Dr. Marcela Benítez
Assistant Professor @AnthroEmory| Hormones and social cognition in 🐒 |SoCaP Lab| Capuchins de Taboga 🇨🇷 | she/her |#queerinstem 🏳️🌈|#latininSTEM | #vamosARG 🇦🇷⚽️🔟
- Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻 We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks. @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social #PrimateCognition #AI
- CapuchinAI: Leveraging AI to study wild primate cognition biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
- Check out @apesemory.bsky.social grad student @ecunningham96.bsky.social discuss his work on same-sex behavior in primates!
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- Congrats Dr. Kovalaskas!
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- Interrupting your regularly scheduled program to wish you a Mora Christmas and a Feliz Navidog
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- 🌡️🔥Check out our new Science Advances paper on how #ClimateChange impacts the immune performance of wild capuchins 🐒! Lead by Jordan Lucore check out the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Watch the explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7yl...
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- A Snapshot of Scientific Thought on Emotions in Animals. Check out our recent survey of #animalbehavior researchers' perception of #animalemotions and consciousness. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... news.emory.edu/features/202...
- Hi! I’m Marcela Benítez (she/her) #anthropologist 🧑🔬| #primatologst 🐒| #queerinstem🌈 •Co-director of Capuchinos de Taboga in Costa Rica 🇨🇷 •Director of SoCaP lab @Emory •Broadly interested in social behavior 🤝, cognition 🧠, hormones & behavior 🧬, field experiments 🌴, queer animals 🌈🦍, soccer ⚽
