Enjoy the weekend

New paper alert: Modern human predisposition to alcohol consumption derives from ancestral exposure to this psychoactive substance among frugivorous primates. Wild chimps consume fermented fruit. Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days ! If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September): psl.eu/agenda/collo...

Crows can learn to use tools The flexibility of corvid cognition is once again demonstrated to be sufficient for tool use, even in the absence of previous related adaptations. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol... (blog) phys.org/news/2025-09...

Job Alert! The University of Tübingen is hiring a FULL PROFESSOR (W3) in FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY! Come and join our institute, and maybe our new excellence clusters @terra-cluster.org and @greenrobust.de. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Please repost!

Register to learn more about climate change in your backyard. September 17, 6:30 PM central time. www.climateactionevanston.org/nurturingnat...

Forest degradation driven by fragmentation and climate change.

I am advertising for a #postdoc for a 3 year BBSRC-funded project exploring the role of macrophages in salivary gland development. The successful candidate will be based at @edinuni-irr.bsky.social at @uni-of-edinburgh.bsky.social. Closing date: 9th Oct. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

In the African desert, wild mice ‘sing’ tunes that don’t travel far but help the animals to tell neighbours from strangers go.nature.com/3K0SGDZ

Mongabay exposed a mining firm in DRC accused of grabbing Twa Indigenous land without consultation. After our report, the company agreed to meet landowners for the first time. Independent journalism drives change. Support our impact: mongabay.org/donate.

📢 We are hiring! 🥳 Applications are open until September 10th! Feel free to circulate! ✨️ Last chance to apply!

To celebrate #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay & begin a 🧵on #BirdsSeenIn2025 in Zimbabwe, around Victoria Falls, the phenomenal Vulture Restaurant at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge which does so much to raise awareness of horrific plight of African Vultures such as these White-backed & Hooded. 1/25

On Sep 2, 2025, the Internat. Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures (IRL ChiMP4IC) was opened by the Chief of Staff of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Côte d'Ivoire, Prof. Arsène Kobéa, and the President Director General CNRS, Antoine Petit.

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

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨 Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve. Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs liu.se/en/work-at-l...

Wound care in chimpanzees! Like chimpanzees in Central Africa, scientists have now shown that East African chimpanzees also apply flying insects to their own and each other's wounds. This is likely some form of medication, which is more widespread than we thought. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One week left to apply.

Congratulations to Auriane Le Floch, who successfully completed her viva on Wednesday, August 27, at the University of Neuchatel in a co-tutelle with University of Lyon 1. Congratulations Dr. Le Floch and best wishes for finishing the publications!

Thanks to Antoine Valet and Derry Taylor the Taï Chimpanzee Project was represented at this year's International Ethological Conference in Kolkata, India. Great job ...

We received the sad news that our colleague Augustine K. Basabose has passed away. He was an inspiration for many. RIP youtube.com/watch?v=UK2V...

Trying to discuss butterfly hollows and grazing with Jake Fiennes but interrupted by a swarm of chalkhill blue butterflies! youtu.be/jdX-PxyP56c?...

Starting off Monday with #Bonobo #gesture fun 👋🤙✌️! Bonobos infer gesture meaning based off the context it was given in. Listen🎧 to Dr Graham’s paper, “Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo gestures”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMr... #WildMindsLab #STEM #science #MondayMicDrop

New video on the YouTube channel: talk at the IPS 2025 in Madagascar on the question 'is learning from knowledgeable others key to mastering complex tool use in chimpanzees?' youtube.com/watch?v=x3uO...

📢New paper alert 📢 Signalling during approaches in two sympatric primates species indicates that strong fission-fusion dynamics increase challenges related to coordination and relationship maintenance, promoting signaling production and reciprocity. www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/article.php?...

Today, Inza Kone, DG of the Centre Suisse de Recherche Scientifique en CI, and DU of the new International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures, received the Ivorian National Prize of Excellence in Research. Congratulations to our collaborator and friend.

Bielefeld University is a great start to a successful career ... Go for it

Great days at the #IPSMadagascar2025 with @sanchezmegias.bsky.social and Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar, presenting our research @ub.edu @psicologiaub.bsky.social @janegoodallespana.bsky.social Always a pleasure to come to this conference and interact with primatologists from all over the Word! 🐒🦧🦍

#RSOS in @the-independent.com | Cultural transmission of animal tool use driven by trade-offs: insights from sponge-using dolphins: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

If you like to hear about lots of cool research on our closest living relatives and exchange with a diverse group of researchers on all sorts of topics from behavioral ecology and conservation over genetics and endocrinology to cognition and evolution, then come next year to Montpellier in June/July

In September @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social will inaugurate the International Research Lab on Chimpanzee and Monkey Protection for Intact Cultures (ChiMP4IC) in Abidjan in memory of the late Christophe Boesch and to support our work at @taichimpproject.bsky.social Happy #WorldChimpanzeeDay

In 1979 the late Christophe Boesch founded the @taichimpproject.bsky.social and allowed us to start to understand Western chimpanzees, a subspecies critically endangered according to the #IUCN red list. He inspired countless people to protect chimpanzees in the wild. Happy #WildChimpanzeeDay.

Today is #WorldChimpanzeeDay! We celebrate the work of the late Dr. Christophe Boesch, whose research in West Africa revolutionized how we understand & protect chimpanzees. His approach to conservation empowered local communities & created impactful changes for these remarkable primates.

Monday is #WorldChimpanzeeDay. Our closest relatives in the animal kingdom play a vital role in keeping forests alive. But habitat loss and trafficking are pushing these great apes closer to extinction. Protecting chimpanzees means protecting biodiversity and a part of ourselves.

Today is #WorldChimpanzeeDay 🐒🌍, a day to highlight our closest genetic relatives and their rich cultural tapestry! A landmark conservation instrument adopted at #CMSCOP14 urges conservation efforts to focus on preserving chimpanzee behavioral diversity and culture: www.cms.int/sites/defaul...

How do broomrapes find their hosts? How can they specialise on different hosts? Enter the astonishing world of strigolactones . youtu.be/mUp9n_RW2eg?...

Look out for the epic story of Homo sapiens ...

Premieres On September 18, 2025 1AM on PBS: Human. Follow the epic story of Homo sapiens as they outlast other human species and spread across the globe www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...

Our #study finds that #male #dominance isn't the norm among #primates, and starts to unravel what shapes flexibility in intersexual power paper (OA) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500405122 press release https://www.mpg.de/24986976/0630-evan-beyond-the-alpha-male-150495-x?c=2249

Great work done by @elerolland.bsky.social at the @taichimpproject.bsky.social Looking forward to follow ups

Here comes the sun ... youtube.com/watch?v=6MUX...

Including @tozbu.bsky.social

Wild #chimpanzees show attachment patterns similar to human children excluding its disorganized form ... Check out the paper by @elerolland.bsky.social @oscarnl.bsky.social @paddytkaczynski.bsky.social @romanwittig.bsky.social and other researchers from TCP. www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Follow the money and think critically, said Pierre-Henri Gouyon during the 60 year anniversary symposium at Branféré, when he explained how the tobacco industry has manipulated public opinion through social engineering, a practice taken over by the pharma industry to plant doubt into the public.

To end this 🧵, a video to illustrate how an evening swim at La Réserve de Nice, in the warm, clear waters of the Mediterranean, filled with a diverse array of beautiful fish & other marine life, was the perfect way to end days at #UNOC3 discussing how to save the world's coastal ecosystems. 14/14

#Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions #ProcB #OpenAccess #Behaiour royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Autism is associated with inflexibility of brain dynamics. Watanabe and Yamasue show that TMS over the right superior parietal lobule while the brain is ‘stuck’ in a certain state reduces this rigidity and relieves various autistic traits. @takamitsuw.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This book = The best gift for new parents (and grand parents 🙂). Everything you want to know about baby cries 👶. Scientifically based. Easy to read. #parents #baby #parenting #bioacoustics #mother #father #family www.amazon.fr/intimate-wor...

This brain implant lets a man who lost his speech to ALS produce natural-sounding sentences instantaneously. Learn more: scim.ag/4mXXLvN