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/

Scientists, wildlife professionals, and students: does your work deal with human-crocodile conflict mitigation? 🐊 If so, please consider participating in this MSc research study: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I enjoy being a scientist, but I think I'd rather be a cat with an h-index of 12.

So, when you search for "lazy vegan high-protein snacks" why do you get "make cookies out of chickpeas!" or "weird snack balls from only 9 esoteric ingredients". I want LAZY. I want BAG OF NUTS level effort. Thank you.

If so many students never repay their loans, maybe the cost of free/low tuition HE isn't as out of reach as it sounds? Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector | Zoe Williams www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great advice, which I think applies to a lot of academics. It can take a *lot* for a student to approach a scholar they've been reading for years, so be kind.

In light of the Epstein discourse, I want to remind everyone that the person most likely to sexually abuse a child is a man in that child’s family.

Please help Miasser and her family if you can. Donation link is in her bio.

Have 15 mins spare? One of our MSc students from UCL Anthropology is investigating global attitudes to breastfeeding. Anyone can take part, from anywhere in the world! Available in various languages (select on top-right dropdown box) 日本語バージョンもあります！ Click link to take part👉 tinyurl.com/2t4us4ss

Dozens of Israeli teenagers in Tel Aviv burned their draft orders, refusing to serve in the military in protest against the war on Gaza.

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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...

I'm writing this book pitch about urban wildlife & how to appreciate it. I'm suggesting that people explore their neighborhoods to identify animal hotspots & make a map. As an example, I made one for my neighborhood. It's a simple, real sketchy, not meant to be final, but I'm showing you anyway.

I should probably be more serious about summer class prep

Hidden prompts in articles to fool #AI reviewers! It'sbrilliant, it's resistance and it's self-defense! It shows the massively wealthy publishing companies that cutting corners is bad for #science! They could use their wealth to pay independent reviewers.... 🧪 www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/07/...

#academicsky #booksky Book recommendations needed! I run a "biology book club" with my undergrads, and as I build next year's reading list I want to include plenty of authors from underrepresented communities. Looking for accessible pop science within the broad field of biology. Any favourites?