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!

Zanzibar red colobus sometimes nurse their offspring for much longer than other primates of similar body size. This ‘baby’ is clearly large and looks like a subadult. Yet the presumed mother still allows it to suckle. Lots of investment in the offspring! #primatology

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Also: I assume Harvard will try to sue fast and fix things, but the cruelty this letter unleashes *today* will induce lasting fear and panic not just on the 6800 international students at Harvard, but also on all international students in this country, even if there is a swift TRO. Why stay here?

That was fast. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Now this www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

First full day in Zanzibar this year! Monkey research here we go! [but first- got to finish a pile of marking 🥹]

📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you! Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences https://go.nature.com/43iJAsi

🚨Field assistant job in South Africa working with sociable weavers 🚨 🔌Experienced in electronics? 🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology? 🪶Like working with birds? Find more information below! Applications close on 08/06/2025 sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/... #fieldwork #ornithology

TLDR: new paper headed up by @vestaeleuteri.bsky.social & with an awesome team, incl @andrearavignani.bsky.social , showing chimps have rhythm in their drumming & differences b/w east & west drum rhythms! www.cell.com/current-biol... But didn’t we know this already you ask? Well… 🧵1/16

Want to come to Bangor and work in Zanzibar on a study of the Zanzibar red colobus for a postdoc? Get in touch to explore ideas for an application! Potential topics around the effects of anthropogenic change on primate behaviour, health, physiology + other fundamental science Qs about monkeys!

Divergent selection and plasticity increases reproductive isolation early during incipient speciation. Find our new meta-analysis on experimental speciation studies here: rdcu.be/ek019 🧪 @EvolOdonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy @pipdowning.bsky.social

Don't miss the new special issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B on animal culture and conservation Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @ellengarland.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, and Andrew Whiten. royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202...

‘ Sir David, who will be 99 on Thursday, says: "After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m always optimistic about where the science of human origins is going. But with federal funding crashing and universities at risk, my students wanted to know: How can we go forward now? It wasn't easy to answer. I was honest. www.johnhawks.net/p/what-i-tol...

New theme issue in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B @royalsocietypublishing.org: Animal culture: conservation in a changing world Edited by @pbrakes.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @emma-carroll.bsky.social, Alison L Greggor, Andrew Whiten and @ellengarland.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. https://go.nature.com/44Ugf9V

New on global conservation science: IUCN & GBIF data show major mismatches in assessing threatened vertebrates in protected areas. To strengthen PA strategies, we need more accurate, regionally nuanced, and unbiased biodiversity data. Cordier et al. in Conservation Biology doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

New Postdoc position! 🐵🐵🐵🐵 On the socioecology of cognition in primates, based in Paris @mnhn.fr @cnrs.fr, with field work It has it all: - the best science - the best macaques - the best beaches - the best people - the best office view #Eiffeltower Join us!