New paper: From Cohesion to Norms: How Animal Groups Come, Stay, and Function Together. doi.org/10.1111/eth.... @primatenzentrum.bsky.social, @ethoges.bsky.social, @sfb1528.bsky.social, @asab.org

Dear all primatologists, I as the VP of Student Affairs is looking to form my dream team with early career primatologists who can work on the welfare of primatology students. Seeking members from the Americas, Europe, and perhaps Australia, now. Please circulate this among the interested Thanks.

Together, climate change and infectious disease threaten the physiology and immune function of amphibians. This study explores the interplay between temperature, immune response and locomotion in frogs. Read here⬇️ academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

A Social Affordance Framework for Understanding Approach Decisions in Wild Crested Macaques (Macaca nigra) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734458v1

My image is in the final public vote of the Nottingham Trent University Images of Research competition, please vote for me here: www.ntu.ac.uk/research/res...

🚨Want to work with us? We’re hiring a Lecturer! Check out the details 👇🏽 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

1/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology! We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September. Come and help shape what we’re building 👇 @brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪

Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

"While geophagy may serve as a coping mechanism, a more effective management approach is to reduce or eliminate the provisioning of human foods,” said @ppebsworth.bsky.social

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

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www.nature.com/articles/d41... it's about time that we really recognise the teamwork inherent in good science and support these careers properly. Am thinking of so many friends and colleagues who left science when they got to the stage where they were supposed to be group leader.

🐼Lemurs! 🖊️Social learning! 🫂Tolerance! 🌐Diffusion analysis! Our #EditorsChoice for the #AnimalBehaviourJournal: “Social tolerance mediates social learning in wild red-fronted lemurs, Eulemur rufifrons, and ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta” Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2026.123517

Not a secret anymore! I am extremely proud and happy to present you the EVApeCognition Dataset, out now in Scientific Data. Over the last 5 years we have assembled and standardized data from 150 studies on great ape cognition from the WKPRC in the Leipzig Zoo! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Social structure as a form of collective intelligence In our framework, we argue that social structure is a form of collective intelligence shaped by and shaping individual decision-making Out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org w/ J Brooker, E van Leeuwen royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me. South African Citizen or have a valid work visa. science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/... #Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology

I'm so honored to have received this award in memory of Frans de Waal for my PhD thesis! His work (and briefly working with him) truly shaped my scientific thinking and research. @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

PLS RT📣 Two Postdoc jobs at #mpaib with Serena Ding on collective behavior of worms (Never seen a "wormuration"? That's them in green) 🪱 social dynamics of collective dispersal: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/2... 🪱 sensory ecology of worm towers: bewerbermanagement.net/jobposting/7...

New paper out in Ecology & Evolution! 🐺🐄 We were invited to collaborate on this project based on the McCowan-Vandeleest lab’s work using hair cortisol as a welfare indicator in non-human primates — a method we’re now bringing to a very different species and ecology. 🧵 1/8 @vanditto.bsky.social

⏰Time running out - deadline 19th April - to apply for funded #PhD: 🪶Quantifying animal movement patterns & behavioural interactions in a changing world 👥Joint with us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social & #SimonGriffith #MacquarieUniversity #modelling #birds #mammals #Australia ℹ️ tinyurl.com/343acaev

Sobering and depressing story about the awful conditions faced by several international students, and how this stems from the terrible politics behind university fees and immigration. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

📢 Content submissions for the 6th SORTEE Conference (13-14 Oct 2026) are now OPEN #SORTEE2026 Submit your proposal for an unconference, hackathon or workshop by June 7th via sortee.org/upcoming SORTEE members can attend for free. Join us sortee.org/join/

🌺 PhD position in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology! 🌺 There is about two weeks left to apply to come work with me on the evolution of plant reproductive strategies at @unifr.bsky.social ! Contact me or visit here or for more info: tinyurl.com/monoecy Please share! 🌱

How to be a science sleuth: Research integrity experts share their tips for spotting and reporting fraudulent papers Rupali Dabas writes @chemistryworld.com Featuring @smutclyde.bsky.social , @deevybee.bsky.social, Nick Wise, Jack Wilkinson, Anna Pendlebury, and me.

In this study of behavioural syndromes in giant pandas 🐼, proactive pandas had lower stress hormone levels 📈 and were better at exploring and problem solving💡. These findings can help identify pandas best suited for reintroduction and translocation. Read it here ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/conp...

Call for applications for a Collective Behaviour Field Course in the Kalahari organised by swarm member Vlad! Don’t miss out on this great opportunity 💪

Black-capped capuchins (Sapajus apella) are native to northern South America. They cleverly craft rocks and sticks into tools to open hard nut shells. Sometimes females pelt rocks at males to capture their attention—also a form of tool use. Widespread with no general population risks.

Two great postdoc opportunities with @eesaupe.bsky.social in Oxford on macroecology/extinction/conservation through a paleobiological lens

Job Alert 🚨: We are looking for field assistants to join our research projects in South Africa studying chacma baboons. Expenses coved. Please get in touch if interested and share widely. See attached advert 👇 @tylerbonnell.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD position on primate parochialism! Study how cooperation within groups and conflict between groups evolve in red-fronted lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. @kirindy.bsky.social & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu

Looking for a postdoc? Letter of Intent deadline for the Human Frontiers postdoc fellowship is in early May! www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp... My husband had one of these and they were a great funder to work with. Get in touch if you think I/my lab might be a good fit for your research ideas!

🚨Job alert!🚨 The Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS announces 2 junior Professor (W1) positions: A W1 Tenure track Professorship in Evolutionary Modelling (shorturl.at/FN102) and a W1 Professorship (non Tenure-track) in Primatology (shorturl.at/sH0Mk) Deadline: April 6 2026! Please share! 🔄

📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼 Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory. 📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026 🔗 Link: shorturl.fm/EXRxc Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄

Job alert! Loughborough University is advertising a three-year Research Associate position in Political Theory as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment’ (managed by Dr. Guy Aitchison). Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW886/r...

We have two full bursaries available to Early Career Researchers and PhD students from least developed, low & lower middle-income countries to attend and present in our summer conference in London. Find out more at our conference website. Deadline 20th April centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

Post-doc opportunity on comparative cognition and movement dynamics in corvids with the brilliant Prof Debbie Kelly at the University of Manitoba

UCL's Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment invites Early Career Researchers for fellowship applications. Deadline: April 30, 2026. Details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gee #postdoc

New postdoc position on bioaccumulation and effects of PFAS in arctic-breeding seabirds. Field sites in coastal Norway and Svalbard. Advisors will be Veerle Jaspers and Bjørn Monroe at NTNU in collaboration with ecologists at NINA. Application deadline 26 April 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Two PhD positions in fish physiology with an amazing supervisor, @rachaelmorgan.bsky.social ! 🧪🐟 Tell your friends! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Along with Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall, Birute Galdikas (10 May 1946 - 24 March 2026) was one of The Trimates 🏺🧪 The Trimates were the first women to establish long-term studies of great apes in the wild. They were all mentored by Louis Leakey. The Leakey Foundation @leakeyfoundation.org

Reproductive Ecology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Foundations, Unanswered Questions, and Future Directions - Bribiescas - 2026 - American Journal of Human Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

-- New Open Research Game -- I reached the rank of Asst. Prof in #TenureRun! 🎓 I published 98 papers and paid $115.000 in APCs to publishers. My grant money is gone and I am exhausted. 💸 How far can you make it? Play now at forrt.org/TenureRun/

Bonobos and bottlenose dolphins may seem worlds apart, but together they reveal key conditions that foster cooperation beyond group boundaries

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

2026. Reliability and precision of thermal imaging measurements to study animal behaviour and welfare. led by @debottam1991.bsky.social - peerj.com/articles/208... via @peerj.bsky.social