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

Do I take my ADHD meds to the field? What to put in a risk assessment w dyspraxia? How do I support ND students during fieldschool? If you ever wondered what fieldwork's like as a neurodivergent ecologist, this webinar by the @britishecologicalsociety.org is for you! tinyurl.com/yckyrf4r

"Scrumping" describes the behavior of primates consuming overripe, fermented fruit. Studying this behavior may help us better understand the evolution of human alcohol tolerance! 🧪 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Happy to share this article on @theconversation.com covering our study on elephant gestures 🐘👋 @angelastoeger.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social Lucy Bates, Josh Plotnik theconversation.com/do-elephants...

The Linguistics Discipline at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI in our classrooms. www.superlinguo.com/post/7908973...

Lol.. Did not have ‘ @bsky.app algorithm flags classic art by Rubens as adult only content’ on my bingo card for this thread but I suppose it is technically correct 🤣

Appropriately one of the communities of chimps in this dataset has a generation of males named after single malt whiskies 😂🥃🙈🧪 Since I’m stuck in an airport for several more hours, one like = whisky chimp photo/backstory! #teamWaibira #whiskychimps

It’s Friday night (somewhere) so settle in for a 🧵that combines fermented fruit, scrumping monkeys, etymology, Larson cartoons, & Gothic art to tackle the enduring mystery of why humans are so astoundingly good at metabolising alcohol! or read our new 🧪 paper ;) academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Move over chimps, it's the mountain gorillas' time to slide (carefully) into action as the true gesture gods they are! Huge congrats to Charlotte Grund on the 1st moutain gorilla gesture repertoire 🦍🤘🦍👏🦍 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... 🧪 @erc.europa.eu @uniofstandrews.bsky.social 1/6

How do (non-human!) primates get their booze? @nakedprimate.bsky.social draws on the medieval word "scrumping" to describe their consumption of fallen fruit. History, linguistics and animal behaviour come together in this great piece on tipsy apes and monkeys: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... 🧪🌏🐒🍹

Join us for #ASABWinter2025 in Edinburgh Dec 15-16 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Abstracts for posters/talks due Aug 29 More details here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

📣 1 WEEK TO GO! 🐜 Leaf-cutting ants don’t just build nests; they build climate-controlled cities. 🎥 Watch the teaser for Prof. Flavio Roces’ talk on their environmental adaptations. 🗓️Tuesday 29 July – 14:00 GMT 📍Live on YouTube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORc...

Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c

"ZOOGESTURES will zeigen, dass der Mensch nicht gegen, sondern in Kollaboration mit seiner natürlichen Umwelt zum Menschen geworden ist" @shumon.bsky.social, @nakedprimate.bsky.social und Johannes Schick - für uns ein echtes Pioniervorhaben 👍

Please consider helping us support the next generation of primatologists! Any support is greatly appreciated, and will help us host this fantastic event for the second time! 🐒

The first papers from our special collection on vocal communication in corvids are now live. Most are still under review, stay tuned for more updates as they’re published! link.springer.com/collections/...

I am advertising 2 positions in language evolution with my group at ‪‪@dondersinst.bsky.social: 📢 Fully-funded PhD position (Robotics/AI 🤖) www.ru.nl/en/working-a... 📢 Postdoc position (Virtual Reality 🎮) www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Deadline for applications is August 14th. Please RT! :)

New paper out in eLife! 🎉 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use elifesciences.org/articles/105... (including videos of wild elderly chimpanzees using tools! 🪨 🌰)