Raphaela Heesen
@rapha_heesen
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Jun.-Professor @uniKonstanz |joint action, communication, cognition, emotions in #chimpanzees #bonobos #marmosets #children |https://t.co/csJMboDtaH
Germany
Joined January 2019
To study emotions in free-ranging #animals, researchers rely on what they see: but inferring #emotions from #behavior is not enough! Our new preprint discusses how #technology could help us better understand animal affect under naturalistic conditions 🚨
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Emotion research has gained enormous momentum through the emerging field of comparative affective science, which seeks to uncover important aspects about the emotional life of nonhuman animals. This...
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Next Friday 24th October at 1pm, I will be giving my Inugural Lecture! All are extremely welcome. If you would like to attend online (or in person), please can you complete this form? Then I can send you a meeting link and/or if you'd like the recording https://t.co/soCUmcvgs9
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📢Job alert 📢 Come and join the @TaiChimpProject as camp manager. Two years job with a possible prolongation for 3rd year. Join a vibrant research project in the middle of the Tai National Park, Cote d'Ivoire. https://t.co/ajYuAsUd4I
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Want to dive deep? Submit a symposium! Have an idea to workshop or results to share? There are posters for that! Want to speak on empirical or theoretical work? Give a flash talk! Want to spark discussion? Chair an innovation forum! So many ways to engage! https://t.co/rdaCYBQVcr
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Count down to my very favorite event of the year that I very much enjoy curating and organising The Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour (21st July - 8th August ) . Can’t believe it is our third year already 🙌🙌. Three week immersion in the state of the art collective
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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!
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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!
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🚨 1 more week to apply!! 🚨 2 PhD positions in my group on cross-species comparisons & #development of joint action, #communication & #emotion in #chimpanzees and #children at @UniKonstanz @CBehav - DM me about questions ☺️ Application deadline: 16.06.25 Start date: 1.10.25
Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) @UniKonstanz @CBehav 👇 links below!
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Happy to share a PhD opportunity in my new lab at @UZH_en ! Application deadline: June 30. Please retweet and do not hesitate to contact me for any questions
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Position to work with apes: https://t.co/JNZECmLRXq Position to work with human children: https://t.co/7jnyAfBh22
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Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) @UniKonstanz @CBehav 👇 links below!
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🚨 Language connection FOUND in chimpanzees? 🧠🗣️ For years, scientists thought the key to human language was a fibre connection, missing in chimp brains. New high-res brain scans just changed the game. 👀🐒 📖 Read the full story: https://t.co/2uIYGgRdsX 1/n 🧵👇
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New review out on facial signalling in conversation, making the argument that the notion of ‘speech acts’ is outdated due to its unimodal focus, especially in the light of the fundamental contributions of the face towards social action communication
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some coverage from the @BBCNews about our new study comparing empathic tendencies of bonobos and chimpanzees 🐵🐵 https://t.co/7d9xEBLPOV
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Durham University finds that chimpanzees are as likely to console as the 'more empathic' bonobo.
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Fully funded PhD position on Hominin Life History Evolution available in my new lab @UZH_en Please retweet! Link: https://t.co/iZqnFnweDj
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Happy to be back in wonderful Toruń to hold lectures on comparative communication studies and methods this week at Dep of Pschology and @cles_ncu @UMK_Torun - excited to connect with people and talk about language evolution - while being in this wonderful place!
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New paper alert! Sex and strife in our closest ape relatives Our #openaccess paper in @RSocPublishing shows bonobos + chimpanzees overlap in their use of sex during social tension -w @jakebrooker & coauthors inc the late Frans de Waal, his last paper https://t.co/NtZrDZlg3C
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A student of mine is studying maternal wellbeing in people with and without pets. We're recruiting women who are either pregnant or up to nine months postpartum. Please share! https://t.co/CB9EDaKpIn
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Paper now out in @MethodsEcolEvol!! Looking forward to seeing how the community applies this method. Since the preprint, I updated the documentation and even made a video tutorial. Do check it out! [paper] https://t.co/vKy9Df2svd [documentation]
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Manually coding behaviours from videos is essential to study animal behaviour but it is labour-intensive and susceptible to inter-rater bias and reliability issues. Recent developments of computer...
New preprint out (finally) !!!! We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos. @CBehav
https://t.co/VKqCWbE66d
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Plz share around : The tradition continues, the Konstanz School of Collective Behavior will take place from July 21st to August 8th , 2025. Application deadline: April 15 ( https://t.co/ACFAcbFLAg ) . We have an amazing line up of speakers covering all aspects of collective
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