Oh the panic when your 5-year-old wakes up and catches you wrapping Santa’s Christmas presents at night because it’s the only damn time you thought it was “safe” to wrap gifts 😳

Can always count of The Vicar of Dibley holiday specials to get in the Christmas spirit 🎄

Last exam today... may the university bureaucratic gods bestow blessings and good vibes for our us today so the darn exam can go smoothly and we can say 'good riddance' to a challenging semester

C’est la saison! À la cafétéria de l’UdeM, un verre de vin est offert avec le plat du jour 😆

Cool research by @chrishalperin.bsky.social ⚱️ nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Someone please lie to me and tell me that after this week things will slow down, get less stressful and we'll get a nice break to re-motivate for next semester.

My first PhD paper is published! 🎉 We compared how wild bonobo and chimpanzee infants (0-5.5y) become independent from their mothers. Here is the open-access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🧵(1/5)

Le professeur Pierre Minn donne aujourd’hui le cours d’anthropologie qui a marqué sa mère 60 ans plus tôt. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

man there is just so much shit happening now

Time to yell KISS KISS MOLLY’S LIPS At top volume 🔊🔊🔊🔊🔉🔉🔊🔊🔊🔉🔉🔊🔊 youtu.be/sIg1ApHMO2E

En photo : les chimpanzés Jarman (8 ans) toilettant Django (16 ans), septembre 2013, à Ngogo, Uganda. Ils sont mignons. nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Found only in the Galapagos Islands the marine iguana is the only marine lizard species in the world, they can dive as deep as 30m (98 ft) and spend up to 30 minutes at a time underwater 📹Shelton Dupreez

RIP Sophie 👑 🏳️‍⚧️. I miss you so fucking much. youtu.be/PB5tnokRFS0

Or ideally, the vibes any Romanian would aim to bring to the function = Maria Tănase 😍

What I'm wearing to the BlueSky Christmas party:

Current vibe: so overwhelmed and stressed out that you might pass out. Lovely. Last time I was this stressed I got vertigo for 2 days.

📢 Calling all primatologists 📢 EFP2026 in Montpellier is now open for abstracts & registration! 🗓 Deadline for abstract : 13 March 2026 (before if mobility grant application) Submit: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/abs... Register: www.alphavisa.com/efp/2026/reg... All abstracts will be accepted!

La Lune à un mètre (The Astronomer's Dream, 1898, dir. Georges Méliès) 🎥 A melancholy, effectively creepy three minutes in which the moon eats people.

That feeling when you get a black toenail because you’ve started running again & you remember the era when ‘running girl’ was half your identity & wrecked toenails were normal for 10 years.

Are we saying anthropologist dad from Totoro is example of positive masculinity? I think so! For the 80’s at least…

"People in parts of Africa cooperate with greater honeyguides, birds that guide followers to wild bees’ nests in exchange for beeswax." I've been a little obsessed with the honeyguide birds lately! I'm looking forward to reading about them in Ghana. royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

Heeeyyyy, she's transitioning through to her grey natal coat so quickly! Kids grow up too fast 🥲

The comments though

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Happy to share my new paper on the nutritional ecology of elephants🌿🐘 Should elephants graze or browse? The nutritional and functional consequences of dietary variation in a mixed-feeding megaherbivore royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

Certaines régions mayas ont vu leur population chuter sans connaître de sécheresse, ce qui remet en question les explications climatiques de ce déclin. @gwinneth.bsky.social nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Greater Apes

Our New Paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour: 🚨 Culture is critical in driving orangutan diet development past individual potentials! 🦧 www.nature.com/articles/s41.... See 🧵

Awesome quote: “I have observed decades of blowback to functional and feminine centered interpretations of breasts, clitorises, orgasms, and even grandmothering among the anthropological patriarchy. Given anthropology’s history of removing women from the hero-myths of human evolution…” 1/2

A special kind of hell = Having your period while doing primate fieldwork in remote forests at macho, male-centric sites (as they all are) & changing your tampon “discreetly” behind a shrub so your colleagues don’t see, while knee deep in swamp water, elephant dung & covered in chimpanzee urine 🤣

Nice article quoting the right voices on low fertility: "we should be asking questions to certain organisations about why some of them are making it harder to raise children....we shouldn’t be blaming women for not having children and instead focus on what kind of society we want to live in"

This book about periods is excellent. Recommend! I might be biased as an anthropologist, but as an intersex woman with ever-changing relationship with my uterus & as mom to a young son who has questions about my period, this book has been fascinating & eye-opening. open.spotify.com/show/1WlF97s...

Morning.

Perhaps the most influential table in hunter-gatherer studies, published in Lee's chapter in the famous 1968 edited volume by Lee and DeVore titled, ironically, Man the Hunter 🧪 #BioAnth

New #OpenAccess paper building on studies of #TraceElements in #Primate #Teeth just out in @archaeometry.bsky.social: Tace Element Patterns in Juvenile Wild #Chimpanzee Dentitions #TLDR version: metals are highly variable in wild chimpanzees and dietary sources appear to obscure nursing records

Fascinating longitudinal study in @currentbiology.bsky.social by @alicebaniel.bsky.social @jbeehner.bsky.social and colleagues, providing evidence for deceptive fertility in a wild primate (gelada) 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

I think romantic kissing is a leftover / co-opted behaviour from kiss feeding by hominid mothers with their infants… but I’m biased, as an infancy researchers. Also not sure how ubiquitous romantic kissing is cross-culturally… but cool to see studies on this.

I’m so looking forward to learning about how these measures changed post intra-community split at Ngogo, between East and West. On edge of my seat.

It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑 Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for. We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.

The time has come... It's Sexual Selection teaching day!! Can't wait to show oh so many videos of horny animals doing outrageous things to attract each other, in the name of science.

We call this the alien ghosty phase of natal coat development in b&w colobus.

if you see this post your bird art (scissor-tailed flycatcher)

Saw my old friend, Shelob, in Aarhus 🕷️🖤

1/2 Lethal violence in bonobos On February 18, five females fatally beat a male at the LuiKotale Bonobo Project (Congo). The authors believe this may have been due to a minor attack on a baby two days earlier. The details are horrific. (paper) www.cell.com/current-biol...

"A pair of Macrauchenia, four guanacos and a patagonian mara are seen among the grass. A Megatherium walks by further away and a crested caracara flies over the scene." I had to look all these up. What perfect talent for someone to have, at intersection of Art and Evolutionary Biology.

New paper! We found that intensifying market integration in Rep. Congo does not uniformly shape BaYaka and Bantu adolescent behaviour and consumption, and that adolescents may be contributing to shifts in norms regarding the sharing of money. rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super proud to have hosted at @aiasdk.bsky.social an excellent group of researchers to think through all things play, childhood, and innovation. I'll be buzzing about this for a while!