My friend Dina Herilala is the focus of this weeks’s episode in our ecological storytelling series with the guides of #Ranomafana National Park, #Madagascar! Dina is one of the project’s PIs, and we couldn’t have done this series without him. youtu.be/87QMKlNNZGk #wildlifeconservation

The 10th video in our series highlights ZAKAMANANA François, who talks about his journey from extracting to studying and protecting resources in #Ranomafana National Park, #Madagascar as a research technician. “Zaka” describes his work IDing trees, insects, lemurs & birds youtu.be/ZJNNyfddKdA?...

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

NIRINASOA Léontine is a role model for girls who want careers in research & #conservation. As one of few female #research techs in Ranomafana NP, #Madagascar, she talks about what sparked her interest in this career & what it’s like for working women there See the episode here: youtu.be/Jg83EPYg7e8

New animal welfare position within AZA! @zoonewengland.bsky.social is hiring an Animal Wellbeing Advisor to oversee their #animalwelfare and enrichment programs @franklinparkzoo.bsky.social & @stonezoo.bsky.social in Boston. #zoo #job #captivewildlife zoonewengland.bamboohr.com/careers/367

🚨Good news, everyone! 1) I'm thrilled to be joining the behavior powerhouse that is Indiana University!! So stoked, starting Jan 2026. 2) I'm recruiting grad students! Are you (or your trainee) interested in sensory ecology? behavior? evolution? fieldwork? spiders? Drop me a line Jstafstr(at)iu.edu

Meet botanist RAKOTONIRINA Paul in the 4th episode of "Preserving knowledge of endemic species in #Madagascar through #storytelling". youtu.be/eqGs4Ciq078?... Paul talks about development projects created by Ranomafana NP for the local community, his professional path, & hope for the future.

Congrats to Jacob Negrey (not on social media)!!! @uarizona.bsky.social

Important #NODES updates 🔥 (1/2) We got a project 🕸️-site where you can track our progress in developing a standard data structure for hormonal data: www.nodes-pne.eu If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out! #OpenScience

Congratulations to Paige Wagstaff, winner of our college’s Outstanding Undergrad Research Award AND the School of Anthropology Scholar Award. She’s been an integral part of our research in LEEP & I’m excited our collaboration will continue in Madagascar this summer! shorturl.at/CArEy

🚨New IPS Ethics & Diversity, Equality, Inclusivity Award🚨 Deadline for applications May 1st More info internationalprimatologicalsociety.org/ips.../

📣 🏆 👩‍🔬 @katieking1110.bsky.social is a 2025-2026 P.E.O. Scholar! Katie is a member of the Laboratory for the Evolutionary Endocrinology of Primates in the UArizona School of Anthropology. The award will support her research on mechanisms of infant care in red-bellied lemurs. @uarizona.bsky.social

Couldn’t be more proud of our students at @bioanth.org! Members of LEEP @uarizona.bsky.social past & present presented on the hormones of parenting in humans and lemurs, new gut microbiome methods, & seasonal androgens in male & female sifaka.

So proud of LEEP Lab member @paigewagstaff.bsky.social for her second award on her investigation of the relationship between maternal pre- and postpartum oxytocin levels and significant childhood adversity in humans!

Shout-out to Katie King @katieking1110.bsky.social for an awesome poster on paternal care and fecal glucocorticoid metabolites in Red-bellied Lemur fathers. She looks at fluctuating concentrations pre- and post-birth & associations with care behaviors. #AABA2025 #PoopScience #BehavioralEndocrinology

Healthcare is a human right, and this is unacceptable. $2,000,000,000,000. Two TRILLION Dollars. That's an incredible amount of lost healthcare. Call your representatives today. Email your representatives today. Speak out. www.house.gov/representati...

If I’ve learned one thing from this ordeal, once you’re on a list it’s too late. Stop the lists from being made. Make them confront what their list making supports.

After 9 years in the making, it's finally out (!) White-faced capuchins with a stronger stress response to previous droughts were more likely to survive a severe El Niño drought. Kudos to the heroic efforts of first authors Sofia Carrera and Irene Godoy. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

For folks on the market in social sciences.

PRIMATOLOGISTS: Elizabeth McGee is looking for IPS abstracts for Cancun 2012, Vietnam 2014, & Kuching 2023 to collect data for a new grants-in-aid program for researchers from low GDP habitat countries to travel to IPS congresses to present their research. (1/2)

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper led by former group member Jadelys Tonos! Simulations/empirical data reveal just a few trees bearing the most fruit in the landscape are critical for driving patterns of lemur movement & seed dispersal 🐒🥭🌱https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2435.14702

Reupping this POSTDOC position - deadline Dec 20th Some more info 👇 1/3

Best day ever as President of the AABA! We have 2 new funds to support community-oriented programs for the long term. This #GivingTuesdaycampaig, please donate! bioanth.org/donate/

Now this is a fabulous job: pathway to independence fellowship in Ecology and Conservation at Cambridge University. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/c...

Want to help lemurs? Now's the time! Through December 31, Conservation Allies is DOUBLING donations to 14 local conservation organizations in Madagascar! www.lemurconservationnetwork.org/conservation... #lemurs #Madagascar #conservation #wildlife #givingTuesday

Come join us in Tucson!! I am excited to announce a tenure track faculty position on the genomics of resilience @uofa-eeb.bsky.social! Read more about the position in the updated link below! We will begin reviewing applications on December 9! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

TT Asst. Professor position in Applied-Biological #Anthropology at San Jose State Univ --> jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/54... #AcademicBluesky #Academicjobs

Bluesky has gotten LOUD! That's not a bad thing, but I've been here a year and a half and I'm getting used to the changes. Here's a feed I love. It finds the quieter posters from your follows to display only. These are often your friends or deliberate follows. Give it a try!

Congrats to the students in @leep_uarizona! All presented great posters at the SW Assoc of #Biological #Anthropologosts conference, on lemur infant care, gut #microbiome methods, & #oxytocin and early life adversity. @paige.wagstaff won best undergrad poster! @katieking1110 @amit_hl #WomenInSTEM

#Frogs of #Madagascar! SOLO Justin shares facts about croaks,​ eyes, & colors in this episode of "Preserving knowledge of endemic species in Madagascar through storytelling." Watch our 2nd video learn about Madagascar’s #biodiversity from experts in #Ranomafana! youtu.be/PusvdX3Ict0

Super inspiring women in this group! Honored to be a part of this, and so grateful for my support crew (in the comments). www.instagram.com/p/DCINqS6SoM...

Hi fellow Bluesky scientists. We have a job opening for a new assistant professor of biology and herbarium curator here at the University of New Mexico! Come join our fantastic community at the Museum of Southwestern Biology! See the link below for more details. unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

#Frogs of #Madagascar! SOLO Justin shares facts about croaks,​ eyes, & colors in this episode of "Preserving knowledge of endemic species in Madagascar through storytelling." Watch our 2nd video learn about Madagascar’s #biodiversity from experts in #Ranomafana! youtu.be/PusvdX3Ict0

📢Job alert📢 Postdoc research fellow, to lead data analysis of longitudinal cohort data + get trained on qual methods for a mixed method project on "Cooperative Childrearing in Middle Childhood and Adolescent Wellbeing" at UCL. Apply by 21st Nov! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Basal plasma oxytocin & fecal cortisol concentrations are highly heritable and associated with individual differences in behavior & cognition in dog puppies. 🐶 Another dissertation paper out! 🎉 #CanineScience authors.elsevier.com/a/1jYuC,QxXo... 1/8

Are you hiring new field or lab personnel? Do you want your job adverts to reach more underrepresented students? We want to help! Fill out this form and ABC will circulate these positions among our mentees + microgrant awardees. forms.gle/r231HG9R1PWL...

Scientific racism is a blight on science & isn’t going to go away if scientists ignore it. So I’ve teamed up w/ Magdalena Hurtado, @drsarahmyers.bsky.social & @abbeyepage.bsky.social to highlight & counter this problem by editing a special collection of Evolutionary Human Sciences. Please share CfP👇

A friend just told me about a whole bunch of updates to the NSF proposal guidelines taking effect 5/20: new.nsf.gov/policies/pap... Some of these include: changes to biosketch, addition of grads to the mentoring plan (good), and IDPs included as reporting (this one is less clear re: enforcement)

!!!Animal behaviour students!!!🐷🐵🐻🐦🐯 Would you like to become involved in a new student subcommittee for ASAB?  We are looking for some enthusiastic students from all levels to form this important new representation for the student voice. More details ⬇️

Extremely judgmental vermilion flycatcher 🪶 📷 Reid Park, Tucson

Excited and nervous to share our new paper TLDR: Folks talk about contraception as a silver bullet for BIG problems in the Global South. Not only are these arguments racist/misogynist (long established), but the evidence for them is much thinner than we’ve been led to believe. We dig in a bit!

New PhD position on individual differences in stress reactivity in baboons with field work in South Africa with me, Richard McFarland, and Stefano Kaburu. Competitive, fully funded studentship. Based at Nottingham Trent Uni. Details: tinyurl.com/36y4ce8b Please get in touch with questions

Interested in environmental influences on hormone-behavior relationships? Infant caregiving strategies? Lemurs? Come work with us in LEEP! leep.arizona.edu The Bio Anth program is accepting PhD students for 2024-2025. Deadline is December 1! Details here: anthropology.arizona.edu/phd-anthropo...

Interested in environmental influences on hormone-behavior relationships? Infant caregiving strategies? Lemurs? Come work with us @LeepUarizona! The Bio Anth program is accepting PhD students for 2024-2025. Deadline to apply is December 1! Details here:...

❗PhD funding alert❗ UCL Research Excellence Scholarship is open to UK/International students with outstanding academic scholarship. Do share with students 🙂 I'm keen to supervise projects on evo public health, coop childrearing, adolescence, children as caregivers etc. www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...

Congrat, @jacobnegrey.bsky.social!