Stuart K Watson
@ChimpsAhoi
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Studying the evolutionary origins of culture and language by hanging out with chimpanzees and other cool animals. Postdoc at University of Zürich. He/him.
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined September 2013
🎵🎺New paper🎺🎵. Out today in Biological Reviews, we propose a new, cross-species conceptual framework for examining the cognitive foundations of 'arbitrariness' - a crucial feature of language that has gone largely unexplored in non-human systems.
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RT @CultConf: The call for abstract is now closed, thanks for all your submissions 🙌.If you have submitted an abstract, you will get an ans….
culture-conference.com
Registration in person for the Culture Conference 2025 at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands on February 27th and 28th is now CLOSED! The online registration remains OPEN. If you wish to …
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RT @therfer: Today, interesting work published on Menzerath's law by @ChimpsAhoi and cols: 👏🐵👁️Our work:. https://t.….
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Menzerath’s law is a quantitative linguistic law which states that, on average, the longer is a linguistic construct, the shorter are its constituents. In contrast, Menzerath-Altmann’s law (MAL) is a...
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RT @JulianTrouillon: I have an open Postdoc position in Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zürich!. The project is about the conservation of….
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RT @V_DubleU: Hot off the press! Is there a pre-linguistic basis for event role attribution? In our new paper out in PLoS Biology, we take….
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RT @DanPapageorgiou: I met this gentle giant puppy on the streets of Greece, and I am looking for the best home for him. He loves cuddles,….
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RT @KatarinaWarren: New research led by @ElliotHowaSpi on chimpanzee ageing & impact on tool use featuring Bossou chimps! 👇.
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RT @Vlad_Demartsev: Check out the awesome coverage of our @CBehav field course by the @UniKonstanz magazine. Detai….
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RT @BABAO_info: 📢Did you supervise or know of an outstanding master dissertation in biological anthropology or osteoarchaeology?🐒🦍🦴🦷🔬🔍🩻. No….
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RT @cassandraguna: 📢 So excited to share my first PhD paper on chimpanzee cumulative culture and how it is shaped by population connectivit….
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Although cumulative culture is a hallmark of hominin evolution, its origins can be traced back to our common ancestor with chimpanzees. Here, we investigated the evolutionary origins of chimpanzee...
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RT @WildlifeMag: In south-eastern Senegal live female chimps that use spears to prize slumbering bush babies from tree cavities, as zoologi….
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Female chimps use spears to prize slumbering bush babies from tree cavities, as zoologist Lucy Cooke explains.
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RT @WallerBridget: Funded PhD studentship: Using hyperspectral imaging to assess facial expressivity in humans/primates. Ideal candidate wo….
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Our annual fully funded PhD studentships provide vital support for future researchers. Find out more about eligibility criteria and application deadlines.
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RT @leafs_s: Bayesian models of perception and action. by @KordingLab @weijima01 and Daniel Goldreich. https://t.co….
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RT @MasYoungblood: Excellent new paper from Dominik Deffner, @Naty_Fedorova, and @rlmcelreath! "Bridging theory and data: A computational w….
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Cultural evolution applies evolutionary concepts and tools to explain the change of culture over time. Despite advances in both theoretical and emp...
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RT @jonLorraine9: Getting harsh conference reviews from LLM-powered reviewers?. Consider hiding some extra guidance for the LLM in your pap….
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RT @heidiColleran: Modeller? Interested in linguistic diversity? *Postdoc* position on DYNAMICS OF MULTILINGUALISM available in my group at….
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RT @LChittka: We have a PhD studenstip available in any area of insect cognition or welfare through the China Scholarship Council (CSC - Ch….
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PhD Project - Cognition in Insects at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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RT @CultConf: Don't forget to submit your abstract before Dec 1st!.👇👇👇.
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Presentation formats: Full talk: 12 min presentation + 3 min Q&ALightning talk: 5 min presentation + 2 min Q&APoster: format A0, portrait or landscape. The poster session will be on Feb 27t…
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RT @LivHumanists: A huge issue in primary education is that children are exposed to creationism before they understand science. #Teachers:….
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RT @OleSeehausen: We are hiring two tenure-track assistant professors at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern in conservati….
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