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Learning and Memory Lab Class Poster Session! With treats by Julie!
Ariel shot of poster session in which students conducted cognitive research with pigeons and are presenting their findings to the...
Mar 14


Professor Julie chats with the chat at Alveus Sanctuary
Julie answers questions about the marmosets and her own tamarin colony on Alveus Sanctuary's Chat Chats, Feb 28, 2025.
Mar 1


We donated surplus supplies and toys to ALVEUS sanctuary, and I forgot to post it!
February PO Box Unboxing includes a donation of supplies and toys from the Neiworth Primate Lab -- see 1:11:28 to see our donation being...
Feb 15


Jamie gets sassy...
Julie spends some time every day with the pigeons here at Carleton and often lets them fly freely when she works in the flight room or...
Jan 11

From PO Box to Action!
We sent some toys and supplies to Alveus Sanctuary for their December PO Box Opening and, just today, Dec 19, can see many of the toys...
Dec 19, 2024

We presented in the Big Apple (NYC, that is)...
Ella Rogers ('24, Tamarin Cognition Educational Associate) and Julie Neiworth presented in a spoken session on Animal Learning at the...
Nov 25, 2024


We present our work once again!
Oct 18 marked another venue to present our monkey work and show how we share our goods, our ideas, and our research with the world! Here...
Oct 19, 2024


We sent a new box of goodies for the marmosets to Alveus!
Go to 2:25:35 on the YouTube video to see Maya open our box! We our funneling our most positive vibes and toy selection to the marms that...
Oct 11, 2024

Pigeon Musician in the House!
We have been breeding a few more pigeons to add to our family. Here is a video of the latest two siblings, both 1 month old, discovering...
Sep 13, 2024

The Herculean task of getting 32 cage panels and 4 medical cages from Carleton's tamarin colony to OPR Coastal Primate Sanctuary! We did it!
The moving group was Ella Rogers ('24) , Julie Neiworth (faculty), Dom Dennis ('26), Eliza Hawthorne ('26) and Anka Raicevic ('25). It...
Sep 6, 2024

Sharing toys again! This time, with OPR Coastal Primate Sanctuary!
We packed up the remaining toys and some essentials for OPR Coastal Primate Sanctuary (which I visited 2 weeks ago during my vacation)...
Aug 27, 2024


Documenting life histories of monkeys...
We have started the process of tracing backward all the life experiences our tamarins had in our care, including partners, families, and...
Jul 25, 2024

We donated monkey toys to Alveus Sanctuary!
We have a full crew this summer and no more monkeys (see prior post). Of course, Julie has ideas about what we can do, including lab...
Jul 3, 2024


No more monkeys jumping on the bed...
I remember this rhyme from when I was little, and it came to me again after we lost our last monkey to monkey heaven. Yes, Oriole passed...
Jun 23, 2024


Encore and Forté: We miss you and think of you daily!
We have had a lot happen in the lab -- new branches for the monkeys at Christmas, and other highs and lows. Most recently we lost our...
Mar 22, 2024

Presenting at Psychonomics with Maddie!
We had a blast, and spread the word about our WWW task with tamarins. Nov 16, 2023, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San...
Dec 7, 2023

We appreciate you visiting our site! You are here!
One advantage of running our site on Wix is that we get analytics and can track how far we reach with our webiste. Thank you for visiting...
Oct 25, 2023


We're publishing a study in Nature's Scientific Reports! From acceptance to proofs in 2 days!
Congrats to Maddie Thall, Shannon Liu, Ellie Leon-Moffly, Moira Rankin, Maddy LoRusso, Suhani Thandi, and John Garay-Hernandez!
Oct 16, 2023

Another Friday, another undergraduate poster symposium! And we stepped up!
Taken before the mayhem began and we were surrounded by interested poster participants. Left: Megan Cablk, Julie Neiworth, Anka Raicevic,...
Oct 14, 2023

Oriole is now 18! We celebrated!
Oriole's birthday was Oct 5. She's a picky eater and has not tried too many bakery items when I bring them in (while the other monkeys...
Oct 13, 2023
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