Lab news
Find out the latest news and updates from our Cooperation Lab below!
2024
29 Apr 2024
Male rats are more the double the size than females. Yet we found that sometimes females are dominant over males (we even found alpha females in our colonies!). Find out why by reading Miguel's paper here.
21 Mar 2024
Sadie's first first-author publication is out! What a wonderful text about cultural techniques in non-human animals. We wrote this during the pandemic, which was a great way to stay socially and intellectually connected.
07 Mar 2024
We are soooo excited! Our Special Issue The Principle of Reciprocation has been released in Ethology today. This has been one of the most rewarding experiences and
a great honour - thanks you to all the authors and reviewers for making this possible and such a fantastic issue.
05 Feb 2024
15 Jan 2024
Congratulations, Josie! Josephine Hugo received a prestigious award for an outstanding dissertation - we are so proud of you!!!
2023
20 Dec 2023
Paper alert! Li published their first first-author paper on predator inspection - congratulations!!!
25 Sep 2023
Manon Schweinfurth presented the lab's research at the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord in Paris.
11 Sep 2023
The Cooperation Lab is growing and welcomes Emily Semple, Emirhan Dogulu, Lauren Brett, Neil McLaren, Siqi Yang, Stella Douglass, and Valerie Pei Zi Lim ! Stay tuned for their findings...
15 Aug 2023
Li presented their poster today at Behaviour2023, entitled 'Reviewing the debate on whether fish cooperate to inspect
predators'. Inspect the inspectors if you are around!
01 Aug 2023
A very warm welcome to Chana and Melissa, who joined our lab as postdoctoral researchers today! We are so happy to have you on board.
15 May 2023
Congratulations! Li Veiros received an award for their outstanding flash talk, presented at the Postgraduate Research Conference at St Andrews!
May - Sept 2023
We are thrilled that our exhibition will be opening its doors to the public! Come and explore "What makes us human" at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews.
04 May 2023
Manon Schweinfurth gave a departmental talk at the University of Neuchâtel on the evolutionary and psychological origins of reciprocal cooperation.
01 Apr 2023
Amy Provan, Josie Hugo and Shiqi Zhang presented their research project at the BPS Scottish Undergraduate Conference in Dundee. We are so thrilled and proud that
Amy and Josie received both an award for their outstanding conference presentation - woohoo!!!
17 Feb 2023
Congratulations! Li Veiros received an ASAB travel grant to attend the ASAB spring conference in Bangor to present her work!
01 Jan 2023
Manon Schweinfurth has been elected to be the new manager of the Ethologische Gesellschaft.
2022
04 Nov 2022
We are one of ManyPrimates and we are an international
multi-lab collaboration of primatologists. We just published our second project! Watch out for many more to come.
20 Oct 2022
We published a paper on inter-individual coordination in chimpanzees! This was a fantastic team
effort and a wonderful interdisciplinary collaboration - thanks to all involved lab members and collaborators!
20 Sept 2022
Rataplan... Dear world, the Cooperation Lab proudly presents to you ... their lab logo!!! This amazing piece of art, which perfectly captures us as a team and our research, was designed and created by the wonderful Monika Jasnauskaite.
22 Jul 2022
Sophie Harrower and Miguel Puentes-Escamilla presented ratastic research at ECBB in Groningen! What an amazing conference after such a long time of online meetings...
17 Jun 2022
Graduation day!!! We wish all our fantastic undergraduate lab members only the best for their future. We had a great time with you and are really sad to see you
leaving. Please stay in touch.
02 Jun 2022
Hurrah - Sophie Harrower presented her most recent experiment at the PGR poster session of our School.
02 Apr 2022
Many congratulations to Nadia Cumming whose abstract was accepted to the BPS Scottish Undergraduate
Conference in Glasgow. She presented the findings of her undergraduate research project on rats!
1 Mar 2022
Woohoo, the Cooperation Lab has a new member! Li Veiros will be joining us in September as a PhD candidate, supervised by Dr Mike Webster and Manon. A very warm welcome to the team, Li!
25 Feb 2022
Sadie Tenpas presented one of her PhD projects at the Annual Meeting of the Ethological Society. What a great talk!
02 Feb 2022
Congratulations! Avanti Chopra received funding for her project, entitled "Do children trust adults wearing masks?".