AI can now hallucinate very realistic-looking citations that name real scholars and relevant journals. As if grading wasn't a slow process already, now you get to check to see if source materials really exist when marking student work.

This thread is wild

On World Monkey Day, @peopleprimate celebrates Barbary macaques. SHPI supports #conservation through coexistence with monkeys & other #primates. human-primate-interactions.org Barbary macaques are captured for the pet trade. Visit barbarymacaqueconservation.org Art credit: @Lydialehman on X

On World Monkey Day, @peopleprimate celebrates the mantled howler. SHPI provides advice & training to support #conservation through coexistence with #primates. human-primate-interactions.org Visit Somos Congos somoscongos.com/index Art credit: @Lydialehman on X

What do you buy for older parents when they don't need anything? Experience gifts are good but they live in the middle of nowhere and don't like to travel. One starts to run out of creative ideas after 40+ years of Christmases.

Call them “LLeMmings”—the people who outsource their thinking to ChatGPT and other AI products. @lilashroff.bsky.social reports on a new kind of decision making—that could come with a cost:

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

A heartfelt pant-hoot farewell to dearly departed Jane Goodall, from all of us at PSGB. Thank you Richard Wrangham for your moving Memorial Talk, guiding us through her life and legacy ❤️

Thank you bringing your knowledge, enthusiasm, and hope to this year's Winter Meeting at National Museum Cardiff. We hope to see you all next year!

Great start to #PSGBCardiff2025! Fantastic plenary, excellent talks and posters, great chats in the workshop, lovely venue and food... Dw i'n wedi blino but looking forward to tomorrow!

Have you seen a movie or a series that had a real monkey or ape (or one you think might be real) "actor" in it recently? I am compiling a list of such productions released since 2014 and could use your help (I am searching methodically but want to be sure I don't miss anything) (1/2) ...

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

I have it on good authority (from my confident gen alpha child) that they're going to reset all the memes at the end of the year.

My boss says we have to do more "marketing". I hope this is what she meant...

Already planning your trip to our Winter Meeting in Cardiff? 😍 We've updated our website with information about travel, accessibility, and local attractions - check it out, and purchase your ticket by Friday to benefit from an early-bird discount! www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

Mae'r mwncïod yn dod i Gymru! Primate Society of Great Britain Cardiff Nov 27-28 *Plenaries from Prof Jo Setchell & Dr Cecile Sarabian *Jane Goodall memorial from Prof Richard Wrangham *interactive workshops *social event & networking Early bird prices end Friday www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

Still grinning to myself thinking about the cute 3- or 4-year-old I overheard at the library today, trying to make friends by shouting in heavily accented English "I LIKE YOU FACE. YOU FACE - I LIKE IT."

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

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

Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most - Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain Story by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Check your post, and don't forget to vote! #UCU #WeAreTheUniversity

Registration is open, and the programme is shaping up!

New paper! 🧪🐒 Full text, open-access is now available for my survey of primates in fragmented habitats for Annual Review of Anthropology. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

Of course women don't like the cybertruck. Women only want one thing and it's a walking castle in the waste, powered by a fire demon, with doors to kingsbury, porthaven and possibly Merthyr Tydfil

Early Bird Tickets are now on sale for our 2025 winter meeting! Get yours now, and take advantage of our additional discounts for students and members! 👍 Tickets can only be purchased through our website: www.psgb.org/events/psgb-...

WHO IS READY FOR SOME MONKEY BUSINESS? 🐒 PSGB is coming to Cardiff Nov 27-28. Get ready for - gorgeous venue - great plenary guests - talks, posters, and interactive workshops - plant-based lunch included Abstract submission is open until 15 Oct, and tickets go on sale next week. #primates

Are you coming to our winter meeting in November? 😉 We've collaborated with local hotels to organize discounts specifically for conference attendees - check out three great options for your stay in Cardiff on the Meetings Page on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun! We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

Not sure if #icanhazpdf is still a thing, but would any of you happen to have this old paper? #primates #academicsky Baldwin & Baldwin (1976). Vocalizations of howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata) in southwestern Panama. Folia Primatologica 26: 81-108.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Growing up in an evangelical community and then moving on with your life feels like escaping from a cult. Some of y'all will understand, I'm sure. It hurts.

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/...

Are you a future primatologist from a primate habitat country who'd like to do a masters in the UK? Come study with me! 🐒 Chevening scholarship applications now open for 2026-2027, with a deadline of 7 Oct 2025. Feel free to get in touch with any questions. www.chevening.org/scholarships/

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.

Here's the workshop call for the #Primate Society annual meeting! Abstract call is coming soon. Feel free to message with any questions. Reposts are appreciated 🐒

Primate Society of Great Britain (PSGB) Meeting National Museum Cardiff, 27-28 November www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee... Registration and abstract submission coming soon! Please share! @mckinneymonkey.bsky.social @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @willallennz.bsky.social @primatesocietygb.bsky.social

Are you a future primatologist from a primate habitat country who'd like to do a masters in the UK? Come study with me! 🐒 Chevening scholarship applications now open for 2026-2027, with a deadline of 7 Oct 2025. Feel free to get in touch with any questions. www.chevening.org/scholarships/

Do you study crocodiles, or work in crocodile conservation? If so, please help my MSc student with their project by filling out this quick survey. Reposts appreciated - we are looking for a a pretty niche audience! #wildlife #crocodile #academicsky docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Costa Rica for the win (always). They're making an urban park from a decommissioned city zoo site which will connect to a larger wildlife corridor. Brilliant. ticotimes.net/2025/08/19/f...

Working from home with kids is wild. Like, why did I have to pause a paper review to tune a ukulele?

#conservationoptimism Experts thought the critically endangered Sumatran rhino population in southern Sumatra's Way Kambas National Park had gone extinct But now Working Dogs for Conservation has detected several signs of them in the park, @jeremyhance.bsky.social reports for @mongabay.com

I am getting loads of replies and messages from people raising money. Palestinian friends: I see you, and I contribute as often as I can but there are just so, so many requests 💔

[COMMENTARY] A new op-ed explains how language shapes the way we view wildlife and their conservation, as even subtle word choices can drive perceptions of species or situations. ** The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay.

Do the words we choose influence our relationships with other animals? 🧪 #academicsky news.mongabay.com/2025/08/its-...

This is an official Skype a Scientist HQ Mayday Alert to all Archaeologists. We've already gotten more requests for archaeologists than we have archaeologists. We have 38. We need a lot more than 38! Dig yourself into this database, we NEED ya www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Dreaming of a career protecting nature? We have spaces open through clearing for our fantastic BSc Biology and BSc Wildlife Ecology & Conservation courses. Super supportive staff and lots of field time. Foundation year available for both courses. Check us out here: www.southwales.ac.uk/clearing/