Cool study showing just how common it is for capuchins to anoint themselves and each other with the antimicrobial toxins produced by millipedes. 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

INÉDIT 🎬 Elle avait disparu des radars depuis les années 70, pourtant la loutre fait son grand retour, notamment sur le Lez qui traverse Montpellier 🦦. Découvrez dans ce reportage les signes que laisse l’espèce derrière... 🐾 Le reportage 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le-re...

If you work on corvid ecology, behaviour, cognition, or conservation, this might be useful for you 👇 I’ve just published CORVIDATA in Scientific Data 🐦 doi.org/10.1038/s415... (1/4)

Welcome to EvOCRO (Evolutionary Origins of Cognition in Crocodiles), the EU-funded project exploring how crocodiles learn and what their minds can teach us about evolution. www.instagram.com/p/DRrbV3ACIv... #MarieCurieActions #ComparativeCognition #ConservationScience #ResearchEurope

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m recruiting a funded PhD student at Nottingham Trent University to study the cognitive mechanisms underlying individual differences in parenting in rhesus macaques! Deadline: 2 February | Start date: April 2026

Comparative Thanatology Highlights — 2025 Edition. See the thread below for this year’s standout publications. #comparativethanatology

Environmental journalism is under pressure — exactly where it’s needed most. The Y. Eva Tan Conservation Reporting Fellowship by Mongabay will support at least 16 early-career journalists from tropical countries. Paid, remote, editor-led. Apply Dec 15–Feb 1. Learn more: buff.ly/UI8X5ur.

Resharing & please pass it on! ACCE+ PhD project on the molecular evolution of insectivorous mammals that eat toxic amphibians 🦔🐸. Jointly supervised with brilliant colleagues in @livuni-ismib.bsky.social & @mpi-ce.bsky.social & open to UK & international students. @shabmohammadi.bsky.social

Quick post on @jonaspotthoff.bsky.social new paper! We found people looked more at novel foods at an experimental buffet, including insects that they find gross! People suppress disgust avoidance when making foraging decisions. Blog: www.dalmaijer.org/2025/12/fora... Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world. At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11... #animalgrief

🚨 The Evothan Collective is now on Bluesky! Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field! #Evothan #ComparativeThanatology

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!

[Concours CNRS] Si comme moi, vous attendiez et que vous n'aviez pas vu passer ça. Ouverture du concours : (a priori) aujourd'hui 8/12 Dépôt des candidatures : jusqu'au 7 janvier

WHAT AN AMAZING GROUP OF DISGUSTED PEOPLE! 😄 Thank you all for attending and for the fantastic talks and discussions throughout the conference! #DisgustAcrossBorders #ConferenceVibes #ScienceCommunity @iast.fr

On to our 2nd session on pathogen disgust in humans! @dalmaijer.bsky.social showed how the brain and stomach talk during disgust, revealing fast brain-to-gut signals, longer gut-to-brain feedback, and gastric rhythms acting as a “reservoir of caution” against contaminants 🤯 !

For those of you in Paris who like to laugh and think: free Ig Nobel events, Dec. 9-10! You just need to book here:

Highly highly recommended! The place is great and @cmolho.bsky.social is fabulous to work with!

We’re very excited to welcome all disgustologists to Toulouse in the coming days for our conference! Looking forward to inspiring talks, great discussions… and maybe a few disgust-inducing surprises 👀🦠

Thank you bringing your knowledge, enthusiasm, and hope to this year's Winter Meeting at National Museum Cardiff. We hope to see you all next year!

WOW! What an AMAZING new preprint by @csarabian.bsky.social et al. on disgust and fear processing in chimpanzees. Responses are less accurate and slower for visually induced disgust, and initially better but ultimately worse for disgusting smells. FOUR experiments! Read it! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Just got mine! Magnifique !

PhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...

📢A very exciting #PhDposition with deadline in a couple of weeks! baboons | human-wildlife interactions | social behaviour + a great team of supervisors with complementary expertise from @swanseauni.bsky.social & @exeter.ac.uk Check it out 👇

Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social

What role does disgust play in politics? Our final keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Cindy Kam @vanderbilt.edu presenting "The Politics of Disgust". Want a taste? Her TED Talk is here: tinyurl.com/62ynau6s 📍@iast, Toulouse 🇫🇷 🗓️ Dec 4–5 📖 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn

The programme for our Winter Meeting in Cardiff is now live! 🐒The programme can be downloaded from the meetings page on our website, and if you haven't got your tickets yet, you have until Friday to benefit from Early-Bird discounts!! www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

How can we use disgust to make more sustainable choices? Our 3rd keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social with "Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour" 📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5 🎉 Program & abstracts: tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!

PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025 How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Aux portes de Bordeaux, les sangliers s’invitent en ville, provoquant inquiétude, dégradations et débats politiques. Une équipe enquête : par où passent-ils, comment humains et sangliers peuvent-ils coexister sans conflit ? 👉 lejournal.cnrs.fr/videos/le...

👋 Meet Haneul, our Membership Officer/Treasurer! @haneuljang.bsky.social is a Research Fellow at @iast.fr, studying women's cooperation among BaYaka foragers. As Membership Officer, she manages new membership, recruiting new members at conferences and explaining the society. (1/2) #WplusEBS

We're psyched to discuss all things disgust in our upcoming conference on Disgust Across Borders! 🦠 Our 2nd (online) keynote is Paul Rozin who will address a fundamental question in Disgustology: "Is disgust a unitary emotion?" 📍 @iast.fr Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5 👀 Stay tuned at tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn!

Think you’ve got a strong stomach? 😏 What about your immune system? We, researchers @ki.se @cnrs.fr @swanseauni.bsky.social, are running a real experiment at the Disgusting Food Museum in Malmö! We are studying how your body reacts to “eww” moments — from stinky cheese to crunchy insects 🧀🐛 1/2

#voxprimato #femmage Jane Goodall est décédée à l'âge de 91ans. Icône de la défense de la biodiversité, pionnière de l'observation comportementale des chimpanzés sauvages, la fondatrice des instituts du même nom laisse un héritage immense à la communauté scientifique et aux citoyen·ne·s engagé·e·s

#voxprimato #hommage Lors de notre AG annuelle pendant le colloque, nous avons aussi rendu hommage à Augustin Basabose disparu en août. Il était le président de Primate Expertise, une ONG de recherche et conservation en RDC, engagé et inspirant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_D6... (Vidéo Cintia Garai)

🦠 Hi disgust nerds! Our 1st keynote at Disgust Across Borders is Caroline Amoroso (@cr-amo.bsky.social, Univ. of Virginia). She’ll dive into evolution & ecology of infection avoidance — how organisms detect, avoid, and resist pathogens. tinyurl.com/2tprm9cn 📍 Toulouse 🇫🇷 | Dec 4–5 👀 More 🔑🗒️ soon!

📢 Apply to our (2-year) research fellowships at @iast.fr Join a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and indisciplinary group of scholars in Toulouse, walkable/cyclable pink city of chocolatines in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025. www.iast.fr/research-fel...

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Time to say I moved to the UK! New chapter at @swanseauni.bsky.social as a @ukri.org / Marie Curie Research Fellow @horizoneu.bsky.social. Will be working w/ @shoalgroup.bsky.social & @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social on baboon adaptations to disease and predation. Stay tuned!

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share! @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!! 📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025 💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam 🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond 🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

So excited for this disgust-focussed meeting! 💩 Abstract and registration deadline coming up soon!

📣 Call to all disgust nerds out there: Join our interdisciplinary conference on 'Disgust across borders'! 🗓️ Dec 4 & 5 📍Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse @iast.fr 💡Four fantastic keynotes, roundtables, & more Submit your abstracts and register by *August 31* here: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

📢Coming up, workshop at #Behaviour2025 on our swaRmverse package! 🗓️Tue 26/8, 13:10–14:40 💻Theory & R practical (feel free to bring your data) 🎯Discussion on comparative analysis & metrics 🙏Come & recommend features for version 2.0! 👉RSVP on the app More info: behaviourindia2025.in/workshops.html

The human immune system evolved over millennia - and can adapt within a single lifetime. This review examines how the immune responses change over the life course. By Jessica Metcalf, Andrea Graham, Andrew Yates and Derek Cummings @science.org buff.ly/GJpPUO7

Hope this primer proves helpful to anybody interested in infection avoidance. It was certainly a pleasure to write with @akgibson.bsky.social and @pfvale.bsky.social l!

📅Let's meet on Dec 4 & 5 to ̶d̶i̶s̶g̶u̶s̶t̶ discuss about Disgust accross borders, a theme that's anything but tasteless ! 👃 As you'll see very soon, the program is still appetizing. ⬇️Interested in presenting? Subdmissions are now open!⬇️ @cmolho.bsky.social @csarabian.bsky.social @atognetti.bsky.social

👋 Create links with the IAST community: either with alumni, or with current research fellows... If you are part of the IAST community and would like to be added to the starter kit, send us a DM! 📩 #FriendsOfIAST 👇 Join the conversation ! 👇 go.bsky.app/5mQmnLF