October 1, 2026 at 11:11 PM
How great an ape are you? #WildMindsLab went along to the festival of langauages at @byretheatre.bsky.social to talk all things gesture! #SciCom #ScienceOutreach #StAndrews
October 1, 2026 at 12:18 PM
How great an ape are you? #WildMindsLab went along to the festival of langauages at @byretheatre.bsky.social to talk all things gesture! #SciCom #ScienceOutreach #StAndrews
Trying to decide who does social media for the lab but we are all social media illiterate 😅 #WildMindsLab
August 7, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Trying to decide who does social media for the lab but we are all social media illiterate 😅 #WildMindsLab
#wildmindslab are heading to the mountains for shut up & write 🧪week.. it may need to be shut up n write in the evenings week… 😎
(& yes I am still packing waterproofs n thermals, this is still Scotland.. 🤣)
(& yes I am still packing waterproofs n thermals, this is still Scotland.. 🤣)
May 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#wildmindslab are heading to the mountains for shut up & write 🧪week.. it may need to be shut up n write in the evenings week… 😎
(& yes I am still packing waterproofs n thermals, this is still Scotland.. 🤣)
(& yes I am still packing waterproofs n thermals, this is still Scotland.. 🤣)
Hi Sciensky! I’m a primatologist that explores cognition, communication, & culture in wild apes. Follow along for ape (& ele) science, plus random posting of assorted fieldwork adventuring, floof pics, hot sauce, whisky, & nice bits of rock..
#wildmindslab #teamGesture #goneChimping 🤘👋🫰🐵🧪
#wildmindslab #teamGesture #goneChimping 🤘👋🫰🐵🧪
November 9, 2024 at 12:02 AM
Hi Sciensky! I’m a primatologist that explores cognition, communication, & culture in wild apes. Follow along for ape (& ele) science, plus random posting of assorted fieldwork adventuring, floof pics, hot sauce, whisky, & nice bits of rock..
#wildmindslab #teamGesture #goneChimping 🤘👋🫰🐵🧪
#wildmindslab #teamGesture #goneChimping 🤘👋🫰🐵🧪
#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷
A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3
Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path
Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized
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August 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
#WildMindsLab PI @nakedprimate.bsky.social (and some awesome collaborators) doing really cool research, as always. 🐵🍇🍎🍺🍷
During which the #wildmindslab definitely don’t get distracted while attempting to have a #justwrite week of *Important Science* up north and Scotland responds by going buck wild with wall to wall blue skies, zero midges, wildlife galore, and epic auroras 🫣
May 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
During which the #wildmindslab definitely don’t get distracted while attempting to have a #justwrite week of *Important Science* up north and Scotland responds by going buck wild with wall to wall blue skies, zero midges, wildlife galore, and epic auroras 🫣
📣 Calling all audio-book friends 🎧! Fancy a break from reading about dragons 🐉, crime 🕵️♂️, or true love ❤️? Did you know we offer audio versions of some of our papers 👩🔬 🐒 ? Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing them here! #WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science
April 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📣 Calling all audio-book friends 🎧! Fancy a break from reading about dragons 🐉, crime 🕵️♂️, or true love ❤️? Did you know we offer audio versions of some of our papers 👩🔬 🐒 ? Over the next few months, I’ll be sharing them here! #WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science
Charlotte: Hey Cat, we should start sharing more of our #WildMindsLab awesome science on Bluesky.
Cat: Great idea! Go ahead!
Charlotte for the last hour, trying to write something engaging, cool and fun:
Cat: Great idea! Go ahead!
Charlotte for the last hour, trying to write something engaging, cool and fun:
April 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Charlotte: Hey Cat, we should start sharing more of our #WildMindsLab awesome science on Bluesky.
Cat: Great idea! Go ahead!
Charlotte for the last hour, trying to write something engaging, cool and fun:
Cat: Great idea! Go ahead!
Charlotte for the last hour, trying to write something engaging, cool and fun:
Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop
Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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August 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop
First up is ‘Shared semantics- Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication’ 🐒 🎤
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqHB...
#PodcastPapers #MondayMicDrop #WildMindsLab
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqHB...
#PodcastPapers #MondayMicDrop #WildMindsLab
Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication
YouTube video by Great Ape Dictionary
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April 28, 2025 at 11:04 PM
First up is ‘Shared semantics- Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication’ 🐒 🎤
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqHB...
#PodcastPapers #MondayMicDrop #WildMindsLab
Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqHB...
#PodcastPapers #MondayMicDrop #WildMindsLab
Back with another audio paper 🎧! Interested in gestures humans share with chimpanzees? Dr Matt Henderson narrates Patel-Grosz et al’s paper, “Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures- the case of hand fling” 🦾
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
#WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
#WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science
Patel-Grosz et al. 2023 Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures: the case of hand fling
Read by Mathew HendersonThe last decades have seen major advances in the study of gestures both in humans and non-human primates. In this paper, we seriously...
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May 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Back with another audio paper 🎧! Interested in gestures humans share with chimpanzees? Dr Matt Henderson narrates Patel-Grosz et al’s paper, “Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures- the case of hand fling” 🦾
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
#WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science
Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
#WildMindsLab #MondayMicDrop #STEM #science
We’ve got 4 PhDs in the #WildMindsLab due to submit in the next month or so; so on the one hand it’s *very* intensely all go 🫣 & on the other I get to see all the crazy ideas we threw around years ago be turned into the most beautiful awesome science by a brilliant team 🤓🥹🥰
August 14, 2023 at 7:53 AM
We’ve got 4 PhDs in the #WildMindsLab due to submit in the next month or so; so on the one hand it’s *very* intensely all go 🫣 & on the other I get to see all the crazy ideas we threw around years ago be turned into the most beautiful awesome science by a brilliant team 🤓🥹🥰
What’s “intentional communication”, anyway? This week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧 is Dr Graham’s paper “Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production” 👍 👋 🤙. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Z6...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signalproduction
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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August 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What’s “intentional communication”, anyway? This week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧 is Dr Graham’s paper “Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production” 👍 👋 🤙. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Z6...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
🗣️ Parlez-vous français?
Good news — our #WildMindsLab papers are available in French too!
Link to our website 🦍🐵🧒 (and translations): www.wildminds.ac.uk/our-publicat...
#STEM #science
Good news — our #WildMindsLab papers are available in French too!
Link to our website 🦍🐵🧒 (and translations): www.wildminds.ac.uk/our-publicat...
#STEM #science
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May 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🗣️ Parlez-vous français?
Good news — our #WildMindsLab papers are available in French too!
Link to our website 🦍🐵🧒 (and translations): www.wildminds.ac.uk/our-publicat...
#STEM #science
Good news — our #WildMindsLab papers are available in French too!
Link to our website 🦍🐵🧒 (and translations): www.wildminds.ac.uk/our-publicat...
#STEM #science
#wildmindslab #podcastpapers is back with the super smooth stylings of Dr Matt Henderson & the fascinating case of hand fling gestures… 🧪🎤
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
May 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
#wildmindslab #podcastpapers is back with the super smooth stylings of Dr Matt Henderson & the fascinating case of hand fling gestures… 🧪🎤
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQRl...
The last (for now) in our #MondayMicDrop series is Dr Graham’s paper “The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system”. Want to learn more about bonobo gesture 👍 👋 🤙 ? Listen here 🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbfj...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo: a mutually understood communication system
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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September 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The last (for now) in our #MondayMicDrop series is Dr Graham’s paper “The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system”. Want to learn more about bonobo gesture 👍 👋 🤙 ? Listen here 🎧: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbfj...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Bonobo gestures 🤝 chimpanzee gestures. Listen 🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop. Link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIg...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Bonobo gestures 🤝 chimpanzee gestures. Listen 🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop. Link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWIg...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
How should we measure joint attention 👩👦? #mondayMicDrop “Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqlf...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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July 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
How should we measure joint attention 👩👦? #mondayMicDrop “Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers” for this week’s #MondayMicDrop 🎧. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqlf...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Ever wondered how the environment affects gesture use in great apes? @kirstyegraham.bsky.social narrates “A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units” #MondayMicDrop 🎧
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDz...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDz...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
A socio-ecological perspective on gestural communication of ape species, individuals & social units
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ever wondered how the environment affects gesture use in great apes? @kirstyegraham.bsky.social narrates “A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units” #MondayMicDrop 🎧
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDz...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuDz...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#MondayMicDrop 🎧! Did you know we already “speak chimp”? Humans understand common non-human ape gestures. Kirsty narrates their paper, “Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures”. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2GU...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Towards A Great Ape Dictionary
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
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June 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#MondayMicDrop 🎧! Did you know we already “speak chimp”? Humans understand common non-human ape gestures. Kirsty narrates their paper, “Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures”. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2GU...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Washing up to do? Bored on your commute home? Why don’t you give audio papers a try 🎧? For this weeks’ #MondayMicDrop, Dr Graham narrates their paper “The origin of great ape gestural forms” , check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ckf...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
The origin of great ape gestural forms
YouTube video by Kirsty Graham
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Washing up to do? Bored on your commute home? Why don’t you give audio papers a try 🎧? For this weeks’ #MondayMicDrop, Dr Graham narrates their paper “The origin of great ape gestural forms” , check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ckf...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Spending the week in Glencoe on the #WildMindsLab retreat. Not a bad place to get some writing done 🤓
May 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Spending the week in Glencoe on the #WildMindsLab retreat. Not a bad place to get some writing done 🤓
Monday again already 🎧?! This week’s #MondayMicDrop is 🥁🥁🥁 *drum roll please* 🥁🥁🥁 Eleuteri et al’s paper, “The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming”. Dr Henderson narrates the paper here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3R...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
Eleuteri et al. 2022 The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming
Read by Mathew HendersonMany animal species use vocal and nonvocal acoustic signals to communicate over large distances. Wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, d...
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May 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Monday again already 🎧?! This week’s #MondayMicDrop is 🥁🥁🥁 *drum roll please* 🥁🥁🥁 Eleuteri et al’s paper, “The form and function of chimpanzee buttress drumming”. Dr Henderson narrates the paper here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF3R...
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
#WildMindsLab #STEM #science
At this week's #WildMindsLab #LabChat we will practice summarizing our research for different audiences… It might be a long lab chat 😅
April 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
At this week's #WildMindsLab #LabChat we will practice summarizing our research for different audiences… It might be a long lab chat 😅