intentionally to ask humans for food using many different gesture types! Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/elephant-intent 🧵TLDR 1/16

Multiple Fully Funded PhD, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Research Assistant, & Research Jobs at University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway #phd #opportunities #phdposition #fundedPhD #FullyFundedPhD #scholarship #research #Postdoctoral #Postdoc #job #ResearchTweet

Really awesome study by Kenny Smith, @JosieBowerman & @AndrewDMSmith out now in Cognition: Semantic extension in a novel communication system is facilitated by salient shared associations sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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!

📣ATTENTION!!! Two PhD positions on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees and Bonobos 🤩@snsf_ch @UZH_en @univofstandrews Come join @APE_Group_UZH & Wild Minds Lab @NakedPrimate ✨Please RT✨ @EFPrimatology @PsgbStudent @BiologicalAnth @IPS_PrimateNews @PrimateEducate

So so excited for this one!! Come join the K/Creative Ape Team (CAT 😉), 2 4yr PhDs fully funded on creativity in wild apes 🤓

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!

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

Don't miss out on this very unique resource - - lots of cool and cutting edge methods to study how language evolved 🤓😎