Webinar: Donkeys as Agents of Drought Resilience for Pastoralist Communities 5th February at 11am GMT/2pm EAT port-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89107947069 We are pleased to invite you to our webinar and panel discussion sharing the findings from our British Academy-funded project. Hope to see you there!

Thank you so much for these two brilliant weeks in the jungle 🐒🦎🦥🌿 it was intense, we worked and sweat a lot but the memories will stay forever! Beautiful place, awesome passionate group of people 🤩 looking forward to keeping in touch and reading about all the amazing research!

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!

Weekend break was fun, now back to work 👍 Whilst the first week was teaching heavy, the second week is focusing on the learned new methods using data sets that everyone has brought along to work with.

Day 5 of week 1 @animove-course.bsky.social was about analysing our movement data together with their environmental context, through resource selection and step selection functions. #laselvaresearchstation #costarica @animaltracking.bsky.social

The fourth day of #AnimoveCR was all about environmental context, how to download and process information about our planet (remote sensing and climate data). The day ended with a fantastic talk by @njklappstein.bsky.social speaking about her research on polar bears 🐻‍❄️ @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

Another day of #AnimoveCR 😀 Analysing animal movement with continuous-time models by @ecoisilva.bsky.social and Chris Fleming, ending with a fantastic plenary talk by @kamransafi.bsky.social on Kruger National Park research.

Second day of #AnimoveCR was all about the geometry of movement trajectories and their behavioural segmentation using hidden markov models.....but also a little bit of shopping 🤗

#AnimoveCR has started 🐒🦥🦇🐸🦜🦂🕷️ with a Natural History Walk. It was fantastic!

Countdown for #AnimoveCR at La Selva Estación Biológica, Organization of Tropical Studies 👍 We will see you tomorrow! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social

New podcast episode featuring our research @uop-ccep.bsky.social 🐒 @estherherrmann.bsky.social and I talk about some of our findings on chimpanzee and macaque cognition and why protecting these species matters. Listen here: shows.acast.com/399a0c03-e9d... #primates #evolution #psychology

Our 2025 Raffle is now live! 🙈 Enter now to win some amazing primate artwork. The winners will be announced at our Winter Meeting in Cardiff, but you can still enter even if you are unable to attend our winter meeting (Prizes can be posted within the UK). To enter: raffall.com/404460/enter...

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

🥳64 more days until the start of #Animove at #LaSelva Organization of Tropical Studies in #CostaRica. 22 participants, 6 tutors,2077 plant species,125 mammal species,470 bird species,48 amphibian species,87 reptile species,45 fresh water fish species and 10000 insects, arachnids and other.🐒🦇🦜🐊🦂

We @opensciencenl.bsky.social proudly present the new work programme for 2026–2027. 13 funding instruments to strengthen #openscience in the Netherlands. Structured around 5 themes: 🔹infrastructure 🔹capacity 🔹communities 🔹incentives 🔹monitoring www.openscience.nl/en/news/work...

Apply now for a NERC-funded PhD position with @andyradford.bsky.social & Patrick Kennedy at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social (with me as friendly 2nd supervisor down the road in @crab-exeter.bsky.social). Network cognition, cooperation, competition...what's not to like? www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

New paper! We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

3 year postdoc funded by @ukri.org NERC on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins is now live - please share widely 🙏 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

T-shirt design competition results 🚨 Congratulations to Katarina Piponi (left) who received first place in the public vote🥇. Additionally, Congratulations to Jerome Micheletta (right), who has won the Council’s Choice🎨. Both designs will be made available for printing soon on our online store. (1/2)

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This November, like every November, I am teaching basic research proposal writing to the new phd cohort at my institute. Here is the 2 page template we start with and adapt. Link to LaTeX github.com/rmcelreath/P...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

We’re thrilled to announce the ABC's fourth mentorship-matching event!! 📣📣 This is a unique opportunity for you to meet and connect with experienced mentors. The mentorship match event - more of an informal "vibe check" - will be on Nov 6 2025 at 14:00 GMT 🐝🐝 Help us spread the word!! #mentorship

Registration is open, and the programme is shaping up!

Postdoc position available at NYU Anthropology to work on topics related to longitudinal aging in the long-running (>80 years) study of rhesus macaque biology on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico 🧪 #primates #academicsky apply.interfolio.com/173938 📷: davidraju, wikimedia commons

Sick and tired of not having enough animal behavior in your life? Do you struggle to listen to enough fascinating behavior talks in a day? Don't be sad! Check out Animal Behavior Live!

Is science getting too competitive? Grant applications are skyrocketing and funding rates are decreasing. Yet the article in Nature fails to mention the potential role that AI/LLMs in driving up grant applications. It's becoming a lottery. www.nature.com/articles/d41...).

1️⃣ month to go! ⏰ #ABL2025, our annual international online conference is on the 13–14 Nov 🎉 6 plenaries • 24 talks • 40+ posters • 3 workshops • lively Discord chats.. and more ! 🌐 Free registration — register now! 👉 ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org

🐦 Exciting news! Our new paper is out in PLOS Biology: “A large-scale study across the avian clade identifies ecological drivers of neophobia.” Led by the #ManyBirds Project - 129 researchers, 82 institutions, 24 countries 🌍 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @themanybirds.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Hey grad students studying animal behavior! Need a little extra research $$? (Don't we all?) Apply for an ABS Student Research Grant! We award grants up to $2,000 to grad students & give feedback on the proposals. Deadline Dec 15. More info here: www.animalbehaviorsociety.org/web/awards-s...

The next deadline to apply for a conservation, research, or captive care grant is on the 1st of November! 🤩 For information on how to apply (and descriptions of previously funded projects), check out the grants page on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/grants

Voting is open for our t-shirt design contest!! 🎨 Cast your votes, and we will print the winning design on t-shirts in our online shop. All proceeds help us to conduct vital work in primate research, conservation, and captive care. Cast your vote by the 20th of October: forms.gle/HTyHN46spfYD...

A fun one! In which we discuss... - the deep evolutionary history of birds - sci-fi-sounding structures in bird brains - the perennial puzzle of magnetoreception - seasonal changes in bird (and some mammal) brains - unihemispheric sleep - gynandromophry - the extractive foraging hypothesis etc.!

Submissions are still open for abstracts and workshop proposals for our 2025 winter meeting in Cardiff! Submit before the 15th of October! www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

📢 Closing on Wednesday: Associate Professor in animal behaviour in association with Merton College. Join us in the new Life and Mind Building ⬇️ bit.ly/488CNW3 📷 J.Cairns

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

⭐PhD position available!⭐ Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...

It is with profound sadness that the Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) acknowledges the passing of Dame Jane Goodall, who died on 1 October 2025 at the age of 91.

Deeply saddened to hear of Jane Goodall‘s passing at age 91 💔 Meeting her was a privilege I will never forget. She transformed how we see animals, in particular chimpanzees, conservation and our place on this planet. Rest in peace, Dr Goodall 🌿

APA is offering paid editorial fellowships for early-career researchers. 🧪 I was the editorial fellow at Journal of Comparative Psychology last year and I can highly recommend it! www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Postdoc job alert! We are hiring a NYU-based postdoc to work on our project on the social and environmental determinants of aging. The 3 year post will be based in James Higham's lab and will focus on endocrine, immune, and inflammatory aspects of aging. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/173938

💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Analysis of habitat connectivity and aggregation suggested that more than half of global #forests have become more fragmented over the past two decades, painting a picture of widespread forest degradation beyond the direct effects of #habitat loss www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Do you have a passion for primates and a precise editorial eye? We’re looking for a new editor for the PSGB Primate Eye Newsletter. 🦧 📝 Curate Issues; highlight members’ achievements, and act as a critical mouthpiece for PSGB. 📧 [email protected] for more information about how to apply.