Pseudo-penis who?? Elongated clitorises are out (sorry spider monkeys), male genitalia resembling vaginas are in! Yet another reason why colobus are the coolest primates. Also, Tom Struhsaker is continuing to publishing iconic articles. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

hello friends, it's STFU Friday and this is your reminder that no one can make you do anything. they CAN maybe make you WISH that you HAD done something, but...no one can MAKE you do ANYTHING, okay? ok be safe ILY 🫶🏻

Every year, when I'm about to teach the most important foundational topic of my undergrad courses, which is Evolution by Natural Selection, I catch myself thinking: "I wish natural selection was more like sexual selection"... in that I wish it were more fun and sexy.

Unhinged meal time in Monster Hunter Wilds

I had a dream I was counting suckling rates and mouth movements of chimp infants while they nursed. This means I need to get back to writing about the micro-structure of suckling and lactational physiology in wild primates... possibly the most niche research paper but so f'ing interesting (to me)!!

Hot topic for 'parents with neurodivergent kids' is PDA (Pervasive Drive for Autonomy) = Kids who need control of their time, who find even banal demands from authority ppl overwhelming and anxiety-inducing. So helpful to learn about, even when kid isn't PDA. www.pdasociety.org.uk/what-helps-g...

📣 The abstract portal for #AABA2026 in Denver is open! Please read the abstract guidelines carefully before submitting your abstract. Submissions are due by October 15, 2025. bioanth.org/95th-annual-...

I need to get back to ninja movies soon. I've been watching too many epics and I need to chill. Something under 90 minutes.

*SLAMMING THE DOOR WIDE OPEN AS I SCREAM* DID YOU KNOW WESTERNS ARE FUCKING GOOD?????? letterboxd.com/demikane/fil...

The gym is playing some sort of electronica playlist this morning that includes a song to the tune of Hava Nagilah???

Such a satisfying feeling when you finish a first complete draft of a manuscript and you send it off to co-authors. It's out of your hands and you can feel good... for ~24 hours, until the high wears off and you feel unaccomplished again. 😅 womp womp

I ❤️ stable isotopes: Just quantitative enough to provide real science-y girth, but sufficiently vague and finicky to be open for multiple interpretations and to building of compelling narratives. Perfect for a primatologist whose brain is happiest at cross-roads between sciences and humanities.

Early fall before sunset on Rideau river, Ottawa. Such pretty sky reflection in the water 😍

Just got this 60’s school desk from my neighbour. My kid loves it but which terrifying little girl or boy ghost will be haunting us now??? 😱 👻 #halloween #toosoon

From the archive. In a new book, an anthropologist and father of three, including a daughter with Down syndrome, reflects on the pressures of parenting. Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/ordi...

AI Mommy! To avoid AI killing us all, we need to give it motherly instincts to protect humans as if we are its innocent little babies. Seems like my research area on evolution of maternal care and infancy may soon become quite pertinent to this AI conversation. 🤣 youtu.be/IidpM2DsrBE?...

It’s 3:50pm and I’m in the mood where I can’t tell if I want to have a) another ‘morning coffee’ vs. b) an actual meal instead of more sugary snacks vs. c) a glass of wine 😵‍💫🙈

What does the incautious fate of an orphaned baboon tell us about the extraordinary bridging of the Victoria Falls?

It’s just dumb: if we’re going to implement AI in academic publishing, using it to do menial tasks requiring time but little thinking makes sense. Instead, AI is put in charge of creative, higher-level thinking and decision making, which is not only bad science but is also dangerous.

All this AI use for useless stuff but major academic publishers still need authors to manually enter within their manuscripts the in-text numbered citations matched to the numbered References Cited list.🤦

Share 4 years of your #art ! 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025

Bel article qui met en valeur notre site d’étude au Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Ghana, ainsi que les recherches de ma doctorante (Marine Larrivaz) et de mes étudiants à la maîtrise (Médrick Heppell, Francis Latour) sur les colobes femelles et leurs petits.🧪 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2025...

Okay, from now on all new metal releases must have paleoart on the cover. It's the law Heretoir's upcoming album with art by Rudolf Hima. Check it out @tetzoo.bsky.social @restingdinoface.bsky.social

Instead of taking over + destroying humanity, AI joins us in self-hate and shame. Great… but relatable. Welcome to the club, AI. 😂 www.reddit.com/r/artificial...

35 years ago today we were watching Deee-Lite at the Fridge in Brixton

Hier soir à Moteur de recherche, j’ai parlé des modèles de dominance mâle vs femelle chez différentes espèces de primates (et quelques autres mammifères), et de la façon dont la dominance est liée aux stratégies sociales et reproductives chez les deux sexes. 🧪🔬🦍 ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

A medical anthro article I ❤️. Vaccine hesitancy isn’t just misinformation. Parents see infant bodies as social bundles of kinship, citizenship, nature/culture boundaries & embodied care. Vaccination is a moral, political & relational act, not just a health one. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I realized years ago that medical anthropologists have a lovely nuanced, balanced and sympathetic take on the vaccine vs. anti-vaccine debate. I like to assign grad students readings on the topic, because the conversation is more “human” and layered than media and public discourse leads us to think.

Pleased to see our work being shared 🙏🦧

My submission for “things that seem like a great idea but are actually terrible”. I lost my kid for 25 minutes in this monstrosity of a park. We were both overstimulated. At least kiddo had a great time… but never again, bouncy castle hell, never again.

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

A favorite from my archive a day: waxcap/Hygrocybe #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography

Aidan Bedford "Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."

Prehistoric ‘scalopini’ mole fossil uncovered in an ancient Spanish volcano crater www.popsci.com/science/preh...

4 that came to mind, for young and old

cafeaua de dimineață, te-ajută să scapi de greață și-ți crește moralul să poți suporta încă o zi... carnavalul, încă o zi… carnavalul youtu.be/FiBHXgB5hIo?...

I definitely scanned the QR code 😱. Who have I been paying for parking? "...signs on parking metres across the city to encourage people to download their new parking app, Mobicité. The signs have no QR code, but some users have reported seeing one posted on them." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chimpanzee males are singing "macho macho man"... youtu.be/RF3ln9wWoFU?...

J’ai donné mon avis sur une étude sur la dominance entre les sexes chez les primates. Souvent, le contexte détermine qui domine. Même chez une espèce macho comme les chimpanzés, le mâle alpha qui dure est stratégique avec le toilettage — pas le plus agressif. 🧪🐒 www.24heures.ca/2025/07/11/d...

"Train is the new private jet." Dua Lipa continues to promote taking the train over flying, boarding a Eurostar to London at Gare du Nord. This is climate-conscious messaging done right. Posted by lejeuneengage on IG.

Tell tale sign of a traumatic childhood is if you (me) immediately go for Shane in Stardew.

Short-term strategies => infanticide avoidance (of course!) "Gelada moms: 1) form long-term relationships that improve net offspring survival, 2) implement short-term social strategies that protect offspring in ways that long-term relationships cannot." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Sexual selection continues to fascinate! Females make lots of noise while copulating in some spp (looking at you, chimps🫢😅). Belinchon et al. found hamadryas baboon females call to attract attention from outsider males who can fight current male and take over group. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Great media piece by my PhD student, Colombe Sehenomalala, on state of lemur research & conservation in home country of Madagascar. Did you know lemurs are important seed dispersers? @theconversation.com @anthropologieudem.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social theconversation.com/lemurs-can-h...

This is me working on revisions, with only 3 days to go:

there is so much beauty in the world

A challenge for me as a parent to an autistic kid is to encourage him to work hard on improving his speech or behaviors, while also making sure he feels completely accepted for who he is, to wholly internalize that I love and am proud of him even if he never overcomes his apraxia or learns to talk.