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.

We are delighted to announce that our 2025 Winter Meeting will be hosted at the National Museum in Cardiff, Wales (27th & 28th Nov). Proposals for workshops are now open! Submit a workshop proposal in any area of primate research, conservation or captive care. www.psgb.org/pages/104-ps...

It is that time of year again: PhD recruitment season 😃 🗓️ 📚 If you are interested in #primate #cognition and #behaviour, we will have several relevant competitive funder calls opening in October. Feel free to get in touch ahead of the calls if you’d like a chat about project ideas🐒 🧠

I don’t usually share personal things here, but this one matters deeply to me 💙 I will be running 10 miles to raise funds for the Child Growth Foundation (CGF). This charity means a lot to us as our daughter lives with a rare genetic condition. ajbellgreatsouthrun2025.enthuse.com/pf/marine-jo...

Looking forward to discussing open methods in comparative cognition, including the challenge of 'species fair' task design as part of the ManyManys webinar series 🤩 🐒🦜🐜🐕👶🦎🐐🐟 📅 September 12, 11:00 a.m. (ET) on Zoom 🔗Registration: airtable.com/app0bcw8jYPv... #openscience #bigteamscience

Early primates (50-60 mya) radiated into cold regions (northern latitudes) rather than the classical assumption of tropical/arid climates. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌍🌏 #AnthroSky #BioSky #EvoSky

New job alert: Would you like to help analyse our Big Garden Birdwatch dataset? 🪶🧪 Our monitoring science team are hiring for a new 2yr position to develop the ecological analysis and visualisation of BGBW data Interested? Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Can’t make it to Edinburgh for #ASABWinter2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ? Did you know you can also register to attend online for free as well? 💻 Or even better, consider attending remotely with a group of colleagues by setting up a “hublet”! More info here: www.asab.org/conference-h...

We have new primate merch on our online shop! Check out whats on offer; there's always time to treat yourself (or a primate-obsessed friend!): primatesocietyofgreatbritain.teemill.com

#Behaviour2025 – Join us tomorrow for Weaving the MacaqueNet 3.0 & connect with our international community of macaque researchers! 🐒 The workshop is free & open to all, even if you didn’t sign up yet. 📍 We'll be at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, not the main conference venue!

Seeking scientist volunteers for this fall! Want to practice science communication and help author a 🌟comic🌟 about your research? I need collaborators for the next cohort of SciComm & Comics art and design students. All countries and scientific fields eligible.

🚨 My 2nd PhD chapter is now out in Animal Behavior and Cognition We explore social evaluation of skills in Tonkean macaques in cooperative contexts with a promising experimental design 🧮👀🐒 @skeupp.bsky.social @julxf.bsky.social Check it out here: www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

Excited to share that we have just been awarded a NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant to work on between-group cooperation in the Shark Bay dolphins. We will soon advertise a 3 year post-doc to join the team - drop me an email if you might be interested! Pls share widely 🙏🏻

Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)! I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We are currently testing highly underrated and understudied colobus monkeys for @manyprimates.bsky.social at Zoo Krefeld. It's a start - but ManyPrimates needs more colobines (and gibbons) for fair representation!

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? Our Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! Categories include Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science & Climatology, Ecology & Environmental Science, and Microimaging: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

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 🧵

We need your help to raise money for our Field Skills Workshop! 🤝 Our workshop provides critical training for emerging primatologists who otherwise would not have opportunities to gain field experience. Consider donating to support this goal via the 🔗: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

We received queries, we considered, we acted. We have opened options for day passes for #Behaviour2025, to enable single or two-days only participation. A great opportunity for local students and researchers! Please spread the word!

📢 Call for abstracts! Want to present your animal behaviour research online & for free? Submit a 5-min video poster for #ABL2025. Hosted on YouTube with live Q&A on Discord! 📅 Nov 13–14 | Free, online, worldwide 🌍 🔗 Learn more, register, submit ablaoc25.sciencesconf.org #animalbehaviorresearch

The new Discover journals replicate the MDPI business model, welcoming 'all valid research, regardless of the level of impact'. They have over 1200 (!!) open Special Issues, and, and this is the most extraordinary bit, *58 out of 66 identical or closely similar titles*. See for yourself.

It will come as no surprise that MDPI / Frontiers are the illustrative case of extractive / exploitative academic publishing models I’ve genuinely lost count of how many times I’ve rejected their offer to edit a ‘special issue’ and yet they keep emailing

We are looking for panelists! 🦧 If you are working in community-based conservation, (or know someone who is) apply to speak on our panel at PSGB's 2025 Field Skills Workshop. See 🧵 and video: youtube.com/shorts/YBJLr...

Trentham Monkey Forest is turning 20 years old! 🐒 To celebrate, they are running an auction for some amazing artwork of their iconic Barbary macaques (🎨 by the award winning creative, Becca Barron). All proceeds are going to PSGB to support our vital work - want to take part? Follow the link below:

Help us raise funds for @behaviour2025.bsky.social! We are in a major crisis! We are looking for sponsors. Please spread the word! @animalbehaviour.live @leec-uspn.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🐘 New Paper on Elephant Gestures Featured in The New York Times 📰 NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/s... The study is part of Vesta Eleuteri’s PhD research, supervised by me and Catherine Hobaiter, in collaboration with Josh Plotnik and Lucy Bates.

As humans, we tend to intuitively follow the gazes of others. But do pigeons do this, too? And what role does group behaviour play in the process? A behavioural experiment by the #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence @cbehav.bsky.social in collaboration with Kyoto University: https://t1p.de/v6otj

Great paper on the degrees and levels of innovativeness, contributing to the ongoing debate on how to compare innovations & the ability to innovate !! (Nb. to be distinguished from the propensity to invent, which we are studying in chacma baboons @animalinvention.bsky.social ).

Hey Camera Trappers 📸🐺🐗🦌🦅Snapshot Europe is back for 2025! Join us in deploying cameras this Sept-Oct. Help build a crucial snapshot of European biodiversity. Learn more & express interest here ▶️ app.wildlifeinsights.org/initiatives/... Spread the word and help expand our community across Europe🙏

Join the 11th European Federation for Primatology meeting in Montpellier, France, from June 29 to July 3, 2026. Submit abstracts and check details at https://www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/. #conference

We are seeking a full-time Managing Editor for our journal Animal Behaviour. This editor will be involved in all stages of the publication process & must have a general understanding of the topics covered. Position starts Oct 1, application deadline July 31. More details: www.asab.org/opportunities

📣 Join the K/Creative Ape Team 🤓 2 PhDs on Creativity in Wild Chimpanzees & Bonobos; w myself & the v awesome @kathelijnekoops.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch Uni Zurich @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @efp2026.bsky.social @ips-primatenews.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social @primbehavecol.bsky.social 🐵🧪

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...

📢NEW funding criteria for ASAB Research Grants📢 From the 1st October deadline, we will be considering #EDIA in awarding @asab.org Research Grants. Extremely happy today, as this is the reason I agreed to be grants secretary. Thanks to @wascherclaudia.bsky.social and @englishse.bsky.social for help

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipub

New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al. Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability 48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅 ✅ Stable individual traits ❌ No g-factor 🤝 Social ≠ non-social 🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt More coming soon! :) For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

📢 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

I will forever be haunted by this footage. Trawling has only been filmed underwater a few times in documentary history, and never with such clarity. What’s so heart-rending about these shots is watching how the animals don’t just get swept up — they swim for their lives. 🌎🦑🧪

Postdoc job alert! I'm hiring a 3-yr postdoc to work on our Social Modifiers of Primate Lifespans grant. Job info and how to apply below. Deadline June 1. Pls share! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...