Maël Leroux
Lecturer @ethos-research.bsky.social, @rennesuniv.bsky.social, France. Interested in the evolution of language. Currently studying non-human primates 🐒 he/they
- Reposted by Maël Leroux#voxprimato #bourses 🚨 J-3 avant la date limite d’envoi des dossiers pour une des quatre bourses recherche ou conservation proposées par la SFDP! Des infos 👉🏽 sfdp-primatologie.net/index.php?pa... Des questions 👉🏽 info@sfdp-primatologie.net
- #APELANG team is thriving in Uganda 🇺🇬😍 Look at that chimp 🙈
- Reposted by Maël Leroux🇬🇧 With this new paper comes, for the first time officially, a new name! Ethos changed its name! We are now the CSEC! Centre for the Study of Ethology and Cognition! 🇫🇷 Avec ce papier, un nouveau nom officiel pour la première fois! EthoS devient CEEC! Centre d’Etude en Ethologie et Cognition!
- We used a dataset collected from observations, playback experiments and predator presentations during my PhD. We conducted formal linguistic analyses derived from this paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Maël Leroux🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- Reposted by Maël LerouxIf you feel bad for not having published all the papers from your PhD yet... This paper is the discussion of my thesis, and it took me about 6 years to publish it! Thank you to my lovely collaborators @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social for the (much-needed) final push!
- 🚨New animal linguistics paper🚨 Together with @geoffreymesbahi.bsky.social and @maelmleroux.bsky.social, we tried to finally answer this question: Do titi monkeys have complex syntactic skills? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
- When #primatology meets #fashion ! Today I am giving a lecture at the amazing Institut Français de la Mode #IFM in how to create meaning without words 🙊
- Reposted by Maël LerouxNew publications for a happy new year 2026! @maelmleroux.bsky.social and colleagues published a new framework for #welfare, #EDI and #ethics in animal research. Find out more here: A call for CARE! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3
- With a new year comes a new field season for the #APELANG team! Celebrating their first night in the forest 🐵 Welcome to the latest addition to the team @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social 😍 Looking forward to the next 3 years together !
- Reposted by Maël Leroux📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!
- Reposted by Maël LerouxAlban Lemasson et Maël Leroux étaient aux mardis de l’espace des sciences ! Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Retrouvez leur conférence en ligne ici: www.youtube.com/live/io6tAYL... Et leur livre: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... @espacedessciences.bsky.social @maelmleroux.bsky.social
- Absolutely thrilled to have been invited to present my work at the AUBE meeting. www.instagram.com/p/DPy7WufDDf...
- Reposted by Maël LerouxA Paimpont toujours @rennesuniv.bsky.social , mais aussi dans un café des sciences à La Gacilly, Alban Lemasson et @maelmleroux.bsky.social ont présenté leur livre sur la linguistique animale: quand les animaux prennent la parole, aux éditions Apogée #FDS2025 www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...
- Reposted by Maël LerouxA Audierne, @maelmleroux.bsky.social à également présenté (et dédicacé!) le livre co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole!, aux éditions Apogée #FDS2025 www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s...
- Reposted by Maël LerouxLast week, our own @berthetmelissa.bsky.social & @maelmleroux.bsky.social were at the @lasfdp.bsky.social 2025 conference. First congress as official board members, and Mélissa presented their work on chimp vs. bonobos combinatoriality!
- Reposted by Maël LerouxIt's hard to overstate the impact Jane Goodall had on my life, both in terms of essentially birthing my field, but also her deeply, contagiously humanist (for want of a better word) spirit. I've never been starstruck in my life except for the two occasions I met Jane, where I could barely talk.
- Reposted by Maël LerouxA little update of the beginning of this academic year! New papers, communication, public outreach:
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View full threadReposted by Maël Leroux@maelmleroux.bsky.social organised a symposium on animal linguistics at the @SLE2025 in Bordeaux with the @nccrlanguage.bsky.social, introduced by Philippe Schlenker
- Reposted by Maël LerouxDemain, on fait grève ! Pr vous distraire, vous pouvez écouter mon nouvel épisode du podcast Bêtes de science @futurasciences.bsky.social. J'y parle du guépard, l'occasion d'évoquer le @cheetah.org & les études de com' vocale de @maelmleroux.bsky.social : podcasts.futura-sciences.com/futura-betes...
- L’émission d’hier à retrouver ici 👇🏻 merci @rfi.fr ! www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
- Live today on @rfi.fr !
- Live today on @rfi.fr !
- And we continue on this série with an interview live for CQFD, at the Swiss radio RTS 🙏 With Lucia Sillig! Thanks for this great experience! CQFD - rts.ch www.rts.ch/emissions/cq...
- Spent a wonderful week in Aurich with Simon Townsend and Katie Slocombe to talk about the next step of the @agencerecherche.bsky.social project #APELANG! Stay tuned ;) Ps: meetings in the river = best meetings 🏊♂️
- And we continue on this série with an interview live for CQFD, at the Swiss radio RTS 🙏 With Lucia Sillig! Thanks for this great experience! CQFD - rts.ch www.rts.ch/emissions/cq...
- Reposted by Maël LerouxFirst were @maelmleroux.bsky.social & @berthetmelissa.bsky.social talking about @edi-efp.bsky.social for the pre-conference workshop!
- Reposted by Maël LerouxWe had @maelmleroux.bsky.social presenting his work on chimpanzee compositionality.
- Super happy to share a paper Catia Correia-Caeiro and Katja Liebal were kind enough to invite me on! An extension of the ChimpFACS for bonobos ❤️ With lots of people involved! peerj.com/articles/194...
- No kidding… such an important message to be heard
- Peer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia. 👉 Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social
- The original paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
- Reposted by Maël LerouxPeer review harassment is making early career researchers and minorities leave academia. 👉 Check my last article based on Farid Saleh's work with Raoul Ganty's drawings for @unil.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maël LerouxIt's out! 🎉 Together with @maelmleroux.bsky.social , @chimpsahoi.bsky.social, and S. Townsend, we wrote a chapter on methods for studying animal sequences. Huge thanks to @limorraviv.bsky.social and @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for editing this amazing volume! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
- Delighted to announce the publication of a collaborative effort, co-led by @limorraviv.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social, showcasing the ways in which researchers have made language evolution an empirical issue: A handbook of experimental approaches to the fascinating problem of language evolution 🧪
- Et découvrez un extrait du livre (comme par hasard, sur la syntaxe…) ici 👇🏻 theconversation.com/quand-les-an...
- It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi: unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...
- Today we were at the radio to talk about our new book with Alban Lemasson! The first of a long series we hope!
- It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi: unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...
- Merci pour le shout out! 🫰🏻 À écouter, l’émission de ce matin sur France Culture sur le “langage”, le “rythme” et la “musique” des chimpanzés 🙊
- Et un peu de lecture pour finir avec cet ouvrage paru ce mois-ci, par @maelmleroux.bsky.social et Alban Lemasson. Je vous le conseille chaudement ! Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Le langage humain est-il unique ou sommes-nous trop centrés sur nous-mêmes pour penser ainsi ?
- It’s out! Co-écrit avec Alban Lemasson: Quand les animaux prennent la parole ! Un livre grand public sur la communication animale et l’évolution du langage. En vente partout, éditions Apogée: www.editions-apogee.com/espace-des-s... A. Bensoussan en parle mieux que moi: unidivers.fr/la-culture-a...
- Only two weeks left to apply! Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend! And spread the word to whoever might be interested! @efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social
- 🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻
- Reposted by Maël LerouxThis new #RSOS paper tested the ability of #bonobos to process 'non-adjacent dependencies'. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @maelmleroux.bsky.social @chimpsahoi.bsky.social
- Reposted by Maël LerouxApril update of the labs activities - a 🧵 New paper documenting the absence of non adjacent dependency processing in bonobos, including Kanzi! Nouveau papier sur l'absence de détection de dépendances syntaxiques chez les bonobos : une experience de grammaire artificielle doi.org/10.1098/rsos... 1/4
- New paper hot off the press! 🚨 Non adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos. A special one, as Kanzi, who participated in the study, passed away a few weeks ago 😢 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- New paper hot off the press! 🚨 Non adjacent dependency processing (or lack thereof) in bonobos. A special one, as Kanzi, who participated in the study, passed away a few weeks ago 😢 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
- Our (@maelmleroux.bsky.social et al.) paper out today in #RSOS: we tested the ability of bonobos to process 'non-adjacent dependencies'. Surprisingly, unlike our prior work on chimps and marmosets, we found no evidence that they did so... royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- Game changing study in @science.org by @berthetmelissa.bsky.social and co. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Maël Leroux2 new jobs! 1 enseignant.e à temps complet, pour un CDD de 1 an renouvelable(date limite le 2 mai) univ-rennes.nous-recrutons.fr/poste/qyy7js... 1 enseignant.e-chercheur.e, contrat ATER (date limite le 22 avril) www.univ-rennes.fr/sites/www.un... www.univ-rennes.fr/recrutement-...
- 🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻
- Could be good to know 😅 net salary is 2k/month, subject to variations depending on previous experience
- Reposted by Maël Leroux🇫🇷 Aujourd’hui, « À la rencontre du poulpe », le livre de Ludovic Dickel est disponible dans vos librairies! 🇬🇧 Today, a book on octopus behaviour for the general public is published, written by our own Ludovic Dickel! 🐙 www.fnac.com/a21148718/Lu...
- Incredibly excited about that! And amazed at the energy people brought in. Together, we can make a difference! Come and join us! Send us an email at edi4efp@gmail.com
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- Reposted by Maël LerouxMobbing sequences of American wrens elicit mobbing responses in European tits Very nice to see this out in #AnimalBehaviourJournal! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- #APELANG little update from the field! Clement and Sophie are nailing data collection in Kibale forest! Lots of amazing videos of chimps doing chimp stuff! Also, they do communicate 😏😌 Pic by Katie Slocombe (left) and Sophie Kurilla (right)
- Reposted by Maël LerouxDoes anyone have any recs for iPad/phone apps for scanning smaller objects like bones etc. for a primatologist currently cosplaying at archaeology 😅 3D scanner has been great for larger natural objects like trees but hoping to find something that will do the small stuff 🙏 #archaeologysky 🧪
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- Back from the field! Didn’t all go as planned, but what a gorgeous time it has been! Super glad to see this #APELANG project started! An amazing team of 3 post docs and 3 research assistants collecting data in 3 #chimpanzee field sites in Uganda! Stay tuned! Also, I am officially leaving X today! 🐵
- I can’t go in the forest, but the naughty baboons are here to keep me company (and on my feet!)
- So… funny story. I got to the Kibale forest alright, to see the Kanyawara chimps. But I happen to have gotten sick… so quarantine for me again and no more chimps for the week 😭 Guess will have to work on that coding scheme!
- A small forest pic dump 😌 including Nambi, that granny sitting on a log - the eldest soul here, more than 60 years old !
- Finallyyyyy! Back with the chimps 😍 Sound on 🔊 #APELANG
- Last day of quarantine! Today is getting some work done in a very difficult, challenging field environment… #APELANG @agencerecherche.bsky.social
- One more day in quarantine, and preparing the field with Vanessa in our nice little outside office. Waibira chimps better be ready, we’re coming in hot on Thursday!
- A little quarantine time at camp before being able to enter the forest. The occasion to appreciate the non-chimp folks 😌❤️ Baboons, blue monkeys, black and white colobus… and a bushbuck 😏 #APELANG
- Arrived in Budongo today 😍 The fun can start! Get ready for chimp fest in the coming days 🦍 (disclaimer: this emoji is a gorilla…)
- Arrived in Kampala! Leaving for budongo tomorrow with the team! But before that, enjoying a cocktail in the best plaaaaace! @ Skyz Ninety9
- Let’s go! #APELANG Leaving for the field for 15days to set up 6 amazing researchers to conduct fieldwork with #chimpanzees in Uganda for the next 3months. I’ll try and document the trip here, and post cool(er) pictures to wish you all a very happy new year 2025 🎉
- Reposted by Maël LerouxAnd... We are up and running! We are thrilled to announce the creation of the Ethics, Diversity and Inclusivity group of the EFP! 🥳 We aim to discuss and implement short-, medium- and long-term actions to mediate EDI issues in primatology. If you want to join, email us at edi4efp(at)gmail.com!
