Had fun with this one! In which I discuss: dolphins, elephants, marmosets, teknonymy, necronymy, reciprocal names in New Guinea, nominative determinism, the Bob-Kirk effect, the face-name-matching effect, name signs, toponyms, dog names, name uniqueness, alexinomia, toponyms, name taboos, etc.

just above the equator #wintersolstice is technically still the shortest day in #bugomaforest, but didn’t feel like it on a 13hr follow, light scrumping, rain dancing, shout at northern neighbours & a slow peaceful settling into the nest for well deserved sleep… not a bad welcome back furry fam 💚 🧪

Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season ❄️🎄⛄ At @abcmicrogrants.bsky.social 🐝🐝🐝, we’re excited to support even more #AnimalBehavior students through #microgrants + #mentorship. Your generosity makes this possible - consider donating to help us keep this work going!

Linguaphile Magazine is crowdfunding printing for their first physical edition. It looks very beautiful. www.linguaphilemagazine.org This project received a 2024 #lingcomm grant commendation, it's exciting to see this turn into a physical product!

If you’re sad #ASABWinter2025 is over, have no fear! #ASABSpring2025 🌼 is coming soon, from March 23-25 at Bristol University. It’s an especially fantastic meeting for students and ECRs 🤠 Don’t forget travel grants are due Feb 1! www.asab.org/conferences-...

"misinformation is widespread in biological systems spanning levels of organization, and [...] is probably an inevitable property that inherits from fundamental constraints on biological communication systems, rather than a pathology" royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

Attending #ASABWinter2025 this coming week? Feel free to stop by my poster and check out how we used novel visual field estimations for freely-flying hawkmoths to investigate lateralized sensorimotor control! Excited to share the results from the past two years of work 🦋👁️👅🦾 and happy to chat!

We have already received many wonderful abstracts, thank you all! 🌟 For those who need a little extra time, we have good news: the #EHBEA2026 deadline has been extended to 9 Jan. ✍️✨ Add the finishing touches, hit submit, and join an exciting, inspiring conference! 👉 www.ehbea2026.com

The deadline for abstracts for the 2026 European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association has been extended to 9 January 👇

🚨 DEADLINE 🚨 EHBEA is searching for people who wants to help in the development of the evolutionary human sciences 👀 Do you feel like it? Then apply for PRESIDENT and/or SECRETARY for 2026-2029! Deadline? December 16/12/2025 More information?👇 👇 👇

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

Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!! Details in thread. Please re-post!

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!🚨 The 'Design Features' of Language Revisited (w/ @mperlman.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Koen de Reus & @limorraviv.bsky.social) Feature Review out now in #OpenAccess in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! #language #linguistics Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#teamSTRANGE goes to Switzerland! @mikemwebster.bsky.social talking @ Uni Bern about sampling biases in animal behaviour research and how acknowledging them helps us improve replications and ask cool new questions! www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Such a dream to be able to contribute to the autumn issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social Still can’t get over both the gorgeous artwork & that we get to be issue neighbours with @questlove.bsky.social & all these incredible musicians and poets 🥹🥰 🧪

Re-upping this thread because we just got word that 'Scrumping 2.0' has been funded 🥳 Now where to hold a workshop on the evolutionary origins of alcohol consumption...🍻

Award alert! 🎖️🚨 Every other year, the Ethologische Gesellschaft awards the Niko Tinbergen Award to outstanding post-doc level researchers in Behavioural Biology (<=6yrs post PhD exam). ...and this year is one of these years! Please send us your nominations! 🫵 Infos: www.etho-ges.de/wordpress/aw...

Have you got your tickets to our 2025 winter meeting? Don't miss out on the chance to hear about cutting-edge advances in primatology in the amazing National Museum, Cardiff! Tickets are on sale on our website: www.psgb.org/pages/14-mee...

More than two decades have passed since we discovered that rare disruptions of the FOXP2 gene disturb development of proficient speech/language skills. Today we know of multiple FOXP genes that are directly implicated in distinct brain-related conditions with differences in symptoms & severity.🧪 1/n

🎉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! ☀️📅🌿

Nobody wants this shit, which is why they keep sneaking it onto our devices like some unwanted U2 album.

Super chuffed that @mikemwebster.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social and I had our course 'The question of culture in animals' among this list! 🐳🧪

The CogSci Society is accepting nominations for 🌟Fellows of the Society🌟 Fellows are individuals whose research has exhibited sustained excellence and had sustained impact on the #CogSci community. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/fellows/ and submit your nomination until November 1st!

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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...

📢🚀 Are you an early-career researcher working on anything related to culture, behaviour or learning? 🧠🌍 Join ESLR, an interdisciplinary research community! We have a NEW website and our membership is now FREE. 👉 Sign up here to get updates and become a member: www.eslrsociety.com/membership

New analysis of a 1-million yr old fossil skull captured worldwide media attention this week, with many headlines saying it requires a complete rewrite/rethink of human evolution. This is an intriguing study & it's brilliant to see so much public enthusiasm for deciphering our origins, but....1/n 🧪

Job Alert! Come and join our team at our field site CRP Simenti in Senegal. Julia Fischer @julxf.bsky.social (@primatenzentrum.bsky.social) is recruiting a #Research_Manager. Work with the wonderful lovely Guinea baboons and manage our long-term data collection. 👉 www.dpz.eu/karriere/ste...

Only a bit more than 1 Week remaining to apply for this #multispecies #archaeology position with amazing people such as @nakedprimate.bsky.social and myself 👇 Post-Doctral Researcher (100%, 3 years) 🏺🐒🐻‍❄️🦥

I present the duffel-in-duffel-in-duffel #turduffen !! A useful way to consolidate & segregate dirty but wearable clothes (protect at all costs chicken) from ‘field’ dirty (salvageable duck) from good god the smell (maybe we should burn it turkey) ☠️🧪 #fieldwork #gonechimping @mbchimp.bsky.social

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

“We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs.” 🧪 #giftarticle

The trail in & out of camp is an old way b/w villages, walked for generations, deeply familiar but reworked anew each walking. Last night after fording the flooded river, dog tired, soaking wet, well past dark, we climbed up to the village under a lunar eclipse. Glad I get to carry this version 💚🧪

Forget the sword in the stone, here @mbchimp.bsky.social it’s the machete in the mud that’s the rainy season hero! 😂 #fieldwork #gonechimping #moyenbafing #guinea #dontforgetyourmachete 🧪

At least the #frogs of the #moyenbafing are living their absolute noisiest #rainyseason #bestlife 🛁🐸🧪 #fieldwork #gonechimping #guinea #maketherainstop #glowup @mbchimp.bsky.social

Pleased to report that new roomie & I getting along just fine after coming to some basic agreements about no-no spaces (boots, bedroll) and yes-please activities (eating large invertebrates).. #fieldwork #herp #moyenbafing #guinea #gonechimping @mbchimp.bsky.social 🧪

managed the unthinkable wet-season luxury of sunny late afternoon& got both socks & boots 85% dry.. the warm cosy feeling of 6am smugness walking in clearly alerted the fieldwork gods to this unacceptable fact, who placed a tiny extra slippery spot on the log we use to cross the v full river 🛁🙄🧪

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

Fieldwork lessons : we do not touch the sleepy hairy pretty ones… both because it would be impolite to wake them from their sweet reveries, and because it would hurt like a mo-fo.. 😳 #fieldwork #caterpillars #guinea @mbchimp.bsky.social #gonechimping 🧪

I like Bay-oh babs, and I can not lie… #baobab #Guinea #moyenbafing #fieldwork #gonechimping 🧪 @mbchimp.bsky.social

Good people of Bluesky.. it’s time for the classic rainy season fieldwork game of : river-or-road?! @mbchimp.bsky.social 😂⛈️ with bonus new was-road-now-river friend 💚 #fieldwork #rainyseason #gonechimping #guinea 🧪 #moyenbafing

It is with a very heavy heart that we share the loss of a friend, colleague, mentor and leader in primate conservation, Prof. Augustin Basabose. We wish to extend our deepest and most sincere condolences to his family and to all who ever had the privilege and chance to know him.

ZOOGESTURES has a web presence now! 🐒🦥🐻‍❄️ zoogestures.uni-koeln.de with @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social 🏺🗃️📕

Go figure that on the Micronesia-Scotland-Guinea turn around, Scotland was the only place it didn’t rain on me everyday 😂 #rainyseason #fieldwork #Conakry #gonechimping

Happy Birthday Gary Larson, 75 years old today. A perfect excuse to celebrate his tireless efforts documenting major breakthroughs in science, including this pivotal moment for language research:

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

First we pile, then we pack, then we pile.. it’s the ciiiiircle of (field)life 😂 #fieldwork #guinea @mbchimp.bsky.social #gonechimping 🧪

The #IsleofWight is a world famous dinosaur hotspot... and it's desperately in need of a new museum and Science Park. Help us by signing the petition (either via the QR or at chng.it/4CXPhKLQs2). Watch out for news in the coming weeks :) #dinosaurs

A new study adds support to the so-called “drunken monkey” hypothesis by examining just how often living apes indulge in fallen—presumably boozy—fruits. scim.ag/3UoyyO3