Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2021
Mauricio Cantor*, Michael Chimento*, Simeon Smeele*, Peng He, Danai Papageorgiou, Lucy Aplin, Damien Farine, "Social network architecture and the tempo of cumulative cultural evolution." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.3107
Published in Current Biology, 2021
Michael Chimento, Gustavo Alarc{\'o}n-Nieto, Lucy Aplin, "Population turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency in birds." Current Biology, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.057
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021
Sonja Wild*, Michael Chimento*, Keith McMahon, Damien Farine, Ben Sheldon, Lucy Aplin, "Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0307
Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021
T Gruber*, M Chimento*, LM Aplin, D Biro, "Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0308
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022
Michael Chimento, Brendan Barrett, Anne Kandler, Lucy Aplin, "Cultural diffusion dynamics depend on behavioural production rules." Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1001
Published in The American Naturalist, 2024
Michael Chimento, Lucy Aplin, "Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change." The American Naturalist, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1086/730110
Published in Philosophical Transactions B, 2024
Michael Chimento, Damien R. Farine." Philosophical Transactions B, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0524
News article, The independent, 2023
Featured in The Independent: Great tits ‘update traditions’ to more efficient behaviours when new birds join group, scientists say.
Podcast, BBC Radio 4, 2023
Featured on BBC Radio 4’s Nature Bang podcast.
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Masters course, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 2020
Delivered lecture: “Automated data collection”. Co-supervised one group of MSc students on a 3 week research project on wild great tit cognition.
Masters course, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 2021
Delivered lecture: “Automated data collection”. Co-supervised 2 groups of MSc students, each working on 3 week research projects on wild great tit cognition.
Skills Courses – Workshop Bazar, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 2022
Delivered short course on an introduction to using Python.
Workshop, Uni Konstanz, 2023
Co-organized and delivered short lecture on reinforcement learning.
Masters course, Uni Konstanz, 2024
Guest lecturer for MSc course “Evolutionary Organismal Biology EOB BIO-11290”.