Did you know #chimpanzees love to #play? To learn more, check out this paper by our contributors @kris-sabbi.bsky.social, @zeppypearl.bsky.social, and others! "Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy World Chimpanzee Day, and pant hoots from the group at Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary!

Proud of UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz for being awarded an @leakeyfoundation.org grant for her dissertation research on "The evolution and psychology of possession in macaques." Congrats Rosa, and all the new grantees! leakeyfoundation.org/introducing-...

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

Check out our new paper comparing #socialcognition in #tolerant and #despotic #macaques, by @awad-schwob.bsky.social, Rosie Bettle, Megan Mulhinch & @zeppypearl.bsky.social! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Selection Shapes Diverse Animal Minds: our special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org Phil Trans B on the diverse evolutionary processes underlying cognitive evolution is out today. Thanks to all our contributors! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

If this is how this administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, and to day laborers throughout California and across the country. We will hold this administration accountable.

The Trump administration lost a shocking 96% of rulings in federal district courts last month, according to a recent analysis by Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

President Trump's deployment of federalized National Guard troops is unnecessary, inflammatory, and an abuse of power. The Trump administration is putting people in LA in danger and undermines the democratic principle that the military should not police civilians. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

Exclusive: FEMA staff confused after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say reut.rs/3SxBvuL

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

President Trump is using the same law to deport immigrants as the U.S. government used in WWII to justify the internment of Japanese Americans, including George Takei. We're fighting Trump’s unlawful use of the Alien Enemies Act in court.

What an embarrassment, and so destructive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Secretary Rubio can't answer the question because there's no constitutional reason why Rümeysa Öztürk was detained. Writing an op-ed is not a crime.

Possible due to years of US #federal #grant #funding, both to understand and develop CRISPR in the first place, and for this specific baby's treatment www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Federal court says First Amendment bars government from arresting, deporting foreign students on basis of pro-Palestine advocacy. Important ruling from Judge Young just now in case brought by @aaup.bsky.social @mesa1966.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

Check out our new paper on #drinking #tools in wild #chimpanzees! We looked at the contexts where the Kanyawara chimpanzees use tools to drink in a project started by Charlie MacKenzie as an undergraduate with senior author @zeppypearl.bsky.social, along with @kris-sabbi.bsky.social & many others!

Major study of dementia risks involving a 20 year follow-up terminated: "The most salient, I think, to why this grant was terminated is because it is the only nationally representative sample of Black Americans that’s ever been collected to assess health status in this group”

Looking forward to the Trump DOJ trying to explain to Judge Xinis how the United States remains totally powerless to do anything about Abrego Garcia’s continuing detention at the CECOT.

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant wrongly deported to El Salvador, with a warning about the rule of law and the possibility the dispute presented an “incipient crisis.”

JUST IN: @aclu and @democracyfwd ask Boasberg to reimpose nationwide TRO on Alien Enemjes Act deportations. They also want to refile habeas corpus claims in DC for the roughly 130 men deported March 15 despite Boasberg's order to turn planes around. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

The Trump administration is trying to deport our client Mahmoud Khalil in retaliation for his protected speech in support of Palestinian rights. Their "evidence"? Tabloid articles.

We are hiring! Jointly with the Social Minds Lab at UMich, we are accepting applications for a full-time lab coordinator for research on cognition in #children, adults, and #primates. Read more at: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cognitive-ev...

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime. She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.

7/ You may not think this case matters to you. But Abrego Garcia was legally in the U.S., just like all the rest of us. His status as an immigrant doesn't matter as a matter of law. If Trump can lock up or remove ANYONE - no matter what the courts say - we are all at grave risk.

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “Mr. Abrego Garcia must be returned immediately before he is killed in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world. Enough with the fake bravado. This is not America. The Supreme Court must aggressively enforce its order immediately.”

Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"

NEW: The Supreme Court directs the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a prison in El Salvador, where he was sent due to an "administrative error." It also somewhat narrows the district court's order. No noted dissents. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Sweeping job cuts and reorganizations taking place at the US Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leave the United States “weaker as a nation,” Dr. Peter Marks told CNN.

Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on penguins.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

Congrats to @megancole.bsky.social for a great dissertation defense on chimpanzee aging, biomarkers, and social status!

Check out our new paper about the #development of #metacognition in rhesus #monkeys, lead by Yiyun Huang! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Are you an #instructor interested in using #interactive activities to demonstrate principles for the evolution of #cooperation? Check out this classroom activity focused on strategies in the prisoner's dilemma, for high school or university students! sites.lsa.umich.edu/primatelearn...

By attacking science: We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care. We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit. We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.

Proud of #UMich grad student Rosa Muñoz and lab coordinators Charlie Mackenzie and Skylar Brodnan for giving their first conference talks at #AABA2025! Work on food transfers, tool use, and social attention in sanctuary and wild #chimpanzees, in collaboration with Zarin Machanda and many others!

Some pretty stunning answers here from DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar in today's interview with NPR's Michel Martin, in which Edgar equates pro-Palestinian protests with terrorist activity and can't point to any crime committed by Mahmoud Khalil: npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

Judge Alsup just now, on Ezell's evasion: "The government has tried to frustrate the judge’s ability to get at the truth of what happened here. It set forth a sham declaration, then withdrew it, then substituted another. That’s not the way it works in the U.S. District Court."

Check out how much #federal #money supports your local #school district, by state and U.S. Congressional district. From #Umich Poverty Solutions poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ...

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Complete insanity. Shame on #Rubio and the administration for this despicable act. And it is absolutely about #freespeech despite Rubio's absurd claims to the contrary. #MahmoudKhalil

It is spring and time for a new round of mentorship matching! This time we are also looking for new mentors, so if you are interested in supporting animal behaviours students do join us! Mentee sign up here: forms.gle/zPgk4Nwq2znE... Mentor sign up here: forms.gle/cD3cEqoXHaLT...

Yes, and the Trump NIH director nominee is an anti-science zealot. How bad can Bhattacharya be for NIH? Very bad. Call your Senators now, write a letter to your local paper, and/or offer to get on local TV calling for the Senate to vote against him -

#standupforscience2025 #Lansing

Join us THIS FRIDAY, March 7th, 12-4pm, in Lansing to #StandUpForScience! We are citizens united in demanding that policymakers defend science, protect research funding, and ensure evidence-based decision-making for the benefit of all. We’re standing up for science because science is for EVERYONE.

This is a straight ban on purchasing at #NIH — for cancer trials, treating patients, and developing cures. @chrislhayes.bsky.social Almost all purchases at NIH are made on govt credit cards. It’s clear what’s happening: Trump/Musk are blowing up the govt using devious… 1/ www.forbes.com/sites...