Interested in the evolution of social behaviour? We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity on human social hierarchies, nonverbal behaviour and health! Supervised by myself, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social and @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social. Informal enquires encouraged! www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

BBS article on mechanisms of group cohesion in primates (Robin Dunbar), with our commentary proposing facial expression as one of those key mechanisms! @eithnekavanagh.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Fully-funded PhD position with Yuri Kawaguchi at NTU, associated with her BBSRC Fellowship on parenting in rhesus macaques. Join us! @yurikawaguchi.bsky.social @ntupsychology.bsky.social (note - open to UK students only) www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Interested in the evolution of social behaviour? We have a fully-funded PhD opportunity on human social hierarchies, nonverbal behaviour and health! Supervised by myself, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social and @ellamcloughlin.bsky.social. Informal enquires encouraged! www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

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...

I'm very excited to share the central paper from my PhD out now in Science Advances. We investigated how social effects among neighbors shape the evolution of reproductive cooperation and the pace of adaptive population growth among the Indigenous Tsimane of Bolivia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@bridgetwaller.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122 press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

We are looking for a Research Assistant to contribute to our ongoing analysis of dolphin acoustic data from West Wales - collaboration between @wtsww.bsky.social @bristolbiosci.bsky.social 🐬 Deadline is 29th June - please share widely! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) at the University of Konstanz👇 links below!

We asked how behavioral diversity & agonistic behaviors relate to group size in wild capuchins. We analyzed >65,000 behavioral scans collected over 15 yrs on 214 capuchins (8 groups) & controlled for # inds sampled. We found behavioral richness, diversity & agonism was higher in larger groups.

Alisa Balabanova runner up in the student talk prize at EHBEA for her talk on facial expressivity and popularity! Well done Alisa! @ehbea2025.bsky.social @ntupsychology.bsky.social

CE Job Alert 🚨 - 2 year postdoc at LSE to develop empirically informed models of reputation dynamics on evolving social networks, as part of Leverhulme project on Reputation and the Reproduction of Social Inequality. culturalevolutionsociety.org/jobs/two-yea...

🚨New in @science.org🚨 With Simon Townsend (@nccrlanguage.bsky.social) and Martin Surbeck, we have investigated whether wild bonobos can combine calls in complex combinations, similar to how humans combine words into sentences 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #ScienceResearch #AnimalCommunication

Have you every found yourself wondering whether the most widely used measures of social cognitive ability measure what they are supposed to measure?

We’re recruiting for 5 faculty positions in cognitive neuroscience, psychology & animal neuroscience! Exciting science going on @UofG, Glasgow is an amazing and green city with the friendliest people, and you’ll have the stunning highlands on your doorstep! tinyurl.com/mbn6yf56 Please repost!

🐳 UPCOMING BOOK ALERT 🐬 The Evolution of Cetacean Societies Edited by @darrencroft.bsky.social @andrewfoote.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social and myself Preorder available now press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #whale #dolphin #animalbehaviour

@mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social are seeking a PhD candidate in the field of psychology focusing on self-awareness in nonhuman great apes drawing from different methods such as touch screens experiments, playback experiments, eye tracking, and behavioural experiments www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

New paper from Olivia O'Callaghan's PhD on ERC project FACEDIFF www.facediff.co.uk, macaque facial expression processing gets better with age and good maternal care, so more flex than previously thought? @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @ntupsychology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

New paper on macaque facial muscles with @clarekimock.bsky.social @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social and others! Macaques don’t show the same extreme variability in facial musculature as humans… anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

1/3 Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with: - Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding - Models to get some first insights - Further reading boxes for more advanced topics - Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/

Read about our research on the social bonding function of facial expressivity, here in our Scientific American article! www.scientificamerican.com/article/expr... @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @bridgetwaller.bsky.social

New paper! 🐒 🧪 We found the Kinda baboons have long-lasting female-male relationships that are largely male-driven and persist across female reproductive states. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fully funded PhD studentship using imaging methods to quantify variation in faces - would suit candidates with coding skills or computational methods. Get in touch! www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

There is a reason McDonalds is on the Boycott list and to remove any confusion in your head, if you can't even limit which Yank crap you stuff in your maw when they're feeding the men who shoot kids, you're the Good German coward who would've ignored the smoke in the air from the nearby camp.

Today (16 December) is the deadline for submitting abstracts for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference. Don't miss it 😊

Friendship from a whole different angle.

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs. I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maybe late to the starter pack game? But haven't seen one specific to those studying the evolution of social behaviour, so made one! Any study species; humans, primates and beyond. Added some initial people but please comment to be added. go.bsky.app/CibACbM

Great suggestions in this list!

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Fully funded PhD studentship with field work in South Africa on baboon health resilience with me, Rich McFarland and Stefano Kaburu at Nottingham Trent University. Please share or get in touch if interested 👇 tinyurl.com/3uy8e6th

Let's keep this going here BlueSky! #icanhazpdf can level the playing field for publication access

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

1/7 Ego depletion is possible The continuous striving for self-control leads the prefrontal cortex to enter a NREM sleep-like state, and as we lose self-control we become more hostile and resentful. It is fascinating. (paper) https://buff.ly/3Z9e6np

New paper! Increased threat learning after social isolation in human adolescents Very proud of @emilyanntowner @KirstenThomas64 @livia_tomova who ran this mammoth study during the pandemic Emily Towner’s thread on X copied below (with permission) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I made a starter pack for animal behaviour researchers / ethologists! please share and feel free to self-nominate or suggest others to be added as this is very much still a work in progress and not an exhaustive list 🌍🧪😊 #SciSky #BioSky #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalBehavior #Ethology go.bsky.app/Tr8VZpV

Excellent review of the relationship between niche construction theory and human behavioral ecology by @elspethready and @MikePricePhD. It's framed in terms of archaeology, but it actually quite general. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21885

Here because it's apparently like the old Twitter! I expect to post about research on social behaviour and communication in humans 👩👨‍🦰, nonhuman primates 🐵🦍 and maybe some other animals 🐺🐬. Below is a video of me causing a conflict in an experiment