Primatologist | Group leader & Lecturer @ Uni Tübingen | Freigeist Fellow | primate communication - behavioural plasticity - language evolution 🐵 🗣️https://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3ml6cpujxvk2j📣 New funding opportunity for primate research & conservation 🐵👇 The MuT Foundation offers field research grants (up to €20K) for projects in primate behaviour, conservation & biodiversity. Supporting fieldwork and early-career researchers! Please share: https://groups.google.com/a/g-groups.wisc.edu/g/Primate-job/c/AecNGAtYEM406 May 2026 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6cpujxvk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3m2quoqzanc2gNew article just out in NBR, co-authored with some brilliant linguists I’m working with in the new @dfg.de-funded CRC “Common Ground” (link below)! What can ambiguity in nonhuman communication teach us about the evolution of language? 🐵🗣️🐘 [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Oct 2025 09:45 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2quoqzanc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3m2772wnhgs2wThank you, Jane. I will never forget that chance encounter at Nairobi airport - both of us heading home from the field. As a grad student, it meant everything to me.02 Oct 2025 09:03 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2772wnhgs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lvkoh2uf422m📢 Come to Tübingen and get your PhD with us! Unique opportunity to explore great ape communication 🐵🦧🦍 from multiple disciplinary angles within a single, integrated project. 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2025 07:31 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvkoh2uf422mhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lvammwnams2yCongratulations to my superb PhD student Angèle Lombrey on publishing her first article in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social — no less! 😎🍾 Curious about individual differences in animal communicative behavior? 🐦🐬🦧Check out our open-access paper: 👉 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.7006131 Jul 2025 07:32 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvammwnams2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3luz2jpcnis2cNow published! 📝✅📢 Our review on flexibility in animal communication is out in Biological Reviews @camphilsoc.bsky.social (Open Access). Huge thanks again to my fantastic co-authors, especially @kirstyegraham.bsky.social. It was a delight to learn from them! 📖 Read it here: http://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70054 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2025 07:20 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3luz2jpcnis2chttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lssojslsfc2w📢 2 PhD positions (E13 TV-L, 75%) in our DFG-funded project on great ape communication & the evolution of common ground! 🧠 Backgrounds in biology, psychology or linguistics welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 13 🔗 bit.ly/4l8p7hy & bit.ly/46jcfAq Please share! @elmanubohn.bsky.social @meanwhileina.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2025 07:39 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lssojslsfc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lsdr5nm5ak25🚨 New preprint! 3 years after our symposium at the EFP-GfP meeting in Arnhem, I'm happy to share a prefinal draft of our review on approaches to studying flexibility in animal communication. Thanks/Merci beaucoup to the 7 stellar presenters & coauthors who made this possible! https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5fech_v124 Jun 2025 09:16 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsdr5nm5ak25https://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lqosvttw4s2b🎉Exciting times ahead for @elmanubohn.bsky.social, Michael Franke, and me! We will soon be advertising 2 PhD positions (linguistics/biology/psychology) for our SFB subproject "Modeling Great Ape Signaling Behaviour" 🧮 🐵 Stay tuned! [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jun 2025 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqosvttw4s2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lq57jmfdhc2g🚨 New chapter alert 🚨 What can variation in great ape communication—across individuals, dyads, populations, species—tell us about language origins and communicative flexibility? 🦧🤷‍♂️ My latest piece w/ Carel van Schaik is out now in the OH of Approaches to Language Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192886491.013.2527 May 2025 07:54 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq57jmfdhc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lptetnpeg22qVery proud to be part of this extraordinary team! What a time to be working and living in Tübingen ⚒️🐵🦧🦴💀 [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 May 2025 10:02 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lptetnpeg22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lk3mfy6twk2j🔜🗓️ Five days left to apply for a 2-yr postdoc position on bonobos! Don't miss this opportunity 🐵👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Mar 2025 08:08 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk3mfy6twk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lijg7ewedc2e🚨Come work with us in charming Tübingen and become a member of our growing Freigeist group! We offer a 2-year postdoc position on the communicative plasticity in wild and captive bonobos, fully funded by @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je http://bit.ly/4gVa5Je19 Feb 2025 09:04 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lijg7ewedc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3lgfkzwbelc2oNew paper out with @cedricboeckx.bsky.social and @ctennie.bsky.social: We discuss the role of explore-exploit tensions in shaping primate communication systems 🐵👶, integrating individual and social learning processes. Such a fun paper to write! bit.ly/40I7j4R https://bit.ly/40I7j4R23 Jan 2025 09:29 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgfkzwbelc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/marlenfroehlich.bsky.social/post/3kj62idecwk22Final paper of the orangutan gesture saga published this week! 🦧👋Wild-captive contrasts in non-voc communicative repertoires seem to be mainly driven by additional interaction partners, not by diffs in interaction outcomes or environmental affordances. t.ly/pBwmD17 Jan 2024 08:34 +0000at://did:plc:gap3wcfejme2wjtfbylsd5zn/app.bsky.feed.post/3kj62idecwk22