Prof. Amanda Seed

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📣📣📣 Applications for DISI 2025 are now open!! Interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

Last week we presented first data from our @geladas_bridges project at the conference of the Italian Society for the study of Animal Behaviour @sie_etologia in Turin! Emotions and prosociality in vocal exchanges of wild geladas… so happy and proud 🐒 @EthosLabo @TheLeakeyFndtn

We have an open call for two permanent lectureships in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews. A beautiful place to live and work. Please share! vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/46…

Heads up animal behavior researchers! Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15. Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav stri.si.edu/academic-progr……

There’s a permanent position in neuroscience available in our department- feel free to message if you have questions about what life is like in St Andrews! vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/98…

Join us next week at our intelligence workshop @SimonsInstitute! Schedule: #simons-tabs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/unde… Register online for both in-person and streaming. FANTASTIC lineup of speakers: 1/3

We've moved to a system of funding rounds & the latest one is now open! Students can apply for a microgrant by May 24th towards personal financial needs like rent, groceries, transport etc. that are making it challenging for you to continue your studies 😓 animalbehaviourcollective.org

Great new paper with @Silviventu She showed that enriched rats are better at hard memory problems, have sparser hippocampal activity and more rate remapping in CA3 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

My PhD work with @JamieAinge is now out in @CurrentBiology Increased flexibility of CA3 memory representations following environmental enrichment: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

📣 Exciting news! We're accepting applications for our Broadening Participation Grant. Apply for grants up to $5,000 to increase accessibility and inclusion of under-represented communities in #CogSci Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-par… and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️

"Mathematics of intelligence" @ipam_ucla is accepting applicants! Financial support available to attend and participate for extended periods, especially for recent PhDs, graduate students, and researchers in the early stages of their career. Apply! ipam.ucla.edu/programs/long-…

Join us in beautiful Stirling to work with the best colleagues and fabulous students. Fantastic opportunities for interdisciplinary research collaboration. A great location for work and play. Get in touch if you want to chat all things Stirling

We are advertising for a permanent lectureship in cognition / neuroscience - please feel free to get in touch if you would like to know more about our school or St Andrews and please share with potential applicants! vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/25…

Frans de Waal was an inspriational scientist. As an undergraduate @nickyclayton22 gave me a copy of Chimpanzee Politics to read and we spotted similar behaviours in the rook colony. When I met Frans he was so enthusiastic to learn about rooks consoling one another. A great loss.

@rzss @BudongoChimps This is a really cool new journal from the Budongo forest chimpanzee researchers. I enjoyed reading about the notorious Frank! perspectivescollectivejournal.com/new-page-4

Discover the new Perspectives Collective journal, an innovative new project where our partners @BudongoChimps will showcase voices of local experts in primatology and build capacity through training in key skills. Read the first volume now 👉 perspectivescollectivejournal.com

Interested in doing a PhD on what meerkats mean? Or know someone who might? Check out this great opportunity from the @NCCR_Language with Marta Manser at the University of Zürich. Deadline March 15th.

Job alert: Come work with me and @FitzyLily on developing the multi-dimensional #CuriosityBattery for school aged kids. 3-year PDRA position at @lancspsychres to start Sept'24. Application deadline May 5: hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

Congratulations Chris 🙌!

Less than 3 days left to apply for this year's DISI! (Make sure to apply *before* March 1st) This was a uniquely enriching experience for me last year that I am still drawing inspiration from regularly. Feel free to contact me with any questions if you're curious!