🔔 New paper out on Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates @mariehirel.bsky.social, @williamohearn.bsky.social and @julxf.bsky.social made this happen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Calling all artists! 🧑‍🎨🎨 We are running a t-shirt design competition - craft some primate artwork and submit it to us by the 1st October. The winning design will be sold on our online store, with generated funds used to support our work promoting primate conservation, research and captive care. See 🧵

Charity auction! Proceeds go to PSGB :) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/22686555...

Trentham Monkey Forest is turning 20 years old! 🐒 To celebrate, they are running an auction for some amazing artwork of their iconic Barbary macaques (🎨 by the award winning creative, Becca Barron). All proceeds are going to PSGB to support our vital work - want to take part? Follow the link below:

📢 @jmicheletta.bsky.social's, @bridgetwaller.bsky.social's, and my PhD student Holly Radford will deliver a @craeioe.bsky.social webinar Thursday at 4 pm UK/11 am ET/8 am PT from her PhD on nonverbal behaviours and first impressions during video calls between autistic and non-autistic adults.

Marie Curie Fellowships are open (tinyurl.com/bdewf876) - if interested in studying how wild Barbary macaques are adjusting to human impacts (tinyurl.com/5n6hxwwz), please get in touch! We're particularly keen for someone to work with all the metagenomic data we have!

An amazing opportunity for UK-based students who've faced challenges developing field skills: deadline 15 June. Could you help support a student attend? Check the justgiving link below!

Applications are now open for our 2025 Field Skills Workshop! The Field Skills Workshop is a 3-day workshop aimed to develop theory and practice in field skills. See 🧵

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

It’s finally out!! Our new study shows that wild geladas seem to recognize prosocial vocal affiliation to victims of aggression! A key insight into the evolution of empathy in primates 🔊🐒 @geladasbridges.bsky.social @ethos-research.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Thrilled to have the 1st project in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social Ambizione fellowship in @pnas.org this week. With Vic Martignac, @samellisq.bsky.social and @savinggorillas.bsky.social we asked what is a good social environment for a gorilla? And the answer was complicated... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Read about our research on the social bonding function of facial expressivity, here in our Scientific American article! www.scientificamerican.com/article/expr... @jamiewhitehouse.bsky.social @bridgetwaller.bsky.social