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Man with a Beer Jug, by Frans Hals, 1630, 📸 by @zachosterman.bsky.social

Your friendly reminder that humans are completely weird in that we don't have bones in our clitorises. Pretty much all mammals do. masto.ai/@vagina_muse...

New research provides evidence that mercury and PFAS can influence mitochondrial function in free-living seabirds, highlighting bioenergetics as a sensitive mechanistic link between pollution exposure and organismal health. 🔗 Press release: www.bi.mpg.de/news/2026-01-hau

If you know #SICB2026, you know the fashion is always unmatched. Starting a photo thread (with permission) because people are missing out, and these fits absolutely SLAY 🧵 L to R: Jill Nash, Sonja Huc, Elias Joseph

Any time Trump does something violent and/or stupid and blames the victim for his actions, I think of this essay by Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social She explains well the motivations of the perennial perpetrator. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

»Wer heute zwanzig Jahre alt ist, kennt vielleicht gar keine singenden Feldlerchen mehr. Für diese Generation ist die stumme Agrarlandschaft normal. Sie vermisst nichts, weil sie nie erlebt hat, was da mal war. Mir geht das auch so.« 👉 @schreibersnaturarium.de: steady.page/de/jasminsch...

Special issue on the Sociobiology Debate at fifty. Important new archival discoveries. No paywall. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

30 years ago today, December 31st 1995, the last ever Calvin & Hobbes comic strip was published. Even now, I still find it so poignant & moving.

and the winner of the "2025 best thing on Internet" has just arrived neal.fun/size-of-life/ @carlbergstrom.com

Starting in January, I will be amping up activity at @beyondxandy.bsky.social, including writing articles, recording video explainers, and working on a book about how studying genetics helped me accept that I was trans Please give it a follow to stay up to date 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Good thing we didn't listen. 😅

🚨 Our new paper is out!! A call for CARE in animal behaviour: an holistic ethical research framework 🐾💚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.prosocial.world/posts/defend... Another in a great series in this magazine.

Innovations in Decolonising the Curriculum: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. – a new book about how to decolonize the curriculum, by Adeela ahmed Shafi et al. www.emerald.com/books/edited... Here is our chapter:

"Many women expressed trauma because of their experiences in health care and this often seemed to lead to a fear of accessing health services, even in potentially life-threatening situations." Nicht nur in Australien... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Breastfeeding advocates often fall into three broad groups: #1 Folks working to improve human health & know breastmilk is key, but also know that not all parents can BF & need safe, healthy alternatives...

I hate to say it, but in terms of HE a very sizeable number of staff appear to believe that disability accommodations are unnecessary, a nuisance, and have gone 'too far'. Toxic, precarious and competitive university environments (that ignore staff welfare) lend themselves to this kind of thinking

Botanische Gärten sind Anlagen aus dem Geist des Kolonialismus: In Deutschland fällt es ihnen schwerer als der Kunst, ihre Geschichte aufzuarbeiten.

Awesome PhD opportunity, deadline in one week! Please re-post.

Crowdsourcing request! The NYU Wild Animal Welfare Program will be creating sample syllabi as a community resource, starting with four courses: - Wild animal biology - Wild animal ecology - Wild animal ethics - Wild animal law Please share topics and readings for any or all!

Hot off the press! See our new paper: “Three maxims for countering sex essentialism in scientific research” in the journal Biology of Sex Differences. We show how sex essentialism distorts research & propose 3 ways to avoid making these mistakes. (1/12) rdcu.be/eNcRM

Together, our findings demonstrate that men supporting women’s empowerment face heavy costs - but norms are mutable. Policies that reduce structural barriers, address stigma around gender atypical behavior, and leverage emerging benefits can help accelerate gender-equitable change. 🎯 5/5

WTF?! This makes me so ashamed to be an alumna

The cameras at our sites are placed to record chimps. That's why we get a somewhat funny perspective of the larger animals, like this elephant bachelor group.

On 24 October, Barbara Fruth was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her socio-environmental work in the Congo 🇩🇪 🇨🇩 🐵 💚 🏅. Around 350 people came to the Konzil in Konstanz to watch the Mayor pin the Cross of Merit to Barbara's jacket and present the certificate. 🧵 1/3

PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

Richard Lynn was criticised for using a sample of children with intellectual impairment to calculate the "national IQ" of Equatorial Guinea in 2002. In 2019, he calculated the IQs of Native Americans from children referred for psychoeducational evaluations, including those with learning difficulties

That’s because the purpose of biology for the right is naturalizing social hierarchy and defining a subaltern “other” to stand in contrast to the “normal”.

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

This is interesting (if a bit gruesome) on power dynamics in bonobos: "eighty-five percent of violent coalitions are led by females seeking to keep males in check"

📢 #CFP: Wild Animal Initiative is accepting grant applications for projects studying wild animal welfare. 🗓️ Submit your EOI form by November 14 to be considered. 🧪 #wildlife #biology #zoology #ecoevo #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour #physiology #conservation #science

Did some #scicom yesterday for Bonobo Alive and the LuiKotale Bonobo Project in Munich at the Long night of Museums @maxplanck.de The visitors were interested and engaged and now know more about the why and how of #Bonobo research and conservation. We need more events like this!

🚨We have an open part-time paid position for an *Austria-based* master student in #ComputerScience (incl. adjacent fields) to help develop an automatic stress assessment in wild #GreatTits 🐦 More info in the job description below Remote work is also possible for non-Viennese students🇦🇹 #AnimalWelfare

Here's an issue from the Purdue Univ. student paper, The Exponent, dealing with the IU censorship of their student paper. Purdue put it in IU news boxes. (Purdue & IU are normally huge sports rivals.) Download link: www.purdueexponent.org/frontpdf/lat...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

Neopterin is a neat marker for #cell-mediated #immunity in #primates. We think it has great potential for #ecoimmunology research in wild and captive settings! Really happy that this review paper @verenab.bsky.social and I wrote is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Gleichstellung in der dt. Wissenschaft: Maßnahmen & Beratungsangebote zu ihren Gunsten gibt es durchaus. Aber: Sie reichen nicht -- und drohen den Status quo teils sogar zu stabilisieren. Warum? Und was braucht es, um Gleichstellungsziele effektiv zu erreichen? Wir haben dazu einiges aufgeschrieben:

Wer am 23. Oktober abends noch nichts vor hat, sollte unbedingt bei unserer Podiumsdiskussion vorbeikommen! Sexuelle und reproduktive Rechte: weltweit und für alle! Gerne auch weitererzählen und RT. Ein paar Plätze gibt es noch 🌈 #kostenlos #Wien Infos / Anmeldung: www.therainworkers.org/blog/event

The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

Friendly Reminder Frauengesundheit. Schwangerschaftsabbrüche stehen in Ö noch immer im Strafgesetz. In manchen Bundesländern ist es geradezu unmöglich (Burgenland) jemanden zu finden, der/die Abbrüche durchführt. Zudem zahlt die Kasse nichts. In Kärnten zb kommt ein Abbruch schon mal auf 1000+ Euro.

Standing up for science is one way to push back against political attacks on the university sector 👇 Experts in biology and anthropology have put together this statement to counter misinformation about race. Please consider signing and sharing

Franziska Schutzbach: «Viele Männer sind mittlerweile feministisch geprägt, ob es ihnen gefällt oder nicht.» Danke @fschutzbach.bsky.social 💜✊🏽 #Feminismus direkt-magazin.ch/meinung/glst...

I had a great conversation with Abby. If you have 1-2 hours of your time to talk about/reflect on your story as a female PhD holder in STEM, and whether you're still in or no longer in academia, you should definitely reach out to her! Please share her call around you #WomenInSTEM

Why Hasn’t Medical Science Cured Chronic Headaches? #MigraineChat

#AdriftLab's newest article isn't about islands or plastics (well, maybe a little). It's about the challenges of being a scientist while having a #disability. Please take a moment to consider what your lab can do to make life a little more inclusive www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...