Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Calling all artists! 🧑‍🎨🎨 We are running a t-shirt design competition - craft some primate artwork and submit it to us by the 1st October. The winning design will be sold on our online store, with generated funds used to support our work promoting primate conservation, research and captive care. See 🧵

Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social

We're hiring📢📢📢 To complement our team we're currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal communication and behaviour, ideally canids but not a must! Position is based in Vienna, Austria, and available for 4 years. Please check the attachment for details 🐺🐶😊

New review paper on primate facial expression! 🙈🙊🙉 with @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social and Olivia O’Callaghan @ntupsychology.bsky.social

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

Only two weeks left to apply! Come and join me, Alban Lemasson, Katie Slocombe and Simon Townsend! And spread the word to whoever might be interested! @efp2024.bsky.social @lasfdp.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social

📢 @jmicheletta.bsky.social's, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social's, and my PhD student Holly Radford will deliver a @craeioe.bsky.social webinar Thursday at 4 pm UK/11 am ET/8 am PT from her PhD on nonverbal behaviours and first impressions during video calls between autistic and non-autistic adults.

@kate-lewis.bsky.social latest paper documenting the first anatomically based ethogram of horses' facial behaviour using NetFACS 🥳 I'm grateful to @kate-lewis.bsky.social and @leanneproops.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute 🙂

📢 The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship call is now open! Join our international expert team to explore minds across species. We study: 🐒 Primates 🐕 Dogs 🐘 Elephants 🐴 Donkeys and horses 🔗 contact one of us to discuss your application: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... #MSCA

New Postdoc position! 🐵🐵🐵🐵 On the socioecology of cognition in primates, based in Paris @mnhn.fr @cnrs.fr, with field work It has it all: - the best science - the best macaques - the best beaches - the best people - the best office view #Eiffeltower Join us!

🧠🐒 Interested in comparative cognition, sociality and animal behaviour? I am open to hosting MSCA postdoc fellowship applicants! marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 A 3-year post doc position is opening as part of my #APELANG project funded by the @agencerecherche.bsky.social It’s about multimodal combinatorial communication in wild #chimpanzees 🐵 Job ad here: maelleroux-research.weebly.com/apelang.html And here 👇🏻

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...

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

There is still time to apply for our 3yr postdoc looking at the role of group size and culture on social coordination in the Republic of Korea, Uganda and the UK! Drop me a message if interested 😊 mss.port.ac.uk/ce0732li_web...

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....

We had a fantastic time showcasing our research at the Science is Wonderful! fair organised by the European Commission in Brussels. Thanks to #MSCA for the invitation and to all children who visited our booth 😃 🐒 @francescadp.bsky.social @jmicheletta.bsky.social @teresa-romero.bsky.social

We are looking for two local South African research assistants to join our baboon projects ASAP. Please see flyer attached and drop us an email (see attached) if you're interested. Please also share with any one who might be interested!

2-year postdoc in Tübingen on the communicative plasticity in wild & captive bonobos, fully funded by @VolkswagenSt. Applications open until March 15th. bit.ly/4gVa5Je

Very proud to share this and honoured to be a part of this brilliant initiative. Many thanks to the team for giving me the opportunity to be involved.

More than just Smiling: How 22 Positive Emotions are Spontaneously Expressed on the Face: http://osf.io/afb2n_v1/

Apply for a conservation, research or captive care grant up to the value of £1250. Applications must be submitted by the 1st March. For information about how to apply, and previous projects funded by PSGB, see the grants page of our website: buff.ly/48dv99h

Excited to showcase our 🐒 research at the #scienceiswonderful 2025 science fair organised by the #EuropeanCommission #MSCA. See you in March in Brussels 😃 with @jmicheletta.bsky.social, @teresa-romero.bsky.social, @francescadp.bsky.social marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/science-is-w...

There's still time to submit an expression of interest to join our board of directors! This opportunity will close on January 26. If you want to create lasting impact for animals, learn more here: https://buff.ly/3P16i1l

Field based research assistants wanted to work on baboons in South Africa expenses paid. See below 👇 Might be of interest @primatesocietygb.bsky.social #fieldwork #research #primates #southafrica

Two postdoc fellowship at K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics: - Ecosystem-scale biodiversity conservation in the tropics: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29549 - Large whale monitoring using Distributed Acoustic Sensing: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29547 Applications due 30/04/25

🌟JOB ALERT🌟 We're hiring lecturers/senior lecturers @bristolbiosci.bsky.social Themes: ‘Evolution of life’, ‘Anthropogenic change’, ‘Reversing the biodiversity crisis’ & ‘Sustainable food production’ That very much includes #AnimalBehaviour Deadline: 24th Jan 2025 bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

*POSTDOC JOB* If you are excited about animal sociality/cognition, are computationally-inclined, and are looking for a postdoc, I'll be hiring soon! Please come talk to me today or tomorrow at #SICB2025, or reach out over email. Official ad coming soon!

Funded PhD opportunity with myself and Dr Rosie Williams (ZSL) looking into morphometrics and histopathology of stranded Porpoises 🐬 and their relationships with environmental contaminants Deadline 20th January 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/end...

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...

Know anyone looking for a PhD? Like phylogenies and R programming? Think behaviour is really neat? Isabella Capellini, Domhnall Jennings, Karina Vanadzina, and I have a funded PhD project on parental care macroevolution, based at Queen's University Belfast! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

👀 for promising young scientists for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career.... UoM internal deadlines (c.v. + 1 page proposal) are early in the new year. If you are an ECR with interests in eco-immunology, macroecology, or OneHealth, please get in touch!

We want you to work with us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences: bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

Thanks to the Bristol Zoological Society for hosting such a great @primatesocietygb.bsky.social meeting! It was nice to catch up with our @uop-ccep.bsky.social PhD students: Luke Collins, @louiseloyant.bsky.social, @sarahsalphati.bsky.social and Amanda Bartlett.

Congratulations to our winner of the 2024 Napier Medal: Dr Louise Loyant - a fantastic talk on her PhD research investigating inhibitory control across macaque species. #PSGBBristol

📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word! We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Welcome to the official page for the Primate Society of Great Britain! Follow for information about primatology, grants, meetings, and more!

Together with @leanneproops.bsky.social and Cressida Bowyer, we are looking for PhD applicants for a project using human behaviour change theory to develop educational programmes promoting the conservation of crested macaques. More information here: www.port.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Looking for a PhD candidate for our project on uncertainty in communicative interactions as indicators of affective valence. Supervised by Dr Jérôme Micheletta (@jmicheletta.bsky.social), Prof Bridget Waller and me. Get in touch if interested. See details here:

More information about my upcoming Leverhulme project here. Postdoc adverts coming soon! www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

5 exciting PhD opportunities to join the Center for Research in Animal Behaviour at the University of Exeter in Sept 2025. www.exeter.ac.uk/research/gro...

Advertising for 2 fully funded PhD projects on cooperation in children, apes and across cultures. Co-supervised by Juliane Kaminski @comparativeminds.bsky.social and Esther Herrmann. See below for links. Message me if interested!

We are now on Bluesky 🥳 We are passionate about understanding what makes us and other animals tick. 🐒🐕🫏🐘🕷️ Follow us for research highlights, collaborations, and a peek into the fascinating world of comparative psychology, welfare and conservation!

No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.

Reminder that there's one week left to apply for this job. Please pass on the information to anyone who might be interested!

🚨Fully-funded PhD🚨 Title: Corvids calling: understanding the origins of complex communication Deadline: December 11th www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho...

New PhD opportunity on social behaviour in the context of ecological disturbance with me, @mdekauwe.bsky.social, and others. Sept 2025 start, funded by NERC Apply by Jan 13. Project and application details: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Fantastic work from @elenoraneugebauer.bsky.social and colleagues using interviews, surveys and observations expanding the known habitat range of crested macaques to include the islands of Kasiruta and Halmahera. This has important implications for the species' survival.

🐵📢 I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work for 6-months on our NSF-BBSRC project investigating the form and function of primate natal coats. Why are some🐒 babies🍊?! www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan... Please pass on to potential applicants and get in touch if considering applying.