If you have (or will soon) complete your PhD & would like to join a thriving cultural evolution research group in NEW ZEALAND, drop me a line. UoA offers a handful of funded research fellowships. Applications must be made by a faculty member. Deadline August. Pls share with your students

I’m currently attending the excellent @efp2026.bsky.social in Montpellier, and I’ll be speaking on July 1st at the symposium on power at 12:05 (MSH-Sud Auditorium). This is the final week to apply for a PhD position in my new group. Let’s talk tomorrow ;-) danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html

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Delighted to share my latest TED-Ed video, explaining how scientists discovered that cats use the chemicals from silvervine and catnip to protect themselves against mosquitoes. This discovery may open the way to the development of new mosquito repellents for human use. ed.ted.com/lessons/why-...

💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

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Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

Disease cues and social avoidance Study how sensory disease cues shape social avoidance 🙅 and immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮, laboratory experiments, and psychophysiological methods. ⏳ Start: Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline: May 17 📍 CNRS / University of Montpellier 🇫🇷 → emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

⚠️ Deadlines are approaching! ⚠️ Interested in disgust and, more broadly, human disease avoidance? 🚨 Two PhD positions are currently open: see thread below 👇

🤢 Disgust, food avoidance, & immunity Study how disgust shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 using VR 🎮, laboratory experiments, and psychophysiological methods. With @csarabian.bsky.social & me ⏳ Start: Oct 2026 | Deadline: May 20 📍 Univ. Montpellier 🇫🇷 → euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

Very interesting new study, suggesting that Barbary macaques eat soil to deal with the negative effects of eating junk food left behind by tourists. So many lessons here: animals: inventive; junk food: bad. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/monk...

My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

Malaria was fundamental in shaping the course of human evolution, @camzoology.bsky.social researchers have found. Between 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, early humans in Africa avoided high-risk malaria areas, shaping the population structure seen today. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/4tUdOxe

🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨 🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢 🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open! 📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health 🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!

Delighted to share the special issue “Frans de Waal’s Legacy: Looking Back and Forward” (#Behaviour, April 2026) 👉 brill.com/view/journal... Honouring #FransdeWaal, this collection reflects on his transformative impact on #Primatology, #Empathy, #Morality and #SocialBehaviour across species.

In Playing Possum, @susanamonso.com explores how animals conceive of death and dying—and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality. The #paperback edition arrives on 14 April! Preorder yours here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Philosophy

🚨 4-year PhD 🚨 Study how disgust 🤢 shapes food avoidance 🙅 & immune responses 🩸 through VR 🎮 + lab exp + psychophysiology with @csarabian.bsky.social, Marie Charpentier (@mandrillusproject.bsky.social) & me ⏳ Oct 2026 | ⚠️ Deadline May 20 📍 Univ Montpellier 🇫🇷 --> euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422430

⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

My first story for @science.org covers microscopic spikes on ball python scales that can inhibit bacterial biofilm formation. Antibacterial microstructured surfaces could be a lifeboat in an ocean of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but only if we understand how they work!

The Cognitive Construction Lab is hiring a full-time lab manager! Come work with me at UMass Amherst, starting this Fall. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3dpz5m3j

They can be nutritious, but they can also make one sick?

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.

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...