Excited to share our new paper on the #social #structure of Rwenzori #colobus multi-male, multi-female core units! We found 3 different patterns but close #male #relationships in all that were long lasting! Paper is behind a paywall but contact us if you want a pdf. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

new article is up in full-text in #AJBA @bioanth.org! 🧪 💀 I predicted expression levels for skeletal sex indicators for 9 forms of #intersex, based on what we know ab these intersex variations (and which traits are most likely to affect bone growth, development, & remodeling) #SexualPolymorphism

Can we give word limits not character limits because I am not able to visualize these limits

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥 We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪 Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

“I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life” - Jane Goodall

In 2016, Jane Goodall spoke at the International Primatological Society meetings. She closed her talk asking everyone to thank the primates we studied not with applause, but with their calls. And so a room full of Very Eminent Primatologists made delighted monkey noises to Jane Goodall. ⚱️🐒🧪🌍

Do you love research & writing & all things animal behavior? Well our journal, Animal Behavior, recruiting up to 5 (count em!) new Associate Editors! Editors serve three-year terms beginning January 2026. If you're interested, email Exec Editor Scott Sakaluk ([email protected]) by Oct 31!

We are hiring - PDRA position exploring how information access shapes social dynamics in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social Prof Dan Franks (York) start 1st Nov (or ASAP) end 31st Oct 2028. Apps close on 19th Oct. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT336/p...

So excited to see my first capuchin paper finally out in the world 🥳 grateful to all the wonderful co-authors! 🧪 #primates

🚨 New paper! 🚨 🐒 White-faced capuchins experience high rates of infanticide. 🐒 Infanticide is costly to female reproduction. 🐒 Do females exhibit the Bruce effect (termination of pregnancy) to reduce these costs? 🐒 Spoiler: Nope! Read more ▶️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Complexly is looking to hire a Director of Development! If you're interested, please review our job posting at Complexly.com/job and apply before Friday, October 17!

Having a cute little 😊 moment with myself as I develop a new project. When I started grad school, the tools weren’t available to ask certain questions I was interested in. And now they are! And we’re asking them! Yay science.

With many postdoc grants like the NSF PRFB, Ford Fellowship, and Hanna H. Gray fellowships disappearing, I am currently looking for grants that could fund incoming postdoctoral scholars. Here is a thread of some of them 🧵

what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people

Aug 29 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina. @siric.bsky.social profiles 4 young climate advocates whose lives it changed—2 of whom fled New Orleans during Katrina as kids @teenvogue.com: "For them, combatting climate change, environmental racism, and structural inequality has become a calling."

When I say you need a sense of humor in #fieldwork, I don’t mean you can do impressions or be the group clown. What I mean is you can laugh at yourself when the following things happen (all of which have happened to me + my travel buds in the last 5 weeks): (1/x) 🐒 🧪 🪨 🏺

“In a scientific sense, this is a total loss.” US Supreme Court allows NIH to cut $2 billion in research grants www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper: Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Friends, I am offering a free online 2-hour crash course in how to write and publish a scientific paper, perfect for early career scientists and students considering writing their first paper soon. All information can be found in this link: www.southernfriedscience.com/im-offering-... 🧪🌎🦑

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

📰Published📰Hungry females deceptively attract males to exploit them as prey🪲 buff.ly/hUpfbP9 🧪🌍

See you next time 🥹 🐒 🇿🇲 ☀️

Our new paper, led by Nicolas Chapoy and Kathy Jack, shows capuchin alpha males have wider faces and bigger balls. Read on for discussion of trait variation with respect to pre- and post- mating competition! Was a large effort by a great team 😍😎🎉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

Cool findings by Victoire Martignac et al about enduring female friendships in mountain gorillas. Note: of course we can "scientifically" talk about animal friendships! Barbara Smuts showed us that- w/ evidence-40 yrs ago w/ baboons. h/t @marspidermonkey.bsky.social #gorillas #primates #anthropology

Fun fact - chameleons are little rule breakers in Kiswahili 🧵1/5

Heading to Zambia for #kindaKindasummer!

You ever just Shazam every single song that plays at a bar

RanOmafana*** im so sorry

I saw god in these ring tailed lemurs

YASSSS SO PROUD AND EXCITED FOR YOU

Someone should study the lexicon of car honking in Madagascar

Humbled by the Ranamafana rainforest

One of our first papers in a series that investigates the potential for olfactory communication in wild capuchins is now out! Stay tuned for the next pieces of the story 🧪 🐒 👃

Had a wonderful time at #IPS2025! More to come soon on how hormone profiles in male white-faced capuchins change during alpha male replacements (co-led w/ @meganpetersdorf.bsky.social)

First flight out of New Orleans was cancelled yesterday, so now I can’t head to Madagascar until Sunday. Bummed to miss the first few days of #IPS2025 but I will get there eventually!! 🐒

Who is going to #IPS2025? How is already starting this weekend!?

Planning out packing for upcoming trip to Madagascar & Zambia and realizing everything I own or like is patterns... so look out for me #IPS2025 in mis-matching outerwear patterns I guess?? #FieldFashion :)

Hello worm lab fans!🪱🐒✨🦠 We’ve got updated designs and STICKERS!!! We’re back in session for summer updates & around CEM if you’d like to rep some wild worms merch! Stay tuned for upcoming July updates👀 Shoutout to ASU vislab & John Blair for these designs!

Do you have field work experience? Do you want more? Our team wants YOU to manage our field site studying Kinda baboons in Kasanka National Park, Zambia! Start date is this August 2025 so apply ASAP! Job ad here: tinyurl.com/KindaBaboon

Researchers from our @durhamanthropology.bsky.social ‬ have shown that human persecution leads to prolonged anxiety & physiological stress amongst baboons. Find out more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our access to COVID vaccines is under attack. It’s more important than ever to make our voices heard by making public comment to the FDA by May 23 at 11:59 PM EST. Use our template available on our substack at peoplescdc.substack.com/p/vaccine-ac...

Behind every cure, every breakthrough, every treatment — is someone who needed it. If NIH funding helped you, your research, or someone you love, your story can help protect it. Share your “why” and help defend the future of NIH & science. Fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Making graduate school harder to access is part of a very deliberate strategy to raise the “married birth rate” The idea is that making higher ed scarcer will prevent women from wasting prime fertile years on education and other useless pursuits Nightmare fuel: www.heritage.org/education/re...

I’d know that damn stuffed monkey anywhere

Many students are deterred by office hours, thinking they need “good enough” questions or worrying that they’ll be judged or are wasting professors’ time. Short article on the positive impact that establishing office hours norms in class has on learning – www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Most scientists in the USA don't understand how dire things are. As of April 21, to accept an award, your institution must certify that there are no DEI programs (poorly defined) on campus. No lawyer is going to sign this. This is an effective ban on new grants. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...