Such a cool paper. And, fascinating to think about in the context of aging organisms that compensate for deteriorating abilities with age and *thrive*

"Behavior drives morphological change during human evolution" Our new article is out in @science.org today www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌍✨ Still time to apply! The MBCP is looking for a Field Site Manager to join us in one of the most beautiful parks on the planet—work with an amazing team, semi-habituated chimps, and boost your project management chops for a career in #conservation or #research. Info ➡️ bit.ly/MBCPmanager2025

“Avoidance of reproductive conflict and the evolution of menopause in chimpanzees” Read how we used genomic data to examine kinship dynamics as they relate to menopause in chimpanzees! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Excited to share that my latest work exploring snark subreddits, evangelical content creators, and influencer anti-fandom is out now in Social Media + Society! Massive thanks to the r/FSU community for being so supportive of this project + my awesome RA & co-author, Cece.

Albatross Chick Alert! 😍 The world's oldest known banded wild #bird, a Laysan Albatross affectionately known as Wisdom, is officially parent to another chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! @friendsofmidway.bsky.social

2025. Young female chimps develop nest-building independence earlier than males phys.org/news/2025-03...

i keep getting told that woke students don't want to be challenged by hard ideas but whenever i spend time with actual college students i find that the opposite is true

FINE starts again next week with exciting free online seminars. In its 10th season we will hear about whales, parental care, neuroethology, aging, group-living lizards and much more!

MacaqueNet, a global community and FAIR database, is now also a @animalecology.bsky.social paper! Decades of research by 100+ ppl, 5yrs of data cleaning & standardizing, 2 workshops (+1 upcoming Kolkata '25), 4 active projects and counting. Contibute data, follow the newsletter, make a request!

A source of continuously updated news www.science.org/content/blog...

Litter size plays an essential role in mammalian evolution The Evolution of Primate Litter Size 🏺🧪 Jack McBride @primatesjack.bsky.social , Tesla Monson @paleotesla.bsky.social www.mdpi.com/2673-9461/4/... Data supports last common ancestors of both primates and Haplorhini gave birth to multiples

"juvenile female baboons who had stronger paternal relationships or who co-resided longer with fathers led adult lives that were 2-4 years longer than females with weak or short paternal relationships..pattern did not differ between females who experienced high or low levels of early-life adversity"

The closer a chimp is to the first urinator, the more likely it is to follow suit https://go.nature.com/4hvR00T

🧪 Check out our new paper in Sciences Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🐒 When a severe drought hit a population of wild monkeys in Costa Rica, individuals with a stronger stress response were more likely to survive @jbeehner.bsky.social @irene-godoy.bsky.social

Menopause will be experienced by half of humanity, but it has rarely been a priority for health systems or research https://go.nature.com/4jt4DPW

Our new paper announcing a freely available database of 3D scans of primate skeletal material--a major effort led by Sergio Almécija & his team at the American Museum of Natural History. 🧪 🏺 #paleosky #anatomy #primates #anthropology #morphology #zoology #paleoanthropology #openscience

What do we begin to discover about animals when humans are removed from the picture? "...all balaenid and perhaps most great whales have an unrecognized potential for great longevity that has been masked by the demographic disruptions of industrial whaling." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I wrote a story about some of the earliest modern humans to arrive in Europe. The LRJ culture, which dates to about 45,000 years ago, left fossils that contain DNA. And that DNA has a lot to say about modern humans in general. [Gift link] nyti.ms/4gAngzp 1/2

New book out on ‘The Biodemography of Ageing and Longevity’ www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

New preprint! 🚨 Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use (tinyurl.com/2j324t9p). For short synopsis, see 🧵.