🚨Two funded PhDs on the evolutionary ecology of antipredator colouration 🦋 with myself and Iliana Medina. One in Swansea tinyurl.com/4thtbph6 deadline Jan 12th @crocus-dla.bsky.social The other in Melbourne - deadline Jan 1st Please share among potential students!

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!! Details in thread. Please re-post!

Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻 We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks. @emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social #PrimateCognition #AI

Our next video in the series "Preserving knowledge of endemic species in #Madagascar through storytelling" features #Ranomafana wildlife expert RAKOTOVAO Remi, who has studied #lemurs since 1994! He shares his experiences AND some bird calls! You can view Remi’s video here: lnkd.in/gH9xpqBi

Not all sexual swellings signal fertility. Some signal strategy. In our new Current Biology paper, we show how gelada females “fake it” during male takeovers—and why it works. authors.elsevier.com/a/1m7%7E93QW...

Fully funded PhD studentship on human dominance hierarchies and non-verbal behaviour, with lead Eithne Kavanagh. Join us at NTU! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland? Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social Reach out to chat more! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Social relationships are powerful predictors of fitness across social animals. But *why*? In our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper, we outline testable predictions for why relationship quality and quantity adaptively vary across socio-ecological contexts. tinyurl.com/55dnkeh7

Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in @behavecol.bsky.social – to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵 tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy

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!