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A more detailed story about @zrcp.bsky.social work at the Winter Meeting of the @primatesocietygb.bsky.social in Cardiff last November! www.bangor.ac.uk/sens/news/tw...

omg yessss! I'm so happy this has a date AND a rather fabulous cover 🥳🌈🦋

Best feeling ever. Sending good news emails to people on a Friday. Sometimes I do LOVE my job.

So yeah second semester has truly started. Welcome to the fray.

New in #PhilTransB - theme issue explores the #biosphere in the #Anthropocene. All #OA. Read: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Almost four years on since we started work on this project, it feels surreal to have a copy in my hand. @stephanielking.bsky.social @darrencroft.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social

We have a new paper out in @cp-iscience.bsky.social reporting that more socially integrated female chimpanzees have lower offspring mortality 🧪 #evosky #primates #primatology #anthropology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Job alert: NOAA NWFSC & UW are looking for a postdoc (ASAP) in Seattle study foraging ecology of Cook Inlet beluga whales using eDNA. Genetics/ecology/eDNA experience preferred. Interested candidates reach out to [email protected] or [email protected] directly. #eDNA #ConsGen

Internships are now available with the Cornish Jackdaw Project! 🐦‍⬛ Duties will include assisting with nest monitoring, bird ringing, data entry, and the potential to help with ongoing research projects.

We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

We are hiring – postdoc position exploring how kinship shapes social ageing in killer whales. Collaboration with @samellisq.bsky.social @drwhale.bsky.social and Prof Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) starts 1st April 2026 and ends 31st March 2029. Apps close 2nd Feb. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ788/p...

Beyond excited to have joined Animal Behaviour journal as an actual EDITOR this month! My fave journal that I’ve never published in (yet)!! Please do submit your cool primate papers so I get to read them!! @asab.org @asabeducation.bsky.social

Missed our #ECBB2026 Plenary Speaker reveals? Not to worry! Here is a quick recap of all the excellent speakers we'll be welcoming at September's meeting!

We know you don't want to start your year by forgetting to submit a symposia proposal before the 31 January deadline. www.aru.ac.uk/science-and-... #academicsky #ecbb2026

Save the date for the next European Conference on Behavioural Biology! Animal Behaviour in the Anthropocene, 1-4 September 2026 at Anglia Ruskin University. Watch this space for updates on speakers, plenaries, and calls for abstracts! #AcademicSky #UpcomingConferences

Same-sex sexual behaviour in non-human primates is associated with ecological factors, life history and social structure, according to research published in @natecoevo.nature.com: spklr.io/633248d15a #Ecology #EcoSky 🌍

We had a great start to the day with a fascinating and important talk by Prof Jo Setchell, our first Plenary Speaker

Good morning! I am @mariannepaisley.bsky.social , your new Student Officer. So excited to meet you all at this week's Winter Meeting! 🐵

#ESHE2025 Rhianna Drummond-Clarke ‘First documentation and quantification of wild chimpanzee rock climbing’ Camera traps, Issa Valley TZ & Moyen Bafing, Guinea chimps Rock vs tree climbing: more dynamic movements, biomech diff locomotor modes, reaching further- role of uneven substrates! Amazing 😍

Two great biomechanics talks at @primatesocietygb.bsky.social by lab postdocs @savannarhianna.bsky.social and Charlotte King. 👏👏🧗🏼‍♀️🦍🐵🌳

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!

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 ❤️

Big thrill to also see my @beps-bangor.bsky.social colleague @cmbettridge.bsky.social present some of her work on galagos in Senegal and Kenya - from her student Grace Ellison’s PhD! #PSGBCardiff2025

Very proud of all my students doing their first big conference talks at #PSGBCardiff2025 yesterday! In order of appearance: ….

A personal high point for me was getting my PhD supervisor and my students to meet each other. And then see him deliver the most incredible memorial lecture to celebrate Jane Goodall’s life. #PSGBCardiff2025

Mad two days in Cardiff #PSGBCardiff2025

One of the highlights of the meeting this talk was!

In Cardiff for the winter meeting of @primatesocietygb.bsky.social ! #PSGBCardiff2025

It’s been a pleasure hosting @hannahfrog.bsky.social here at Bangor the past two weeks on her visit from California! A rare treat having the full ZRCP PhD team in the same place in the world at the same time!

Look what the dog fetched up! @matthewcobb.bsky.social’s new biography of Francis Crick. Folks, it’s like no other Crick biog. Full of new research, fresh insights, juicy stories, & it’s a romp. Having watched this develop from the larval stage, it’s a thrill to hear it thunk! on my table

Registration is open, and the programme is shaping up!

A big week for our research group! The first paper from @miaryras.bsky.social's PhD thesis has been accepted. Looking forward to sharing some nice results about the effects of winter warming on wall lizard behaviour and physiology very soon. Well done Miary! 🤩

We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)

Very happy to share that our paper presenting a framework for optimal movement decisions in complex landscapes has just been published in TREE @stephharris.bsky.social @jacobnabe.bsky.social tinyurl.com/d45s36y5

Camera-traps work best for surveying wildlife when site-level covariates are considered. Owain Barton led our study showing more cameras reduce error, longer deployments help only if occupancy varies, & ignoring key covariates can skews results zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“Jane Goodall was an amazing scientist who inspired people to see the natural world in a new way. She helped us to look at the animal kingdom with fresh eyes and with greater respect.

Still processing it. RIP Jane. Ugh.

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡? Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses. The results are eye-opening: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Pseudo-penis who?? Elongated clitorises are out (sorry spider monkeys), male genitalia resembling vaginas are in! Yet another reason why colobus are the coolest primates. Also, Tom Struhsaker is continuing to publishing iconic articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Back in the lab with these two @owenstorer.bsky.social @hannahfrog.bsky.social

Many congratulations to Molly Allum! She studied the crop foraging behaviour of the Zanzibar red colobus here in Jozani last year for her third year dissertation at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @beps-bangor.bsky.social ! Great dissertation - currently working on making it into a journal article!

Anthropology graduate becomes the first female head of MI6 in its 116 year history! Can’t decide whether the ‘anthropology’ or the ‘female’ is the more exciting bit of this story.

New account! Check it out.

🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉 Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference. Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿

New paper in @behavecol.bsky.social (link: academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...) led by PhD student @marcofele.bsky.social using hard-won data from our amazing baboon team. Our @swanseauni.bsky.social press release: www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office... We introduce the idea of a "social spandrel".....

PhD student @hannahfrog.bsky.social and ZRCP field assistant Mwinyi Abdallah getting ready to go collect some urine and faecal samples from females in South Road Group this morning.

If you win a fight, you're more likely to win the next one. But why? We show that using Bayesian updating to update your assessment of your own fighting abilities does a pretty good job of reflecting how animals typically behave in real life social contest!

In Kibale NP, they sometimes copulate and make red-tail monkey / blue monkey hybrids that can later have higher reproductive success because red-tail monkey females can prefer the rare face colour patterns of hybrid males!